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David Watkins is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields including Health Professions, Computer Science, and Medicine, with a particular focus on General Health Professions, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Health domains.

Their work covers a variety of topics such as:

  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments

David Watkins has published research in several venues, including:

  • The Lancet
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Recent papers by Watkins include:

  • Reflections on the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health's Global Health 2050 report - Authors' reply, 2025, The Lancet
  • Impact of Racial Bias on Providers' Empathic Communication Behaviors with Women of Color in Postpartum Checkup, 2025, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
  • Halving premature death and improving quality of life at all ages: cross-country analyses of past trends and future directions, 2024, The Lancet
  • Combining Learning from Human Feedback and Knowledge Engineering to Solve Hierarchical Tasks in Minecraft, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Health System Costs of Rheumatic Heart Disease Care in South Africa, 2020, Research Square (Research Square)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Ole Frithjof Norheim, Angela Y. Chang, Omar Karlsson, Wenhui Mao, and Osondu Ogbuoji.

Best Publications

  • The Chinese Learner: Cultural, Psychological, and Contextual Influences.

    David A. Watkins;John B. Biggs

  • The Issue Of Measurement Invariance Revisited

    Barbara M. Byrne;David Watkins

  • The conceptual change approach to improving teaching and learning: An evaluation of a Hong Kong staff development programme

    Angela Ho;David Watkins;Mavis Kelly

  • Learning and Teaching: A cross-cultural perspective

    David Watkins

  • Teaching the Chinese Learner: Psychological and Pedagogical Perspectives

    David A. Watkins;John B. Biggs

  • Discontinuities and continuities in the experience of learning: An interview study of high-school students in Hong Kong

    Ference Marton;David Watkins;Catherine Tang

  • The role of repetition in the processes of memorising and understanding: a comparison of the views of German and Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong.

    Bo Dahlin;David Watkins

  • A longitudinal study of the approaches to learning of Australian tertiary students.

    David Watkins;John Hattie

  • Correlates of approaches to learning: A cross-cultural meta-analysis.

    David Watkins

  • THE LEARNING PROCESSES OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: INVESTIGATIONS OF CONTEXTUAL AND PERSONOLOGICAL FACTORS

    D. Watkins;J. Hattie

  • The role of confirmatory factor analysis in cross-cultural research

    David Watkins

  • The-Asian-Learner-as-a-Rote-Learner Stereotype: Myth or Reality?.

    David Watkins;Murari Reghi;Estela Astilla

  • Depth of processing and the quality of learning outcomes

    David Watkins

  • Culture, Gender, and Response Bias: An Analysis of Responses to the Self-Description Questionnaire

    David Watkins;Steven Cheung

  • Personality, Career Decision Self-Efficacy and Commitment to the Career Choices Process among Chinese Graduate Students.

    Leili Jin;David Watkins;Mantak Yuen

  • How you think about your intelligence determines how you feel in school: The role of theories of intelligence on academic emotions

    Ronnel Bornasal King;Ronnel Bornasal King;Dennis Michael Mcinerney;David A. Watkins;David A. Watkins

  • Cultural Dimensions, Gender, and the Nature of Self‐concept: A Fourteen‐country Study

    David Watkins;Adebowale Akande;James Fleming;Maznah Ismail

  • Competitiveness is not that bad. . .at least in the East: Testing the hierarchical model of achievement motivation in the Asian setting

    Ronnel Bornasal King;Dennis Michael Mcinerney;David A. Watkins

  • Identifying the Study Process Dimensions of Australian University Students.

    David Watkins

  • Studying for the sake of others: the role of social goals on academic engagement

    Ronnel Bornasal King;Dennis Michael Mcinerney;David A. Watkins

  • Personality correlates of the disposition towards interpersonal forgiveness: A Chinese perspective

    Hong Fu;David Watkins;Eadaoin K. P Hui

Frequent Co-Authors

John Hattie
John Hattie University of Melbourne
Dennis M. McInerney
Dennis M. McInerney Education University of Hong Kong
Ronnel B. King
Ronnel B. King Chinese University of Hong Kong
Elias Mpofu
Elias Mpofu University of North Texas
Li-fang Zhang
Li-fang Zhang University of Hong Kong
Joshua N. Hook
Joshua N. Hook University of North Texas
Don E. Davis
Don E. Davis Georgia State University
Everett L. Worthington
Everett L. Worthington Virginia Commonwealth University
Mantak Yuen
Mantak Yuen University of Hong Kong
Catherine So-kum Tang
Catherine So-kum Tang Hong Kong Shue Yan University

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