The CARRS-Q team from Queensland University of Technology has won the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award.
The university’s Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety-Queensland post-graduate education program has earned the high praise from judges for the numbers of masters and PhD students being educated.
Judges have said the program has “a significant effect in building capacity in many states and countries” to offer similar educational tools.
CARRS-Q director professor Narelle Haworth says the program has evolved into an educational institution for road safety.
“Over the past decade, our program has expanded to include postgraduate students from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, not only from Australasia, but Africa, Asia, Europe and South America,” she says.
“Our higher degree research program has seen 75 national and international PhD students graduate since the centre’s inception in 1996,” Haworth explains.
The professor says the program’s researchers have investigated “everything from preventing injury to vulnerable road users, to the design and analysis of human-machine interaction for connected and automated vehicles.”
“Links with international institutions have led to students and staff exchange, which has contributed to institutional reform in those countries,” she adds.
CARRS-Q graduates have gone on to highly influential roles in Australia like department of transport and main roads (Queensland), and around the world, including the Global Road Safety Partnership, Building and Road Research Institute of Africa, as well as the Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia and the Asian Development bank.
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