Dr Lisa Dorn

Areas of expertise

• Ergonomics, Human Factors, Driver Safety
• Human Factors
• Safety, Resilience, Risk & Reliability

Background

• Dr Dorn is an Associate Professor of Driver Behaviour and Director of the Driving Research Group and has been a principal investigator on research projects funded by the Home Office, EU, EPSRC, ESRC and industry for over 20 years. Her main research interests relate to the transactional component of driver behaviour and the design of behavioural interventions. Dr Dorn recently completed a Horizon 2020 project to develop telematics-based driver coaching interventions and is currently investigating behavioural adaptation in response to autonomous systems until 2024 as part of the UKRI and EPSRC Trustworthy Autonomous Systems research programme. 

  Dr Dorn graduated with a BSc in Human Psychology and a PhD in driver behaviour both from Aston University. She then held research positions at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham and a senior position in industry before joining Cranfield University in 2001. Dr Dorn is also Research Director for DriverMetrics, a Cranfield University spin-out company to exploit her research in the design of driver assessments and interventions. In 2004 she received the Prince Michael International Award for Road Safety for her research with Arriva Bus UK. In 2008 she won the Knowledge Transfer Programme's 'Best Application of Social or Management Science' in collaboration with Arriva Bus UK. In 2016 she won the International Prince Michael Award for Road Safety for her work with DriverMetrics. 

Current activities

2020 to 2024:Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Security (TAS-S) (Co-Investigator). Research grant funded by EPSRC.

The £3.7M 42-month TAS-S project addresses technical and social issues of security in Autonomous Systems in collaboration with Lancaster University. The project is supported by a range of UK, EU and international, academic, industry and policy partners coupled with internationally leading test facilities including the Multi-User Environment for Autonomous Vehicle Innovation (MUEAVI) – a ‘smart’ road test environment. Our research theme recognises the tendency for Autonomous Systems to generate adaptive behaviours, along with public concern and controversy. The project aims to design protocols and standards for developing Autonomous Systems that are more secure and more responsive to current and future public concerns. 

2017 to present: MeBeSafe ─ Making traffic safer through behaviour-changing nudging measures (Principal Investigator).  Research Grant funded by Horizon 2020.

MeBeSafe is a €7.1m project that aims to reduce the number and severity of road accidents by directly changing our habitual traffic behaviour. The project is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between technologists, behavioural scientists and traffic experts. The consortium consists of 16 partners from the business, academic and research/technology sectors and includes automotive OEMs and suppliers, road infrastructure and fleet owners, SMEs involved in road traffic analyses and leading road safety research groups including Cranfield University’s Driving Research Group.

Clients

2016-2017: Driver Behaviour Impacting the Operation and Maintenance of the Strategic Road Network (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Highways England.

2016-2017: Safer Driver Behaviour Intervention Programme Development (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Highways England.

2016: Development of an environmental toolkit for drivers (Principal Investigator). Consultancy for Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

2016: Older drivers and the risk of driving for work (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by National Express.

2015-2016: Development of educational resources for young drivers and passengers (Co-investigator). Research Grant funded by Transport for London.

2011-2014: Simulator-based training for European bus drivers. (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by EU Leonardo da Vinci.

2011: Designing driver feedback for a telematics product (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Ingenie Insurance.

2011-2012: Investigating safety culture (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Gate Gourmet.

2010 – 2015: Development of an assessment for safety behaviour on construction sites (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Balfour Beatty.

2009 – 2010: Evaluation of Bus Simulator Training on Driver Performance and Collision Involvement (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Transport for London.

2009 – 2012: Development of an instrument to measure affective and cognitive responses to Human-Machine interface solutions (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by EPSRC and Jaguar LandRover.

2009: Development of driver training simulator software (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Balfour Beatty.

2006 – 2008: Development of global driver norm groups (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Unilever PLC.

2006: Development of an assessment for Fire appliance drivers (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by West Midlands Fire Service.

2006: Design of online education for fleet drivers (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by EU Leonardo.

2006 – 2007: Driver Behaviour Interface Test Environment development (D-BITE). (Co-Investigator). Research Grant funded by EU RoadSense.

2006: A literature review on medical fitness to drive (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by DVLA.

2005 – 2007: Development of online driver education software (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by a2om.

2005: Assessing driver comfort (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Nissan.

2004 – 2007: Design of a global driver training system (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Astra Zeneca.

2004 – 2006: Evaluating a mentor driver scheme (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Lancashire County Council. 

2001 – 2007: Reducing bus crashes (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by Arriva Bus UK/ESRC.

2000 – 2001: Evaluating a police driving simulator. (Principal Investigator). Research Grant funded by the Home Office.

Publications

• Articles in journals
• Conference papers
• Books