Rate My Professor Adrian Barnett

Professor Adrian Barnett is a Professor in the Faculty of Health at Queensland University of Technology, within the School of Public Health and Social Work. He also works at the Australian Centre for Health Services and Innovation at QUT. He graduated from University College London with a BSc in Statistics in 1994. He subsequently worked as a statistician for SmithKline Beecham and the Medical Research Council before moving to Australia to pursue doctoral studies. He completed his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Queensland in 2002.

Professor Barnett’s research interests include meta-research, research funding, data sharing, peer review and reducing research waste. His main interest is how to increase the value of health and medical research. He is the past president of the Statistical Society of Australia and the current president of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science. His professional memberships include the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science and the Statistical Society of Australia. Selected publications include “Why I’ve removed journal titles from the papers on my CV” (Nature, 2024), “Evidence of questionable research practices in clinical prediction models” (BMC Medicine, 2023), “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, 2022), “Meta-research: Justifying career disruption in funding applications, a survey of Australian researchers” (eLife, 2022), and “The growth of acronyms in the scientific literature” (eLife, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, elected in 2021.