Accessible Academics:
Professor
Adrian L. Davies
I specialise in road transport and health impacts. This includes:
• Safe systems road safety which has involved some collaboration with
Avon & Somerset Constabulary.
• Interventions which increase urban active travel use
• Effective intersectoral collaboration (I describe myself as a boundary
spanner in trying to achieve effective collaboration)
• Barriers to effective collaboration which include specialised discourses of
knowledge and interpretations of evidence.
• Translational research for transport planners, engineers and urban
designers who may have little or no access and knowledge of the peer
reviewed evidence which is available in their fields of work but which
are wholly apposite. See www.travelwest.info/evidence as an example
of this workstream to de-jargonise peer reviewed evidence into short,
understandable and usable summaries.
Adrian holds posts at both Edinburgh Napier University & the University of
the West of England.
Contact Adrian:
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Email: a.davis@napier.ac.uk
Expertise:
•2Safe Systems
• Vision Zero
• Active Travel
• Intersectoral Collaboration
• Translational Research
Adrian says…
“I have spent the last 10
years working part-time
inside a local authority
highway team, as a Public
Health
Dr,
providing
advice
and
evidence
support where sought and
learning how to best work
with practitioners and see
the world standing in their
shoes.”