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Co-directors

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
  • Professor Justin Oakley (Chair), Deputy Director of Bioethics Centre, Monash University
  • Dr Yves Saint James Aquino, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, Physician and Philosopher
  • Janin Bredehoeft, CEO, SAGE (Science Gender Equity Ltd)
  • Zahra Shahabi-Kargar, Manager, Reporting and Intelligence, Cancer Services and Information, Cancer Institute NSW
  • Tori Hocking, Executive Manager, Office of the DVC (Research), Macquarie University
  • Nicole Lawless, Assistant Commissioner, NSW Crime Commission
  • Ms Julie Letts, Director, NSW Voluntary Assisted Dying Support Service (state-wide), Health Policy Specialist
  • Emeritus Professor Joanne Tompkins, School of Communication and the Arts, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland, Former Executive Director of the Australian Research Council Humanities and Creative Arts Panel
  • Simon Rice Emeritus Professor of Law, former Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney, Co-Founder of the Australian Discrimination Law Experts Group
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