Dr. Shaun Helman, Transport Psychology, Transport Research Laboratory

Shaun is the Head of Transport Psychology at the Transport Research Laboratory. Shaun is a cognitive psychologist who has been involved in researching road safety and driver behaviour for the last 15 years. He is particularly interested in the links between driver behaviour and safety outcomes such as collisions and injuries, and in high risk groups such as young and novice drivers, those driving for work, and motorcyclists.

Natasha Merat, Professor, University of Leeds

Natasha is a Professor at the University of Leeds Institute for Transport Studies, and Research group leader of the Safety and Technology Group. She has a background in Physiology and Psychology and her research focuses on understanding drivers’ interaction with new vehicle- and road-based technologies. She is principal investigator of the FORWARN project, which aims to develop an intelligent forward collision warning for ‘mind off the road’ distraction. She is also involved in two European projects studying the ‘driverless car’ concept. Here, she is investigating how drivers respond to critical events during vehicle automation, and also how pedestrians and cyclists interact with these vehicles in a shared space setting.

Andrew Parkes, University of Coventry, Professor and Executive Director, Centre for Mobility and Transport

Andrew moved to Coventry University in 2015 to lead a new Research Centre in Mobility and Transport. His background is in Psychology and Human Factors and he is active in areas of virtual and augmented reality, connected and autonomous vehicles, transport design and safety. The Centre currently employs around 50 research staff and has around 65 PhD students, covering areas of design, safety, human factors, cyber security, vehicle performance and advanced propulsion systems. He was Vice President of the Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI) and is now Honorary Professor of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and Visiting Professor at Monash University (Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture), Australia. Interests over his career have expanded from accident causation and investigation, through to a much wider view of the efficiency, acceptability and safety of transport systems.

Prof. Sarah Sharples, Professor, Human Factors, Nottingham University

Sarah is a Professor of Human Factors in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering and Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham. She completed her PhD in 1999 and has been a researcher, research manager or grant holder on a number of industrial, government and EU funded projects, including a long-term programme of research for Network Rail examining implications, design and implementation of novel interfaces for railway control and use of rail simulation for human factors research. She is a CI in the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute and Co-Director of the Horizon Doctoral Training Centre. She is PI of a national network to support PhD students in Digital Economy, and leads the University of Nottingham and Leicester Partnership with the Transport Systems Catapult, where she is also a Non- Executive Director. She works in the domains of transport, healthcare and manufacturing, and leads the 'Digital Futures' Global Research Theme for the University of Nottingham. She is a Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist, and her main areas of interest and expertise are Human-Computer Interaction, cognitive ergonomics and development of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies for examination of interaction with innovative technologies in complex systems. She is President of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, and co-editor of the leading ergonomics/human factors text, Evaluation of Human Work, 4th edition (2015).

Prof. Neville Stanton, Chair & Professor, Human Factors Engineering, Southampton University

Neville is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Ergonomist and Chartered Engineer. His research interests include modelling, predicting, analysing and evaluating human performance in systems as well as designing the interfaces and interaction between humans and technology. Professor Stanton has worked on design of automobiles, aircraft, ships and control rooms over the past 30 years, on a variety of automation projects. He has published 35 books and over 280 journal papers on Ergonomics and Human Factors. He has received numerous awards including the Sir Frederic Bartlett Medal in 2012 for his contributions to basic and applied ergonomics research. The University of Southampton has awarded him a Doctor of Science in 2014 for his sustained contribution to the development and validation of Human Factors methods.

Steve Stradling, Emeritus Professor, Napier University

Stephen was Reader in the Behavioural Aspects of Transport at TRI from 1998 and Professor of Transport Psychology from 2001 to 2009. He is now a professor emeritus and continues to publish on driver behaviour (e.g., Accident Analysis & Prevention 2013; BMJ 2014, 2015) and modal choice (Handbook of Traffic Psychology, 2011), contribute to review projects (Novice drivers: Evidence Review and Evaluation. Predriver training, Graduated Driver Licensing and the New Drivers Act. Project report RPN2553. Transport Research Laboratory 2013) and pontificate at road safety conferences.

Pete Thomas, Professor, University of Loughborough

Pete is the Professor of Road and Vehicle Safety at Loughborough University where there is a team of over 20 people who conduct research to develop new road and vehicle safety measures and to evaluate the performance in the real-world. He joined Loughborough University in 1982 in order to establish what was then the Accident Research Unit. The group expanded to become a team of over 30 people before being disbanded in 2014.The Team was awarded the prestigious Queens Anniversary Prize in 2007 for its work and in 2013 it received the Prince Michael of Kent International Road Safety Award for its work on the European Road Safety Observatory. Pete is a leading figure in the development of road and vehicle safety policy resources and has led the establishment of the European Road Safety Observatory. He has advised the European Commission on its Road Safety Policy Orientations to 2020 and has co-ordinated several large research projects to gather and analyse accident & safety data which together valued at €20m.

Angus Wallace, Chair – Emeritus Professor, Orthopaedic & Accident Surgery, University of Nottingham & IAM Trustee & Council Member

Angus headed the research programme into the Kegworth M1 Aircraft Accident and has an extensive research portfolio including lower limb injuries in car occupants, orthopaedic surgery, shoulder & elbow surgery and sports medicine. He joined the AA Motoring Trust in 2004, moved to the IAM Research Committee in 2007 and was subsequently elected onto the IAM Council in 2011. He headed the team that developed the electronic logbook now used by all surgeons in the UK. He is also recognised for co-designing the Interax Knee Replacement, the Nottingham and Vaios Shoulder Replacements and the LockDown and Infinity-Lock artificial ligaments. In 2016 he was invited to join the International Board for Research into Air Crash Events – IBRACE that is focussing on improving survival after aircraft accidents.