From time to time the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q), offers a variety of full time PhD scholarships mostly, but not exclusively, located at the Kelvin Grove Campus of QUT which are available for commencement at any time during the year. The PhD program does not have to start at the beginning of an academic semester, although this often the most convenient time for the candidate. Experience in road safety or injury prevention research is an added advantage but not essential. Applicants from all disciplines (particularly Psychology, Engineering, Public Health, Business, Computer Science and Social Sciences) are encouraged to apply and should have completed Honours (Class I/IIA) or hold a research Masters degree. CARRS-Q has a particular outreach to rural and remote regions of Queensland and is positively interested in applicants who would be enrolling in a distance education format of their PhD program. A full time PhD scholarship provides a stipend (tax exempt, indexed annually) over 3 years and full project support and mentoring. Amounts vary depending on type of scholarship.
CARRS-Q scholarships currently available Australian Postgraduate Award - Industry (APAI) Scholarship: Road Worker Safety Please contact us to express your interest in future scholarships.
The QUT Research Scholarships Educational and professional development opportunities available for International Students Information on how to apply for International Students
Suggested research topics Supervisors are available for topics including:
Please contact us if you are interested in studying in one of these areas, or to discuss your topic.
Use of emotional design to improve road safety To date, approaches to the design of in-vehicle driving assistance systems such as warnings have mainly focused on functionality, usability, user acceptance and safety. In the past few years, emotional design (Norman, 2004) has received significant research attention. Emotional design goes beyond the notion of functional design by aiming to enhance the quality of user interactions and experience. An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and reflected in adaptive behaviour. Investigating emotion can include exploring environmental, physiological and cognitive factors. Although research has contributed to a better understanding of the effect of emotion on performance, there is no integrated approach aimed at triggering a particular emotion to instruct a safe driving behaviour. We hypothesize that different emotions such as pleasure, fear, disgust, anger, empathy, or hope can be manipulated to regulate driver's interactions with his/her vehicle and the environment. This interdisciplinary research will explore multi-modal interactive concepts to cause changes in the driver's emotional state with the view to adopting safe driving behaviours. It will study emotional process from the points of interface between physiology, psychology and computer science. Applicants could be International or Australian residents and should hold First Class Honours degree or equivalent. The applicant should have a good knowledge in physiology and basic computer skills. Accident prevention and road safety The scholar will work as a member of a research team. Candidates with a personal research interest or established research profile are encouraged to apply and to discuss their interest with CARRS-Q staff. Preference may be given to applicants with an interest in working on a program of research in one of the following areas:
Applicants with Psychology, Public Health, relevant Social Science or Computer Science qualifications or experience are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants must be able to demonstrate their capacity to make a significant contribution to original research in order to encourage high quality safety research directly relevant to the objectives of the scholarship. Human factors guidelines for road systems The scholar will be required to embark on a program of research into the impact of human factors and driver behaviour on the operation and design of roads. This project will improve all drivers’ ability to use the road in a safe and effective manner. The topic is broad and will be refined to meet the particular interest of the selected student. Applicants with Engineering or other relevant experience and qualifications are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be able to demonstrate their capacity to make a significant contribution to original research in order to encourage high quality road safety research directly relevant to the objectives of the scholarship. Innovative approaches to community-based alcohol and/or drug treatment The scholar will undertake research in the area of treatment programs for persons recruited through the courts for driving over the legal alcohol limit and/or driving impaired by licit or illicit drugs. Applicants with Psychology, Public Health or other relevant Social Science qualifications or experience are encouraged to apply. This program would have particular interest for someone seeking research qualifications relevant to Clinical Psychology. Applicants must be able to demonstrate their capacity to make a significant contribution to original research. For further information please contact the Education Officer on 07 3138 4592 or email roadsafetycourses@qut.edu.au
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