Activities
Outreach
Festivals, school visits, public talks, and media — taking the work outside the lab.
2026
Imperial Global Summer School 2026
Imperial College London
A hands-on session for 16–17-year-olds on how head impacts injure the brain and how helmets are tested.
Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2026
The Royal Society, London
HEAD Lab's helmet-impact demo at the Royal Society's flagship public science week.
eCall study at The Blue Light Show
The Blue Light Show
Claire Baker and Silas Vince presented findings from the eCall study with South East Coast Ambulance Service: how in-car crash data could improve triage of road traffic collisions.
Great Exhibition Road Festival 2026
Imperial College London, South Kensington
Two days of live helmet-impact demos on the HEAD Lab stand — a pendulum striking a crash-test-dummy head shows how much a cycle helmet cuts peak acceleration. Over 60,000 visitors across the festival.
Dr Emily Yik Kwan ChanElena KoumantouDr William DawberVahid DarvishiDr Lucas Low Discuss on LinkedIn
The Sports Engineering Podcast: brain biomechanics from riot police to child road safety
Podcast
A 45-minute conversation with Will Dawber on how HEAD Lab studies brain injury, what it means for helmet design, impact testing, injury simulation and Vision Zero.
IMPACT research engagement seminar for International Women's Day
Online, IMPACT — Centre for Post-Collision Research
Claire Baker among three speakers at the free online seminar on the IWD 2026 theme 'Give to Gain'.
Inaugural UK Concussion Working Group meeting
Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health, London
First meeting of a group of clinicians and researchers working on concussion, chaired by Mike Loosemore; HEAD Lab presented its biomechanical brain-injury modelling.
IMechE webinar: engineering in winter sport
Online, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Will Dawber spoke alongside Fabio Malizia in the IMechE 'Built for the Cold' webinar, chaired by Timothy Carew.
2025
Visit to Autoliv, Sweden — the NAMFI facial-impacts project
Autoliv, Sweden
Mazdak visited Shiyang Meng and colleagues at Autoliv. NAMFI (New Assessment Methods for Facial Impacts) is the joint project on the understudied facial impacts in motorcycle collisions.
Great Exhibition Road Festival 2025
Imperial College London, South Kensington
The lab's helmet-impact stand at the 2025 festival — live pendulum demos on a crash-test-dummy head and the HIPER helmet ratings for visitors of all ages.
2024
Dyson School Research Poster Symposium 2024
Dyson School of Design Engineering
Five HEAD Lab posters at the school's research showcase — AutoTriage, real-time brain-injury prediction from mouthguards, computational models of neurological conditions, aircrew head protection and an industrial helmet rating programme.
Dr Claire BakerDr Emily Yik Kwan ChanVahid DarvishiDr Alasdair MackayRachel TanSee the posters
