UMTRI Collaboration

Posted 09/26/2008
Ray Bingham appointed visiting professor in Australia

Ray Bingham, research associate professor in UMTRI's Social and Behavioral Analysis Division, is spending five weeks as a visiting professor at the Queensland University of Technology at the Center for Accident Research and Road Safety-Queensland (CARRS-Q).

During his stay, Bingham will give a keynote presentation at the annual meetings of the Australasian College of Road Safety, consult with CARRS-Q faculty and with researchers at the George Institute in Sydney, and mentor graduate and post-doctorate students.

Bingham also holds research associate professor positions in the University of Michigan (U-M) Department of Psychiatry and in the U-M Department of Health Behavior and Health Education. His research interests are adolescent development, with a focus on adolescent driving and alcohol use, longitudinal research methodology, and multivariate statistics. He has utilized various theoretical approaches to examine psychosocial development, with particular attention to those factors that relate to driving risk and driving-related injury.