Associate Professor Aileen Collier

Aileen has worked as a specialist palliative care nurse in a diverse range of settings in Scotland and New Zealand as well as Australia. Her research program is focused on safety, quality and equity of palliative care. She is passionate about building clinician's capacity in palliative and end-of-life care research. Aileen's research interests and teaching philosophy undergirds a commitment to her practical work, with moral and pragmatic questions always being anchored to clinical 'realities'. She is interdisciplinary in inclination and is an advocate of interdisciplinary research that brings together diverse disciplines in response to 'wicked' problems.