Professor Jane Currie
PhD University of Sydney, 2018
MSc Advanced Clinical Practice, University of Southampton, 2006
BSc (Hons) Nursing & Social Sciences, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London & City University, 1998
Professor Jane Currie is the inaugural Discipline Lead for Nursing at UNSW, leading systemic healthcare reforms for Australia's most vulnerable populations. As a veteran, nurse practitioner, and mixed-methods researcher, her co-designed models of care translate lived experience directly into practice and policy. Her doctoral research underpinned the historic 2023 Federal Budget reform that abolished restrictive 2010 nurse practitioner Collaborative Arrangement legislation and secured a 30% increase to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) rebate—the first major policy overhaul in over a decade. Currently, she serves as Chief Investigator (CIA) on the MRFF Healthy & HomED program ($3.69) optimising emergency department responses to people experiencing homelessness, alongside a Rosemary Bryant Foundation grant to empower nurse-led scope of practice in specialist homeless clinical services. Jane's extensive education and clinical leadership is decorated with an Australia Day Medallion, an Army Service Medal, and an Australian Award for University Teaching Citation.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Past 12-months
CIA - 2025 MRFF Early to Mid Career Researchers; 'Healthy & HomED: Optimising emergency department response to people experiencing homelessness' (MRFF2049697 - $3.69MIL)
CIA - Rosemary Bryant Foundation Grant; 'Taking clinical care to people: Empowering nurse-led integrated clinical and social care in Specialist Homeless Services ($60k)
Please see here for all funding.
Australian Award for University Teaching Citation (2018)
Army Service Medal (2018)
VC Award Outstanding Early Career Teaching (2016)
Australia Day Medallion for innovations in teaching (2009)
OP TELIC Medal (2008)
My Research Supervision
Primary supervision:
Hooper, K. 'Social, Spiritual and Emotional Korumba for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples at End of Life' MPhil
Grech, L. 'Exploration of the safeguarding of adults within an Australian palliative care context' PhD