Ruth is a senior research fellow at the Transport Safety Research Centre within Loughborough University. She has 16 years experience in the field of transport safety with a particular interest in the development and use of Naturalistic Driving studies as a research tool. Most recently she has participated within the EU funded Prologue, DaCoTA projects and is the Principle Investigator for the UDRIVE project. This project undertakes a large scale Naturalistic Driving Study within Europe. Ruth also teaches naturalistic driving methodology on an MSC course together with statistics for designers.