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Professor
James McAuley
Current Appointments
Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader, NeuRA
Director, Centre for Pain IMPACT
Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
Honorary Research Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
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Professor James McAuley is a psychologist, Professor in the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health at UNSW and Senior Research Scientist at NeuRA.
James completed his PhD at Brunel University, London (2003). After immigrating to Australia in 2004 he took up a postdoc at the University of Sydney and then at the George Institute for Global Health. In 2010 he moved to NeuRA where he set up the Centre for Pain IMPACT (Investigating Mechanisms of Pain to Advance Clinical Translation). In 2017 James was appointed as Associate Professor to the Exercise Physiology department at UNSW and in 2020 he was promoted to Professor.
James’ research combines experimental, clinical and translational methods to develop and test new interventions to manage low back pain. James has published >300 articles (Google Scholar, ORCID) and holds over >$30M in research funding. He is regularly invited to give talks at conferences and scientific meetings. James has supervised 25 PhD students and mentored 12 postdocs.
James is the chair of the back pain group of SPHERE MSK and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for the Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network (ANZMUSC). In 2015 James founded the NSW network for pain PhD students/ECRs (SPRiNG).
Publications
2025, 01 Dec
Are beliefs about low back pain associated with central sensitization inventory in patients with low back pain? A cross-sectional study
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1188957811
2025, 01 Dec
The smallest worthwhile effect on pain and function for rotator cuff repair surgery: a benefit-harm trade-off study
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1189661164
2025, 01 Oct
Test-retest reliability and measurement error of the numerical rating scale and visual analogue scale in people with low back pain
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1191636222
2025 Oct
Amputation for complex regional pain syndrome: a systematic review
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105571
2025, 03 Sep
Transparent Reporting of Observational Studies Emulating a Target Trial-The TARGET Statement.
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1192553178
2025, 03 Sep
Transparent reporting of observational studies emulating a target trial: the TARGET Statement.
2025, 01 Sep
Prevalence of non-communicable diseases, multimorbidity, and their impact on activity limitations among adults with chronic back pain: a national population-based study in a middle-income country
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1191420337
2025, 01 Sep
Subjective Happiness Scale: Measurement properties of the online and paper-pen administrations in Nepali adults with musculoskeletal pain
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1191550420
2025 Sep
Pain self-efficacy, kinesiophobia and health-related quality of life mediate pain and disability improvements with goal setting and education in people with chronic low back pain: a mediation analysis of a randomised trial
2025, 18 Aug
Ketamine and other NMDA receptor antagonists for chronic pain
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1191827820
James' research team
Anika Haigh
Research Assistant
James' research projects and related news
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