Diana is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, IIUM. Trained in Ergonomics (Human Factors) at Loughborough University and later, Applied Psychology at the University of Nottingham, UK, her research interests are in the areas of public transport crowding and commuting stress, crowd behaviour and crowd management, as well as restorative effects of environments and environmental ergonomics. Her work has been focused on understanding the nature, process, and outcomes of passenger crowding on trains and investigating different demand management options to mitigate this issue. Her recent work also extends into the study of related settings, such as overcrowding at large public gatherings (e.g., Hajj), in which she is particularly interested in whether crowd behaviour plays a role in evacuation planning and overall crowd management. In another line of research, Diana has used measurements of physiological parameters to study how people respond to different types of environment, especially in terms of restorative experiences and cognitive performance. Ultimately, by addressing these research areas, Diana hope to be able to find ways of helping overcome these problems with some forms of interventions. To know more about a particular strand of her work, see her portfolio at: https://beyondcommuting.wixsite.com/dianamahudin
Diana has published widely in these fields (see ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7595-9852 and https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=UoTvwZUAAAAJ&hl=en) and has consulted with a variety of private sector and public institutions on issues related to road safety, learning innovative space, and behaviour-based safety. In the last four years, she has secured two national and two consultancy-funded research grants and is currently the Principal Researcher on two research projects, and co-researcher on three more. Diana has also won several travel awards, presentation awards, and best poster awards; including mentoring her students to receive the Best Paper Award in UMRAN2013 Conference. In 2001, she received the Royal Education Award, the Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Award for Best Student (Overall) for Kulliyyah, the Muhibbah Kejuruteraan Award for Best Student in Psychology, and the PSIMA Book Award.
Diana has taught a variety of psychology courses including research methodology, psychological statistics, experimental psychology, environmental psychology, engineering psychology, and social psychology. She also served as an Academic Advisor for the Department of Psychology from 2012 to 2014 and sits on the Postgraduate Thesis Committee for Human Sciences and a member of the Kulliyyah Research Board in the Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences from 2015 to 2017.
A member of the International Association for People Environment Studies, Diana curates, researches, and edits the work on this website and blog. She also blogs at http://beyondcommuting.blogspot.com, and can be reached via @beyondcommuting on Twitter.
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UoTvwZUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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