EM/ProfJane Phillips

Emerita Professor Jane Phillips is at the forefront of her field and brings her considerable clinical nursing, national policy and academic expertise to deliver outcomes that are changing practice and enhancing palliative care globally. Her interdisciplinary program of research targets the delivery of care that enables people to spend more days in their place of choice, to move seamlessly between care settings and to receive best evidence based palliative care. Since transitioning to academia in 2009, Professor Phillips has secured over $2.4M as a lead investigator and $37M as a co-investigator in competitive research grants and co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is currently supervising or co-supervising 13 doctoral students from medicine, nursing and allied health.

Emerita Professor Jane Phillips has a compelling vision for the future of palliative care, which she has been able to operationalise since joining the University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Health in 2014 through the establishment of the Centre for Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical research and Translation (IMPACCT). As the inaugural Director of IMPACCT, Professor Phillips has brought many of the world’s leading palliative care researchers, including the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) to UTS. Collectively, this team are working to address some of societies greatest palliative care challenges. To assist with this quest, in 2017, she established a Consumer Advisory Group to co-design patient focussed palliative care research and education initiatives in partnership with the IMPACCT team. Since 2014 under Professor Phillips leadership the IMPACCT team have secured $40.34M in competitive research grants, generated 495 publications and supported on average 41 PhD candidates annually, with 25 doctoral completions during this period.

Emerita Professor Phillips is a mentor to a number of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows, a reviewer for numerous national and international research agencies including the National Health and Medical Research Council, Marie Currie and the European Union Health Service; and an Editor of three journals, Collegian, International Journal of Palliative Nursing and Chronic Illness.

Emerita Professor Phillips is the current President of Palliative Care Nurses Australia, a Fellow of Australian College of Nursing and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honour Society. She is a member of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care Policy-Advocacy Committee’s and contributed to the development of their global palliative care position statement.
Prior to joining UTS, she was the Professor Palliative Nursing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney Australia and Sacred Heart Hospice, Sydney Australia.