The Road Safety GB Academy has unveiled its calendar of training courses for the third quarter of 2024.
Established in 2013, the RSGB Academy is the professional development arm of Road Safety GB. The Academy helps road safety practitioners enhance their skills in order to deliver effective, evidence-led road safety interventions.
All of the courses offered in the Academy’s programme are being delivered in a Zoom virtual classroom, meaning candidates can participate from the convenience of their home or office.
The full schedule for Academy courses is as follows (correct as of 7 May):
5 June 2024
Road Safety Delivery in a Primary School Setting
Delivered via Zoom
This course is suitable for any road safety professional who is about to, or is delivering, in a primary school setting. The course is about approaches to learning and teaching and is not meant to be specific to road safety – it is about how to teach and promote learning rather than what to teach.
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19 June 2024
Introduction to Statistics
Delivered via Zoom
This course aims to improve the participant’s capability to develop targeted road safety interventions by improving their ability to correctly analyse and interpret data.
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10-11 July 2024
Behavioural Change Course
Delivered via Zoom
This two-day course covers: understanding road user behaviour, behavioural models, behavioural change techniques, behavioural insights, mapping behaviours and developing interventions using behavioural models and change techniques. The course will also provide participants with several planning tools that can be used to review and develop interventions.
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17-18 July 2024
Road Safety Evaluation Course
Delivered via Zoom
The course will cover the following aspects of evaluation: evaluation designs, common measures used in evaluation, including questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, analysis of quantitative data, analysis of qualitative data, reporting results, ethical considerations. A PDF copy of the course handbook will be sent to all participants at the end of the course
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30 July 2024
Introduction to the needs of Older Road Users for Road Safety Practitioners
Delivered via Zoom
As the population ages it will become increasingly important for road safety practitioners to understand the needs of older road users. This is a complex area and covers a wide range of medical conditions and societal challenges. This course will introduce a road safety practitioner to these challenges, with the aim of helping them to develop road safety interventions that will support older road users, in order to maximise their safety.
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10 September 2024
Behavioural Change Course for Highways Engineers
Delivered via Zoom
This course is essential CPD learning for civil highway engineers, urban planners and other related disciplines around the development of infrastructure that will impact on the safety of road users. It will provide them with a wider understanding of the relationship between the built environment and the ‘road user’, enabling them to explore, design and implement infrastructure that will take into account the limitations of the ‘human’ in the system.
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11-12 September 2024 (part 1) & 22-23 October 2024 (part 2)
Road Safety Practitioner Foundation Course
Delivered via Zoom
This course aims to provide participants with an overview of the knowledge and skills they need to effectively and safely deliver a road safety educational intervention.
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18 September 2024 (Part 1) & 23 September 2024 (Assessments)
Introduction to Road Safety Delivery (online course)
Delivered via Zoom
This course has been designed to give practitioners who are new to road safety delivery the knowledge, skills and confidence to be able to deliver simple but effective road safety interventions. It will also provide them with a greater understanding of the relationship between government, partner organisations and the public – and how that relates to road safety programmes and delivery in the UK.
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24 September 2024
Designing Effective Messaging
Delivered via Zoom
This course aims to help develop a road safety practitioner’s ability to design an effective road safety message. It covers a wide spectrum of topics around effective messaging and will enhance skills and confidence in design and delivery.
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Click here to see the full calendar of Academy online training courses, or for more information or assistance contact Academy administrator Sally Bartrum by email.
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