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.He currently works at the Australian Centre for Health Services and Innovation at QUT.
Research interests:
- meta-research
- research funding
- data sharing
- peer review
- reducing research waste
Latest Curriculum Vitae.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
Bayesian statistics, Biostatistics, Statistics, Research funding, Research integrity, Meta-research, Meta-science
Research field
Statistics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science; Statistical Society of Australia
Publications
- Barnett, A., (2024). Why I’ve removed journal titles from the papers on my CV. Nature. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/252333
- White, N., Parsons, R., Collins, G. & Barnett, A. (2023). Evidence of questionable research practices in clinical prediction models. BMC Medicine, 21, Article 339. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/244465
- White, N., Balasubramaniam, T., Nayak, R. & Barnett, A. (2022). An observational analysis of the trope 'A p-value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant' and other cut-and-paste statistical methods. PLoS ONE, 17(3), Article e0264360. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/228965
- Barnett, A., Page, K., Dyer, C. & Cramb, S. (2022). Meta-research: Justifying career disruption in funding applications, a survey of Australian researchers. eLife, 11, Article e76123. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229605
- Barnett, A. & Doubleday, Z. (2020). The growth of acronyms in the scientific literature. eLife, 9, Article e60080. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208583
- Barnett, A., (2020). How scrambling your data can help you think more clearly. Significance, 17(6), 42–44. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208567
- Barnett, A. & Wren, J. (2019). Examination of CIs in health and medical journals from 1976 to 2019: An observational study. BMJ Open, 9(11), Article e032506. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208587
- Barnett, A., Zardo, P. & Graves, N. (2018). Randomly auditing research labs could be an affordable way to improve research quality: A simulation study. PLoS One, 13(4), Article e0195613. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/223810
- Coveney, J., Herbert, D., Hill, K., Mow, K., Graves, N. & Barnett, A. (2017). 'Are you siding with a personality or the grant proposal?': observations on how peer review panels function. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 2, 1–14. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114864
- Barnett, A., Herbert, D., Campbell, M., Daly, N., Roberts, J., Mudge, A. & Graves, N. (2015). Streamlined research funding using short proposals and accelerated peer review: an observational study. BMC Health Services Research, 15, 1–6. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/81819
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Supervision
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Current supervisions
- Improving the design and analysis of observational registry studies for health and medical research
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Nicole White - On examining poor statistical practices in published clinical prediction model research
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Nicole White, Dr David Borg - Task-shifting with mobile applications in the management of chronic liver disease: patients' preference and cost-effectiveness
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr David Brain, Dr Sameera Jayan Senanayake
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Meta-Research: Evaluating Statistical Quality and Reproducibility in Health and Biomedical Research (2026)
- Prediction of Graft Survival and Cost Effectiveness of Kidney Transplantation According to Donor Quality Levels in Australia (2021)
- Exercise Interventions with Critically Ill Patients in an Australian Tertiary Intensive Care Unit (2020)
- Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Examining Diversity in Practices, Impact of Clinical Guidelines and the Implementation of a Dietitian-Led Model of Care (2020)
- Associations between Socio-Economic Position, Neighbourhood Disadvantage, and Mental Health and Well-Being: Are the Relationships Moderated by Exposure to a Natural Disaster? (2019)
- Identifying High-Value Care for Coronary Artery Disease in Australia (2019)
- Quantitative Assessment of Temperature in Urban Residential Settings and Its Implications for Extreme Temperature Exposure to Humans, Energy Consumption and Indoor Air Pollution (2019)
- Towards a Culture of Open Science and Data Sharing in Health and Medical Research (2018)
- Putting a Price on Climate Change: The Cost of Climate Change and Foodborne Diseases in Queensland in Quality-Adjusted Life Years and Dollars (2017)
- Statistical and simulation modelling for enhanced understanding of hospital pathogen and related health issues (2017)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
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