Humanistic Systems Collections: The Albums & EPs

Since I starting blogging, I have written posts on a range of topics concerning work and life. I write to help to make sense of and record my thinking, and communicate this in case it is helpful to others. One of the reasons I chose to divert some energy toward blogging and away from academic publication was accessibility and control of content and publication. Most of my work is translational, not empirical research (though some is), and I prefer to communicate in a way that is accessible to as wide a group as possible.

But I realised after a few years that it was not so easy to find (or even remember) articles in my own back catalogue. I am an avid concert goer, and at a gig a few months ago I had the idea to record posts in ‘concept albums’, and ‘EPs’ for shorter series of posts, to provide a way to find and share content of interest on a thematic basis. Below you will find the collections so far. The interactive PDFs include links to each item. The QR codes help to find all posts in each album and EP.

I hope you enjoy the back catalogue.

Album H1: In hindsight…The Interviews

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/InHindsightv1 (click article titles to open)

EP1: Friends and Foes in System Safety

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/hsep001

Posts: https://humanisticsystems.com/tag/ep1/

EP2: What Human Factors Isn’t

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/hsep002

Posts: https://humanisticsystems.com/tag/ep2/

EP3: Four Kinds of Human Factors

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/hsep003

Posts: https://humanisticsystems.com/tag/ep3/

EP4: Human Factors at the Fringe

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/hsep004

Posts: https://humanisticsystems.com/tag/ep4/

EP5: Just Culture

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/hsep005

Posts: https://humanisticsystems.com/tag/ep5/

EP6: Learning from Communities

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/hsep06

Posts: https://humanisticsystems.com/tag/ep6/

EP7: Fatigue

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/hs070

Posts: https://humanisticsystems.com/tag/ep7/

EP8: Safety Culture in Your Hands

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/hsep008

Posts: https://humanisticsystems.com/tag/ep8/

All Albums and EPs (pdf, 102 MB)

Interactive PDF: https://bit.ly/HSAlbumsEPs1

Author: stevenshorrock

This blog is written by Dr Steven Shorrock. I am an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in work and life from multiple perspectives. My main interest is human functioning and system behaviour, in work and life generally. I am a Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist with the CIEHF and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. I work as a human factors practitioner and psychologist in safety critical industries. I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor at University of the Sunshine Coast, Centre for Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems. I blog in a personal capacity. Views expressed here are mine and not those of any affiliated organisation, unless stated otherwise. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/steveshorrock/ Email: contact[at]humanisticsystems[dot]com View all posts by stevenshorrock

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Kia ora from New Zealand, Steven and thank you so very much for this extraordinary gift to all of us. What a tremendous achievement by you! Frankly words cannot express how very useful this collection will be and how influential your considered approach for knowledge translation in this complex field is currently and even more so into the future. Your careful and professional approach is appreciated and acknowleged. Believe when I say that when all of us around the world who employ your learnings the impact is likely to be enormous. Thanks very much for your efforts to disseminate your ‘findings’ your ‘thinkings’ and, yes, your ‘knowledge.
Nga mihi nui, Sharon

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13/10/2023 at 10:09 am

Thank you Sharon for taking the time to write this wonderfully kind note. My warmest wishes. Steve.

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Loving this idea; I really appreciate your work and I do like a sound organisational plan!

Thoughts on your post; wonder why we seem to value the academic empirical (often deadly dull) publication over our best translational ideas?

12th century cathedral builders were mostly illiterate craftsmen who probably used the same kinds of practical expertise as my best paramedic colleagues and teachers do today,

  The best teachers convey learning in ways that matter, to those trying to keep safe whilst achieving great things. This wisdom from lived experience, or rich understanding of an area of work, expressed in user-friendly ways, as your work does, takes hold, in ways that data or much of academia simply doesn't.

Gold standard work exists in both fields of course; but how do we award status outside academia ? ________________________________

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12/10/2023 at 3:08 pm

Thanks, and it’s a great question, Anna. I grew up in a working class family and with historic working class roots. I was the first to go to university. I think I probably think back to my roots and expect myself to be able to explain concepts in a way that makes sense and seems authentic to me and in this context. So much academic writing is contrived, written to impress or somehow pass a standard with unwritten norms that are contrary to everyday writing and art – let alone poetic or storytelling. Thankfully now there are multiple avenues for writing and control is not solely in the hands of the major journal publishers.

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Sharon Kletchko says:

12/10/2023 at 5:04 pm

Kia ora from New Zealand, Steven and thank you so very much for this extraordinary gift to all of us. What a tremendous achievement by you! Frankly words cannot express how very useful this collection will be and how influential your considered approach for knowledge translation in this complex field is currently and even more so into the future. Your careful and professional approach is appreciated and acknowleged. Believe when I say that when all of us around the world who employ your learnings the impact is likely to be enormous. Thanks very much for your efforts to disseminate your ‘findings’ your ‘thinkings’ and, yes, your ‘knowledge.
Nga mihi nui, Sharon

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1. stevenshorrock says:
  
  13/10/2023 at 10:09 am
  
  Thank you Sharon for taking the time to write this wonderfully kind note. My warmest wishes. Steve.
  
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Anna Illingworth says:

12/10/2023 at 2:54 pm
Loving this idea; I really appreciate your work and I do like a sound organisational plan!

Thoughts on your post; wonder why we seem to value the academic empirical (often deadly dull) publication over our best translational ideas?

12th century cathedral builders were mostly illiterate craftsmen who probably used the same kinds of practical expertise as my best paramedic colleagues and teachers do today,
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  The best teachers convey learning in ways that matter, to those trying to keep safe whilst achieving great things. This wisdom from lived experience, or rich understanding of an area of work, expressed in user-friendly ways, as your work does, takes hold, in ways that data or much of academia simply doesn't. 
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Gold standard work exists in both fields of course; but how do we award status outside academia ? ________________________________

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1. stevenshorrock says:
  
  12/10/2023 at 3:08 pm
  
  Thanks, and it’s a great question, Anna. I grew up in a working class family and with historic working class roots. I was the first to go to university. I think I probably think back to my roots and expect myself to be able to explain concepts in a way that makes sense and seems authentic to me and in this context. So much academic writing is contrived, written to impress or somehow pass a standard with unwritten norms that are contrary to everyday writing and art – let alone poetic or storytelling. Thankfully now there are multiple avenues for writing and control is not solely in the hands of the major journal publishers.
  
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