Dr Verity Truelove is a research fellow at the Road Safety Research Collaboration.
She is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, publishing widely in high-quartile peer-reviewed journals.
She completed her PhD at the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland, QUT and has an undergraduate degree in behavioural science (psychology). 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 currently supervising both PhD and honours students in these areas.
Professional Memberships
- Co-founder of the Sunshine Coast Sub-Chapter of the Australasian College of Road Safety
- Chair of the Australasian College of Road Safety Early Career Network
- Deputy chair of the Australasian Road Safety Conference Scientific Committee
- Executive committee member of the Queensland chapter of the Australasian College of Road Safety
- Member of the Australasian Road Safety Conference Interactive Workshop Sub-Committee
- Member of the North Coast Road Safety Interagency Working Group
- Member of the School of Law and Society Research Impact and Engagement Working Group
Awards
- Commendation for the Vice-Chancellor and President’s Award of Excellence in Research for Impact, Early Career Academic
Research Grants
- 2021 ACT Road Safety Fund Grant titled "Is there value in show and tell? Creating a salient general deterrent effect through overt and covert enforcement technology" ($34,820)
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
- Truelove, V., Watson-Brown, N., & Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (2023). External and internal influences on mobile phone use while driving: combining the theories of deterrence and self-determination. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 93, 280-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.01.019
- 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
- Mills, L., Truelove, V., & Freeman, J. (2023). Facebook and drug driving: Does online sharing work against road safety countermeasures?. Journal of Safety Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2023.01.008
- Love, S., Truelove, V., Rowland, B., & Kannis‐Dymand, L. (2022). Metacognition and self‐regulation on the road: A qualitative approach to driver attention and distraction. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(6), 1312-1324. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4015
- Nicolls, M., Truelove, V., & Stefanidis, K. B. (2022). The impact of descriptive and injunctive norms on engagement in mobile phone use while driving in young drivers: A systematic review. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106774
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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.