Professor James Scott

Conjoint Professor in Child &

Child Health Research Centre
Faculty of Medicine

Honorary Professor

Child Health Research Centre
Faculty of Medicine

Overview

James leads the Child and Youth Research Group at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research and the Youth Mental Health Research Group at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research. He also practices clinically as a Child and Youth Psychiatrist with the Metro North Mental Health Service, where he is the Director of the Early Psychosis Service. James is the recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellowship (2016-2020), awarded for his research into prevention and intervention strategies to improve the mental health of adolescents.

James has established a programme of research developing preventative strategies and cost-effective real-world interventions for mental illness in children and youth. His research incorporates studies in epidemiology, clinical trials, bullying and psychiatric neuro-immunology. He is the elected chair of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Section for Youth Mental Health and an editor of the Journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. In 2018, he was awarded the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Senior Research Award, conferred on the “Fellow who has made the most significant contribution to psychiatric research in Australia and New Zealand over the preceding five years”.

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Newman, Martin, Airey, Caroline, Blum, Stefan, Scott, James G., Wong, Richard C. and Gillis, David (2018). Autoimmune encephalitis: clinical features, pathophysiology, and management. Neuroinflammation. (pp. 193-216) edited by Alireza Minagar. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-811709-5.00010-7

  • Scott, James G., Mihalopoulos, Cathrine, Erskine, Holly E., Roberts, Jacqueline and Rahman, Atif (2015). Childhood mental and developmental disorders. Disease control priorities: volume 4, mental, neurological, and substance use disorders. (pp. 145-162) edited by Vikram Patel, Dan Chisholm, Tarun Dua, Ramanan Laxminarayan and María Elena Medina-Mora. Washing, DC, United States: World Bank.

  • Ash, David, Bland, Robert, Brown, Peggy, Oakley Browne, Mark, Burvill, Peter, Davies, John, Grigg, Margaret, Gurr, Roger, Hughson, Bernard, Meadows, Graham, Nagel, Tricia, Rosen, Alan, Scott, James, Singh, Bruce, Smith, Geoffrey, Weir, Wendy and Emmerson, Brett (2012). Mental health services in the Australian states and territories. Mental health in Australia: collaborative community practice. (pp. 118-154) South Melboure, Vic., Australia: Oxford University Press.

  • Scott, James, Nurcombe, Barry and Jessop, Mary (2011). Hallucinations. Encyclopedia of adolescence. (pp. 1246-1252) edited by Roger J. R. Levesque. New York, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_374-2

  • Nurcombe, Barry, Scott, James and Jessop, Mary (2008). Dissociative hallucinosis. Dissociation and the dissociative disorders: DSM-V and beyond. (pp. 547-556) edited by Paul F. Dell and John A. O'Neil. New York, NY, United States: Routldege.

  • Nurcombe, Barry, Scott, James G. and Jessop, Mary E. (2008). Trauma-based dissociative hallucinosis: Diagnosis and treatment. Psychosis, trauma and dissociation: Emerging perspectives on severe psychopathology. (pp. 271-280) edited by Andrew Moskowitz, Ingo Schäfer and Martin J. Dorahy. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9780470699652.ch19

  • McClean, Duncan, Scott, James and McGrath, John (2003). Families where a parent has schizophrenia: Opportunities for prevention. Preventive strategies for schizophrenic disorders: Basic principles, opportunities and limits. (pp. 210-224) Rome, Italy: Giovanni Fiorti Editore.

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Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

Completed Supervision