Matthew Tieu
Health and Medical Sciences Faculty Office
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Dr Matthew Tieu's research is primarily theoretical and conceptual in nature, with an emphasis on explication and problematisation of matters that would otherwise remain opaque or latent. Using an epistemically sound post-disciplinary approach, he demonstrates how ethical, philosophical and social sciences perspectives underpin, inform, and shape our understanding and practice of healthcare and health professions education. His work is thus progressive, visionary, and appropriately intellectualistic while being grounded in concrete realities.
Some examples are listed below:
- Self and Identity: An Exploration of the development, constitution and breakdown of human selfhood
- Truth and diversion: Self and other-regarding lies in dementia care
- Wicked problems in a post-truth political economy: a dilemma for knowledge translation
- Cancer Survivorship and the significance of an integrated diachronic life course perspective
In previous roles he was immersed in numerous qualitative research and theory development projects across a broad range of topics including aged and dementia care, digital health technology, knowledge translation, cancer survivorship, and life course health development. He also has extensive teaching experience in philosophy and applied ethics (at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University). Outside of academia, he has worked in various project management, policy analysis, and social advocacy roles.
In his current role as a Research Fellow at Adelaide Health Simulation (AHS) he focuses on professional identity, exploring its conceptual foundations and how simulation-based education can play a foundational role in professional identity formation. His goal is to develop a theoretical framework for professional identity formation that can inform how we understand and approach health professions education and in particular simulation-based education.
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Journals
Year Citation 2025 Lawless, M. T., Tieu, M., Archibald, M. M., Pinero De Plaza, M. A., & Kitson, A. L. (2025). From Promise to Practice: How Health Researchers Understand and Promote Transdisciplinary Collaboration. Qualitative Health Research, 35(1), 3-16.
Scopus42025 Tieu, M. (2025). Cancer Survivorship and the Significance of an Integrated Diachronic Life Course Perspective. Sociology of Health and Illness, 47(2), 15 pages.
2025 Pollock, D., Marley, C., McBride, G., Dias, M., Kanukula, R., Hasanoff, S., . . . Davies, E. (2025). Simulated clinical placements in health care education: A scoping review and evidence and gap map protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis.
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. $22.95 AUD. ISBN: 9781839764929. Nursing Philosophy, 25(1), e12465-1-e12465-2.
2024 Tieu, M., Cussó, R. A., Collier, A., Cochrane, T., Pinero de Plaza, M. A., Lawless, M., . . . Kitson, A. (2024). Care biography: A concept analysis. Nursing Philosophy, 25(3), 14 pages.
Scopus3 Europe PMC22024 Pinero de Plaza, M. A., Hutchinson, C., Beleigoli, A., Tieu, M., Lawless, M., Conroy, T., . . . Kitson, A. A. (2024). The Caring Life Course Theory: Opening new frontiers in care—A cardiac rehabilitation example. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 18 pages.
Scopus2 Europe PMC12024 Tieu, M., & Matthews, S. (2024). The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 49(1), 85-101.
Scopus10 WoS1 Europe PMC22024 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.
Scopus3 Europe PMC12023 Tieu, M., & Kitson, A. L. (2023). Care Depersonalized: The Risk of Infocratic “Personalised” Care and a Posthuman Dystopia. The American Journal of Bioethics, 23(9), 89-91.
Scopus2 Europe PMC12023 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.
Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC22023 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.
Scopus8 WoS1 Europe PMC52023 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.
Scopus14 WoS2 Europe PMC92023 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), 280-1-280-11.
Scopus6 Europe PMC12023 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.
Scopus112 WoS10 Europe PMC912022 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.
Scopus3 WoS1 Europe PMC12022 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.
Scopus5 WoS2 Europe PMC32022 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.
Scopus18 WoS10 Europe PMC92021 Tieu, M. (2021). Truth and diversion: Self and other-regarding lies in dementia care. Bioethics, 35(9), 857-863.
Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC22021 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.
Scopus41 WoS16 Europe PMC242009 Tieu, M. M. (2009). Altruistic surrogacy: The necessary objectification of surrogate mothers. Journal of Medical Ethics, 35(3), 171-175.
Scopus46 WoS30 Europe PMC92008 Tieu, M. M. (2008). Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction. MEDICINE HEALTH CARE AND PHILOSOPHY, 11(4), 491-492. -
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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.
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2023 - National Foundation for Australia China Relations (NFACR) Grants Program ($300k) - Principle Investigator
2022 - Cancer Australia - Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme ($479k) - Principle Investigator
Dr Matthew Tieu's philosophy of teaching and learning is captured by Noam Chomsky's views here on what it means to be truly educated.
He previously 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 related topics at Flinders University. Click here for details
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2025 Co-Supervisor Enhancing Neonatal and Paediatric Stoma Care Education: A study investigating the impact of simulation in an education bundle Master of Philosophy (Medical Science) Master Part Time Mrs Alicia Jane Godmon 2025 Co-Supervisor Individual motivation for joint action in healthcare teams: understanding the phenomena and implications for simulation-based education. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr David Freer
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