If anyone is planning to register for ICAP, a colleague of mine would like to transfer her early bird registration. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let me know.

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Human Factors and Safety Group & Virtuocity@hfs-its-leeds.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚀 Be Curious @Virtuocity! This year, we’re excited to be part of the Be Curious event at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social, where we show our immersive facility with interactive demonstrations and hands‑on activities for all ages. 📅 Find out more about the event: openup.leeds.ac.uk/events/be-cu...

🚀 Be Curious @Virtuocity! This year, we’re excited to be part of the Be Curious event at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social, where we show our immersive facility with interactive demonstrations and hands‑on activities for all ages. 📅 Find out more about the event: openup.leeds.ac.uk/events/be-cu...

Be Curious: Ready to explore the future of travel?

Come and step inside Virtuocity – where you can drive a car, walk through a...

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📢 Now Open for Submissions! Together with Federica Biassoni, Gunilla Björklund, Amanda Stephens, and Mette Møller, we are excited to share a new Research Topic in Frontiers in Psychology: Affective Processes in Transport Safety: A Psychological Perspective www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Frontiers | Affective Processes in Transport Safety: A Psychological Perspective

Emotions occupy a pivotal yet insufficiently explored role in transport safety. While previous research has predominantly concentrated on cognitive, environm...

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Commuting in West Yorkshire: Associations between traffic climate, commuting stress, and travel satisfaction osf.io/preprints/ps...

𝑻𝑺𝑹 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫: 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰 In this final webinar, you will have an opportunity to listen and speak directly to the 𝑇𝑆𝑅 editorial team. The webinar is led by the editor-in-chief 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐤𝐬𝐞𝐢 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐲𝐧, Lund University, Sweden: tsr.international/TSR/webinars #TSRjournal #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

The Fault in Our STARS: International Evidence that the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale and the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale Overlap osf.io/preprints/ps...

The 𝑇𝑆𝑅 is glad to welcome İbrahim Öztürk (@ibrahimozturk.bsky.social), Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, the United Kingdom, as a new member of the journal's editorial team: tsr.international/TSR/about/ed... #TSRjournal #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

@ibrahimozturk.bsky.social talked about their work on in-vehicle technologies, "An investigation of how drivers’ knowledge and use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) varies between countries", from the Hi-Drive project.

New publication: "Exploring the effects of sex category, gender roles, and gender stereotypes on one's own, women's and men's driving behaviour in Türkiye and France". We investigated the relationships between sex, gender roles, and driver behaviours across two countries. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

It is my pleasure to share that in 2028, we will be hosting the 9th International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP9). Exciting times ahead, we can’t wait to welcome you! @markkula.bsky.social, @hfs-its-leeds.bsky.social, @envleeds.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bsky.social

@ptw86.bsky.social and Hsuan Chao will be exhibiting with a desktop simulator set up to show some of our use cases to delegates, while @ibrahimozturk.bsky.social and Ruth Madigan will be presenting some of their latest work.

📢 New publication! As part of the Hi-Drive project, we (Esko Lehtonen, Ruth Madigan, Yee Mun Lee, Elina Aittoniemi, and Natasha Merat OBE) investigated user acceptance of Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) in conditionally automated driving systems (SAE level 3).

Our new paper, "Fatigue assessment of forklift operators in a 12-hour shift system", led by Tianbo Wang, was published in WORK: A journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation. Check the full text here: doi.org/10.1177/1051...

Fatigue assessment of forklift operators in a 12-hour shift system - Tianbo Wang, Ibrahim Öztürk, Wei Lyu, Zuojiang Ning, 2025

Background In recent years, numerous large-scale manufacturing enterprises in Northeastern China have shifted from the conventional 8-h shift model to an extend...

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🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social. The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027. Salary: £41,064-£48,822 Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social Deadline: 13 October 2025 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow, Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, the interactions between them and other service pro...

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🔍 I’m pleased to share our latest open-access article <Is drivers’ interaction with pedestrians affected by cognitive load and LED bands? A driving simulator study investigating performance across two age groups during different ambient lighting conditions> now published in TRF.

The 20th RS5C conference officially concluded! ✅ What a joy to co-organise with the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI). Massive thanks to the organising & scientific committees, our brilliant volunteers, and every author and 218 delegates who joined us from 37 countries 🌎

We’ve wrapped the pre- #RS5C conference Virtuocity tours and welcome reception 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who attended today. Can’t wait to kick off the conference tomorrow! 🏵

🛴 New Publication! I’m delighted to share our new article “Exploring attitudes and behavioural intentions towards e-scooter use in Türkiye: Differences between users and non-users” with @nazliakay.bsky.social, published in the Journal of Transport Geography. 📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

🚦 Today, our team was proud to take part in the Vision Zero Conference organised by Leeds City Council at Millennium Square. 🎤 Yue Yang presented our The Road Safety Trust–funded project "Autistic Children Matter" (led by Yee Mun Lee) @envleeds.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bsky.social

🚗 Driving in Türkiye is still a largely male-dominated activity, and that is linked to how people think and behave on the roads. You’ll often see headlines referring to “women drivers” in the news, reflecting deep-rooted sex stereotypes.

New publication <<The Path to Driving Aggression and Crash Risk: The Role of Metacognition and Anger Rumination in Anger Expression Among Chinese Drivers>> led by Chenzhao Zhai. doi.org/10.1002/ab.7...

The Path to Driving Aggression and Crash Risk: The Role of Metacognition and Anger Rumination in Anger Expression Among Chinese Drivers

Driving anger and aggressive anger expression are prevalent in China, leading to road crashes. While potential associations between metacognitive beliefs about worry and control, anger rumination, an...

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The University has placed in the top 100 universities in the world for the 8th year in a row, moving up to 13th position among the 90 UK institutions on the list 🙌 The QS World University Rankings were released today, and Leeds is ranked 86th in the world.

The Road Safety on Five Continents (RS5C) 2025 program is taking shape! Happening right here in Leeds, the conference will feature three days of poster and oral sessions, three keynotes, and six special sessions, bringing together global voices in road safety and transport research.

🚦 Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting our e-SAFE (Equity, Social Determinants, Anti-social Behaviour and Future E-Mobility) project, funded by @therstrust.bsky.social, at the @pactsuk.bsky.social Road User Behaviour Working Party.

New paper with @ibrahimozturk.bsky.social on exploring road use and traffic behaviour through a prosocial lens. Here's the pre-print! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Exactly this!

Social Indicators Research@socialindicators.bsky.social · last yr.

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

Great opportunity to join our team 👇

Human Factors and Safety Group & Virtuocity@hfs-its-leeds.bsky.social · last yr.

We are excited to announce a new PhD opportunity in our team <<EPSRC IDLA: Driver Attention during SAE L3 automated driving: the role of non-driving related tasks >> 👇 phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2255... @envleeds.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bsky.social

I am happy to share our recent work < Same Risk But Different Attribution: Locus of Control Moderates the Relationship Between Risk Perception and Driver Behaviors >. doi.org/10.1177/0361... @envleeds.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bsky.social