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Portrait of Dr Will Dawber

Research interests

  • Brain injury biomechanics
  • Impact mechanics and simulation
  • Product development

Postdoc

Dr William Dawber

Research Associate

Will is an expert in brain biomechanics with a keen interest in product testing and development.

He is funded by The Road Safety Trust to develop new test methods and safety ratings for children’s bicycle helmets. This creates safer helmets and helps parents make safer decisions when buying products for their children.

Will works directly within the sports, automotive, and industrial industries on producing modern solutions for human protection across a broad range of applications. He is also helping to drive safer policies for people and athletes through his roles on British Standards committees, the IMechE Sports Engineering Group, and as a consultant to multiple sports governing bodies.

If you have an interest in product development, testing, or head injury mitigation, or if you want to get involved with this research, then please reach out to Will at w.dawber@imperial.ac.uk.

Recent conferences

  1. Short Communication: A Comparative Study of Injury Risk in Collapsible and Conventional Bicycle Helmets

    IRCOBI 2026, Munich

    Proceedings (PDF)
  2. Short Communication: Facial Impact Conditions for Assessing Motorcycle Helmets, Informed by Reconstruction of Real-World Collisions.

    IRCOBI 2026, Munich

    Proceedings (PDF)
  3. The protective performance of bicycle helmets and current attitudes towards them

    Sports Engineering Seminar Day 2026, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

  4. Short Communication: Reconstruction of 24 Real-World Motorcycle Collisions to Determine Facial Impact Conditions

    IRCOBI 2025, Vilnius

    Proceedings (PDF)

Publications

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