Speaker Biography

Ray Fuller, MA, PhD, FPsSI, FESI, FTCD

Ray Fuller, MA, PhD, FPsSI, FESI, FTCD

Ray Fuller is Associate Professor of Psychology and a former Head of the Department (now School) of Psychology in Trinity College, Dublin (1988-1994). He is a former President of the Psychological Society of Ireland and representative for Ireland on the original EC Committee on Toxic and Psychological Factors in Road Traffic Accidents. He is a member of the European Transport Safety Council Working Party on Traffic Regulation Enforcement and of the new Irish Road Safety Authority policy advisory group. He has directed research projects funded by the US Army Research Institute for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Tobacco Research Council (UK), ITMAC, Eolas, Enterprise Ireland, Dublin Bus and the UK Department for Transport. He was a course coordinator and author in the EU Comett 2 SCARF project. He has edited or co-edited seven books (on subjects including traffic safety, aviation safety, and the history of psychology), published widely in the professional psychological literature, particularly in the area of human factors in transportation safety, and is on the editorial panel of three international safety science journals. He has acted as consultant to the motor industry, to the insurance industry, to highway engineers, to production companies in broadcast safety media and to the U.K. Department for Transport. He has written and directed safety training videos and designed a multimedia human factor safety training module. He was a member of the recent Department of Transport Metrication Changeover Taskforce. Some recent works include an evaluation of Operation Lifesaver (a high enforcement safety intervention) for the National Roads Authority, a report Education and Training of the Driver in Post-primary Schools in Ireland for the NCCA (at the behest of the Minister for Education and Science), Human Factors for Highway Engineers (with J.A. Santos), published by Elsevier Science and SARTRE 3 Ireland (with M. Gormley) for the National Roads Authority.