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All helpful comments, thanks.
I should have put injured, rather than killed. My apologies.
My project would be looking at whether you could modify perception of risk and safety, with an intervention ie: a cycling course.
I know that cyclists are not to blame for the majority of accidents (one study suggested that only 15% of accidents involving cyclists were due to the cyclist) - but the end goal is risk reduction to cyclists regardless of who is at fault.
craigmedic
@The_Seldom_Killer
I'm not a bikeability instructor but here's my understanding on this. The Bikeability course is basically based on outcomes that determine what you should know about riding on the road and feel capable of doing. This isn't something that would change between adults and children. What is likely to change is the delivery of the training to acheive those outcomes. It's comparable to the differences in how you might teach literacy to children and non-literate adults because of the differences in how people learn. So to say that "there is no accredited national course for adult cyclists" isn't really accurate.
Also just to clarify another point, adult cyclists aren't dying on our roads every day. Fortunately cyclists fatalities are significantly less frequent than this. One of the most important starting points for the perception of risk is accurate representation of facts.