Harnessing psychological science and AI to improve culture and risk in organisations

PUBLICATIONS

We publish our work in leading psychology, management, and health policy academic journals

Selected publications are listed below

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Reader, T., & Gillespie, A. (2024). Target pressure and corporate scandals: A mixed method analysis of how organisational culture underlies institutional failures. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Hald, E. J., Gillespie, A., & Reader, T. (2024). Problems in dealing with problems: how breakdowns in corrective culture lead to institutional failure. British Journal of Management.

Pandolfo, A. M., Reader, T. W., & Gillespie, A. (2024).Safety Listening in Organizations: An Integrated Conceptual Review. Organizational Psychology Review, 20413866241245276

Sabherwal, A., Shreedhar, G., Reader, T. (Revise and Resubmit). Environmental Culture in Organisations (ECO): Developing a conceptual model and measurement tool to explain pro-environmental behaviour in institutions. Journal of Environmental Psychology

Hald, E. J., Gillespie, A., & Reader, T. W. (2023). It depends who you ask: Divergences in staff and external stakeholder narratives about the causes of a healthcare failure. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 31(4), 752-766.

O’Dowd, E., Lydon, S., Rudland, C., Gillespie, A., Ahern, E., Ward, M. E., … & O’Connor, P. (2024). Using a stakeholder co-design approach to develop interventions for quality improvement based on patient complaints. International Journal of Healthcare Management, 17, 343-351 [IF2.1]

Soane, E., Flin, R., Macrae, C., & Reader, T. W. (2023). Risk, the COVID‐19 pandemic, and organisations: Extending, repurposing, and developing theory. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Reader, T., Katz-Navon, T., Grote., G., (2023). Safety Science in the New Age of Work. Safety Science, 158, 105970.

Reader, T. W., & Gillespie, A. (2023). Developing a battery of measures for unobtrusive indicators of organisational culture: a research note. Journal of Risk Research, 26(1), 1-18.

Tear, M. J., & Reader, T. W. (2023). Understanding safety culture and safety citizenship through the lens of social identity theory. Safety Science, 158, 105993.

Gillespie, A., & Reader, T. (2022). Online patient feedback as a safety valve: An automated language analysis of unnoticed and unresolved safety incidents. Risk Analysis, 43(7), 1463-1477.

Bell, S. K., Bourgeois, F., Dong, J., Gillespie, A., Ngo, L. H., Reader, T. W., Thomas, E. J., & DesRoches, C. M. (2022). Patient Identification of Diagnostic Safety Blindspots and Participation in “Good Catches” Through Shared Visit Notes. The Milbank Quarterly, 100(4), 1121-1165.

Reader, T. W. (2022). Stakeholder safety communication: patient and family reports on safety risks in hospitals. Journal of Risk Research, 25(7), 807-824.

Van Dael, J., Gillespie, A., Reader, T., Smalley, K., Papadimitriou, D., Glampson, B., … & Mayer, E. (2022). Getting the whole story: integrating patient complaints and staff reports of unsafe care. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 27(1), 41-49.

Van Dael, J., Reader, T., Gillespie, A. T., Freise, L., Darzi, A., & Mayer, E. K. (2022). Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 115(10), 390-398.

Gillespie, A., & Reader, T. (2021). Identifying and encouraging high-quality healthcare: an analysis of the content and aims of patient letters of compliment. BMJ Quality & Safety, 30(6), 484-492.

Grailey, K., Murray, E., Reader, T., & Brett, S. (2021). The presence and potential impact of psychological safety in the healthcare setting: an evidence synthesis. BMC Health Services Research, 21(1), 1-15.

Hald, E. J., Gillespie, A., & Reader, T. W. (2021). Causal and corrective organisational culture: a systematic review of case studies of institutional failure. Journal of Business Ethics, 174, 457-483.

Kirwan, B., Shorrock, S., & Reader, T. (2021). “The Future of Safety Culture in European Air Traffic Management. EUROCONROL White Paper

Noort, M. C., Reader, T. W., & Gillespie, A. (2021). Safety voice and safety listening during aviation accidents: Cockpit voice recordings reveal that speaking-up to power is not enough. Safety Science, 139, 105260.

Pandolfo, A., Horne, R., Jani, Y., Reader, T., Bidad, N., Brealey, D., … & Brett, S. J. (2021). Understanding decisions about antibiotic prescribing in ICU: an application of the Necessity Concerns Framework. BMJ Quality and Safety.

Suss, J., Bholat, D., Gillespie, A., & Reader, T. (2021). Organisational culture and bank risk. Bank of England

Reader, T., & Gillespie, A. (2021). Stakeholders in safety: Patient reports on unsafe clinical behaviors distinguish hospital mortality rates. The Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(3), 439-451.

Gillespie, A. (2020). Disruption, self-presentation, and defensive tactics at the threshold of learning. Review of General Psychology, 24(4), 382-396.

Reader, T. W., Gillespie, A., Hald, J., & Patterson, M. (2020). Unobtrusive indicators of culture for organizations: a systematic review. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 1-17.

Tear, M., Reader, T.,Shorrock, S., & Kirwan, B. (2020). Safety culture and power: Interactions between perceptions of safety culture, organisational hierarchy, and national culture. Safety Science, 121, 550-561.

Van Dael, J., Reader, T., Gillespie, A., Neves, A., Darzi, A., & Mayer, E. (2020). Learning from complaints in healthcare: a realist review of academic literature, policy evidence and front-line insights. BMJ Quality & Safety, 29, 684-695

Leaver, M. P., & Reader, T. W. (2019). Safety culture in financial trading: an analysis of trading misconduct investigations. Journal of Business Ethics, 154(2), 461-481.

Noort, M. C., Reader, T., & Gillespie, A. (2019). Speaking up to prevent harm: a systematic review of the safety voice literature. Safety Science, 117, 375-387.

Reader and others (2019). Fostering a safety culture in the energy sector. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report.

Gillespie, A., & Reader, T. (2018). Patient-centered insights: Using healthcare complaints to reveal hotspots and blindspots in quality and safety. The Milbank Quarterly, 96(3), 530-567.

Kirwan, B., Reader, T., & Parand, A. (2018). The safety culture stack–the next evolution of safety culture?Safety and Reliability. 38(3), 200-217.

Leaver, M., Griffiths, A., & Reader, T. (2018). Near misses in financial trading: skills for capturing and averting error. Human Factors, 60(5), 640-657.

Reader, T. W., Reddy, G., & Brett, S. J. (2018). Impossible decision? An investigation of risk trade-offs in the intensive care unit. Ergonomics, 61(1), 122-133.

Reader, T. W., Mearns, K., Lopes, C., & Kuha, J. (2017). Organizational support for the workforce and employee safety citizenship behaviors: A social exchange relationship. Human Relations, 70(3), 362-385

Reader T., Parand, A., Kirwan, B. (2017). “Mapping safety culture onto processes and practices: the Safety Culture Stack approach”. European Commission.

Leaver, M., & Reader, T. W. (2016). Human factors in financial trading: An analysis of trading incidents. Human Factors, 58(6), 814-832.

Gillespie, A., & Reader, T. W. (2016). The Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool: development and reliability testing of a method for service monitoring and organisational learning. BMJ Quality & Safety, 25(12), 937-946.

Noort, M. C., Reader, T. W., Shorrock, S., & Kirwan, B. (2016). The relationship between national culture and safety culture: Implications for international safety culture assessments. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89(3), 515-538.

Reader T., Parand, A., Kirwan, B. (2016). “European pilots’ perceptions of safety culture in European Aviation”. European Commission.

Leaver, M., & Reader, T. (2015). Non-technical skills for managing risk and performance in financial trading. Journal of Risk Research, 19, 687-721

Reader, T. W., Noort, M. C., Shorrock, S., & Kirwan, B. (2015). Safety sans frontières: An international safety culture model. Risk Analysis, 35(5), 770-789.

Reader, T., Gillespie, A, & Mannell, J. (2014). Patient neglect in 21st century healthcare institutions. Journal of Health Psychology, 19, 137-148.

Reader, T. W., Gillespie, A., & Roberts, J. (2014). Patient complaints in healthcare systems: a systematic review and coding taxonomy. BMJ Quality &Safety, 23(8), 678-689.

Reader, T., & O’Connor, P. (2014). The Deepwater Horizon explosion: non-technical skills, safety culture, and system complexity. Journal of Risk Research, 17(3), 405-424.

Mearns, K., Kirwan, B., Reader, T. W., Jackson, J., Kennedy, R., & Gordon, R. (2013). Development of a methodology for understanding and enhancing safety culture in Air Traffic Management. Safety science, 53, 123-133.

Reader, T., & Gillespie, A. (2013). Patient neglect in healthcare institutions: a systematic review and conceptual model. BMC Health Services Research, 13, 156

Reader, T., Flin, R., Mearns, K., & Cuthbertson, B. (2011). Team situation awareness and the anticipation of patient progress during ICU rounds. BMJ Quality and Safety,20, 1035-1042.

Reader, T., Flin, R., Mearns, K., & Cuthbertson, B. (2009). Developing a team performance framework for the Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Medicine, 35, 1789-1793

Mearns, K. & Reader, T. (2008). Organisational support and safety outcomes in the Oil and Gas industry: An un-investigated relationship? Safety Science, 46, 388-397.

Reader, T., Flin, R., Mearns, K., & Cuthbertson, B. (2007). Interdisciplinary communication in the Intensive Care Unit. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 98, 347-352

Reader, T., Flin, R., Lauche, K., & Cuthbertson, B. (2006). Non-technical skills in the Intensive Care Unit. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 96, 551-559.