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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
2025 Jul
Stress‐Related Brain Alterations in Chronic Pain
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70034
2025, 01 May
Online Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Emotion Dysregulation in People With Chronic Pain
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1188262350
2025 May
Conversational Agents to Support Pain Management: A Scoping Review
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1187220601
2025, 01 Apr
The smallest worthwhile effect of surgery versus non-surgical treatments for sciatica: a benefit-harm trade-off study
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1186893633
2025 Apr
The Effect of an EEG Neurofeedback Intervention for Corneal Neuropathic Pain: A Single-Case Experimental Design with Multiple Baselines
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1187567711
2025, 27 Mar
Non-pharmacological and non-surgical treatments for low back pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane reviews
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1187013883
2025, 10 Mar
Antidepressants for low back pain and spine-related leg pain
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1186339057
2025, 01 Jan
An e-learning program improves low back pain beliefs of physiotherapists: a randomised trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1183451875
2024, 31 Dec
DREAM: an adaptive, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of duloxetine for reducing leg pain in people with chronic sciatica - trial protocol
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1183978937
2024, 14 Nov
Exploring whether home-based neuromodulation can boost the analgesic effects of exercise in people with knee osteoarthritis: protocol for a double-blinded, pilot randomised controlled trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1182370949
James' research team
Anika Haigh
Research Assistant
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