Rate My Professor Bridie Scott

Bridie Scott, known professionally in research contexts as Bridie Scott-Parker, serves as Senior Service Representative in AskOtago at the University of Otago, supporting student inquiries and services from the Dunedin campus. Earlier in her career, as a PhD scholar at the University of Otago around 2011, she contributed to the Adolescent Mobility Health Consortium, focusing on adolescent road safety. Her research examined how car ownership and high annual mileage among teenagers elevate risks of crashes, traffic offences, and injuries. This work was part of broader studies on graduated driver licensing and factors influencing young drivers' behaviours, affiliated with the Injury Prevention Research Unit in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine within the Division of Health Sciences.

Bridie Scott-Parker completed her PhD at Queensland University of Technology in 2012 with the thesis 'A comprehensive investigation of the risky driving behaviour of young novice drivers'. Her extensive publication record in road safety includes highly cited papers such as 'Young driver risky behaviour and predictors of crash risk in Australia, New Zealand and Colombia: Same but different?' (Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2017, 300 citations), 'A further exploration of sensation seeking propensity, reward sensitivity, depression, anxiety, and the risky behaviour of young novice drivers in a structural equation model' (Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2013, 228 citations), 'Understanding the psychosocial factors influencing the risky behaviour of young drivers' (Transportation Research Part F, 2009, 201 citations), 'Speeding by young novice drivers: What can personal characteristics and psychosocial theory add to our understanding?' (Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2013, 155 citations), and 'The driver, the road, the rules… and the rest? A systems-based approach to young driver road safety' (Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2015, 138 citations). Her research explores psychosocial predictors like sensation seeking, depression, anxiety, peer and parental influences, and interventions such as graduated licensing programs and gamification in driver training. She has held research positions at Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety-Queensland and leads the Adolescent Risk Research Unit at the University of the Sunshine Coast, while serving as Associate Editor for Accident Analysis & Prevention. Her contributions have advanced understanding of young driver safety across Australia, New Zealand, and internationally.