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BBehavSc (Psych)/BBus, BBehSc (Hons)
After three years as a Research Officer for CARRS-Q, Sonali has now commenced a PhD research study.
She has gained invaluable experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and analyses. Specifically, Sonali has conducted extensive literature reviews on a range of road safety topics, collected data through facilitating focus groups and interviews, running computerised experiments and administering online surveys, and has analysed data through quantitative (e.g., statistical analyses) and qualitative methods (e.g., thematic analysis). She is also experienced in writing technical reports and academic journal articles.
DOCTORAL RESEARCH
“Understanding the lived experiences of drivers responsible for unintentional road trauma: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis”
THESIS SUPERVISORS
Professor Ioni Lewis and Professor Jane Shakespeare-Finch
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Road safety advertising
- Factors which influence road users’ engagement in high risk behaviours
- Altruistic driving
- Automated vehicles
- Advanced driver assistance systems
AWARDS
QUT Scholarship
Projects
- Cooperative and Highly Automated Driving (CHAD) Safety Study
- Development of road safety messaging for Gold Coast youth aged 16-24
- Distracted driving program
- Examining barriers associated with the uptake and acceptability of Advanced Rider Assistance Systems
- Getting around: walking and driving in 2021 compared to 2010
- Misuse of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: Understanding a new risky behaviour
- Nudging for change: Design and evaluation of roadside messaging to encourage safer road user behaviours
- Re-evaluating speeding behaviour among ACT drivers: An action theory approach
- Reducing risky mobile phone use while driving among fleet drivers: A High-Risk Activity Management Approach (HRAMA)
- What deters people from using their mobile phone when driving?