Dr Carrigan's main research interests involve a human factors approach to understand how decisions are made in high stakes environments. Specifically she is interested in:

- Digital health inteventions (Design, Development, Evaluation, and Implemenation)

- Clinical decision support: How we can improve the design of digital systems to increase provider accuracy. This includes medical imaging devices.

- The design and usabilty of medical simulation

- Codesign methods involving stakeholders and consumers

- Leading culturally appropriate mixed method research with vulnerable populations

Dr Carrigan has over 12 years' experience designing and teaching. She has a background in psychology and has been a Lecturer in Charge of a first year psychology unit, and a third year cognitive psychology unit, and a facilitator for Foundations of Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis for the Grad Diploma of Psychology, ACU Online.

She has co-convened a Master of Research unit: "Medical Research Foundations: Ethics, Integrity and Practice", and tutored for a Master of Public Health unit and Clinical Science units. Dr Carriagn has presented several guest lectures in undergraduate psychology units such as Perception and Cognition. She is passionate about mentoring and equity in health and education

She is currently co-supervising two PhD students and has been the primary superviser of over 10 honours and Masters students.

Dr Carrigan is accepting research students whose interests align with hers.

Dr Carrigan is currently the Senior Research Fellow on two NHMRC and MRFF projects that examine, implement and evaulaute a telehealth enhanced model of care for residential aged care homes and general practitioners. Using mixed methods, the outcomes will support clinicians and residential aged care service providers to make evidence-based decisions on the utility and effectiveness of telehealth in the safe and high-quality care of residents.