Dr Bridie Scott-Parker is a Research Fellow within the University of the Sunshine Coast Accident Research (USCAR) group. Her research interest is strongly focussed on young driver behaviour and safety and she has led a range of projects investigating young driver behaviour. Bridie has published many peer reviewed academic articles, book chapters and conference articles in this area. She is an active member of the Operator Behaviour and Regulation Committee of the prestigious United States Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, a Blog Editor for the outstanding journal Injury Prevention, and is regularly sought as a young driver expert by media, schools and community groups.
Despite a plethora of intervention, young drivers continue to be overrepresented in road crashes, a persistent global road safety problem which was first recognised more than 50 years ago. Rather than asking the same questions and thus realising the same answers, Dr Scott-Parker’s innovative approach to improving young driver road safety operationalises holistic, systems thinking, revealing heretofore unrealised potential avenues of intervention. This innovative approach to understanding factors contributing to young driver risk will be described, as will her most recent research findings and implications for intervention across all levels of the young driver road safety system. Dimensions of note are her findings regarding the impact of punishment avoidance, the need to scaffold the learning-to-drive phase, and the identification of a lack of integration and coordination within the young driver road safety system.
Event Manager: Mitchell Piercey
Phone: (02) 6201 9462
Dr Bridie Scott-Parker is a Research Fellow within the University of the Sunshine Coast Accident Research (USCAR) group. Her research interest is strongly focussed on young driver behaviour and safety and she has led a range of projects investigating young driver behaviour. Bridie has published many peer reviewed academic articles, book chapters and conference articles in this area. She is an active member of the Operator Behaviour and Regulation Committee of the prestigious United States Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, a Blog Editor for the outstanding journal Injury Prevention, and is regularly sought as a young driver expert by media, schools and community groups.
Despite a plethora of intervention, young drivers continue to be overrepresented in road crashes, a persistent global road safety problem which was first recognised more than 50 years ago. Rather than asking the same questions and thus realising the same answers, Dr Scott-Parker’s innovative approach to improving young driver road safety operationalises holistic, systems thinking, revealing heretofore unrealised potential avenues of intervention. This innovative approach to understanding factors contributing to young driver risk will be described, as will her most recent research findings and implications for intervention across all levels of the young driver road safety system. Dimensions of note are her findings regarding the impact of punishment avoidance, the need to scaffold the learning-to-drive phase, and the identification of a lack of integration and coordination within the young driver road safety system.
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Phone: (02) 6201 9462
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