Personal
- Name
- Dr Alexia Lennon
- Position(s)
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Health,
School - Psychology and Counselling,
Research - CARRSQ - IHBI Member
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects,
IHBI Psychology and Counselling - Injury - Discipline *
- Psychology
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 4675
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 4907
- aj.lennon@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD (University of Queensland)
Biography
Background
Alexia is a lecturer who has been with the Centre since 2004. She was awarded her Honours degree in psychology at the University of Queensland and later completed doctoral studies in management, also at the University of Queensland.
Current research projects
- 2009-2010: Aggressive driving (IBHI Early Career Researcher Grant)
This project involves examining the thoughts and emotions that drivers report when recalling incidents of aggressive driving (either as the aggressive driver or the victim)
- 2007-2010: Improving Child Safety in Cars (ARC-Linkage project)
Extends previous research undertaken in the Centre to improve children’s safety as passengers in cars. RACQ are the industry partners on this project which is primarily aimed at designing and piloting an intervention to encourage parents to make safer seating position choices for their children.
- A profile of injury prevention in Queensland (recently concluded)
This project has been commissioned by Queensland Health and sought to explore the types of injury affecting Queenslanders, and the interventions currently aimed at reducing or preventing these. In addition, the project included a survey of community attitudes and beliefs in relation to safety and injury.
More than 1000 community participants were surveyed by Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing to seek their views in relation to injury. Results from this project indicated that 21% of the Queenslanders surveyed reported that their lifestyle or that of a close family member had been permanently affected by injury. The report, including 31 recommendations is now available on QUT ePrints.
- Older pedestrian road crossing strategies (as co-investigator with Dr Mark King)
Aims to explore the informal rules that older pedestrians use to make crossing decisions.
Alexia is also part of the education team at CARRS-Q and teaches in the Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate in Road Safety programs offered by the Centre. She is a registered teacher in Queensland.
Research interests
- Vulnerable road users
- traffic psychology
- speeding behaviour
- aggressive driving
- injury prevention (particularly children)
- health intervention programs
- qualitative research.
Publications
- Soole D, Lennon A, Watson B, Bingham R, (2011) Towards a comprehensive model of driver aggression: A review of the literature and directions for the future, Traffic Safety p69-97
- Lennon AJ, Watson BC, (2011) 'Teaching them a lesson?' A qualitative exploration of underlying motivations for driver aggression, Accident Analysis and Prevention p2200-2208
- Lennon AJ, Watson BC, Arlidge C, Fraine GZ, (2011) 'You're a bad driver but I just made a mistake': Attribution differences between the 'victims' and 'perpetrators' of scenario-based aggressive driving incidents, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour p209-221
- Fleiter J, Lennon AJ, Watson BC, (2010) How do other people influence your driving speed? Exploring the 'who' and the 'how' of social influences on speeding from a qualitative perspective, Transportation Research. Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour p49-62
- Soole D, Watson BC, Lennon AJ, (2009) The impact of police speed enforcement practices on self-reported speeding: An exploration of the effects of visibility and mobility, Proceedings of the 2009 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education and the 2009 Intelligent Speed Adaption (ISA) Conference p97-107
- Fleiter J, Watson BC, Lennon AJ, King MJ, Kan S, (2009) Speeding in Australia and China: A comparison of the influence of legal sanctions and enforcement practices on car drivers, Proceedings of the 2009 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education and the 2009 Intelligent Speed Adaption (ISA) Conference p441-453
- Soole D, Lennon AJ, Watson BC, (2008) Driver perceptions of police speed enforcement : differences between camera-based and non-camera based methods : results from a qualitative study, Road Safety 2008: Safer Roads, Safer Speeds, Safer People, Safer Vehicles - proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference p221-231
- Lennon AJ, Siskind V, Haworth NL, (2008) Rear seat safer: Seating position, restraint use and injuries in children in traffic crashes in Victoria, Australia, Accident Analysis and Prevention p829-834
- Lennon AJ, (2007) A Risky Treat: Exploring Parental Perceptions of the Barriers to Seating their Children in the Rear Seats of Passenger Vehicles, Injury Prevention p105-109
- Lennon AJ, (2005) Where Do Children Sit in Australian Passenger Vehicles? Results of an Observational Study, 2005 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing & Education Conference p115-120
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
