CARRS-Q - Key Persons
Amber Conn is an Occupational Therapist and Driving Assessor who has previously worked at Kansas University Medical in their Laboratory for Advanced Research and Rehabilitation. She was initially employed by that institution to establish and manage a profit generating driving assessment clinic but was later enlisted with research assistant duties.
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Officer
- Academic and Research Staff
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Amy Schramm is a Senior Research Officer with 15 years experience at CARRS-Q. She has worked on a number of large projects across a number of research areas, as well as providing support for the development of research ethics applications. She is an experienced road safety researcher who has published and presented research findings nationally and internationally on a range of road safety topics, including vulnerable road users, intelligent transport systems, and older drivers.
Job Titles:
- Research Manager
- CARRS - Q in 2007 As the Research Manager
- Professional Staff
Andrea joined CARRS-Q in 2007 as the Research Manager. Her primary roles are to coordinate research activities for the Centre, contribute to the ongoing development of research projects and research staff, and to liaise with the wider community and university on a range of research issues including research outcomes.
She has over 25 years experience at QUT providing assistance to a wide range of academic staff with grant applications, contracts, journal articles, survey design, data coding and analysis, as well as day-to-day project management and administration.
Professor Andry Rakotonirainy is a renowned expert in the field of road safety and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) - Human factors, with 25 years of experience in multidisciplinary research leadership and management. As the Director of CARRS-Q/Centre for Future Mobility (70-100 staff) and the founder of its ITS human factors research program, he has established a comprehensive reputation in the industry and academia, having been awarded over $51 million in multidisciplinary research grants during his career at QUT. He has a PhD in computer science from INRIA and Sorbonne University (France). He has been a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts, governments/industry committees and EU-funded projects' advisory boards.
Chae's PhD research focuses on applying an analytical criminology approach (guided by Situational Action Theory) to the field of road safety, in order to effectively integrate person- and environmental-oriented explanations of offender driving. Doing so not only enables a greater understanding as to who is more likely to offend while driving, but also why and under what circumstances a driver would choose to do so.
Prior to commencing his PhD, Chae was employed for a number of years as a Research Officer at CARRS-Q. He has extensive experience in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, including:
Facilitation of focus groups and interviews;
Development, implementation, and interpretation of surveys;
Conducting experimental research designs involving laboratory-based studies and driving simulators;
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses;
GIS; and
Drawing insights from large datasets.
Delvis is passionate about road transportation, proven by his educational degrees, both bachelor's and master's, relating to this field. Graduating from a Master of Transportation Sciences at the University of Hasselt, Belgium, he was assigned to be a manager in a local public transport company. He was also involved in numerous road safety projects from the Indonesian government, such as road safety campaign design, development of bus driver training through e-learning, and road safety audit. Aligned with his previous academic background and professional experiences, he decided to be a PhD research student at the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety, Queensland University of Technology.
Djamel has experience in the areas of Deep Learning, image processing, computer vision and data interpretation for real-world problem solving. He also has expertise in quantitative research methods, extracting information from Big Data. Djamel is interested in the design of breakthrough approaches and technological systems in road safety, particularly to enhance the understanding of the on-road behaviours of Automated Vehicles.
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Dr John Gillett is an Australian-based health professional. John is trained as a Palliative Medicine Specialist and has a practice located in Toowoomba.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor Melanie White, and Adjunct Associate Professor Mark King ( External Supervisor )
Job Titles:
- Building an Augmented Map for Road Risk Assessment
Job Titles:
- Professor Andry Rakotonirainy, Professor Ronald Schroeter, Professor Sebastien Glaser
Fatemeh's passion is analysing human brain signals and she has knowledge in analysing brain signals recorded by electroencephalography (EEG) with Machine learning approaches. She has experience in doing multidisciplinary research projects by analysing bio-signals while participants are doing cognitive tasks. Contributing to these research projects has expanded her skills in designing cognitive experiments, recording bio-signals and analysing the recorded signals which assists with finding out how the human brain does cognitive tasks. Fatemeh's PhD research is improving Deep Learning approaches to analyse human brain signals recorded by EEG with face perception as the cognitive task.
Heshani Rupasinghe is a PhD scholar at CARRS-Q with a Civil Engineering background. Prior to commencing her PhD, she completed her Master of Science degree at Thammasat University, Thailand and her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. She is passionate about analysing travel behaviour mechanisms in a techno-economic paradigm shift of emerging vehicle technologies. She uses advanced econometrics and machine-learning approaches to examine the relevant travel behaviour mechanisms
Job Titles:
- Asccodiate Professor
- Brief Biography Professor
Brief Biography Professor Ioni Lewis has extensive expertise in road safety and traffic psychology research, having commenced working in the field back in 2002 when undertaking her Honours project at the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q), Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Currently, she is a Principal Research Fellow at CARRS-Q. Ioni's expertise is in the development and evaluation of road safety public education and advertising campaigns, drawing upon social psychological perspectives. She has led the development of an innovative conceptual framework, The Step approach to Message Design and Testing (SatMDT) which she has applied in relation to the development and evaluation of road safety campaigns addressing high risk behaviours. In 2016, the Hand in Hand: Let's Go Places child pedestrian campaign was awarded the Excellence in Evaluation Award at the International Safety Media Awards in Tampere, Finland. Ioni has an extensive publication record comprising peer-reviewed journals, peer-reviewed full papers and abstracts for conferences, as well as reports for Government and Industry (see https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Lewis,_Ioni.html). She has been the Guest Editor of a special journal issue on "Communication, Media, and Road Safety Messages" within the Australasian College of Road Safety's Journal. Ioni has received invitations to present at international and national forums. In 2015, she was invited to the Public Policy Center, University of Iowa, USA to consult on the development and evaluation of a large-scale National Driver Safety Education Campaign funded by the National Safety Council. In 2014, she was invited to present at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia on health communications for road safety and injury prevention. Ioni was the developer and Chair of the Organising Committee for the inaugural Australasian Symposium of Health Communication, Advertising and Marketing (Health CAM) in 2014. The Symposium, the only one of its kind to be dedicated to Health Communications in Australasia, featured international and national experts as keynotes and invited guest presenters. Ioni was also Chair of the Scientific Committee of the (inaugural) 2015 Australasian Road Safety Conference - the largest and premiere transport and road safety related conference in Australasia. Ioni was also Chair of the Organising Committee for the 2018 HealthCAM. After completing her PhD on "Factors which influence the Effectiveness of Advertising Countermeasures in Road Safety", Ioni was awarded a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage Project, working with the Transport Accident Commission. This project sought to develop and evaluate a range of anti-speeding advertising messages with a particular focus on designing messages to influence young males as high risk road users. In her time at CARRS-Q, Ioni has been involved in various research projects undertaken via competitive funding (from external or internal grant schemes) as well as a range of tenders/commissioned research projects for key stakeholders including, for example, the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads and Austroads. These projects regularly call upon her expertise regarding message content development, message evaluation, and/or evaluation methods. Ioni has expertise in mixed methods research methods, including both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Estelle Pretorius finished her master's degree in 2020 with Asccodiate Professor Ioni Lewis and Adjunct Professor Mary Sheehan as supervisors. The title of the master's thesis is "Cannabis and Driving: Background to inform a Harm Reduction Approach". The project consisted of three studies, including an exploration of cannabis-involved fatal crashes in Queensland, and a survey of the general driver population, exploring their experiences of and attitudes to driving after cannabis use. The third study consisted of interviews with health care professional to gauge their knowledge of and attitudes to driving after cannabis use and dissemination of harm reduction information by health care providers.
Estelle commenced her PhD studies with the same supervisors late in 2020 and has recently completed a confirmation seminar on a follow-up research project entitled "Cannabis and Driving: An exploration of the attitudes and experiences of stakeholders, drivers, and passengers to inform the development of educational interventions".
Jane has over 15 years' experience working in roadside advertising policy for the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. Her experience includes policy development, stakeholder engagement, contract management, technical writing, industry negotiation, local laws and legislative reform.
Javier Rodriguez Zabala
Master of Public Health (MPH), Medical Doctor (MD)The Epidemiological and Psychological Risks of Older Pedestrian Trauma, and their Implications for the Promotion of Walking
Javier is a health professional interested in understanding laypeople's health risk perceptions and their contrast with health professionals' risk assessments. His PhD research aims to increase understanding of the epidemiological and psychological risk of older pedestrians' trauma, and how both risk assessments could be associated with active travel patterns.
Job Titles:
- Road Safety Aspects of Motorcycle Rickshaws in Pakistan