Professor Jennifer Tieman

Professor Jennifer Tieman is a Matthew Flinders Professor and Director of the Research Centre in Palliative Care, Death and Dying. She was the inaugural Dean (Research) of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

Professor Tieman leads a series of nationallly and internationally recognised palliative care programs which aim to build awareness and capability across the Australian health and aged care systems. She has a particular interest in the role of digital knowledge and in how online information can support patient, carers and families across ageing, caring, dying and grieving.

As Director and Chief Investigator of the CareSearch project, she manages a national palliative care resource supporting health professionals in all settings of care and patients, their families, carers and friends. The project team undertakes research on knowledge retrieval and knowledge dissemination and investigates translation approaches that encourage the use of evidence in health, particularly in palliative care and end of life care. Her work led to the establishment of a specialist bibliometric research group, Flinders Filters. She is also responsible for palliAGED, a palliative care evidence and practice resource for aged care and has taken on the Director role of the Knowledge and Implementation Hub of ARIIA.

Professor Tieman is invovled in the collaorations delivering the following national projects:

• Advance: Supporting general practice and aged aged in addresing ACP, palliative care and dementia
• CarerHelp: Supporting family carers caring for someone at the end of life
• ELDAC: Providing palliative care and advance care planning resources to aged care services.