Professor Susan Dodds, FAHA, is the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research and Industry Engagement) and a Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe University.
She is also a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Visiting Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW. From 2005-2021 she was a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), which received $45m in ARC funding. Susan led the ethics, policy and public engagement theme of ACES.
Professor Dodds’ research addresses issues in social and political philosophy and ethics, and she is recognised internationally for her leadership in research ethics and public policy development related to emerging medical technologies. Her recent publications include papers on human brain organoids, experimental brain surgery for dementia and ethical implications of AI in implantable neural devices.
She is a member of the Australian Research Council Advisory Committee and Chair of the Universities Australia DVC Research Committee. In 2022 she was appointed by Education Minister, Jason Clare, to the panel reviewing the ARC Act (2001). Previously she has been President and subsequently Chair of the Board of the Australasian Association of Philosophy and served on the Australian Health Ethics Committee of the NHMRC.
[August 2023]