Michael Dunn

Michael Dunn

Associate Professor

m.dunn@nus.edu.sg

Profile

Dr Michael Dunn is an Associate Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Education at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He works across bioethics, health care ethics, medical law, socio-legal studies, and health/social care services research. He specialises in teaching ethics and law to medical students and to health and social care professionals.

Michael dabbles in most areas of bioethics, but his core research interests focus on the ethical aspects of community-based, integrated, and long-term care practice, policy and law – in Singapore, the UK and internationally. For the past 20 years, he has also been undertaking research that critically examines established ethical and legal frameworks for decision-making within adult caregiving relationships.

In his research, Michael seeks to take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon – and seeking to integrate – philosophical, qualitative social scientific and legal methods of analysis. In pursuing this approach, he has also made significant contributions:
i) to defend and shape the relatively new methodological sub-field of empirical bioethics,
ii) to advance academic debates about the nature and purpose of bioethical inquiry, and, next (hopefully),
iii) to help explicate the foundations, forms and functions of ‘Asian bioethics’.

Michael has written more than 80 peer-reviewed academic journal articles and book chapters, and authored/edited 6 books. He has also obtained over S$6m in competitive research grants, as either principal investigator or co-investigator.

Prior to joining NUS, Michael spent more than a decade at the Ethox Centre in the University of Oxford and he continues his longstanding relationship with Ethox as an Associate Faculty member. He has also held visiting teaching and research positions at the University of Tokyo, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Hong Kong University, the Hastings Center in New York, the VU University Amsterdam, the University of Oslo, the University of Bradford, and at Green Templeton College, Oxford.

Michael obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Cambridge in the UK.

His CV is available here.