Knowledge Network project staff

The Knowledge Network project team consists of the following:

• Jennifer Tieman: Network Director
• Ruth Murton: Website Content Officer
• Natasha Schembri: Marketing Coordinator
• Dr Christine Sanderson: Knowledge Network Research Officer
• Gail Dooley: Finance and Administration Officer
• Andrew Lyons-Reid: Literature Collections Assistant
• Deborah Rawlings: Knowledge Network Research Officer
• Desley Reid-Orr: Knowledge Network Research Officer
• Cameron Shepherd: Knowledge Network Research Officer
• Kim Devery: Knowledge Network Research Officer
• Raechel Damarell - Research Officer Information and Projects

For further information on the project team, please see the team profiles below.

Staff Profiles

Jennifer is the Network Director for the Knowledge Network Project. She is also Co Chief Investigator for the project. As the Director, Jennifer's role is to manage the project and the project team. Prior to Knowledge Network, Jennifer was involved with CareSearch and also has extensive experience in working within the government, community and education sectors.

Ruth Murton is the Web Content Officer for the project and is responsible for transferring material into the web environment. She also works with our IT partner, Morton Blacketer, on functional issues relating to the various systems in the website. Ruth also worked as the Research Assistant for the Knowledge Network scoping project in 2004.

Natasha is the Projects Marketing Coordinator. Natasha's role is to coordinate all marketing activities for the project as it transforms from CareSearch to the Knowledge Network. Prior to this role, Natasha worked in various advertising agencies as an Account Manager and also as a Media Assistant.

Dr Christine Sanderson is a Research Officer on the Knowledge Network Project team. Chris is a doctor who specialises in palliative care and works part-time for the project developing pages for the CareSearch website.

Gail Dooley is the Finance and Administrative Officer for the project. She has a background in the Education system working as a finance officer.

Andrew Lyons-Reid works part-time as the Literature Collections Officer. He is responsible for gathering, seeking permissions and adding conference abstracts, journals, grey literature and thesis and treatises to our Literature Collections database.

Deb Rawlings works part-time for the Knowledge Network project as a Research Officer. Deb is a Registered Nurse with oncology and palliative care experience and works on the KN Project half time in projects and research activities.

Desley Reid-Orr works for the team on a part time basis and is responsible for pulling together resources and information for various parts of the project. Desley has a background in libraries and information work a Librarian and puts these skills to good use in gathering information for the project.

Cameron Shepherd is assisting in various research and project activities including survey analysis, bibliographic analysis and qualitative analysis.

Kim Devery is a Research Officer on the Knowledge Network project team.  Kim has worked as a nurse, researcher and academic in palliative care and works part-time for the project developing pages for the CareSearch website.  She also teaches in the postgraduate palliative programs at Flinders University.

Raechel Damarell is a Research Officer (Information & Projects) on the Knowledge Network project team. Raechel is an academic librarian with extensive experience in teaching students and health professionals to search for evidence-based and quality literature. Most recently she worked as Executive Assistant to the University Librarian at Flinders University which involved project work and quality assurance planning and processes.