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An interdisciplinary research lab for understanding and preventing injuries through using physical and computational modelling and design.

A supportive environment for enjoying translational research and producing outstanding outputs of various forms.

Testing a bicycle helmet under oblique impacts, using HEAD lab's advanced helmet test rig. The instrumented headform records translational and rotational accelerations.

The Shear wave travelling towards the centre of the brain in an American Football collision, predicted by HEAD lab's computational model of traumatic brain injury.

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