Professor Jennifer Tieman is a Matthew Flinders Fellow and the inaugural 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.

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 has led to the establishment of a specialist bibliometric research group, Flinders Filters, which she leads. Professor Tieman oversaw the design and implementation of a major palliative care and advance care planning evidence resource for aged care called palliAGED.

Professor Tieman is part of the research leadership for the following national projects:

• Advance: Looking at initiating palliative care and advance care planning in general practice anand for the aged care sector around 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 nationally.

She was a Chief Investigator for the NHMRC awarded Centre of Research Excellence in End Of Life Care and led their knowledge translation stream and is part of a national research team looking at bereavement and Covid19.