Professor Jennifer Tieman

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:

• 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

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.