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MUARC's Mexican winner

21 May 2008

Award-winning MUARC postgraduate student Lyndal Bugeja.

Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) postgraduate student Lyndal Bugeja has won a major award at an international injury prevention conference in Mexico.

Ms Bugeja won the award for her paper, The role of the coroners' recommendations in injury prevention in Victoria, Australia.

The paper outlined Ms Bugeja's ongoing postgraduate research into how effectively coroners' recommendations are implemented in public health and safety interventions in Victoria.

"The Victorian coronial system is world-renowned for its contribution to injury prevention but up until now the coroner's role in injury prevention is unqualified, not necessarily systematic, and driven mostly by individual coroners," she said.

Ms Bugeja's work is being used by the Victorian Parliamentary Law Reform Committee in its review of Victoria's Coroners Act.

Lyndal's supervisor at MUARC Professor Joan Ozanne-Smith said it was terrific to see Ms Bugeja's research recognised on the world stage.

"Just as importantly, the research will make a very practical and valuable contribution to future injury prevention policy in Victoria," Professor Ozanne-Smith said.

To learn more about accident research at Monash, visit the MUARC website.