Rate My Professor Aoife Hunt

Aoife's research specializations include safety and security of crowded places, crowd dynamics, emergency evacuation strategies, protective security measures such as pedestrian movement through hostile vehicle mitigation barriers and search checkpoints, and human behaviour in emergencies. She led the world’s largest CCTV study into virus transmission risk behaviours in crowded places during the COVID-19 pandemic and is co-authoring the chapter on evacuation modelling in the SFPE Fire Engineering handbook. Regularly consulted for national and international guidance like the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (Green Guide), her key publications feature 'A glossary for research on human crowd dynamics' (Adrian et al., 2019), 'Simulating movement devices used in hospital evacuation' (Hunt et al., 2020), 'Human behaviour during a healthcare facility evacuation drills' (Rahouti et al., 2020), 'An analysis and numerical simulation of the performance of trained hospital staff using movement assist devices' (Hunt et al., 2015), and 'Agent-based models of social behaviour and communication in evacuations: A systematic review' (Templeton et al., 2024). Her awards include the MBE (2023) for services to the COVID-19 response, GHD Chairman’s Award for Technical Excellence (2020), European Healthcare Design Research Awards High Commendation (2017), and SFPE Student Scholar Award (2017). Aoife co-chairs the Security Institute’s Special Interest Group on Protecting People in Crowded Spaces, serves on the IAFSS Human Behaviour in Fire working group and SFPE Foundation Proulx Scholarship Committee, and has presented at over 100 conferences and events.