Professor Tume is the co-editor in chief of Nursing in Critical Care and on the editorial board for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. She is an intensive care nurse with more than 30 years’ experience in Australia and the UK, and continues to maintain some clinical practice hours. She has more than 145 peer-reviewed publications and has held several National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) grants. She is currently the chief investigator for an NIHR health technology assessment programme-funded multicentre trial of no routine gastric residual volume measurement to guide enteral feeding in critically ill children, and has just completed a feasibility study around a future trial of intravenous fluid volumes in critically ill children (Funded Health Innovation Manchester).

Her research takes a ‘critical care across the lifespan’ approach with work in neonatal, paediatric and adult intensive care. However, her research interests focus mainly on improving nutrition in critically ill children, particularly around enteral feeding, but she also focuses on respiratory critical care: making endotracheal suctioning safer, weaning mechanical ventilation and preventing extubation failure. She is also committed to implementing research evidence into clinical practice and is seconded two days a week to develop nursing and allied health professional research capability and capacity at Alder Hey. She is a visiting professor for the School of Health Sciences in Geneva and is a member of the NIHR HTA and a European funding panel. She was previously the nursing president for the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care. She supervises three PhD students and two research interns. She is on the scientific and education committee of the Paediatric Critical Care Society and the deputy chair of the Paediatric Critical Care Society Study group.