Naveed Kapadia is a Senior Lecturer in Aviation and Programme Leader for postgraduate aviation programmes, with professional experience spanning flight operations, aviation management, and human factors education. His academic and industry work sits at the intersection of operational aviation practice, safety management, and human performance in complex systems.
Naveed’s doctoral research focuses on cognitive resilience in commercial aviation, with particular attention to how pilots adapt, decide, and maintain cognitive control in highly automated and uncertain operational environments. His work is informed by long-standing engagement with aviation practitioners, regulators, and professional bodies, and by teaching and supervising aviation professionals across diverse operational contexts.
The research is grounded in systems thinking and adopts a socio-technical perspective on safety and performance. Rather than treating human performance as an isolated variable, the work considers how cognition, automation, procedures, organisational context, and training interact to shape operational outcomes.
