Wendy Lipworth

Senior Associate

Wendy Lipworth, Professor at Macquarie University, is a medically-qualified bioethicist and qualitative social researcher. She has built an international reputation for research into ethics and values in the bioscience and healthcare industries, and is an expert in organisational ethics and in the ethics and politics of biomedical research and innovation. She has extensive experience in communicating in an accessible way to a wide range of stakeholders and end-users. This includes writing, editing and reviewing academic articles, policy documents, guidelines, strategic plans, research proposals, feature articles, opinion pieces, blogs, and commentaries. She also brings expertise in designing projects and obtaining funding (having obtained $5 million herself); synthesizing theoretical and empirical literature; designing and conducting interviews, focus groups and surveys; analysing qualitative data; and developing educational curricula.