Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Deputy Head of School 

Director of Outreach Development

Teaching and Curriculum Co-ordinator for Statistics

Research Interests

• Matthews JNS, James PW. Use of Optimal Design in the Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow Using the Kety-Schmidt Technique. In: Berger, M.P.F., Wong, W.K, ed. Applied Optimal Designs. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, pp.197-218.
• Bateman DN, McElhatton PR, Dickinson D, Wren C, Matthews JNS, O'Keeffe M, Thomas SHL. A case control study to examine the pharmacological factors underlying ventricular septal defects in the North of England. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2004, 60(9), 635-641.
• Fletcher ES, Rugg-Gunn AJ, Matthews JNS, Hackett A, Moynihan PJ, Mathers JC, Adamson AJ. Changes over 20 years in macronutrient intake and body mass index in 11- to 12-year-old adolescents living in Northumberland. British Journal of Nutrition 2004, 92(2), 321-333.
• Fenton AC, Berrington JE, Spickett GP, Cant AJ, O'Keeffe M, Matthews JN. Haemaphilus influenzaeType b (Hib) antibody response following pragmatic UK immunisation with mixed regimes of acellular and/or whole cell DTPHib combination vaccines. In: Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies. 2004, San Francisco, CA: Pediatric Research: International Pediatric Research Foundation.
• Wallis JP, Wells AW, Matthews JN, Chapman CE. Long-term survival after blood transfusion: a population based study in the North of England. Transfusion 2004, 44(7), 1025-1032.
• Matthews JNS, Allock GC. Optimal designs for Michaelis-Menten kinetic studies. Statistics in Medicine 2004, 23(3), 477-491.
• Thomson PJ, Fletcher IR, Matthews JNS, Hayward CB, Briggs S. Pain relief following oral day case surgery: A pilot study. Ambulatory Surgery 2004, 10(4), 217-221.
• Chinnery PF, DiMauro S, Shanske S, Schon EA, Zeviani M, Mariotti C, Carrara F, Lombes A, Laforet P, Ogier H, Jaksch M, Lochmuller H, Horvath R, Deschauer M, Thorburn DR, Bindoff LA, Poulton J, Taylor RW, Matthews JNS, Turnbull DM. Risk of developing a mitochondrial DNA deletion disorder. The Lancet 2004, 364(9434), 592-596.
• Waldron MNH, Matthews JNS, Johnson IJM. The effect of otitis media with effusions on balance in children. Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences 2004, 29(4), 318-320.
• Coulthard MG, Vernon SJ, Lambert HJ, Matthews JNS. A nurse led education and direct access service for the management of urinary tract infections in children: Prospective controlled trial. British Medical Journal 2003, 327(7416), 656-659.
• Lewis SC, Langman MJS, Laporte JR, Matthews JNS, Rawlins MD, Wiholm BE. Dose-response relationships between individual nonaspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NANSAIDs) and serious upper gastrointestinal bleeding: a meta-analysis based on individual patient data. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2002, 54(3), 320-326.
• Matthews JNS. Methods for the Analysis and Design of Limiting Dilution Assays. Developmental Biology 2002, 107, 87-94.
• Armitage P, Berry G, Matthews JNS. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 2002.
• N'Dow, J., Robson, C. N., Matthews, J. N. S., Neal, D. E., Pearson, J. P. Reducing mucus production after urinary reconstruction: A prospective randomized trial. Journal of Urology 2001, 165(5), 1433-1440.
• Healy E, Flannagan N, Ray A, Todd C, Jackson IJ, Matthews JNS, Birch-Machin MA, Rees JL. Melanocortin-1-receptor gene and sun sensitivity in individuals without red hair. Lancet 2000, 355(9209), 1072-1073.
• Ainsworth SB, Beresford MW, Milligan DWA, Shaw NJ, Matthews JNS, Fenton AC, Ward Platt MP. Pumactant and poractant alfa for treatment of respiratory distress syndrome in neonates born at 25-29 weeks' gestation: A randomised trial. Lancet 2000, 355(9213), 1387-1392.
• Fanibunda K, Matthews JNS. The relationship between accessory foramina and tumour spread on the medial mandibular surface. Journal of Anatomy 2000, 196(1), 23-29.
• Matthews JNS. Alternative criteria for optimal designs of limiting dilution assays. Statistics in Medicine 1998, 17, 2733-2746.
• Matthews JNS, Mehrabi Y. Implementable Bayesian designs for limiting dilution assays. Biometrics 1998, 54, 1398-1406.
• Matthews JNS, Henderson R, Farewell DM, Ho W-K, Rodgers LR. Dropout in crossover and longitudinal studies: is complete case so bad?. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 2013, (epub ahead of print).
• Matthews JNS, Henderson R. Two-period, two-treatment crossover designs subject to non-ignorable missing data. Biostatistics 2013, Epub ahead of print.
• Ho WK, Matthews JNS, Henderson R, Farewell D, Rodgers LR. Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover design. Statistics in Medicine 2012, 31(16), 1675-1687.
• Matthews JNS, Philipson PM. Optimal designs for threshold-determining limiting dilution assays. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 2012, 142(6), 1388-1395.
• Chinnery P, DiMauro S, Zeviani M, Lombes A, Lochmuller H, Thorburn D, Bindoff LA, Poulton J, Deschauer M, Taylor RW, Matthews JNS, Turnbull DM. The risk of developing a mitochondrial DNA deletion disorder. In: Journal of Medical Genetics: British Human Genetics Conference. 2004, York, UK: BMJ Group.
• Bayly PJM, Matthews JNS, Dobson PM, Price ML, Thomas DG. In-hospital mortality from abdominal aortic surgery in Great Britain and Ireland: Vascular Anaesthesia Society audit. British Journal of Surgery 2001, 88(5), 687-692.
• Matthews JNS. Effect of prior specification on Bayesian design for two-sample comparison of a binary outcome. American Statistician 1999, 53(3), 254-256.
• Matthews JNS. Sponsored trials do not necessarily give more-favourable results. British Medical Journal 1999, 318(7200), 1762-1762.