Prof. Stuart Newstead

Stuart Newstead Professor and Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre where he also leads the Centre’s Injury Analysis and Data team. He holds a Ph.D. in applied statistics and is accredited by the Australian Statistical Society. He has worked at MUARC since 1993 and has developed specific expertise in a wide range of safety research areas with a numerical focus. His areas of significant topic-based expertise include a particular focus on: road safety program evaluation; vehicle safety evaluation, monitoring and policy setting; police enforcement programs including policy and practice advice; vulnerable and high-risk road user safety and countermeasures; injury data systems design and analysis; and injury severity metrics.