Peter Hancock (professor)

Hancock studied human anatomy and biology at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. In 1983, he received a Ph.D. in human performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and was subsequently awarded a Doctor of Science degree in human-machine systems by Loughborough U. in 2001. Prior to his appointment at the University of Central Florida, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California, a research scientist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, an associate professor (promoted to full professor in 1996) at the University of Minnesota, as a research affiliate for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, as deputy director for the Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety/Health, a research affiliate for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a visiting professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

• Early Career Distinguished Scholar, North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (1987)[1]
• Best Ergonomics in Design Article Award, Human Factors Society (1994)[2]
• Sir Frederic Bartlett Medal, The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (2000)[3]
• Franklin V. Taylor Award, American Psychological Association (2001)[4]
• Liberty Mutual Prize in Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, International Ergonomics Association (2001)[5]
• Jerome H. Ely Award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2001)[2]
• Medal of WB Jastrzębowski, Polish Ergonomics Society (2002)[6]
• Liberty Mutual Medal in Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, International Ergonomics Association (2003)[5]
• Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2005)[2]
• Norbert Wiener Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2006)[7]
• A.R. Lauer Safety Award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2007)[2]
• Otto Edholm Award, The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (2008)[8]
• Raymond F. Longacre Award, Aerospace Medical Association (2008)[9]
• Paul M. Fitts Education Award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2008) [2]
• Andrew P. Sage Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2008)[10]
• Henry L. Taylor Award, Aerospace Medical Association (2011)[11]
• Admiral Leland S. Kollmorgen Spirit of Innovation Award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Augmented Cognition Technical Group (2011)[12]
• Oliver Keith Hansen Outreach Award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2012)[2]
• Alexander C. Williams, Jr., Design Award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2013)[2]
• Charles S. Gersoni Military Psychology Award, American Psychological Association[13]
• William Floyd Award, The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (2015)[14]
• IEA Ergonomics Development Award, International Ergonomics Association (2015)[5]
• IEA/Elsevier John Wilson Award for Applied Ergonomics, International Ergonomics Association (Inaugural Award, Co-Winner; 2015)[5]
• Sidney D. Leverett Jr. Environmental Science Award, Aerospace Medical Association (2016)[15]
• Human Factors Prize Award Winner (with B.D. Sawyer), Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2017)[16]
• IEA Outstanding Educators Award, International Ergonomics Association (2018)[5]

• Mind, Machine, and Morality (1st ed. 2009). ISBN 0-754-67358-8. (Nominated for the William James Award of the American Psychological Association and for the Ursula Gielen Book Award).
• Richard III and the Murder in the Tower (1st ed. 2009, paperback 2011). ISBN 0-752-45797-7. (Nominated for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction).
• Cognitive Differences in the Ways Men and Women Perceive the Dimensions and duration of Time: Contrasting Gaia and Chronos (1st ed. 2011). ISBN 0-773-41497-5.
• Hoax Springs Eternal: Thy Psychology of Cognitive Deception (1st ed. 2014). ISBN 1-107-41768-6