Whatever your area of study, the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) has a PhD project of interest to you.
Accident and injury prevention
program evaluation and research trials |
community based injury prevention program, randomised trials of falls prevention programs, road safety enforcement, time series trends, modelling of factors influencing accident and injury trends |
Cost and consequences of injury |
cost of injury models, measurement of injury severity, long term consequences of injury |
Injury surveillance and epidemiology |
accident and injury surveillance systems, data quality, exposure measurement, application of analytic epidemiology to injury research |
Occupational health, safety and injury prevention |
information system development, role of legislation and regulation, prevention program development and evaluation |
Product related injury |
in depth investigation of injuries associated with products including nursery furniture, playgrounds, dogs, motor vehicle gassings, pharmaceuticals, structural features of domestic dwellings; potential for safety related products to prevent, or mitigate the severity of, injuries |
Transport safety systems analysis |
role of transport systems (road, train, air, sea) in accident and injury causation |
Road and traffic engineering safety |
development of perceptual countermeasures, impact of traffic engineering on road trauma |
Road user safety |
learner driver experience, development and testing of programs for young drivers, aging and driving, pedestrian safety, driver responses to speed programs |
Rural injury research and prevention |
identification of risk factors for farm injury, time series trends, evaluation of specific intervention programs, role of machinery in farm injury |
Sports and recreational injury prevention |
data systems development, identification and testing of countermeasures |
Transport related injury |
patterns and causes of accidents and injury in road, train, air and sea transport |
Vehicle safety |
occupant protection by vehicle design, airbag effectiveness, crash performance rating systems |
