Praise for Brainbox evaluation
posted: Sep 15, 11:37
Brainbox’s evaluation of Lancashire County Council’s Wasted Lives Young Driver Education Programme has attracted praise this week from a senior academic.
Professor Stephen Stradling from Edinburgh Napier University, who was invited to review our evaluation, said: “I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Wasted Lives evaluation report. Indeed I consider it an exemplary piece of work and a model of its kind.”
“The evaluation is well planned, well analysed and well written….As a result I believe you can have a high degree of confidence in the conclusions the researchers have drawn and the recommendations they make.”
The Wasted Lives Young Driver Education Programme has been developed by Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety and aims to change attitudes that young people have towards taking risks on the road, to influence their driving behaviour, and ultimately to save lives. It comprises four modules which are conducted within an interactive environment in which participants are encouraged to learn from one another, to discuss their own experiences and beliefs, and to reflect on their own driving decisions.
Brainbox’s mixed-methods independent evaluation concluded that
Wasted Lives successfully reduces risky attitudes towards driving and intentions to take risks on the road, and the quantitative results were highly statistically significant.
Stephen Stradling is Professor of Transport Psychology at Edinburgh Napier University.
