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Damian Poulter

Dr Damian Poulter BSc Hons, MSc, PhD

Associate Head of School in Research & Knowledge Exchange

Key details

Dr Damian Poulter

Associate Head of School in Research & Knowledge Exchange

Dr Damian Poulter is Associate Head of the School for Research & Knowledge Exchange in the School of Human Sciences and is a Reader in Psychology. His research focuses primarily on human perception and performance, particularly in road traffic environments. His research has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC) for projects investigating the crash risk of novice and young drivers. He is currently leading a Road Safety Trust-funded grant on promoting the use of Intelligent Speed Assistance among UK drivers.

Posts held previously:

  • 2021 - 2023 Academic Portfolio Lead, School of Human Sciences, Çï¿ûÊÓƵ
  • 2019 - 2023 Centre Lead, Centre for Thinking & Learning, Institute for Lifecourse Development, Çï¿ûÊÓƵ
  • 2012 - 2016 Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Çï¿ûÊÓƵ
  • 2011 - 2012 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Çï¿ûÊÓƵ
  • 2008 - 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • 2007 - 2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham
  • 2004 - 2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of Reading

Psychology

Allied health professions, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy

Responsibilities within the university
    Associate Head of School for Research & Knowledge Exchange, School of Human Sciences Reader in Psychology

Recognition
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Ad hoc reviewer for journals including: BMC Psychology; Accident Analysis & Prevention; Transport Research Part F; Child Development; PLoS One

Research / Scholarly interests

Damian's research interests are in applied cognitive psychology, particularly in the context of human behaviour in road traffic environments. He has investigated developmental trends in perceptual judgements of vehicle speeds and how children, young adults and older adults detect and gauge the speed of approaching vehicles. He has acted as primary investigator and co-investigator on UKRI-funded research projects and has ongoing collaborations with researchers at the University of Sheffield, King's College, London, Royal Holloway, Erasmus University and the Transport Research Laboratory. He has also worked with a number of other external partners in the road safety community including Transport for London, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership, and Thames Valley Police. He also holds an NCRM placement fellowship, acting as an expert advisor to the Department for Transport on a nationwide randomised controlled trial of road safety interventions.

Key funded projects

  • 2021 Road Safety Trust (RST 235_8_21), "Promoting Intelligent Speed Assistance to Reduce UK Road Traffic Crashes”. PIs Richard Rowe & Damian Poulter. £195,932.
  • 2019 School of Hard Knocks & Çï¿ûÊÓƵ Vice Chancellors Scholarship: “Evaluation of sport mentoring-based interventions for children at risk of low educational attainment, and unemployed adults”. PI Claire Rossato, CI Damian Poulter. £36,211
  • 2018 Department for Transport. Placement Fellowship: Improving young driver safety – phase 2. PI Damian Poulter. £2,170
  • 2017 Economic & Social Research Council / National Centre for Research Methods. “Placement Fellowship: Improving young driver safety”. PI Damian Poulter. £8,950.
  • 2015 Medical Research Council (MR/N011198/1). “Reducing newly-qualified driver crash risk: Identifying behavioural targets”. PI Richard Rowe, CI Damian Poulter £149,960.
  • 2012 Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K004565/1). “Modelling developmental trajectories of novice drivers with high and low crash liability”. PI Damian Poulter. £144,405.
  • 2010 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. “Perceptual judgments by elderly road users when observing vehicle approach”. PIs: Damian Poulter & John Wann. £20,000.

Recent publications

Article

Özkan, Özgün , Norman, Paul, Rowe, Richard, Day, Marianne , Poulter, Damian (2024), . Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 104 . pp. 532-543 ISSN: 1369-8478 (Print), 1873-5517 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2024.06.003).

Day, Marianne , Norman, Paul, Poulter, Damian, Özkan, Özgün , Rowe, Richard (2024), . Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Journal of Transport and Health, 38: 101868 . pp. 1-12 2214-1405 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101868).

Day, Marianne , Norman, Paul, Poulter, Damian, Özkan, Özgün , Rowe, Richard (2023), . Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 99 . pp. 262-273 ISSN: 1369-8478 (Print), 1873-5517 (Online) (doi: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/transportation-research-part-f-traffic-psychology-and-behaviour).

Lazuras, Lambros , Rowe, Richard, Ypsilanti, Antonia, Smythe, Isabelle , Poulter, Damian , Reidy, John (2022), . Elsevier - International Association of Applied Psychology. In: , , , . Elsevier - International Association of Applied Psychology, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 91 . pp. 461-471 ISSN: 1369-8478 (Print), 1873-5517 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2022.10.027).

Rowe, Richard , Stride, Christopher, Day, Marianne, Thompson, Andrew , McKenna, Frank , Poulter, Damian (2022), . Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Accident Analysis & Prevention, 177: 106832 ISSN: 0001-4575 (Print), (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106832).

Kalocsanyiova, Erika , Essex, Ryan, Poulter, Damian (2021), . Taylor & Francis. In: , , , . Taylor & Francis, Health Communication, 38 (6) . pp. 1080-1089 ISSN: 1041-0236 (Print), 1532-7027 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1991639).

Clinton, Michael E. , Hewett, Rebecca, Conway, Neil, Poulter, Damian (2021), . SAGE. In: , , , . SAGE, Journal of Management, 48 (4) . pp. 821-850 ISSN: 0149-2063 (Print), 1557-1211 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206321997912).

Thompson, Trevor , Dias, Sofia, Poulter, Damian, Weldon, Sharon Marie , Marsh, Lucy , Rossato, Claire , Shin, Jae Il , Firth, Joseph , Veronese, Nicola , Dragioti, Elena (2020), . BMC. In: , , , . BMC, Systematic Reviews, 9: 130 2046-4053 (Online) (doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-020-01398-3).

Lazuras, Lambros , Rowe, Richard, Poulter, Damian, Powell, Philip , Ypsilanti, Antonia (2019), . Frontiers Media. In: , , , . Frontiers Media, Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 1170 1664-1078 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01170).

Thompson, Trevor , Poulter, Damian, Miles, Clare, Solmi, Marco , Veronese, Nicola , Carvalho, André F. , Stubbs, Brendon , Uc, Ergun Y. (2018), . American Academy of Neurology (AAN). In: , , , . American Academy of Neurology (AAN), Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 (Print), 1526-632X (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000006132).

Day, Marianne R. , Thompson, Andrew R., Poulter, Damian R., Stride, Christopher B. , Rowe, Richard (2018), . Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Accident Analysis & Prevention, 117 . pp. 225-231 ISSN: 0001-4575 (Print), (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2018.04.007).

Conference item

Kalocsanyiova, Erika , Essex, Ryan, Poulter, Damian (2021), . In: 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference Online: Crossing borders, connecting cultures, 07-09 Jul 2021, Luxembourg , . , (doi: https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/925-18th-imiscoe-annual-conference-luxembourg-july-7-9-2021).