Honorary Professor Andrew Crowden

Honorary Professor

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Overview

Andrew Crowden is a bioethicist and philosopher with extensive experience in health ethics. Andrew has Master of Bioethics and Ph.D. degrees from the Monash Bioethics Centre. He is Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland’s School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry where he is Chairperson of the University of Queensland Ethics Advisory Group (UQEAG). Andrew is Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) where he is Chairperson of the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC). He is Executive member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Research Ethics Committee, a member of CSIRO’s Australian Health Biobank (AHB) Advisory Group, a member of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Philosophy in the Community Committee (PiCC) and is Director and Lead Consultant at Crowden Consultants (ABN 27914792136).

Andrew was a foundation board member of the Australasian Association of Bioethics, foundation research ethics stream leader for the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL), Chairperson of the UniSC Animal Ethics Committee (AEC), Chairperson of Townsville Hospital and Health Service HREC, Chairperson of Mater Health Services HREC, member of the Mater Clinical Ethics Committee (CEC), member of NHMRC’s Harmonisation of Multi-Centre Ethical Review (HoMER) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Research Group and the HoMER Monitoring Subgroup, Deputy Chair of the Victorian Government Ministerial Consultative Council for Human Research Ethics, Chairperson of Austin Health HREC, Bioethicist on Northeast Health HREC, the appointed Ethicist on the South Australian Government Human Research Subcommittee, Chair of the Rural Health Academic Centre’s Human Ethics Advisory Group at the University of Melbourne, and the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences Dean’s nominee to Deakin University HREC.

Andrew’s recent research in practical ethics and the philosophical and ethics dimensions of genomics, data science and health has been funded by the University of Queensland, the Queensland Genomic Health Alliance and the John Templeton Foundation in collaboration with the University of Virginia and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute.

Research Interests

  • Bioethics, Ethics Philosophy

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
  • Masters (Research) of Bioethics, Monash University

Publications

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Supervision

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Gildersleeve, Matthew and Crowden, Andrew (2022). Book summary and new insights. Philosophy of place: finding place and self in the world. (pp. 139-167) edited by Matthew Gildersleeve and Andrew Crowden. Lausanne, Switzerland: Peter Lang.

  • Gildersleeve, Matthew and Crowden, Andrew (2022). Book summary and new insights. Philosophy of place: finding place and self in the world. (pp. 183-221) edited by Matthew Gildersleeve and Andrew Crowden. New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang .

  • Gildersleeve, Matthew and Crowden, Andrew (2022). Introduction to the philosophy of place. Philosophy of place: finding place and self in the world. (pp. 1-31) edited by Matthew Gildersleeve and Andrew Crowden. New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang .

  • Crowden, Andrew and Gildersleeve, Matthew (2022). Neurotechnology, consent, place, and the ethics of data science genomics in the precision medicine clinic. Protecting the mind: challenges in law, neuroprotection, and neurorights. (pp. 113-127) edited by Pablo López-Silva and Luca Valera. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-94032-4_10

  • Crowden, Andrew (2022). Philosophy of place and bioethics. Philosophy of place: finding place and self in the world. (pp. 135-156) edited by Matthew Gildersleeve and Andrew Crowden. New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang .

  • Crowden, Andrew and Gildersleeve, Matthew (2021). Teaching bioethics to scientists. Educating for ethical survival. (pp. 153-160) edited by Michael Schwartz, Howard Harris, Charmayne Highfield and Hugh Breakey. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing. doi: 10.1108/s1529-209620200000024013

  • Crowden, Andrew, Guyatt, Gordon, Stepanov, Nikola and Vohra, Sunita (2015). Research ethics and N-of-1 trials. The essential guide to N-of-1 trials in health. (pp. 125-133) edited by Jane Nikles and Geoffrey Mitchell. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-7200-6_11

  • Crowden, Andrew (2013). Ethics and Indigenous health care: cultural competencies, protocols and integrity. Indigenous Australians and health: the wombat in the room. (pp. 114-129) edited by Ron Hampton and Maree Toombs. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Oxford University Press.

  • Dury, Angela, Malcolm, Helen, Critchley, Jennifer and Crowden, Andrew (2008). Supporting rural health professionals and their families. A textbook of Australian rural health. (pp. 129-137) edited by Siaw-Teng Liaw and Sue Kilpatrick. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Rural Health Education Network.

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Other Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision