I am the current Main Roads Research Fellow located within the Western Australian Centre for Road Safety Research at UWA within the School of Psychological Science.

I have a PhD in pharmacology from UWA, with experience in running human and animal psychopharmacology. At that time, I was particularly interested in dopaminergic agents and how they relate to psychosis and schizophrenia. Publications and topics of interest have ranged from assessing computational aspects of psychiatric disorders (mostly schizophrenia) to cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s, cognitive and emotional processing differences in autism, animal models of developmental disorders, clinical intervention effectiveness, multi-sensory integration, and [maybe excessively complicated] statistical approaches to complex data.

The broad multi-disciplinary experience has benefited my work as the Main Roads Research Fellow. Projects for Main Roads have included assessments of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a significant number of interventions that have been implemented to improve the safety of WA roads. The fellowship broadly covers a spectrum of WA specific road safety issues, researched on an as needed basis. Related work includes driving simulator studies on safe systems interventions, with future projects evaluating the impact of medical cannabis on driving performance and cognition.

Current projects include:

• How modern large data platforms can aid road safety
  How can we improve quality of evidence in road safety through strong experimental design, e.g., can we translate randomised controlled trial advances
• Bayesian modelling of road treatments, including Black Spots, intersections, and regional road treatments
• Use of WACRSR's Advanced Driving Simulator to understand behaviour on innovative intersection designs
• Medical cannabis effects on driving
• Impact of hangover on hazard perception and cognition

For prospective Hons, Masters, or PhD students interested in any of these projects, feel free to contact me.

As Main Roads research fellow, much of my work is directly in collaboration with Main Roads WA, meeting their research needs on many topics. The work is directly used by Main Roads WA to improve the safety of the road network for all road users. Often this is through supporting the understanding of the impact on crash reductions of their treatments and on the economic benefits of the improvement in road safety from targeted interventions.