Human Performance, a QinetiQ team

About us

Established: 1995
Indemnity: Company
Chartered ergonomists: 16
Consultants: 100+

QinetiQ’s Human Performance group consists of nearly 100 consultants and researchers who work across a wide range of defence and security systems, providing research, consultancy, and engineering support. Addressing the wide range of human factor issues the team include human factor physiologists specialising in biomechanics, vision, noise and thermal. The team also includes human factors specialists with backgrounds in psychology who address a range of issues including workload and stress, culture, training, human-computer interaction, and organisational design.

We are able to call upon additional medical, nursing, modelling, engineering and statistical expertise from the wider team as well as facilities which include centrifuge, thermal chambers, hypobaric chamber, hyperbaric chamber, biomechanics lab, and acoustic chamber.