About Accessible Academics
We’ve pulled together information from a range of experts from different disciplines that we think you’ll
find helpful. Those subjects include criminology, psychology, law, social marketing and engineering,
amongst others.
Whilst we were working with practitioners on the Mobile:Engaged project we realised that there was plenty of
enthusiasm for engaging with academic work, but that sometimes the world of academia seemed a bit remote
and inaccessible. We hope that, at the very least, we have persuaded the people we met through our Knowledge
Exchange Consultations that there is nothing about academics that is particularly off-putting!
But that’s why you’ll find, at the end of this compendium, pages about particular ‘Accessible Academics’ - the
people behind the research that so many innovators were engaging with, and the people that we’ve found
so helpful in pulling this volume together. All our featured academics have offered their contact details and a
selection of topics that they are particularly familiar with - including but not limited to mobile phone use by drivers
- and they’d all be very happy to hear from the people who are confronting road safety challenges on the ground,
on a daily basis, so that they can benefit from your experience in return for sharing theirs.
Combining the knowledge
and expertise of academics
and practitioners can help
improve the evidence-
informed nature, and
hopefully the success, of a
road safety approach.
Our Accessible Academics aren’t just experts on mobile phone use by drivers. Their expertise includes: behaviour
change; evaluation; speeding; low-emission vehicles; autonomous vehicles; cycling; procedural justice;
enforcement technologies and education.
This range of expertise means that you should be able to find an academic that relates well to your area of interest,
whether that is specifically mobile phone use by drivers or other offending behaviour.
If you do get in touch with an Accessible Academic, and if you work together on this or another challenge, we’d
love to hear about it - our contact details are at the back of this volume.
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