2010 Engineering Leadership Award: Associate Professor Bert Biggs Associate Professor Bert Biggs was part of the team that won the overall Engineering Leadership Award and the Reports, Procedures and Systems category in Engineers Australia's 2010 Queensland Engineering Excellence Awards. The Working Towards a Safer Construction Industry Project is a landmark construction safety project being conducted by the Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre - SBEnrc (formerly the CRC for Construction Innovation) and John Holland. |
2010 Australasian College of Road Safety Fellowship: Professor Barry Watson Professor Barry Watson, Director of CARRS-Q, has been awarded the prestigious Australasian College of Road Safety Fellowship in recognition of his significant and sustained contribution to reducing road trauma. This is an honour reserved for those who have worked at a senior level in road safety, and was presented at the Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference in September 2010. |
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2010 ICADTS Institutional Widmark Award CARRS-Q was the recipient of the Institutional Widmark Award at the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) Conference in Oslo, Norway in August 2010. The Widmark Award is the highest honour awarded by ICADTS to organizations or individuals, and is only given to organizations or individuals that have made outstanding, sustained, and meritorious contributions to the international field of alcohol, drugs, and traffic safety. |
2009 President-Elect of ICADTS: Emeritus Professor Mary Sheehan Reflecting her long-standing contribution to the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS), Emeritus Professor Mary Sheehan has been elected President-Elect in 2009. Her tenure will include three years as President-Elect, three years as President, and three years as Immediate-Past President, meaning that Mary will be the President of the Council when CARRS-Q hosts the 2013 ICADTS conference in Brisbane. |
2009 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Award: Under the Limit program CARRS-Q’s Under the Limit (UTL) drink driving education and rehabilitation program received national honours by taking out an Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Award for its prevention and reduction of drink driving in Australia. |
2009 Australian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN) Award: Emeritus Professor Mary Sheehan Emeritus Professor Mary Sheehan received The Australian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN) Award for sustained achievement in injury prevention and safety promotion. The award was presented at the 9th National Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference in Melbourne in July 2009. |
2008 Engineers Australia Transport Medal: Emeritus Professor Rod Troutbeck Emeritus Professor Rod Troutbeck was awarded the prestigious Engineers Australia Transport Medal in 2008, which recognises outstanding individual contribution in the field of Australian transport engineering. This has been awarded only nine times in the last 20 years. |
2008 Australian Safer Communities Award: Under the Limit program CARRS-Q was the Queensland winner of the 2008 Australian Safer Communities Awards in the Education, Training and Research category for the Under the Limit (UTL) Drink Driving Rehabilitation Program. |
2008 Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellowship: Judy Fleiter CARRS-Q PhD Scholar Judy Fleiter was awarded this prestigious Fellowship, which provided financial support for her to undertake a four-month research residency in China during 2008. |
2008 Amy Gillett Foundation appointment: Professor Narelle Haworth Professor Narelle Haworth was appointed to the Amy Gillett Foundation – Road Safety Sub-Committee. |
2008 Transportation Research Board Committee appointment: Professor Narelle Haworth Professor Narelle Haworth was appointed to the TRB Committee on Motorcycles and Mopeds. This is the Centre’s third appointment to TRB Committees – Emeritus Professor Mary Sheehan is a member of the Alcohol, Other Drugs and Transportation Committee and Professor Rod Troutbeck is a co-Chair of the Committee on Road Safety Barriers, International Research. |
2007 Australia-China Exchange scholarship Mark King was awarded an Australia-China Exchange travelling scholarship by the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences in late 2007 in order to travel to Beijing and undertake a one week study. |
2007 MG Club of Queensland Road Safety Award Brian Keller was presented with this award which is for outstanding achievement in the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Road Safety. Brian completed the Graduate the Graduate Certificate in Road Safety with a grade point average of 6.3. |
2007 RACQ Prize in Road Safety |
2007 Peter Vulcan Award for Best Research Paper |
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2006 QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award |
2006 RACQ Prize in Road Safety |
| 2006 MG Club of Queensland Road Safety Award Bevan Rowland, a Senior Research Assistant at CARRS-Q, was presented with this inaugural award for oustanding achievement in the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Road Safety. Bevan completed the Graduate Certificate in Road Safety with a grade point average of 6.3. |
| 2005 RACQ Prize in Road Safety Peter Rowden, a first class Honours graduate, was awarded the 2005 RACQ Prize in Road Safety. The annual prize is presented to the best Psychology Honours thesis or best Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology thesis in the area of road safety. Peter's thesis was entitled The relative impact of occupational stress, life stress and driving environment stress on driving outcomes. |
| 2004 RACQ Prize in Road Safety Judy Fleiter, a first class Honours graduate, was awarded the 2004 RACQ Prize in Road Safety. The annual prize is presented to the best Psychology Honours thesis or best Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology thesis in the area of road safety. Judy's thesis was entitled Factors contributing to speeding behaviour. |
2004 Member of the Order of Australia (AM): Dr Graham Hughes |
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RACQ Prize in Road Safety Andrew Wills, a CARRS-Q Honours Bursary Scholar, was awarded the 2003 RACQ Prize in Road Safety in February. The annual prize is presented to the best Psychology Honours thesis or best Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology thesis in the area of road safety. Andrew's thesis was entitled Work-related driver ehaviour and intentions: the influence of fleet safety climates. |
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2003 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO): Emeritus Professor Mary Sheehan |
| 2003
Pandora Archive CARRS-Q web site was one of 3,000 selected by the State Library of Queensland for national preservation. The site was selected because it reflects Queensland issues and society. |
| 2002 RACQ
Prize in Road Safety Ioni Lewis, a CARRS-Q Honours Bursary Scholar, was awarded the 2002 RACQ Prize in Road Safety in February. The annual prize is presented to the best Psychology Honours thesis or best Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology thesis in the area of road safety. Ioni's thesis was entitled The relationship between the third person effect and the acceptance of fear-based road safety messages. |
| 2002 NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust Prize PhD Scholar, Sharon Newnam, was awarded the NRMA - ACT Road Safety Trust Prize for the Best Paper Presented by a New Researcher at the Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference held in Adelaide in November 2002. Her paper, co-authored by Barry Watson and Dr Will Murray, was entitled A comparison of the factors influencing the safety of work-related drivers in work and personal vehicles. |
| 2001 ADTA-Q
Road Safety Award CARRS-Q was recognised for its outstanding contribution to road safety in Queensland, being presented with the Australian Driver Trainers Association, Queensland (ADTA-Q) Road Safety Award for 2001. The award was presented to Centre Director Professor Mary Sheehan on 22 September 2001 at the association's annual conference held at the Mercure Hotel, Brisbane. |
| 2001 Public
Health Medal Professor Mary Sheehan was awarded the Public Health Medal presented by the Public Health Association of Australia on 24 September 2001. The national award recognises her outstanding contribution to the advancement of public health in Australia. |
| 2000 Award
of Honorary Doctorate Graham Hughes, the inaugural Chair of the Board of Management and the first Commissioner of the Motor Accident Insurance Commission was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Queensland University of Technology for his vision and contribution which led to the establishment of the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland. |
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2000 Appointment to the ICADTS Executive |
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2000 CARSP Award |
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2000 ACRS Fellowship Presentation: Professor
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| 2000 Promising Program Award for the Plan
a Safe Strategy (PASS) Program In December 2000, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Maryland) advised that the PASS program had been identified by the Centre for Substance Abuse Preventionís (CSAP) National Registry of Effective Prevention Programs (NREPP) as a Promising Program resulting from the significant contributions being made in the substance abuse prevention field. |
| 1999 Windscreens
O'Brien Award The 8th Windscreens O'Brien National Safety Awards which recognise the most outstanding achievement in automotive safety in the previous 12 months were announced in Melbourne on Monday 6 December. Almost 70 nominations were received in 1999 with community nominations outweighing those from the automotive industry by around six to one. The Centre received a Highly Commended award in the Community category for the Under the Limit drink driving program; an initiative which commenced in 1993. |
| 1999 Award
for Best Paper Submitted by a Postgraduate Student Graham Fraine, who held a PhD scholarship through one of the research projects funded in the first round of the Road Accident Prevention and Road Safety Research Grant Scheme in 1997, won an award for the best paper submitted by a postgraduate student at the 21st Conference of Australian Institutes of Transport Resarch Conference hosted by the University of Queensland in December 1999. |
