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	Susan Dodds
	Areas of public interest: (examples of areas of public interest this person is qualified to comment on)
	aged care; Australia; autonomy; bioethics; civil participation; civil society; citizenship; democracy; democratic representation; developing world justice; embryonic stem cell; feminism; feminist bioethics; gender; health policy; Human Research Ethics Committees; human experimentation; human rights; indigenous peoples; justice; land rights; law; legal theory; liberalism; liberal political theory; multicultural states; nation state; nursing; policy making; property; research ethics; self; sovereignty
	Contact Details:
	Ph: (+61 3) 6226 7843 email: susan.dodds@utas.edu.au Faculty of Arts Private Bag 44 University of Tasmania Hobart. TAS. 7001.
	Title & Institutional Affiliations:
	Dean of Arts and Professor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania Chief Investigator ARC Discovery Grant DP11012272 'Vulnerability, Autonomy and Justice' Chief Investigator and leader of the Ethics Project for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electormaterials Science (ACES) CEO561616
	Selected Media appearances and public comments:
	Fortnightly 'Ethics' spot, ABC Radio Victoria Southwest and Ballarat with Steve Martin/Prue Bentley January. 2010 topics include consistency in ethical consummerism and women in active combat Philosophy for lunch, Philosophers' Zone interview by Alan Saunders 7 July 2007. 'Political Mea Culpa', Australia Talks, ABC Radio National, 6 March 2007. 'Stem cell scientists seek abnormal embryos', ABC Science Online, by Judy Skatssoon, 8 February 2006
	General Areas of Academic Expertise:
	Applied Ethics; Bioethics; Political Philosophy; Feminism; Ethics and Technology; Philosophy of Law
	Selected Publications:
	‘Inside, outside: Nanobionics and human bodily experience’ (Renée Kyle & Susan Dodds) in K. L. Kjølberg & F. Wickson (eds.) NANO meets MACRO: Social Perspectives on Nano Scale Sciences and Technologies PAN Stanford, pp 263-282 2010. ‘Inclusion and Exclusion in Women’s Access to Health and Medicine’. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics vol 1, no 2, 2010. ‘A Matter of Conscience? The Democratic Significance of ‘Conscience Votes’ in Legislating Bioethics in Australia’ (Kerry Ross, Susan Dodds, & Rachel A. Ankeny). Australian Journal of Social Issues vol 44 no 2, pp 121-44, 2009. ‘Avoiding empty rhetoric: Why and when to engage publics in debates about nanotechnologies.’ (Renée Kyle & Susan Dodds) Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 15 no. 1, pp 81-96, 2009. ‘Hearing Community Voices: Public Engagement in Australian Embryo Research Policy, 2005-7’. (Rachel A. Ankeny & Susan Dodds) New Genetics and Society vol 27, no 3, pp. 217-232, 2008. 'Gender, Ageing and Injustice: social and political contexts of bioethics', Journal of Medical Ethics vol 31 no 5, pp. 295-8, 2005. Linking Visions Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights and the Developing World, Edited volume with Rosemarie Tong, and Anne Donchin, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. Further information about Sue and her research, including a list of publications
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