Benjamin Davey | UniSC | University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

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Benjamin Davey

BPsych (Hons) (UniSC), MSc (Psych), MSc (Neuroscience) (UVA)

  • Research Assistant
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Room G.46, Innovation Centre
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Sunshine Coast
Ben Davey

Benjamin completed his Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) at the University of the Sunshine Coast before going onto Masters degrees in both psychology and neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. Benjamin’s primary focus involves how alcohol and psychoactive substances affect a person’s ability to drive. Ben is also interested in how different driving behaviours impact a person’s risk of crashing and what can be done to prevent this.

Research areas

  • Drug driving
  • Drink driving
  • Neuroscience
  • Davey, B., Parkes, A., Freeman, J., Mills, L., & Davey, J. (2022). Versatile, but not focused, traffic offenders are more likely to be at fault for a fatal crash. Journal of Safety Research81, 143–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2022.02.006 
  • Davey, B., Mills, L., Freeman, J., Parkes, A., & Davey, J. (2022). Does past offending behaviors catch up with you? A study examining the relationship between traffic offending history and fatal crash involvement. Traffic Injury Prevention, 23(7), 385–389. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2022.2099846
  • Mills, L., Freeman, J., Davey, J., & Davey, B. (2021). The who, what and when of drug driving in Queensland: Analysing the results of roadside drug testing, 2015–2020. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 159, 106231–106231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106231 
  • Verity Truelove, Benjamin Davey, & Natalie Watson-Brown. (2023). Examining the differences in perceived legal and non-legal factors between drink driving and drug driving. Journal of Criminology (2021), 56(1), 59–77. https://doi/10.1177/26338076221114481 
  • Stefanidis, K. B., Davey, B., True love, V., Schiemer, C., & Freeman, J. (2022). Does exposure to social media content influence attitudes towards, and engagement in, road rule violations? A systematic review. PloS One, 17(9), e0275335–e0275335. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275335