Projects (12)

Attitudes and behaviours towards 20mph speed limit 3 years post intervention Oct 23, 2023 - Oct 18, 2024
1) Augment the previous research undertaken by the Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University, to assess the impacts of the implementation of 20mph default speed limits across all Scottish Borders (SB) settlements
2) New fieldwork to... Read More about Attitudes and behaviours towards 20mph speed limit 3 years post intervention.

Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning Jun 1, 2023 - May 31, 2025
Speech enhancement and separation techniques are often used to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech degraded by background distractions, including speech and non-speech noises. We aim to change the current landscape of research and innov... Read More about Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning.

Effects and mechanisms of school traffic schemes in Great Britain: a natural experimental study Aug 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2025
Promoting active travel, or walking and cycling, can have numerous health and environmental benefits. It can improve population levels of physical and mental health, result in health gains, and reduced healthcare cost while emitting less air pollutio... Read More about Effects and mechanisms of school traffic schemes in Great Britain: a natural experimental study.

Chair of Transport & Health Feb 12, 2024 - Feb 11, 2025
This will allow me to continue and extend some of the work that I do, to promote and support policy and practice which results in an increase in total physical activity time, mainly as a result in an increase in walking for transport, and overall an... Read More about Chair of Transport & Health.

Increasing Physical Activity through Active Travel - Year 3 Dec 1, 2021 - Nov 30, 2022
A major element of the project is to help increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population. Research interests include:
- translational research to ensure the evidence–base on transport, the built environment and hea... Read More about Increasing Physical Activity through Active Travel - Year 3.

Mountain Biking Data Sonification Sep 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2023
We are embarking on a collaborative project between Music, the Sports, Exercise, and Health Science Research Group, and the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland (MTBCOS) in a project encouraging people to be active and creative, with targeted benefits t... Read More about Mountain Biking Data Sonification.

Essential Evidence for Scotland Year 2 Jul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
Translational research can be powerful in providing practitioners with targeted evidence summaries when they have neither time, knowledge of, nor access to much of the peer reviewed evidence base. The value of de-jargonised summaries of robust academ... Read More about Essential Evidence for Scotland Year 2.

Increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2020
A major element of the project is to help increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population. Research interests include:
- translational research to ensure the evidence–base on transport, the built environment and he... Read More about Increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population.

Impacts of School Street closures on the local highway network Jan 23, 2020 - May 31, 2022
This project is to extend understanding of wider impacts of temporary street closures. It will consider any re-distributional effects of street closures around schools and it is under consideration whether it can also assessment impacts on current in... Read More about Impacts of School Street closures on the local highway network.

Reactec vibrotactile threshold testing May 1, 2018 - Jul 31, 2018
Design and construct reaction frame for undertaking vibrotactile threshold testing for hand held power tools.

Qatar Pedestrian Research Apr 1, 2016 - May 31, 2018
Analysis of research of pedestrian movement in urban areas

TABUK2 Identification, assessment & enhancement of accident date collection & analysis in KSA Oct 1, 2013 - Feb 28, 2018
It has been estimated that the annual cost of traffic accidents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) exceeds 6 billion US dollars, in addition to other social, health, and economic impacts, such as disability, rehabilitation, and unemployment due to... Read More about TABUK2 Identification, assessment & enhancement of accident date collection & analysis in KSA.