Accessible Academics:
Dr Graham Edgar
I have over 30 years experience working as a cognitive psychologist and
psychophysicist specialising in visual perception and situation awareness
that has included the development of a new technique for modelling and
measuring situation awareness (QASA – Quantitative Analysis of Situation
Awareness) that is now in use worldwide. I have conducted projects
for the Highways Agency and Transport Research Laboratories to study
optimisation of warning lighting for emergency vehicles and have been
principal investigator on projects studying situation awareness in a number
of contexts.
I have worked with the local Road Safety Partnership on issues of driver
distraction and with the Fire and Rescue Services in the UK, Poland,
Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Estonia and the Netherlands on issues of vehicle
conspicuity and situation awareness. I act as an expert witness on the
perceptual and psychological aspects of road traffic accidents.
Contact Graham:
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Email: g.edgar@glos.ac.uk
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Situation Awareness
Situational Awareness
Road Traffic Accidents
Driver Distraction
Firefighting
Decision Making
Driving and Mobile Telephones
Graham says…
“Complex theories can be
developed and tested in the
laboratory but only when
they are applied to ‘real-
life’ situations is it possible
to see if they work.”