Affiliations & Collaborators

Collaborative research and strategic partnerships enhance the Research Institute’s ability to advance scientific knowledge and ultimately help reduce injuries and disability. We develop relationships with prominent health and safety research organizations that foster scientific collaboration on projects and safety initiatives of mutual interest. These activities promote the exchange of ideas and technologies with fellow scientists and increase awareness of important safety issues.

The Institute has established formal collaborative research programs with the following organizations:

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Research Institute’s longest established collaborative relationship is with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The partnership features a post-doctoral fellowship program with the Department of Environmental Health that evolved through our collaborations in research and training. The Liberty Mutual-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Program facilitates interchange of faculty, students and research between the two organizations. The program focuses on joint original research.

University of Massachusetts - Amherst

The Research Institute has a collaborative post-doctoral fellowship program with the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass-Amherst), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. The UMass-Amherst post-doctoral fellowship program seeks to develop the research careers of recent doctoral graduates who are specializing in driving safety research. The program encourages creativity and independent discovery in collaboration with two research institutions that have extensive records of accomplishment in driving safety research.

University of Massachusetts - Lowell

The Research Institute has a collaborative relationship with the internationally recognized Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell. The collaboration also involves interchange of faculty, students and research.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Research Institute has a collaborative relationship with the Senseable City Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Initial research focuses on developing opportunities for big data leverage to better understand the factors that affect human mobility (e.g., walking) and slip and fall risk in city environments.

The Research Institute also collaborates with the MIT Age Lab who are examining advanced vehicle technologies. This broad effort, which also involves Liberty Mutual’s U.S. Consumer Markets strategic business unit, employs naturalistic driving approaches and field operational tests to explore real world use patterns for emerging safety technologies, such as lane keeping assist, intelligent cruise control and traffic queue assist.