Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu 21 August
17:30 - 19:30
Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Lynley Anderson
About Professor Lynley Anderson’s research
Professor Lynley Anderson originally trained as a physiotherapist working in hospitals and private practice. Lynley completed her PhD on ethical issues for elite sports doctors in New Zealand and was subsequently asked to write a code of ethics for the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) (2008, 2016). This was followed by one for the NZ Physiotherapy Board (2011, 2017).
Lynley teaches ethics and professional issues to undergraduate and postgraduate health professional students. She served as the Head of Department of the Bioethics Centre, Dunedin School of Medicine for six years. She also served as Acting Dean, Dunedin School of Medicine for 7 months in 2021 and again in 2024 for 4 months, and has also been Deputy Dean.
Lynley was editor of the New Zealand Bioethics Journal and then the founding co-editor of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. She has also chaired the Ethics Committee of the NZ Health Research Council and served on the Ethics Committee for Assisted Reproductive Technologies for 6 years and ethics committees for the University of Otago. Currently, she is the PI on research into unacceptable behaviours experienced by clinical students from patients, staff and peers. She has been co-PI on research exploring medical students’ experiences of bullying, looking for solutions to assist students. She has been part of a team who have instigated an Interprofessional Education programme on Professional Ethics for almost 900 first-year health professional students. She has published widely on her areas of interest.
Livestream
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