About the Authors
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Published:2014
2014. "About the Authors", Achieving Ethical Excellence
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Daryl Adair (PhD) is Associate Professor of Sport Management at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a core member of the UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre. His main areas of research are drugs in sport, equity and diversity in sport, and the politics and governance of sport.
Matthew Beard (BPhil (Hons)) is a military ethicist and philosopher with the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He has served as Managing Editor for Solidarity: The Journal for Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics and is currently Research Associate with the Centre for Faith, Ethics and Society at Notre Dame. Matthew recently submitted his doctoral thesis, entitled ‘War Rights and Military Virtues: A Philosophical Reappraisal of Just War Theory’ and was the inaugural recipient of the Morris Research Scholarship from Notre Dame. He has discussed the subjects of military ethics, moral injury and PTSD, cyberwar, and medical ethics in book chapters, scholarly articles, radio interviews, and opinion pieces.
Hugh Breakey is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law, Griffith University, Australia. He researches philosophical issues in human rights (especially security, intellectual and property rights) and other topics in professional and applied ethics. In 2012, Ashgate published his first book, Intellectual Liberty: Natural Rights and Intellectual Property. Hugh recently lead-authored Enhancing Protection Capacity, a policy guide on the Protection of Civilians and the Responsibility to Protect. In 2013, Hugh became President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics.
Laura D’Olimpio is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at The University of Notre Dame Australia. She completed her PhD on ‘The Moral Possibilities of Mass Art’ at The University of Western Australia. Laura is president of the Association for Philosophy in Schools (APIS, Inc.) and co-editor of the Journal of Philosophy in Schools.
R. E. Ewin was educated at the Universities of Sydney and Oxford. His most recent book is Reasons and the Fear of Death.
Howard Harris has served on the governing board of two independent schools, as company secretary of a public company and as a member of the management committee of commercial and research joint ventures. After graduating as a chemical engineer, he worked in industry before completing a PhD in applied ethics and joining the University of South Australia where he teaches in the School of Management. He is a past president of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics.
Paul Jonson (BA Hons; LLB; GDLeisSt; PhD) is an Associate Professor and the Associate Head of the Management Discipline Group, at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is President of the World Association for Sport Management (WASM) and former President of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, the Australian Touch (Football) Association and the NSW Touch Football Association and the former Chair of the Law and Policy Commission of World Leisure. Paul won an Australian University Teaching award and his research interests in addition to Role Models include sport and the law; play and pedagogy.
Brenden E. Kendall (PhD, University of Utah) is an Assistant Professor with the Communication Studies Department at Clemson University. He is co-author of the book Just a Job? Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life (2010, Oxford University Press).
Sandra Lynch (Dip Teach, BA (Illinois), MA Hons (Macq), PhD (UNSW)) is Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Faith, Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Her main research areas are in professional and applied ethics, values education, critical and creative thinking skills in educational contexts, friendship and the constitution of the self.
Stephan Millett is a moral philosopher who specialises in applied ethics and developing ethics curricula for professional courses. For the decade ending December 2013 he oversaw Curtin’s human research ethics committee as executive officer then Chair. He has also been active in bringing philosophy into schools and has co-authored three books for the Western Australian school philosophy curriculum. He has published on topics as diverse as the relationship between Aristotle’s Metaphysics and environmental ethics; teaching philosophy and ethics in schools; ethics and dementia care and the ethics of expert evidence. He is Professor in the School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work at Curtin University.
Joseph Naimo BA Hons., PhD Murdoch University, WA is a Senior Lecturer teaching in Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Western Australia. He is a Process Philosopher whose active areas of research include consciousness studies, metaphysics, and ethics. Other areas of interest are philosophy of science, comparative religious studies, and continental philosophy.
Christina M. Scott-Young BA Psych. Hons., University of Tasmania; PhD, University of Melbourne is Senior Lecturer and Program Manager for Project Management degrees in the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include human resource management, project teams and ethical management.
Alan Tapper is Research Fellow in the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University, in Perth. His interests include family policy, professional ethics, philosophy in schools, and 18th century intellectual history. He is co-editor of Meaning and Morality: Essays on the Philosophy of Julius Kovesi.
Robin Tapper is an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia. She is a lawyer and Anglican priest. In recent years she has taught legal professional ethics at the University of Western Australia and has been engaged in legal work and pastoral support related to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Daniel E. Wueste is Director of the Rutland Institute for Ethics and Professor of philosophy at Clemson University (USA). His primary research interests are in legal philosophy and practical and professional ethics. He is a Senior Fellow of the International Center for Academic Integrity and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Educational Integrity, the journal of the Asia Pacific Forum on Educational Integrity. He is past president of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum (two terms) and serves on its Executive Committee. He was elected to the Executive Board of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics in 2013.
