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ProfessorClaire Ashton-James

Level 3 Supervisor, Northern Clinical School

Faculty of Medicine and Health

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  • Level 3 Supervisor, Northern Clinical School
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Interpersonal processes in health care and treatment outcomes
  • The role of social support and social wellbeing in treatment outcomes
  • Interpersonal modulation of pain
  • Culture and pain
  • Patient-provider communication
  • The role of implicit biases in medical encounters
  • The social cognitive and perceptual bases of patient and clinician trust
  • The impact of patient trust on pain, health behaviour, and well-being
  • The role of interpersonal processes in group-based pain management programs

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Co-designing pain management with people in opioid dependence treatment
    Medical Research Future Fund1 Sep 2025 - 31 Aug 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Nielsen S,
    • Ashton-James C,
    • Cheetham A,
    • Davies C,
    • Dietze P
  • GRANT
    Consumer co-design and Pilot testing of TExt Messaging to support Pain self-management in breast cancer survivOrs (TEMPO-P)
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Apr 2025 - 31 Jul 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of a digital intervention to reduce pain and reliance on opioids after total knee replacement surgery
    HCF Research Foundation1 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ashton-James C
  • GRANT
    Early Intervention to Support Recovery from Motor Vehicle Accident
    Transport Accident Commission (Vic)1 Jul 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ashton-James C
  • GRANT
    Reinforce,re-engage, and reassure: Evaluating the efficacy of a digital behavioural pain managementintervention to improve analgesia and reduce reliance on opioids in patients with rib fractures project
    Paul Ramsay Foundation1 Jan 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ashton-James C
  • GRANT
    The Natural Helper approach to culturally responsive healthcare
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dennis S,
    • Williams G,
    • Naylor J,
    • Tang C,
    • Ashton-James C
  • GRANT
    Managing claimant distress following motor vehicle accidents
    Pain Foundation Ltd1 Apr 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ashton-James C
  • GRANT
    Burnout in veterinary hospital staff: A case study
    Small Animal Specialist Hospital Pty Ltd1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ashton-James C
  • GRANT
    Pathways to better pain management
    Ernest Heine Family Foundation1 Jul 2020
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Interventions to support opioid tapering in patients with chronic: systematic review
    Pain Foundation Ltd1 Jan 2020
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Changing faces, changing lives A preliminary investigation of the social outcomes of orthognathic surgery
    Australian and New Zealand Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (ANZAOMS)1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant: