Our Team
Stuart Newstead
Stuart Newstead is Professor and Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre where he also leads the Centre’s Injury Analysis and Data team. He holds a Ph.D. in applied statistics and is accredited by the Australian Statistical Society. He has developed specific expertise in a wide range of safety research areas with a numerical focus including: safety program evaluation; vehicle safety evaluation, monitoring and policy setting; police enforcement programs including policy and practice advice; vulnerable and high risk road user safety and countermeasures; safety strategy modelling; injury data systems design and analysis; and injury severity metrics. He has co-authored over 400 works with more than 160 of those in the peer reviewed literature.
Angelo D’elia
Stuart Newstead is Professor and Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre where he also leads the Centre’s Injury Analysis and Data team. He holds a Ph.D. in applied statistics and is accredited by the Australian Statistical Society. He has developed specific expertise in a wide range of safety research areas with a numerical focus including: safety program evaluation; vehicle safety evaluation, monitoring and policy setting; police enforcement programs including policy and practice advice; vulnerable and high risk road user safety and countermeasures; safety strategy modelling; injury data systems design and analysis; and injury severity metrics. He has co-authored over 400 works with more than 160 of those in the peer reviewed literature.
Casey Rampollard
Casey Rampollard has qualifications in criminology and data science and has worked at the Monash University Accident Research Centre for over a decade. She has extensive experience in automated enforcement research having completed a range of literature reviews on automated enforcement including technology reviews, site selection, technology effectiveness and strategic optimisation of programs. More broadly, Casey has a significant depth of experience in the conduct and analysis of large community surveys in addition to the analysis of complex and large-scale road safety data being responsible for coordination of the production of the Used Car Safety Ratings.
Max Cameron
Max Cameron is an Emeritus Professor at Monash Univerity. He was a part-time Professor (Research) in the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) where he worked from 1990 to 2023. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematical statistics and a Ph.D. for his thesis on methods of evaluation of road trauma countermeasures. Max has worked in the road safety field in Australia since 1965, with extensive experience in road safety research and its management, and in road safety policy formulation and strategic planning. During 1990, he developed crashworthiness ratings that form the basis of the Used Car Safety Ratings, initially based only on Victorian crash data and subsequently adding crash data from NSW. He also developed the aggressivity ratings that form the other major component of the system.
Michael Keall
Mike Keall is a Research Professor in the Department of Public Health of Otago University, Wellington, who has been working as a consultant at the Monash University Accident Research Centre since he completed his PhD there in 2005. His research interests include transportation and transport safety as well as home falls prevention, economic analyses, natural experiments and the estimation of health benefits from active travel. His work with Monash has included developing methods for rating vehicle safety and for evaluating safety technologies as sell as conducting analyses designed to feed into road safety policy. Recently, he published with Professor Newstead a paper outlining a methodology and approach to assigning primary safety ratings to vehicles that account for safety technology fitment, designed to complement existing approaches (viz. ANCAP, Used Car Safety Ratings) that assess a vehicle’s ability to protect its occupants.