Matthew Tieu

Health and Medical Sciences Faculty Office

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Dr Matthew Tieu is a Research Fellow in the Simulation Research Program at Adelaide Health Simulation (AHS). His research focuses on simulation-based education, coupled with exploring theoretical foundations of health simulation.

He has previous teaching and research experience in philosophy, bioethics, dementia care and theory development in nursing and health sciences. 

  • Journals

    Year Citation
    2024 Tieu, M. (2024). The Machine of Caring: A book review of Philosophy of Care By Boris Groys, London, New York: Verso Books. 2022. pp. 112.. Nursing Philosophy, 25(1), e12465-1-e12465-2.
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    2024 Lawless, M. T., Tieu, M., Archibald, M. M., Pinero De Plaza, M. A., & Kitson, A. L. (2024). From Promise to Practice: How Health Researchers Understand and Promote Transdisciplinary Collaboration. Qualitative Health Research, 14 pages.
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    2024 Tieu, M., & Matthews, S. (2024). The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom), 49(1), 85-101.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS1
    2024 Lawless, M. T., Tieu, M., Golley, R., & Kitson, A. (2024). How and where does “care” fit within seminal life-course approaches? A narrative review and critical analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 80(3), 871-883.
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    2023 Tieu, M., & Kitson, A. L. (2023). Care Depersonalized: The Risk of Infocratic “Personalised” Care and a Posthuman Dystopia. American Journal of Bioethics, 23(9), 89-91.
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    2023 Mudd, A., Feo, R., Pinero De Plaza, M. A., Tieu, M., Paia, S. Y., Cleland, J., . . . Lange, B. (2023). The Use of Digital Technologies in the Inpatient Setting to Promote Communication during the Early Stage of an Infectious Disease Outbreak: A Scoping Review. Telemedicine and e-Health, 29(2), 172-197.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
    2023 Chan, R. J., Knowles, R., Hunter, S., Conroy, T., Tieu, M., & Kitson, A. (2023). From Evidence-Based Practice to Knowledge Translation: What Is the Difference? What Are the Roles of Nurse Leaders?. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 39(1), 151363-1-151363-6.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS1 Europe PMC2
    2023 Lawless, M. T., Tieu, M., Chan, R. J., Hendriks, J. M., & Kitson, A. (2023). Instruments Measuring Self-Care and Self-Management of Chronic Conditions by Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Scoping Review. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(7), 1687-1709.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS2 Europe PMC3
    2023 Tieu, M., Lawless, M., Hunter, S. C., Pinero de Plaza, M. A., Darko, F., Mudd, A., . . . Kitson, A. (2023). Wicked problems in a post-truth political economy: a dilemma for knowledge translation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), 1-11.
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    2023 Chan, R. J., Milch, V. E., Crawford-Williams, F., Agbejule, O. A., Joseph, R., Johal, J., . . . Hart, N. H. (2023). Patient navigation across the cancer care continuum: An overview of systematic reviews and emerging literature. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 73(6), 565-589.
    DOI Scopus22 WoS10 Europe PMC9
    2022 Pinero de Plaza, M. A., Beleigoli, A., Brown, S., Bulto, L. N., Gebremichael, L. G., Nesbitt, K., . . . Hendriks, J. M. (2022). Effectiveness of telehealth versus standard care on health care utilization, health-related quality of life, and well-being in homebound populations: a systematic review protocol.. JBI evidence synthesis, Publish Ahead of Print(11), 2734-2742.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC1
    2022 Sivertsen, N., Abigail, W., Tieu, M., Eastman, M., McCloud, C., Thomson, W., & Tonkin, H. (2022). What women want: Women’s health in Rural and Regional Australia – Insights from an interprofessional research collaboration between academic researchers, nursing clinicians, and industry professionals. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(5), e2236-e2244.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC1
    2022 Tieu, M., Mudd, A., Conroy, T., Pinero de Plaza, A., & Kitson, A. (2022). The trouble with personhood and person-centred care. Nursing Philosophy, 23(3), 1-14.
    DOI Scopus10 WoS10 Europe PMC5
    2021 Tieu, M. (2021). Truth and diversion: Self and other-regarding lies in dementia care. Bioethics, 35(9), 857-863.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS4
    2021 Lawless, M. T., Tieu, M., Feo, R., & Kitson, A. L. (2021). Theories of self-care and self-management of long-term conditions by community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-ethnography. Social Science and Medicine, 287, 16 pages.
    DOI Scopus18 WoS16 Europe PMC7
    2009 Tieu, M. M. (2009). Altruistic surrogacy: The necessary objectification of surrogate mothers. Journal of Medical Ethics, 35(3), 171-175.
    DOI Scopus41 WoS30 Europe PMC8
    2008 Andorno, R. (2008). Short literature notices. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 11(4), 489-494.
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  • Books

    Year Citation
    2023 Tieu, M. (2023). Self and Identity: An Exploration of the Development, Constitution and Breakdown of Human Selfhood. London: Routledge: Taylor and Francis.
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  • Book Chapters

    Year Citation
    2021 Pinero De Plaza, M. A., Beleigoli, A., Mudd, A., Tieu, M., McMillan, P., Lawless, M., . . . Kitson, A. (2021). Not Well Enough to Attend Appointments: Telehealth Versus Health Marginalisation. In M. Merolli, C. Bain, & L. K. Schaper (Eds.), Healthier Lives, Digitally Enabled (Vol. 276, pp. 72-79). IOS Press.
    DOI Scopus6

2023 - National Foundation for Australia China Relations (NFACR) - Grants Program ($300k)

2022 - Cancer Australia - Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme ($479k)

He has taught the following topics in the Department of Philosophy at the School of Humanities.

  • PHIL1100 – Mind, Knowledge and God
  • PHIL1101 – Argument and Critical Thinking
  • PHIL1102 – Mind and World
  • PHIL1103 – Morality, Society and the Individual
  • PHIL2035/3035 – Foundations of Modern Philosophy
  • PHIL2036/3036 – How Should I Live? Contemporary Ethical theories

He also taught a range of related topics in a previous role at Flinders University. Click here for details.


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