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Our centre members provide high quality supervision with the opportunity collaborate with join multidisciplinary teams. As a postgraduate affiliated with the centre, you’ll have access to:
For information on postgraduate supervision, reach out to members of the Executive Committee. They can offer insights into current research projects, funding support and profiles of centre members. All full members provide supervision in their research areas.
Prospective postgraduate students should apply directly to the University. While successful candidates are registered in their supervisor’s department, aligning your research with the centre’s scope and securing support can strengthen your application.
To find out more about a specific research team, contact the relevant team leader.
For general inquiries, contact ethics.agency@mq.edu.au.
We welcome inquiries from postdoctoral researchers wishing to undertake research on topics related to the centre’s research interests. When you join our research team, you can:
To learn more or get involved with a specific research team, contact the relevant team leader.
For general inquiries, contact ethics.agency@mq.edu.au.
The two primary sources of support for postdoctoral work at Macquarie University are the University itself and the Australian Research Council.
Learn more about the fellowships offered under these two schemes:
We offer three types of membership options:
Applications must include your CV and cover letter outlining:
Submit your application to ethics.agency@mq.edu.au.
Applications will then be reviewed by the Ethics and Agency Research Centre executive committee.
We collaborate with partners both locally and internationally, fostering research activities between our institutions.
Julian Savulescu from the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics is a valued member of our advisory board. He gave the 2014 CAVE Public Lecture, entitled 'Enhancing Responsibility'.
Wendy Rogers has an active research collaboration with Sydney Health Ethics members Stacy Carter and Chris Degeling on her overdiagnosis research.
Wendy is also an advisory board member on Professor Lipworth's (VELiM member) NHMRC grant, 'Addressing conflicts of interest in public health and biomedicine: enhancing professional integrity and safeguarding the public's health'.
We also run a monthly Bioethics Reading Group.
Professor Vicki Entwistle is a regular visitor to the centre, and collaborates extensively with Wendy Rogers, Mary Walker and Katrina Hutchison on several projects, including the ethics and epistemology of surgical ethics and various aspects of overdiagnosis.
Other collaborations include recent and current projects on:
Collaborators include: Professor Marion Campbell, Professor S Bhattacharya, Doctor Rebecca Brown, Doctor Wendy Craig and Doctor Angharad Marks, working principally with Wendy Rogers.
Catriona Mackenzie shares research interests with Michael Quante, who visited CAVE in 2013.
The Distinguished Visitors Program provides funding for at least one distinguished international researcher to visit for up to four weeks annually. The executive committee selects applicants based on:
Distinguished visitors will have access to shared office accommodation in the Philosophy Department. They will be expected to contribute to our research program, for example by participating in a conference or workshop, and presenting research seminars or public lectures.
Note: We also invite applications from scholars aligning with our research profile for sabbatical or short stays.
To express your interest in our Distinguished Visitors Program, contact Professor Paul Formosa.
Learn more about visas, practical details, required documentation and procedures.
See more about our visitors below.
Winnie Sung’s main research interests are in Xunzi’s thought, pre-Qin Confucian ethics, moral psychology and self-knowledge.
She is currently Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
She received her first PhD in Chinese philosophy from the University of New South Wales and her second PhD in analytic philosophy from University College London.
She has published articles in:
Her recent publications are on Xunzi’s and Mencius’s ethical views and early Confucian conceptions of hypocrisy, loyalty, trustworthiness, sympathy and resentment.
Andrew T Forcehimes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
His research focuses on normative ethics and metaethics.
He has published articles in:
He is co-author of Thinking Through Utilitarianism (Hackett, 2019) and co-editor of:
Michael McKenna is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at University of Arizona. He publishes primarily on the topics of free will and moral responsibility, as well as related areas in action theory, moral psychology and ethics.
He is the author of Conversation and Responsibility (OUP, 2012), Free Will: A Contemporary Introduction co-authroed with Derk Pereboom (Routledge, 2016), as well as articles appearing in journals such as:
He is also co-editor of:
He is currently working on two book manuscripts: