Rate My Professor David Crundall

Crundall leads a strong applied cognitive research group at NTU, specializing in hazard perception testing, driver training, visual search, and perceptual learning across contexts such as driving, emergency services, and consumer behaviour. His projects include developing hazard perception tests for emergency service and LGV drivers, training in car maintenance and mindfulness, assessing visual search for lifeguards, and evaluating cross-cultural hazard perception compatibility. Funding has come from EPSRC, ESRC, Department for Transport, Driving Standards Agency, Highways Agency, and others including Nuffield Foundation and Road Safety Trust. He holds memberships in the Economic and Social Research Council's Peer Review College, Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety Road User Behaviour Working Group, Traffic Psychology International, Experimental Psychology Society, and International Association of Applied Psychologists. Notable publications include 'Visual attention while driving: sequences of eye fixations made by experienced and novice drivers' (Underwood et al., 2003), 'Effects of experience and processing demands on visual information acquisition in drivers' (Crundall & Underwood, 1998), 'Driver's visual attention as a function of driving experience and visibility' (Konstantopoulos et al., 2010), 'Some hazards are more attractive than others' (Crundall et al., 2012), and 'Hazard prediction discriminates between novice and experienced drivers' (Crundall, 2016). Crundall has contributed to public road safety through media appearances on BBC and ITV programmes.