CareSearch updates

Thank you

The CareSearch project is supported by a talented and hardworking team of academics and professional staff.

Having decided to take up an opportunity in medical Education, Dr Raechel Damarell is leaving her role as the Senior Research Fellow for the CareSearch and palliAGED team. We thank her for her significant achievements in our projects in particular delivering the palliAGED Evidence Centre and the Improving Care content.

Dr Madeleine Juhrmann has also taken up a new position and finished her time as a CareSearch project Research Fellow.

Welcome

Making sure we still have great talent in the project team, we would like to welcome the following new team members:

• Dr Seth Nicholls who has taken up the Research Fellow role supporting CareSearch and palliAGED.  

• Dr Angela Rong Yang Zhang has also joined the research team helping us analyse data and prepare some new resources.  

• We also welcome Becky Kwok who joined us as the new Marketing Officer on 13 August.

With these changes, Professor Jennifer Tieman has taken over the leadership of the CareSearch and palliAGED project team and looks forwarding to meeting with the sector at the Oceanic and Ageing Australia Conferences.

The Dying to Know campaign 2025 invites Australians to face the realities of death with openness and intention. Through the Dying2Learn MOOC, CareSearch has helped spark honest discussions about death, legacy, and what truly matters, conversations that can benefit people at any stage of life. At July’s International Positive Psychology Association World Congress in Brisbane, Dying2Learn facilitator Dr Lauren Miller-Lewis highlighted how talking about legacy can make conversations about death easier and more meaningful. Want to know more? Dying2Learn resources are available anytime on the CareSearch website.

The CareSearch team is currently recruiting palliative care academic and clinical educators for a multi-methods study exploring how they value and use clinical evidence in their teaching. It is hoped that findings from a series of questionnaires and interviews will give us a better picture of the contribution made by CareSearch’s recently redeveloped and updated evidence resources to sector education, training, and service provision. This Ethics-approved study will run across June and July, with findings expected later in 2025.