Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the town of Loughborough in the UK. It is a leading University – consistently ranked among the top 15 in the UK. The Behavioural Safety Research Group (BSRG) within the Design School at Loughborough University strives to improve safety through design using research expertise in human factors, engineering, psychology, health sciences, education and social science to reduce accidents and injury severity across the board. The Research Group involves specialists in the areas of human factors, mechanical engineering, medicine, mathematics and psychology. A key focus of the research group is understanding behavioural aspects of the road-user and how this impacts on road safety but the Research Group also has an interest in understanding the implications of behaviour in the workplace and how this might impact on workplace health and safety. The Group has extensive expertise and experience in research, research methodology and in particular analysis of safety and injury data having made significant contributions to a range of national and international research projects relating to safety. Including DaCOTA, PENDANT, TeleFOT, SafetyNet, RAIDS
BeSafe Team:
Jo Barnes
PhD, Research Associate
Responsible for WP5 - Quality
email: j.barnes at lboro.ac.uk
Andrew Morris
PhD, Professor of Human Factors in Transport Safety
Responsible for WP5 - Quality
email: a.p.morris at lboro.ac.uk