Professor Watt (PhD; BSc(Hons)) is an Epidemiologist with a background in research methods and evidence-based practice, with specific content expertise in injury epidemiology & the prehospital/emergency sector. She is Principal Research Manager  in the Information Support, Research and Evaluatoin unit within Queensland Ambulance Service. She holds an Adjunct Professor position with the Discipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where she was formerly the Team Leader of the Research Methods team in the Discipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her career goal is to increase the capacity of health professionals to conduct, engage with and interpret high quality research to improve clinical practice, ultimately improving health of the community. Her focus is on developing, evaluating & translating evidence, and applying innovative T&L practices that promote high quality application of research methods skills in the workplace. She is driven by commitment to increase capacity within the health sector to conduct rigorous, high quality research that translates to action.

 Her current research interests are defined by her methodological expertise, rather than content. She contributes methodological oversight to a vast array of research conducted within the health setting that directly translates to improved health/wellbeing of people in the tropics, to ensure that health care is informed by high quality evidence.

 She has 90+ peer-reviewed publications (+several in press), which have attracted numerous citations (GoogleScholar: 19258); 9 monographs; 1 Encyclopaedia entry; and 90+ conference presentations (3 awards). Her H-index is 12. Her research has a strong translational focus, in line with her ethos to increase the evidence-base with high-quality research to improve health. She is a leading Investigator on several grants via competitively-funded schemes, & regularly engages in consultations. 

 Professor Watt was President of the Australian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN) for 4 years, and remains on the Executive. She was Co-Editor for the journal of the Australasian Epidemiology Association for 2 years. She has been a Board Member of Kidsafe QLD since 2016.

 

Past PhD Students

As well as current PhD students (see "Supervision" tab for more details), Kerrianne has supervised students from other universities. These include:

• The Epidemiology and Characteristics of Low Speed Vehicle Run Over Incidents in Queensland Children aged 0-15 years, Between 1999-2009 (Secondary Advisor; UQ)
• The Psycho-social Impact of fatal Child Drowning in Queensland and the Availability and Use of Support (Secondary Advisor, UQ)
• Drowning In Queensland Children and Adolescents 0-19yrs 2002-2008: Incidence, Risk Factors and Interventions (Secondary Advisor, UQ)
• Environmentally-related health impacts of coal seam gas development: An impact assessment approach in Queensland, Australia (Secondary Advisor, UQ)
• Feedback and self-rated driving abilities among older adults: the impact of advanced driver assistance systems (Secondary Advisor, QUT). Recommended for Outstanding Thesis Award.  
• Preventing paediatric hot beverage scalds (Secondary Advisor. UQ).  

Teaching

• TM6013: Doctoral Attachment (Level 6; TSV)
• TM6014: Extended Doctoral Attachment (Level 6; TSV)
• TM6015: Doctoral Conference Presentations (Level 6; TSV)
• TM6016: Doctoral Specialisation 1 (Level 6; TSV)
• TM6017: Doctoral Specialisation 2 (Level 6; TSV)
• TM6018: Doctoral Project 1 (Level 6; TSV)
• TM6019: Doctoral Project 2 (Level 6; TSV)
• TM6020: Doctoral Project 3 (Level 6; TSV)
• TM6021: Literature Review (Level 6; TSV)

Interests

Research

• Injury Prevention/Epidemiology
• Prehospital/Emergency
• Epidemiology/Statistics
• Research Methods
• Alcohol/Substance Use
• Mental Health
• Paediatrics (especially injury)
• Public Health
• Factors Associated with Performance and Anxiety in Learning Research Methods subjects

Teaching

• Epidemiology
• Statistics
• Research Methods
• Injury Epidemiology / Prevention

Experience

• 2016 to present - Associate Dean, Research Education, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2011 to present - Associate Professor, Injury Epidemiology/Research Methods, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2012 to 2014 - Director, Research Training, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook Univeristy (Townsville)
• 2009 to 2011 - Senior Lecturer, Injury Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Queensland (Brisbane)
• 2005 to 2009 - Clinical Research Co-ordinator, Australian Centre for Prehospital Research (Brisbane)
• 2003 to 2004 - Research Fellow, Violence Research Group; Department of Oral Surgery, Medicine and Pathology University of Wales College of Medicine (Cardiff, Wales, UK)

Research Disciplines

• Public Health and Health Services (1117)
• Clinical Sciences (1103)
• Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine (1114)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Public Health (9204)
• Health and Support Services (9202)
• Clinical Health (9201)

Awards

• 2014 - Nominated for Australian Road Safety Community Program Award (Low speed vehicle run over multimedia education campaign)
• 2013 - National Road Safety Award – “”Low Speed Vehicle Runover project”
• 2012 - Ambassador, Kidsafe Queensland
• 2009 - • Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation, Grant Review Panel
• 2008 - Australia Day Achievement Medallion for “Exemplary contribution to the research activity of the Australian Centre for Prehospital Research”
• 2004 - Joint Winner, Best Poster. Annual Symposium for the Society for the Study of Addiction, York, United Kingdom.
• 2003 - Runner up, Best Poster. Annual Symposium for the Society for the Study of Addiction, Leeds, United Kingdom
• 2001 - Student Bursary, Australian Injury Prevention Network, for attendance at National Injury Prevention Conference, Warrnambool, 2001
• 1996 - Finalist in Australian Red Cross Young Ambassador Awards

Memberships

• 2016 - Director, Kidsafe QLD Board (Social Inclusion Portfolio & Deputy Chair, Clinical Advisory Board, from August 2017)
• 2013 - Member, Ethics Committee, Townsville Hospital and Health Services
• 2012 - Global Burden of Disease, Injury Expert Group
• 2010 - ICE (International Collaboration on Injury Research Methods)
• 1999 - Australian Injury Prevention Network
• 2009 to 2014 - • Public Health Association of Australia (Injury Prevention Special Interest Group; & Executive Committee, QLD Branch)

Other

• 2013 to 2016 - President, Australian Injury Prevention Network
• 2013 to 2014 - Co-Editor, Journal for Australasian Epidemiological Association

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• King J, Franklin R, Devine S, Watt K and Leggat P (2020) Exploring Australian residents cycling engagement – differences in self‐reported cycling behaviour between urban and rural dwelling Queenslanders. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 31 (1), pp. 93-103, DOI:10.1002/hpja.254.
• Bates N, Callander E, Lindsay D and Watt K (2019) Patient co-payments for women diagnosed with breast cancer in Australia. Supportive Care in Cancer, 28, pp. 2217-2227, DOI:10.1007/s00520-019-05037-z.
• Burgess J, Watt K, Kimble R and Cameron C (2019) Knowledge of childhood burn risks and burn first aid: cool runnings. Injury Prevention, 25 (4), pp. 301-306, DOI:10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042650.
• Franklin R, Watt K, Aitken P, Brown L and Leggat P (2019) Characteristics associated with first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and use in Queensland, Australia. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 34 (2), pp. 155-160, DOI:10.1017/S1049023X19000104.
• Land H, Gordon S and Watt K (2019) Effect of manual physiotherapy in homogeneous individuals with subacromial shoulder impingement: a randomized controlled trial. Physiotherapy Research International, 24 (2), Article: e1768, DOI:10.1002/pri.1768.
• Pemberton K, Franklin R and Watt K (2019) Strategies to improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes in the pre-hospital environment – Part A: pharmaceutical strategies. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 16, DOI:10.33151/ajp.16.752.
• Pemberton K, Franklin R and Watt K (2019) Strategies to improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes in the pre-hospital environment - Part B: non-pharmaceutical strategies. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 16, DOI:10.33151/ajp.16.753.
• Pemberton K, Bosley E, Franklin R and Watt K (2019) Pre-hospital outcomes of adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of presumed cardiac aetiology in Queensland, Australia (2002-2014): trends over time. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31 (5), pp. 813-820, DOI:10.1111/1742-6723.13353.
• Pemberton K, Bosley E, Franklin R and Watt K (2019) Epidemiology of pre-hospital outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Queensland, Australia. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31 (5), pp. 821-829, DOI:10.1111/1742-6723.13354.
• Alele F, Emeto T, Callander E and Watt K (2018) Non-urgent paediatric emergency department presentation: a systematic review. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 55 (3), pp. 271-277, DOI:10.1111/jpc.14352.
• Alele F, Callander E, Emeto T, Mills J and Watt K (2018) Socio‐economic composition of low‐acuity paediatric presentation at a regional hospital emergency department. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 54 (12), pp. 1341-1347, DOI:10.1111/jpc.14079.
• Bates N, Callander E, Lindsay D and Watt K (2018) CancerCostMod: a model of the healthcare expenditure, patient resource use, and patient co-payment costs for Australian cancer patients. Health Economics Review, 8, Article: 28, DOI:10.1186/s13561-018-0212-8.

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 95+ research outputs authored by Prof Kerrianne Watt from 2012 onwards.

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Health management practices tha empower high performing residential aged care facilities (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Study into the disposal of deceased persons as a result of violent crime (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Patient Safety: Risk Management of Paramedic Initiated Non-Transport Cases. (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Discovering Faecal Microbiome Associated with Pre-Term Birth (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Performance and Health Economic Assessment of Motion Tracking fpr Prostrate Cancer Radiation Therapy (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Disparities in experiences of access to care for Australians with mental health conditions (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Gender Equity in Health Services and the Economics of Childbearing (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Cannabis Withdrawal Among Indigenous Detainees/Inmates. (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• An investigation of the Impacts of excess alcohol Consumption on chronic Disease management in a Regional setting (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in Queensland, Australia – Epidemiology and predictors of outcome (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Variance in Policy Adoption in the Pacific: The case for Context-Specific NCD Prevention and Control Measures and the role of the NCD Best Buys (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Perils in Paradise: The epidemiology of tourist injuries in Queensland, Australia (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Psychological intervention for reducing emergency department (ED) representations – A randomised controlled trial (RCT) (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Features of Primary Health Care Services in Remote Indigenous Communities that Contribute to Hospital Avoidance for Ambulatory Sensitive Chronic Conditions (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)

Completed

• Addressing the impact of disasters on public health infrastructure and noncommunicable diseases (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The paradox of informed consent issues in paediatric status epilepticus research (2019, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Quantifying the cost of cancer in Australia, and the distribution of these costs by Indigenous status, remoteness, and socioeconomic disadvantage (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Centre of mass accelerations related to running performance and prospective study on running injuries (2020, PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Making salient messages for Indigenous tobacco control (2015, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Preventing intrauterine growth restriction and improving infant growth outcomes in Bangladesh (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Specific physiotherapy management for subacromial shoulder impingement (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Chronic low back pain: diagnostic classification, physical assessment and ultrasound imaging (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Strengthening health promotion and research in practice: the experiences of an Aboriginal community controlled health service (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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