Tim Brickell

Tim Brickell is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He has been undertaking documentary and descriptive linguistic research in North Sulawesi since 2011. His current project is funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Risking life and limb: preventable road deaths in North Sulawesi

December 7, 2016

Rising incomes and easy access to credit have resulted in huge growth in the number of motorcycles on Indonesian roads. But poor attention to and enforcement of road laws has also seen a spike in traffic fatalities. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than 100 people die on Indonesian roads every day. Dr Tim Brickell examines this growing and largely preventable problem.