Dr Paul Jackson – Managing Director

Paul is a psychologist specialising in the impairment that accompanies tiredness, drug and alcohol use. He has extensive experience as a consultant to both industry and government and is regularly called as an expert witness in criminal cases where a driver is suspected of having fallen asleep at the wheel.

He has designed fatigue risk management systems and fatigue awareness training programmes for a range of clients including BP, Cargolux, Jetairfly, easyJet, Newmont Mining, Shell and Wincanton.

Previously, Paul was Research Programme Manager at the UK Department for Transport (DfT) where he was responsible for projects including the first UK study of the effects of cannabis on driving, and the effects of tiredness and over-the-counter medicines on driving. During this time he also served on the Secretary of State for Transport’s Honorary Medical Advisory Panel on Alcohol, Drugs and Substance Misuse and was the UK representative on the EU Expert Panel on Drugs and Alcohol.

For the past 10 years Paul has worked on a wide variety of projects for the DfT and in 2009 was invited by Sir Peter North to write a review of the current state of knowledge regarding drugs and driving in the UK and overseas. This report formed an integral part of the North Review of drink and drugs driving law and can be found here.

A regular speaker at road and aviation safety conferences in the UK and overseas, Paul is also a visiting lecturer at Cranfield University where he lectures on fatigue and drug driving as part of the Master of Science course in Driver Behaviour and Education.

Professional memberships:

• Academy of Experts

• ICADTS (International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety)

• LTG (formerly the London Toxicology Group)

• British Sleep Society

• Association of Aviation Medical Examiners

• Association for Project Management

• Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers

Paul completed his PhD at Imperial College, London, researching the effects of in-vehicle route guidance systems on drivers’ cognitive skills. He also has a Masters degree in Environmental Psychology and a BSc (Jt Honours) in Psychology and Sociology.