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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
2026 Apr
Brain correlates of psychological trauma in chronic pain: A systematic review
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106576
2026, 01 Mar
Text message incentives increased patient-reported outcomes survey response in emergency care: SWAT findings
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1196414189
2026, 01 Feb
Prescription of Graded Motor Imagery for People With Chronic Pain: A Scoping Review
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1197666557
2026, 01 Feb
“A tool to support, not replace”: patient and general practitioner perceptions of digital decision support tools for back pain
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1196669278
2026, 28 Jan
Efficacy of YOga in people with chronic non-specific low BACK pain and poor PROgnosis (YOBACK-PRO): protocol for a randomised clinical trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1197626999
2026, 02 Jan
Effect Modifiers of Graded Sensorimotor Retraining for Chronic Low Back Pain
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1197020909
2026 Jan
White Matter Structure in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A High Angular Resolution and Fixel‐Based Study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70202
2025, 29 Dec
Memantine and graded motor imagery for complex regional pain syndrome (MEMOIR): study protocol and statistical analysis plan for a decentralised, 2 × 2 factorial randomised trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1196656595
2025, 16 Dec
Efficacy and Safety of Bisphosphonates for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-25-03693
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
James' research team
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Research Assistant
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