Dr Adrian Walker
Research Fellow

Dr Adrian Walker

Medicine & Health
Centre for Big Data Research in Health

I obtained my PhD at UNSW Sydney in 2019 in Cognitive Sciences and Decision Making. Since that time, I have moved into biostatistics and epidemiology, first working with health datasets related to people with intellectual disability and their health needs, and then with datasets related to people living with dementia. I am now at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health at UNSW coordinating a multinational study on the relationship between assisted reproductive technologies (such as IVF) and cancer. I am particularly interested in causal inference of observational data, and promoting the use of appropriate research methods when analysing health datasets.

Location
Centre for Big Data Research In Health Level 2, AGSM UNSW Sydney
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Walker AR; Srasuebkul P; Trollor JN; Wand APF; Draper B; Cvejic RC; Moxey A; Reppermund S, 2023, 'Risk factors for dementia and self-harm: A linkage study', Alzheimer's and Dementia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.13080
    Journal articles | 2022
    Cvejic RC; Watkins TR; Walker AR; Reppermund S; Srasuebkul P; Draper B; Withall A; Winkler D; Honan I; Mackechnie D; Trollor J, 2022, 'Factors associated with discharge from hospital to residential aged care for younger people with neuropsychiatric disorders: An exploratory case-control study in New South Wales, Australia', BMJ Open, 12, pp. e065982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065982
    Journal articles | 2022
    Srasuebkul P; Walker AR; Cvejic RC; Trollor JN; Lappin JM; Curtis J; Samaras K; Dean K; Ward PB; Reppermund S, 2022, 'Hospital service utilisation of people previously hospitalised with different subtypes of psychotic disorder: A record linkage study', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, pp. 48674221115642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674221115642
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Predictors and outcomes of recognition of intellectual disability for adults during hospital admissions: A retrospective data linkage study in NSW, Australia', PLoS ONE, 17, pp. e0266051, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266051
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Addressing the High Rates of Mortality in People with Intellectual Disability', JAMA Network Open, 4, pp. e2113446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.13446
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Out of fright, out of mind: impaired memory for information negated during looming threat', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00302-4
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Protection From Uncertainty in the Exploration/Exploitation Trade-Off', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 48, pp. 547 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000883
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Reviewing causes of death of individuals with intellectual disability in New South Wales, Australia: a record-linkage study', Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 65, pp. 998 - 1009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jir.12888
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'The health service contact patterns of people with psychotic and non-psychotic forms of severe mental illness in New South Wales, Australia: A record-linkage study', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 56, pp. 675 - 685, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674211031483
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'The role of uncertainty in attentional and choice exploration', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, pp. 1911 - 1916, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01653-2
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Transitions and choices: Graduate student mentoring for psychology honours students. a practice report', Student Success, 10, pp. 147 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ssj.v10i1.648
  • Preprints | 2020
    2020, Protection from uncertainty in the exploration/exploitation trade-off, , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5y643
    Preprints | 2019
    2019, A conceptual replication of Beesley et al. (2015), , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uanmr
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'Exploitative and Exploratory Attention in a Four-Armed Bandit Task', in CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, pp. 3484 - 3489