The Beach Safety Research Group at UNSW Sydney, Australia is a multidisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners dedicated to keeping people safe at the beach.

The BSRG serves as a unifying hub to advance the science of safety in the beach and coastal environment and draws on a variety of disciplines and research approaches. We collaborate with external academic colleagues and beach safety organisations to design and conduct high-quality research that helps inform beach safety practice, education programs and policy. We strive to communicate and translate beach safety science in a way that is meaningful and helpful to those responsible for saving lives and making the beach a great and safe place to be.

What is Beach Safety Research?

A multi-disciplinary approach to improve understanding of issues related to beach safety involving physical and social science, public health, psychology and science communication methods.

The BSRG Strategic Objectives

• Increase the profile of beach safety as a research discipline

• Strengthen existing, and build new, collaborative relationships with academic researchers and practitioners charged with keeping beaches safe

• Expand the evidence base for current and future beach safety initiatives 

• Train the next generation of beach safety researchers