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PhD (Western Sydney University)
Background Professor Jane Phillips is at the forefront of her field. She brings her considerable clinical nursing and national policy and academic expertise to deliver outcomes that change practice and enhance palliative care globally. Her interdisciplinary research program targets the delivery of care that enables people to spend more days in their place of choice, move seamlessly between care settings, and receive the best evidence-based palliative care. Jane is Emerita Professor at IMPACCT - Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through clinical research and Translation, the interdisciplinary research Centre she established in 2017 at the University of Technology Sydney. Currently, Jane holds academic appointments with Oxford Brookes University (UK), Australian National University (Canberra), Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong), University of Notre Dame (Australia), and School of Medicine, University of Sydney (NSW). Jane is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2021. Industry Research Activities
2021-2022: Evaluation of Overnight Respite for Palliative Care Carers, Silver Chain
2021-2022: Evaluation of Streamline Referral for Community Palliative Care, Silver Chain
2020-2021: A review of the current national and international literature for best practice treatment and care for pancreatic cancer, Cancer Australia
2020-2023: BHI Palliative Care - experiences of patients and carers project, Bureau of Health Information
2020_2023: Strengthening access to best evidence-based care for people with palliative care needs in Australian prisons: a national co-design and capacity building project. (GO1995), Australian Government, Department of Health
2020-2022: Strengthening palliative care delivery in an Australian hospital through nursing leadership: a mixed-method action research study, Australian College of Nursing
Projects (Chief investigator)
- A review of the current national and international literature for best practice treatment and care for pancreatic cancer
- BHI Palliative Care – experiences of patients and carers project
- Defining a new model of care that supports people with palliative care needs to spend more time in their preferred place of care: a co-design project
- Enablers, barriers and usability of the eSPICT tool in a community setting: an exploratory study
- Palliative Care in Prisons Project
- Strengthening palliative care delivery in an Australian hospital through nursing leadership: a mixed methods action research study