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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 >200 articles (Google Scholar, ORCID) and holds over >$10M in research funding. He is regularly invited to give talks at conferences and scientific meetings. James has supervised 18 PhD students and mentored 4 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
2024, 16 Apr
Barriers and enablers to exercise adherence in people with nonspecific chronic low back pain: a systematic review of qualitative evidence
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003234
2024 Apr
Emotion regulation skills‐focused interventions for chronic pain: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.2268
2024, 28 Mar
Behavioural 'nudging' interventions to reduce low-value care for low back pain in the emergency department (NUDG-ED): protocol for a 2×2 factorial, before-after, cluster randomised trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170247248
2024, 01 Feb
Barriers and Enablers to Using Intervention Reporting Guidelines in Sports and Exercise Medicine Trials: A Mixed-Methods Study
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1166097372
2024, 01 Feb
Using hypnosis in clinical practice for the management of chronic pain: A qualitative study
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1166606943
2024, 01 Jan
A Qualitative Study Identifying Barriers and Enablers to Exercise Adherence in People with Chronic Low Back Pain. “It's a personal journey”
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1168625883
2024, 01 Jan
Are Exercise Interventions in Clinical Trials for Chronic Low Back Pain Dosed Appropriately to Meet the World Health Organization’s Physical Activity Guidelines?
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzad114
2024, 01 Jan
Clinimetrics: Douleur Neuropathique en 4 Questions (DN4)
2023, 31 Dec
The Efficacy of Graded Motor Imagery and Its Components on Phantom Limb Pain and Disability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1080/24740527.2023.2188899
2023, 01 Dec
Adding Brief Pain Science or Ergonomics Messages to Guideline Advice Did Not Increase Feelings of Reassurance in People With Acute Low Back Pain: A Randomized Experiment
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1164380542
James' research team
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Research Assistant
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