Jeremy has spent over 30 years working in road casualty reduction as a researcher, practitioner, operations manager, partnership manager and team leader. Before joining Highways England in September 2020 as Head of Road User Safety he was also Director of Research for Road Safety Great Britain (RSGB).
He has led teams delivering projects and programmes of work in behaviour change; road safety audit; casualty and severity reduction capital projects; collision investigation; data analysis and research. He has also chaired the management board of a regional safety camera partnership for several years and has established and chaired various self-development and professional support initiatives – including a regional forum for collision investigators, a road safety professional development academy for front line practitioners and partner agencies and he was instrumental in creating information hub that is now the RSGB Knowledge Centre.
Jeremy has been a long-standing advocate of evidence based practice and developing the role of analysts working in road safety – including establishing a national network of analyst champions and CPD conferences as part of his research role with RSGB.
He currently supports a number of projects at governance board or stakeholder panel level – including the national Roads Policing Review; the Road Collision Investigation Project and Driver 2020 amongst others. He is also currently chair of the CEDR Working Group on Road Safety.
