Professor Adrian Barnett

Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Professor Adrian Barnett graduated from University College London with a BSc in Statistics in 1994. After that he worked for SmithKline Beecham and the Medical Research Council as a statistician before coming to Australia to do a PhD. He completed his PhD in Mathematics in 2002. Research interests:- meta-research
- research funding
- data sharing
- peer review
- reducing research waste
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
Bayesian statistics, Biostatistics, Statistics, Research funding, Epidemiology, Meta-research, Meta-science
Discipline
Statistics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Selected publications
- Herbert D, Coveney J, Clarke P, Graves N, Barnett A, (2014) The impact of funding deadlines on personal workloads, stress and family relationships: a qualitative study of Australian researchers, BMJ Open, 4 (3), pp. 1-8.
- Strand L, Barnett A, Tong S, (2012) Maternal exposure to ambient temperature and the risks of preterm birth and stillbirth in Brisbane, Australia, American Journal of Epidemiology, 175 (2), pp. 99-107.
- Graves N, Barnett A, Clarke P, (2011) Funding grant proposals for scientific research: retrospective analysis of scores by members of grant review panel, The BMJ (British Medical Journal), 343, pp. 1-8.
- Barnett A, Tong S, Clements A, (2010) What measure of temperature is the best predictor of mortality?, Environmental Research, 110 (6), pp. 604-611.
- Barnett A, Batra R, Graves N, Edgeworth J, Robotham J, Cooper B, (2009) Using a longitudinal model to estimate the effect of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection on length of stay in an intensive care unit, American Journal of Epidemiology, 170 (9), pp. 1186-1194.
- Dobson A, Barnett A, (2008) An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models, Third Edition.
- Barnett A, (2007) Temperature and cardiovascular deaths in the US elderly: changes over time, Epidemiology, 18 (3), pp. 369-372.
- Barnett A, Williams G, Schwartz J, Neller A, Best T, Petroeschevsky A, Simpson R, (2005) Air pollution and child respiratory health: a case-crossover study in Australia and New Zealand, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 171 (11), pp. 1272-1278.
- Barnett A, Dobson A, McElduff P, Salomaa V, Kuulasmaa K, Sans S, (2005) Cold periods and coronary events: an analysis of populations worldwide, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59 (7), pp. 551-557.
- Barnett A, Van Der Pols J, Dobson A, (2005) Regression to the mean: what it is and how to deal with it, International Journal of Epidemiology, 34 (1), pp. 215-220.
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