Rate My Professor Belinda Barton

Dr Belinda Barton is a Lecturer in Psychology within the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University, based at the Coffs Harbour campus. She holds a PhD from the University of Sydney and is a psychologist with clinical and research experience in the cognitive and psychosocial impacts of medical and genetic conditions on individuals and families. Her academic career includes prior affiliations with the Children's Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney, where she contributed to numerous studies on pediatric neurodevelopmental issues.

Dr Barton's research specializations encompass cognition, psychosocial functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes in neurodevelopmental disorders such as neurofibromatosis type 1 and epilepsy, as well as chronic illness, cancer survivorship, and genetic conditions. She examines factors influencing the well-being of children, adolescents, parents, carers, and family dynamics, with the goal of identifying modifiable predictors to support evidence-based interventions that improve health outcomes. With over 107 publications and more than 2,900 citations documented on ResearchGate, key contributions include co-authoring the book 'Medical Statistics: A Guide to Data Analysis and Critical Appraisal' with J. Peat (2008, 863 citations). Notable papers feature 'Randomized placebo-controlled study of lovastatin in children with neurofibromatosis type 1' (Payne et al., 2016, 115 citations), 'Profiling the Word Reading Abilities of School-Age Children With Neurofibromatosis Type 1' (Arnold et al., 2021, 26 citations), 'Attention deficits in children with epilepsy: Preliminary findings' (Gascoigne et al., 2017, 35 citations), and 'Intellectual and academic outcomes after pediatric liver transplantation' (Afshar et al., 2018, 26 citations). At Southern Cross University, she is part of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing research theme and serves as Psychology Test Librarian.