Dr Mike Steele
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics
School of Allied Health
Areas of expertise: statistics; biostatistics; meta-analysis
Phone: (07) 38616090
Email: Michael.steele@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU Brisbane Campus
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9628-3057
Mike is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics and a statistical consultant for the School of Allied Health. Mike obtained his PhD titled 'The power of categorical goodness-of-fit test statistics' from Griffith University. He has over 50 publications mainly in the health and medicine area. He is also a visiting Research Fellow for the Nursing Research and Practice Development Centre at The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane.
Prior to joining ACU he was the Head of the Mathematics Department at Universiti Brunei Darassalam. He has worked in the health and medicine faculty at Bond University where he was actively involved in statistical consulting for project linked to Queensland Health. He has also lectured statistics and mathematics at James Cook University and Griffith University.
Select publications
- Lovegrove, J., Fulbrook, P., Miles, S.J., Steele, M., Liu, X.-L., Zhang, L., Cobos Vargas, A. Translation and piloting of the Chinese Mandarin version of an intensive care-specific pressure injury risk assessment tool (the COMHON Index) (2022) International Journal of Nursing Sciences.
- Lovegrove, J., Fulbrook, P., Miles, S., Steele, M. Effectiveness of interventions to prevent pressure injury in adults admitted to intensive care settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2022) Australian Critical Care.
- Kilgour, G., Adair, B., Stott, N.S., Steele, M., Hogan, A., Imms, C. Do physical activity interventions influence subsequent attendance and involvement in physical activities for children with cerebral palsy: a systematic review (2022) Disability and Rehabilitation.
- Lovegrove, J., Fulbrook, P., Miles, S.J., Steele, M. Effectiveness of interventions to prevent pressure injury in adults admitted to acute hospital settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2021) International Journal of Nursing Studies.
- Suggett, J., Foster, K., Lakra, V., Steele, M., Furness, T. Natural cause mortality of mental health consumers: A 10-year retrospective cohort study
- (2021) International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
- Hall, K., Maxwell, L., Cobb, R., Steele, M., Chambers, R., Roll, M., Bell, S.C., Kuys, S. Physiotherapy service provision in a specialist adult cystic fibrosis service: A pre-post design study with the inclusion of an allied health assistant (2021) Chronic Respiratory Disease.
- Garbellini, S., Randall, M., Steele, M., Elliott, C., Imms, C. The Neurological Hand Deformity Classification: Construct validity, test-retest, and inter-rater reliability (2021) Journal of Hand Therapy.
- Garbellini, S., Randall, M., Steele, M., Elliott, C., Imms, C. Unpacking the application of Q methodology for use in occupational therapy research
- (2021) Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy.
- Ghazali, N.B., Steele, M., Koh, D., Idris, A. The diurnal pattern of salivary IL-1β in healthy young adults (2021) International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health.
- Garbellini, S., Randall, M., Steele, M., Elliott, C., Imms, C. Prescribing upper limb orthoses for children with cerebral palsy: a Q methodology study of occupational therapists' decision making (2020) Disability and Rehabilitation.
- Hough, J., Levan, D., Steele, M., Kelly, K., Dalton, M. Simulation-based education improves student self-efficacy in physiotherapy assessment and management of paediatric patients (2019) BMC Medical Education, .
- Stone, A., Cooke, D., Morton, D., Steele, M. Reliability of revised scoring methods for the Schenkenberg Line Bisection Test with adults following stroke: Preliminary findings (2019) British Journal of Occupational Therapy.
- Foster, K., Withers, E., Blanco, T., Lupson, C., Steele, M., Giandinoto, J.-A., Furness, T. Undergraduate nursing students' stigma and recovery attitudes during mental health clinical placement: A pre/post-test survey study (2019) International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
- Yusof, N.B., Hoque, M.A., Steele, M.C., Yong, S.Y. Extended investigation on road fatality in Brunei (2019) International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion.
Appointments and Affiliations
- 2016-Present. Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics, School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane
- 2014-2016. Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Head of Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, University Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
