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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

2024, 01 Jun

It's OK to Move! Effect of a Brief Video on Community Confidence in Activity Despite Back Pain: A Randomized Trial

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170849608

2024, 09 May

Posttraumatic stress symptoms in chronic pain: impacts on brain morphology

View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.09.24307012

2024, 01 May

BARRIERS AND ENABLERS TO EXERCISE ADHERENCE IN PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE

View full other on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1171387066

2024, 01 May

COMPARING EXERCISE AGAINST A PLACEBO FOR PAIN AND DISABILITY OUTCOMES IN MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW & META-ANALYSIS

View full other on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1171387049

2024, 01 May

Complex regional pain syndrome: advances in epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170722850

2024, 01 May

EXERCISE IS MEDICINE, BUT FOR WHAT? A MAPPING REVIEW OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE UK NICE CLINICAL GUIDELINES

View full other on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1171387054

2024, 01 May

IDENTIFYING BARRIERS AND ENABLERS TO EXERCISE ADHERENCE IN PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

View full other on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1171387064

2024, 01 May

THE SMALLEST WORTHWHILE EFFECT OF EXERCISE THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN: A DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT STUDY

View full other on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1171387035

2024 May

Treatment effect modifiers for return-to-work in patients with musculoskeletal disorders

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1171383408

2024, 17 Apr

The smallest worthwhile effect on pain intensity of exercise therapy for people with chronic low back pain: a discrete choice experiment study.

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170815213