Dr Verity Truelove is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, publishing widely in high-quartile peer-reviewed journals.
She is currently involved in numerous projects that look at road rule compliance and behaviour change, with a focus on distracted driving, speeding and impaired driving. She is also interested in road rule compliance across rural, regional, remote and urban environments. She is currently supervising both PhD and honours students in these areas.
Memberships
- Australasian College of Road Safety
- Chair of the Australasian College of Road Safety Early Career Network
Awards
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2023 Australasian College of Road Safety Young Leaders Oration Award
- 2022 Commendation for the Vice-Chancellor and President’s Award of Excellence in Research for Impact, Early Career Academic
Research areas
- Exploring how new technology influences drivers’ perceptions of deterrence associated with road rule violations
- Understanding police perceptions of phone use while driving enforcement
- Examining young drivers’ progression to road rule transgressions over time
- Examining the impact of legal and psychological factors on road rule compliance
- Exploring the impact of social media on both promoting and preventing road rule violations
Supervision
- The impact of social media on road rule violations
- Deterrence
- Road rule compliance and behaviour change
- Qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
Recent Publications
- Mills, L., & Truelove, V. (2024). Is drug driving more common among those who know where the police are? An investigation into the use and non-use of Facebook police location communities. Safety Science, 169, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106338
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Stefanidis, K. B., Truelove, V., Robinson, K., Mills, L., Nicolls, M., Delhomme, P., & Freeman, J. (2024). Do comparative judgements affect the perceived relevance of mobile phone road safety campaigns? Traffic Injury Prevention, 25(3), 364–371. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2023.2301415
- Swain, R., Oswin, P., Truelove, V., & Larue, G. S. (2024). Children’s and parents’ perceptions on safe routes to schools: a mixed-methods study investigating factors influencing active school travel. Journal of Urban Design, 29(2), 208–230. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2023.2223517
- Love, S., Truelove, V., Rowland, B., Kannis-Dymand, L., Ross, D., Sullman, M., & Davey, J. (2023). The antecedents, regulation and maintenance of anger on the road: A qualitative investigation on the factors influencing driver anger and aggression. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 93, 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.01.002
- Truelove, V., Stefanidis, K., Mills, L., & Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (2023). Police and public perspectives on the use and impacts of technology that expose enforcement locations for phone use while driving. Safety Science, 164, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106155
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Verity Truelove's specialist areas of knowledge include road rule violations, with a focus on mobile phone use while driving and speeding.