PhD Scholarship: Using an impaired driving context to enhance deterrence

The aim of this project is to develop more enhanced, effective, theoretically informed road policing procedures for combating both drug and alcohol-impaired driving, thus enhancing road safety. The project will incorporate emboldening, punishment avoidance and decay into the deterrence model to provide a more effective explanation of impaired driving behaviours. Given that traditional deterrence approaches do not appear as effective for young drivers, despite this group experiencing the highest rates of crashes, the PhD candidate will identify how deterrence theory, punishment avoidance and emboldening can inform our understanding of the differences in impaired driving between younger and older drivers. Success in this role requires collaboration with industry and other researchers as appropriate.