Director, Knowledge and Implementation Hub & Professor, Palliative and Supportive Services
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Professor Jennifer Tieman is a Matthew Flinders Professor and Director of the Research Centre in Palliative Care, Death and Dying (RePaDD).
As Director and Chief Investigator of the CareSearch project, she is responsible for a national palliative care resource supporting health professionals in all settings of care and those affected by the need for palliative care, namely, patients, their families, carers and friends. The project team undertakes research on knowledge retrieval and knowledge dissemination and investigates 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.
Professor Tieman is also responsible for palliAGED, a palliative care evidence and practice resource for aged care. She is Director of the Knowledge and Implementation Hub of a new aged care centre focused on growth and translation called ARIIA.
Professor Tieman is part of the research leadership teams for the following national projects:
She was a Chief Investigator for the NHMRC awarded Centre of Research Excellence in End Of Life Care and is part of MRFF funded research team looking at bereavement and Covid19. She also led the development of the booklet, When someone dies in residential aged care.
The Dying2Learn MOOC won the Innovation in Palliative Care award at the 2017 Palliative Care Australia conference.
Working with national colleagues, Professor Tieman led the design and conduct of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on death and dying. Over 3,000 people have enrolled for this course.
The Dying2Learn MOOC won the Innovation in Palliative Care award at the 2017 Palliative Care Australia conference.
Rawlings D, Miller-Lewis L, Collien D, Tieman J, Parker D & Sanderson C 2017 Lessons Learned from the Dying2Learn MOOC: Pedagogy, Platforms and Partnerships Educ. Sci. 2017, 7, 67; doi:10.3390/educsci7030067
As part of palliAGED, team has developed a set of ten introduction modules for aged care nurses providing a gateway to training and understanding in palliative care symptoms and care issues. Over 20,000 people have completed at least one of these modules.
Professor Tieman maintains a national profile through engagement with a variety of state and federal initiatives.
She is an Ambassador for National Advance Care Planning Week, Advance Care Planning Australia.
Professor Tieman sits on the following advisory and reference groups:
She is part of 2023 Oceania Palliative Care Conference Scientific Program Committee.
She actively reviews for a number of journals and has participated on grant review panels for university, state and national research grant programs.
Our Research Centre in Palliative Care Death and Dying explores the universal experience of death and dying and champions the contribution of palliative care to the person, the health professional and the health system