🚨 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...

🔍 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 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!

Great opportunity to join our team 👇

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

📢 Excited to share our latest publication from the Hi-Drive project! 📖 You can read the full open-access article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.te... @hfs-its-leeds.bsky.social, @envleeds.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bsky.social, @vtt.fi

📢 New publication: "Overtaking automated truck platoons: Effects of platoon organisations and traffic situation on driving behaviours of nearby manual vehicle drivers" by Zijian Lin, Feng Chen, @ibrahimozturk.bsky.social, and Natasha Merat. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

New publication 📢 "Using a traffic climate scale to understand drivers’ perceptions of their traffic system: An examination of measurement invariance across eight countries" by @ibrahimozturk.bsky.social et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One week left to get abstracts in for Road Safety on 5 Continents. This year in Leeds, UK, see you there 3rd - 5th September 2025. www.vti.se/en/rs5c/ #RoadSafety

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Are you * a #father * an #expectingfather * thinking of becoming a father? Consider taking part on our study on #paidpaternityleave! Click the link below, or scan the QR in the image: bcu.questionpro.eu/t/AB3u0XIZB3...

As 2024 comes to a close, we're reflecting on a fantastic year for the Human Factors and Safety Group and Virtuocity. Highlights include celebrating our 30th anniversary, saying goodbye to our second-gen driving simulator, and preparing for the launch of our third-gen driving simulator in 2025.

Last week to apply for our Simulation Programmer role! Great opportunity to join our brilliant team 😎!

It's that time of year again - Festival of Social Sciences runs from 19/10 - 911. 100's of free events around the country, in-person & online. Visit our webpage to find out more & see which events colleagues from the University of Leeds are hosting bit.ly/4gW4lA4 #Festival #SocialScience #Activities

The Festival of Social Sciences is coming to Virtuocity. Join us for this exciting event 😁

The team gathered today for a productive pre-conference meeting for the International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention, #DDI2024! 😎 We presented our research and shared feedback with each other. We look forward to seeing you all in three weeks! ⌛