Matthew Tieu

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). He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his current role, which focuses on exploring and understanding the theoretical foundations of health simulation and simulation-based education.

His formal qualifications span multiple disciplines across the biological sciences, humanities and social sciences, including his PhD which applies a philosophical, sociological, and lifespan developmental psychology perspective to understanding selfhood and identity. His thesis was recently developed into a book titled Self and Identity published by Routledge:Taylor & Francis.

Prior to joining AHS, he was a Research Fellow at Flinders University focusing on qualitative research and theory development across a broad range of projects including aged care, women's health, digital health technology, knowledge translation, and cancer survivorship. His research demonstrates how ethical, philosophical and social sciences perspectives underpin, inform, and continue to shape our understanding and practice of healthcare. He also has extensive teaching experience in philosophy and applied ethics both here at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University, and outside of academia, has worked in the aged care industry on quality improvement projects, bioethics and policy.

With such an eclectic background, he brings an innovative, rigorous and epistemically sound post-disciplinary approach to research in health simulation, befitting of the multifaceted and complex nature of simulation-based education.

  • 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., 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.
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    2024 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.
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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 Scopus3 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.
    DOI Scopus2
    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.
    DOI Scopus1
    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 Scopus2 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 Scopus5 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.
    DOI Scopus1
    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 Scopus43 WoS10 Europe PMC19
    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 Scopus3 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 Scopus3 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 Scopus12 WoS10 Europe PMC6
    2021 Tieu, M. (2021). Truth and diversion: Self and other-regarding lies in dementia care. Bioethics, 35(9), 857-863.
    DOI Scopus3 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 Scopus22 WoS16 Europe PMC8
    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)

Dr Matthew Tieu 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 related topics at Flinders University. Click here for details.

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