2008 Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellowship |
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 |
Peter Vulcan Award for Best Research Paper |
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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. |
2005 AM Fraser Equity Award CARRS-Q Research Assistant Debbie Hoggard was awarded QUT's Faculty of Health AM Fraser Equity Award for her achievement as the first Indigenous person to complete the psychology course at QUT and the first Aboriginal person eligible for provisional registration as a psychologist. |
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 in the General Division Award (AM) |
Queensland
Police Service In July 2004 the Queensland Police Service Indigenous Licensing Program presented Colin Edmonston, a CARRS-Q Senior Research Assistant with a certificate award to acknowledge his asssistance and support in developing and implementing a Drivers' Licensing Program in remote areas and Indigenous communities within Queensland and the Torres Strait. |
Mary
Sheehan Thesis Prize The Mary Sheehan Thesis Prize was instituted in 2003 for the first time. Professor Mary Sheehan was the first Head of School and was instrumental in shaping the School of Psychology and Counselling during its early years. This prize may be awarded to the student who has submitted the Thesis that has received not only the highest commendation but is further characterised by great independence and originality of thought, sophistication of methodology, thoroughness of analysis and interpretation, and the degree to which the Thesis is judged to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the discipline. For the award of the prize, all of these requirements must be met. The prize consists of a $300 book voucher. |
2003
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 Order of Australia Award (AO) |
The
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. |
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Australian Psychological Society Award
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Award
for Best Paper Presented by a New Researcher 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. |
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Commonwealth Fellowship |
ADTA-Q
2001 Road Safety Award CARRS-Q was recognised for its outstanding contribution to road safety in Queensland, taking out 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. |
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. |
Award
of Honorary Doctorate Graham Hughes, the 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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Appointed to the Executive |
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. Mary Sheehan attended the awards and the Centre received a Highly Commended award in the Community Award category for the Under the Limit drink driving program; an initiative which commenced in 1993. |
Award
for Best Paper Submitted by a Post-graduate Student Mr Graham Fraine, who holds a PhD scholarship through one of the research projects funded in the first round of funding of the Road Accident Prevention and Road Safety Research Grant Scheme in 1997 was awarded a certificate for the best paper submitted by a post-graduate student at the 21st Conference of Australian Institutes of Transport Resarch Conference hosted by the University of Queensland in December 1999. |
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CARSP Award |
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ACRS Fellowship Presentation to Professor
Mary Sheehan |
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Promising Program Award for the Plan
a Safe Strategy (PASS) Program |
| Carseldine
Lecturer of the Year Award (2000) winner Jeremy Davey won this award for his Drugs and Alcohol Studies lecture series |
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US Government |
