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Academic Staff

Professor Warwick Anderson, Deputy Director


Professorial Research Fellow, Department of History and VELiM

T: +61 2 9036 3414

Dr Stacy Carter


PhD, MPH(Hons), BAppSci

I am a qualitative methodologist with expertise in grounded theory and a keen interest in the relationship between theory and practice in social science research. I'm writing a book about the latter topic for Sage (London). My substantive work is about the ethics of public health. My current interests include population-level obesity interventions, health promotion, how we manage our health in everyday life, and cancer screening. I use my empirical research on these topics to inform ethical reflection about public health action.

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Associate Professor Jill Gordon



T: +61 2 9036 3412
M: +61 422 212 987

Dr Claire Hooker


Co-ordinator and Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities (on leave until 2012)

Dr Christopher Jordens


Senior Lecturer in Bioethics
Clinical Research Fellow

T: +61 2 9036 3406
M: +61 434 070 788

Associate Professor Ian Kerridge, Director


Associate Professor in Bioethics
Staff Haematologist/ Bone Marrow Transplant Physician Westmead Hospital

T: +61 2 9036 3405
M: +61 408 115 919

Emeritus Professor Miles Little, Founder



T: +61 2 9036 3405

Professor Paul Macneill


Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Singapore
Contact through VELiM: +61 2 9036 3405

Dr Catherine Mills


Senior Lecturer in Bioethics
Coordinator, Bioethics (BETH) Program

T: +61 2 9036 3409

Dr Julie Mooney-Somers


Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Health Research

T: +61 2 9036 3412

Dr Estelle Noonan


T: 02 9036 3413

is a Lecturer in Medical Humanities and the current Co-ordinator of the Medical Humanities Program. Whilst trained in Gender & Cultural studies, she is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the interface of Medicine and the Humanities. Her areas of scholarly interest and expertise include:

  • narrative medicine
  • sexual science and sexology
  • cultural studies
  • gender studies
  • literary studies
  • cinema studies
  • critical psychology
  • feminist theory

Clinical Associate Professor Michael Robertson


MBBS(Hons) PhD FRANZCP

Michael Robertson is a Clinical Associate Professor in psychiatric ethics and a Senior Staff Specialist in Psychiatry at the Concord Centre for Mental Health. His clinical work has focused upon psychological trauma and chronic, disabling mental illness. His research activity has examined areas including empirical ethics in mental health care, involuntary psychiatric treatment, meta-ethical aspects of the social and professional context of psychiatry, mental health in popular culture, human rights abuses by psychiatrists in the Third Reich and social justice in relation to mental health. He is the coordinator of BETH 5205 (Ethics and Mental Health) Unit of Study in the Sydney Bioethics Program and teaches in the Sydney Medical Program and the Medical Humanities Unit.