Our people

Research interests

• accounts of disease
• ethics of cosmetic surgery
• ethics of healthcare artificial intelligence

Current research projects

The Algorithm Will See You Now: ethical, legal and social implications of adopting machine learning systems for diagnosis and screening.

Research interests

• moral psychology
• neuroethics
• bioethics

Research interests

• criminal responsibility
• neuroscience, neurotechnology and the criminal law
• philosophy of the criminal law
• philosophy of punishment
• free will and moral responsibility
• behavioural genetics and sentencing
• neurolaw
• the future of work in light of developments in artificial intelligence

Research interests

• ethics in dementia care/research
• ethics in long-term aged care settings

Research interests

• emerging technology bioethics
• personal identity
• philosophy of medicine
• philosophical contributions to health and health policy
• drug policy

Thesis title

Institutional silencing and survivor resistance: Examining epistemic and affective injusticeagainst survivors of sexual violence in higher education institutions in the Philippines

Supervisors

• Dr Katrina Hutchison
• Distinguished professor Wendy Rogers

Thesis title

Assuring transparency and explainability around AI medical devices: Proposals for Australia

Supervisors

• Rita Matulionyte 
• Farah Magrabi

Thesis title

Epistemic ecosystems in medicine

Supervisors

• Dr Katrina Hutchison
• Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers

Thesis title

The moral entitlement to rear a child: Towards a dual-interest attachment account

Supervisors

• Associate Professor Mianna Lotz
• Dr Katrina Hutchison

Thesis title

The value of childhood and children’s wellbeing: a consideration of goods and bads through an ontological perspective

Supervisors

• Associate Professor Mianna Lotz
• Dr Katrina Hutchison

Thesis title

How urgent is the problem of climbing Parfit's mountain? or in other words, what is the case for allocating more resources towards unifying ethics and formoving passed the status quo position of moral value pluralism?

Supervisors

• Professor Neil Levy
• Dr Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky

Thesis title

The 'hembiguity' of inclusion: A problematisation review of inclusion within the AI-DEI literature

Supervisors

• Associate Professor Sarah Bankins
• Professor Olivera Marjanovic

Thesis title

The pathos of alien nation: Autistic women, loneliness and the identity demands of the 'work ethic'

Supervisors

• Dr Emily Hughes
• Professor Jean-Philippe Deranty

Thesis title

Mesopotamian sexuality in divinatory text: The sex omens of šumma ālu

Supervisors

• Javier Alvarez-Mon
• Ronika Power

Thesis title

AI-generated disinformation and democratic resilience in Bangladesh: Study of synthetic media's impact on political participation during democratic transition

Supervisors

• Professor Mark Alfano
• Professor Neil Levy

Thesis title

The quiet revolution: The dialectics of workers' capital

Supervisors

• Professor Jean-Phillippe Deranty

Thesis title

Meaningful relationships

Supervisors

• Professor Jean-Phillippe Deranty

Thesis title

Active inference and the problem of relevance

Supervisors

• Professor Neil Levy
• Professor Richard Menary

Thesis title

Ethics and political philosophy of artificial intelligence

Supervisors

• Professor Paul Formosa
• Dr Ines Hipolito

Thesis title

How virtue ethics allows us to assert moral responsibility for the contributary role that moral agents play in the creation and perpetuation of unjust social structures or structural injustice

Supervisors

• Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers
• Dr Nick Smith

Thesis title

Understanding the dynamics of illegitimate task assignment: The role of stereotypes, self-affirmation and attribution

Supervisors

• Patrick Garcia
• Sarah Bankins

Thesis title

Access and accessibility: A framework for approaching ancient experiences of disability

Supervisors

• Professor Ronika Power
• Dr Camilla Di Biase-Dyson