The Society of Road Safety Auditors (SoRSA) are delighted to announce the SoRSA East Midlands Road Safety workshop 2025, in collaboration with CIHT East Midlands.
| Ticket Prices (Inc. VAT) | |
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| CIHT/SoRSA member ticket | £75.00 |
| SoRSA member ticket | £75.00 |
| Non-member ticket | £90.00 |
This in-person event promises to be an inspirational and productive day of learning, as well as an opportunity to catch-up with and meet new industry colleagues.
The aim of this workshop is to provide insight into a variety of road safety topics aimed at Road Safety Auditors, Highway Engineers and Designers. The topics will cover systems safety and investigation, overview of vehicle restraint systems (VRS), Transportation inequalities, in vehicle data in collision investigation, the role of connected vehicle data, and finishing up with a workshop on the Road Safety Collision investigation
The Derby Conference Centre is looking forward to hosting delegates with a warm welcome and top-class hospitality and facilities throughout the day, including drinks, refreshments, and lunch.
This event is open to all and will appeal to anyone with an interest in road safety, highways and transportation, particularly road safety auditors, highway engineers and designers. Ticket options are available for CIHT and SoRSA members, as well as non-members.
Click on the programme tab above for more information and for details about our speakers.
The Derby Conference Centre located at London Road, Alvaston, Derby, DE24 8UX, is looking forward to providing us with a warm welcome, top-class hospitality and facilities throughout the day, including drinks, refreshments, and lunch.
All attendees must sign in at the reception. And for attendees travelling by car, please ensure that they register their cars at the reception.
For any queries about the workshop please contact Dr Jwan Kamla at: jwan.kamla@jacobs.com
If you have any queries about booking and tickets, please contact regions@ciht.org.uk
DIETARY REQUIREMENTS: When booking please use the option to indicate any dietary requirements, or you can let us know via email at regions@ciht.org.uk
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Refreshments (Coffee/tea & biscuits)
SoRSA Chair – Eric Hill
CIHT EM Chair – Dr Jwan Kamla
Dr Matt Staton, Head of Road Safety Delivery
Nigel Bullock, Head of Solutions
Dr Matt Staton and Nigel Bullock
Refreshments (Coffee/tea & biscuits)
Kate Carpenter, Director of Operational Road Safety
Two course savoury finger buffet lunch
Networking
Craig Arnold, TRL UN Technical Lead
Dr Jwan Kamla and Dr Tony Parry
Craig Arnold, Dr Jwan Kamla and Dr Tony Parry
Refreshments (Coffee/tea & biscuits)
Chaired and presented by by Matt Smith
Thanks from the SoRSA and the CIHT EM Committee
Matt's biography will be available shortly.
Nigel's biography will be available shortly.
Kate is a Chartered Civil Engineer CEng FICE; FSoRSA BEng Psych, but NOT a psychologist or HF expert. Kate is Discipline Lead (Director) for Operational Safety and Traffic Engineering at Jacobs, including road safety audit; walking cycling horse-riding assessment/review; collision investigation and prevention; road risk assessment; safe road design, and safety governance for National Highways projects.
Kate will bring her experience of audit, design, casualty reduction and study of psychology to share a range of examples of why road user behaviour can and does confound the expectation of even the most experienced designers, network managers, road safety engineers and human factors experts. She will share some rules of thumb to help inform decision making and solving problem locations, to maximise benefits and minimise the likelihood of adverse unintended outcomes.
35 years in highways, 27 in Road Safety - from mini roundabouts to TSC evidence for Smart Motorway Inquiry. This includes casualty reduction; road safety audit; policy and process preparation; collision database management; speed management and development control and safety governance on projects. She delivers road safety services to local and strategic highway authority clients including National Highways, Welsh Government, Transport Scotland and Transport for London, and represents Jacobs through conference paper presentation and CIHT, PACTS, Transport Safety Commission and Road Safety Observatory.
Craig Arnold is a Technical Lead in Forensic Collision Investigation at TRL, formerly the Transport Research Laboratory. Alongside his practice as a Chartered Forensic Practitioner, he leads their collision investigation service to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He holds an MSc in Leadership with a focus on road safety and researched the use of dig data analytics and machine learning for road collision prediction whilst studying for a PhD.
Craig has spent over a decade specialising in road collisions and has international casework experience involving collisions in South America, Africa, and Europe. He is a specialist in commercial vehicles following a 16-year career with the police, but his current practice and research is focussed on digital data and forensic video analysis. He has written papers on both topics and has provided consultancy to both companies and government organisations related to connected and autonomous vehicles.
His role at TRL involves technical leadership in their Forensic Investigations team, and managing their work with the United Nations, alongside providing expert witness and consultancy services to organisations across the transport, legal, and public sectors. He is an expert witness and has given evidence across the judiciary including Criminal, Civil, Coroner’s courts, and public inquiries.
Other than his work at TRL, Craig is a peer-reviewer for Elsevier’s Science and Justice Journal and the SAE. He also sits on the board at the Chartered Society of Forensic Science and the editorial board for Science and Justice.
Tony has over 30 years’ research and consultancy experience in road pavement engineering. At TRL Ltd he led work on skid resistance and collision rates that led to UK road surface skidding resistance standards. At the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre at the University of Nottingham, his research included novel skid resistance and road safety assessment methods, including using connected vehicle data. He has worked at AtkinsRéalis since 2022 in the Digital Asset Management: Pavements team.
Dr Jwan Kamla is a Principal Operational Road Safety Engineer at Jacobs. She is a Chartered Engineer with 20 years of experience in the area of highway, traffic and road safety engineering.
Jwan is a road safety specialist with a PhD focused on enhancing road safety outcomes. Starting with the fundamentals of the Safe System approach, Jwan explored the complexities of road safety through comprehensive research, utilising big data analytics like connected data, and STATS19 collision data, to gain deep insights into collision predictions, crash causation and risk factors. Jwan actively involved in undertaking Safety Risk Assessments (GG 104), Walking, cycling and horse-riding assessment and review (GG 142), in-depth fatal collision investigations along with detailed collision investigations. Jwan is also an active road safety auditor, undertaking audits across the National Highways and Local Authority roads in the UK. She holds National Highways Certificate of Competency (via SoRSA).
Jwan is currently Chair for the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) East Midlands Region and Web Officer for the Society of Road Safety Auditors (SoRSA). Additionally, Jwan is a mentor and professional reviewer. She is also a reviewer for the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC.
Matt is a Traffic Management and Road Safety Engineer. He is currently the SoRSA representative for the Yorkshire and the Humber Region.
An engineer with over 30 years’ experience gained within the Local Authority and the private sector. Matt has varied experience in highways and transportation related fields including highway maintenance, highway design and construction, site supervision, scheme identification and evaluation, specialising in road safety engineering for the past 27 years.
Matt has carried out numerous road safety audits at all stages and on most types of roads, from unclassified to motorways and was one of the first 100 auditors to obtain the HA Certificate of Competency.
| Ticket Prices (Inc. VAT) | |
|---|---|
| CIHT/SoRSA member ticket | £75.00 |
| SoRSA member ticket | £75.00 |
| Non-member ticket | £90.00 |
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