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Dr Adam Hulme

Research Fellow/Senior Research off

Southern Queensland Rural Health
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
a.hulme@uq.edu.au
+61 7 344 39789

Overview

Overview

Dr Adam Hulme studies complex adaptive systems and applies methods and models from the systems and complexity sciences to policy-resistant issues in various domains. His current interests lie in the areas of regional, rural and remote health and public health more broadly. Dr Hulme prefers to adopt a systems thinking or holistic perspective over a reductionist one, as doing so is to consider the whole system, or multiple interacting elements of it, as the primary unit of analysis. As an expert in systems modelling and analysis, Dr Hulme has applied an extensive list of over 20 qualitative and quantitative systems science approaches to address complex problems that threaten to disrupt performance and safety within various sociotechnical systems contexts. Expertscape ranks Dr Hulme #11 in Australia (the #1 Early Career Researcher (ECR) nationally) for ‘Systems Analysis’ out of 5,593 experts based on published work (2023).

Background

Dr Hulme is a Research Fellow at Southern Queensland Rural Health (SQRH), Toowoomba, Queensland. He has qualifications in Sports and Exercise Science (BSc HONS; England), Health Promotion (MA; Australia), and obtained a PhD in Sports Injury Epidemiology and Systems Ergonomics in August 2017 (Ballarat, Victoria, Australia). His doctoral program was completed at the Australian Collaboration for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (Federation University Australia), which is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a world leading research centre.

Following his PhD, Dr Hulme spent four years as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems (CHFSTS) at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). In this role, he conceived, led, developed, and published the world’s first Agent-Based Model (ABM; complex systems microsimulation) of running injury causation in the sports sciences alongside an international multidisciplinary author team. Dr Hulme has also published multiple peer reviewed systems modelling and analysis applications to address various systems problems in leading international journals.

As a result of his achievements, Dr Hulme was offered employment as a full-time Research Fellow on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project though the CHFSTS. It was during this time that he worked on the theoretical development and testing of state-of-the-art systems-based safety management methods in an effort to overcome known limitations with traditional and reductive scientific approaches. Dr Hulme has applied systems-based risk assessment and incident analysis methods to multiple work domains, including defence, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, mining, sports, transportation (e.g., road, rail, aviation, maritime), and general workplace safety.

Current role

In his current role at SQRH, Dr Hulme is advancing the complexity science and systems thinking research agenda in the area of regional, rural and remote health. Adam is using conceptual-qualitative and computational-quantitative systems science methods and models to holistically map and analyse the behaviours that occur within complex rural health systems. He warmly welcomes collaborations with other researchers, both within and outside of the UQ network, and is readily available to discuss potential HDR projects that involve systems and complexity science applications to any problem in most domains.

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  • Handbook of systems thinking methods

    Salmon, Paul M., Stanton, Neville A., Walker, Guy H., Hulme, Adam, Goode, Natassia, Thompson, Jason and Read, Gemma J. M. (2023). Handbook of systems thinking methods. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9780429281624

Book Chapter

  • An introduction to human factors and ergonomics in sport

    Salmon, Paul M., Hulme, Adam, McLean, Scott and Solomon, Colin (2020). An introduction to human factors and ergonomics in sport. Human factors and ergonomics in sport: applications and future directions. (pp. 3-20) edited by Paul M. Salmon, Scott McLean, Clare Dallat, Neil Mansfield, Colin Solomon and Adam Hulme. Boca Raton, FL USA: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781351060073-2

  • Sport as a complex socio-technical system

    Hulme, Adam, McLean, Scott and Salmon, Paul M. (2020). Sport as a complex socio-technical system. Human factors and ergonomics in sport: applications and future directions. (pp. 21-40) edited by Paul M. Salmon, Scott McLean, Clare Dallat, Neil Mansfield, Colin Solomon and Adam Hulme. Boca Raton, FL USA: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781351060073-3

  • Summary and future applications of human factors and ergonomics in sport

    Salmon, Paul M., McLean, Scott and Hulme, Adam (2020). Summary and future applications of human factors and ergonomics in sport. Human factors and ergonomics in sport: applications and future directions. (pp. 347-353) Boca Raton, FL USA: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781351060073-25

  • Using computational modelling for sports injury prevention

    Hulme, Adam, Thompson, Jason, Nielsen, Rasmus, Read, Gemma J. M., McLean, Scott, Lane, Ben R. and Salmon, Paul M. (2020). Using computational modelling for sports injury prevention. Human factors and ergonomics in sport: applications and future directions. (pp. 323-344) edited by Paul M. Salmon, Scott McLean, Clare Dallat, Neil Mansfield, Colin Solomon and Adam Hulme. Boca Raton, FL USA: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781351060073-23

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ORCID: 0000-0002-3305-8538

Scopus ID: 57191635449

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