Our Capability

We are the experts in our field

MUARC’s greatest asset is its people - a passionate, multi-disciplinary team of experts and emerging researchers, who are deeply committed to making a difference. Our staff and students bring together world-class industry experience, combining scientific rigour with practical insight to address the most pressing safety challenges of our time.

At the heart of our approach is the MUARC model: a collaborative, impact-focused framework that integrates research, education and stakeholder engagement. We work in close partnership with government, industry and community organisations to co-design solutions that are evidence based and actionable. This model enables us to drive meaningful, measurable change, shaping policies, improving systems and saving lives.

This focus is demonstrated in the number of long-term partnerships we have built and maintained for more than three decades.

Discipline Expertise

MUARC is home to Australia's largest and most respected team of injury prevention experts. Around 70 researchers, graduate research students, adjuncts and emeritus professors work across a range of specialties, including:

Capabilities

We have more than 30 years experience in every link of the injury prevention chain, from problem identification and analysis to program implementation and evaluation. Our multidisciplinary staff collaborate with Monash University faculties and experts across the world. Our capabilities include:

• Surveys: Survey design and implementation
• Databases: Database design, management, processing and linkage
• Statistics: High level statistical analysis
• Econometrics: Economic analysis
• Vehicle Safety: Vehicle safety evaluation, monitoring and policy setting
• Crash investigations: In-depth crash investigation
• Safety Infrastructure: Road and vehicle infrastructure design and operation
• Safe System Implementation: Development and evaluation of safe system infrastructure, safety programs and training programs
• Simulation: On-road and simulator driver/vehicle testing
• Qualitative Data Collection: Focus group, structured interview and stakeholder consultation
• Usability assessments

Our Resources

Large Dataset Expertise

MUARC specialises in analysing, linking, and drawing meaningful insights from large, complex datasets, including hospital, insurance, crash, and licensing data. We are experienced in handling sensitive information with rigorous data protection procedures to ensure security and confidentiality. Additionally, all research involving human participants undergoes ethical review and approval by the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee.

Simulation Facilities

MUARC has a long history of undertaking cutting-edge projects using a unique range of driving simulators, and possesses a STISIM 100WS driving simulator, and full car, truck, motorbike, and bicycle vehicle simulators with technology to measure driver physiology and behavioural response. The facilities include usability laboratories, rest room, ventilated study room for use in drug-behaviour studies, and participant debriefing areas. Simulator projects range from evaluating infrastructure design, vehicle automation, and in-vehicle technologies to driver responses to fatigue and distraction.

Read more about our Research Infrastructure