Dr Tim Watkins

Dr Tim Watkins

Research Fellow

PhD in biostatistics, University of Sydney (The George Institute for Global Health), 2019
Master of Biostatistics, University of Sydney, 2012
Grad Dip in Biochemistry, UNSW, 1997
BSc in physics and mathematics, University of New England, Australia, 1994

Medicine & Health
National Centre of Excellence

Dr Tim Watkins is a Research Fellow and Biostatistician in the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN), now part of the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health. He joined in 2019 after completing a Master of Biostatistics (University of Sydney and the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia), and a PhD in Biostatistics (University of Sydney and The George Institute for Global Health), focusing on the concepts of causal inference, research bias, and uncertainty in health intervention research.

At 3DN, Tim has used linked administrative health data to examine topics including the movement of people under 65 from hospital to residential aged care, emergency department readmissions for people with intellectual disability and epilepsy, and uncommon forms of dementia. He is also working towards creating a major neuropsychiatry linked data platform.

His methodological research aims at making it easier for researchers to conduct high quality research, with less chance of bias and improved causal inference ultimately leading to findings that are more trustworthy. Ongoing work includes an analysis plan template for observational studies; and the website causaldiagrams.org that aims to make it easier for researchers to create and use causal diagrams.

Location
Room 212, AGSM Building UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052
  • 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
    Liao P; Vajdic CM; Reppermund S; Cvejic RC; Watkins TR; Srasuebkul P; Trollor J, 2022, 'Readmission and emergency department presentation after hospitalisation for epilepsy in people with intellectual disability: A data linkage study', PLoS ONE, 17, pp. e0272439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272439
    Journal articles | 2020
    Granger E; Watkins T; Sergeant JC; Lunt M, 2020, 'A review of the use of propensity score diagnostics in papers published in high-ranking medical journals', BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-00994-0
    Journal articles | 2020
    Watkins TR; Harvey LA, 2020, 'I am not biased. It is everyone else’s problem', Spinal Cord, 58, pp. 389 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41393-020-0446-2
    Journal articles | 2002
    Parker GB; Watkins T, 2002, 'Treatment-resistant depression: when antidepressant drug intolerance may indicate food intolerance', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 36, pp. 263 - 265
  • Theses / Dissertations | 2019
    Watkins T, 2019, Understanding uncertainty and bias to improve causal inference in health intervention research, http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20772