The Road Safety GB Academy has unveiled its calendar of training courses for the first quarter of 2025.
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 4 Dec):
22 January 2025
Designing Effective Messaging
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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10 February 2025 (Part 1) & 13 February 2025 (Assessments)
Introduction to Road Safety Delivery (online course)
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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12-13 February 2025
Behavioural Change Course
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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27 February 2025
Behavioural Change Course for Highways Engineers
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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5-6 March 2025 (part 1) & 26-27 March 2025 (part 2)
Road Safety Practitioner Foundation Course
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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6 March 2025
Introduction to the Needs of Older Road Users
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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11-12 March 2025
Road Safety Evaluation Course
Often road safety practitioners recognise the need to evaluate but are concerned that they do not have the skills to complete an appropriate level of evaluation. This course aims to provide the practitioner with these skills and to help them to recognise when they may need to consider accessing external support.
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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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