A feedback survey developed by a local business association about road safety changes around a primary school highlights the dangers of poor survey design - affecting both the quality of the research results and their potential input into decision-making.

I wonder if sheer volume of requests for feedback surveys that we receive may actually be undermining my practice as a researcher – as someone who regularly employs online surveys in my own work.

We psephologists (those who follow elections) would be wise to remember the advice of Moira Rose from the television series Schitt’s Creek – “Let’s not count our poultry before it’s incubated.”

Drawing from the varying successes and lessons of four innovative road safety projects, we developed a future-facing guide for people working in road safety innovation. Innovating Road Safety: Lessons for transport systems provides practical tools and processes; from key elements for successful partnerships in innovation projects, to how to foster a dynamic community of practice

It would be fair to say that a lot of people (myself included) didn’t see COVID-19 coming. Someone who in a way did see this coming is Pim Martens of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Martens wrote an insightful article back in 2002, where he explored the idea of health transitions, and asked if we are tracking towards more disease or sustained health.Martens put forward the idea of the ‘health transition’, which proposes that social, economic and ecological changes have driven changes in the health of populations.