Rate My Professor Clare Delany

Professor Delany's research specializations and academic interests center on clinical ethics, clinical education, applied ethics, bioethics, research ethics, and medical education. She developed the world’s first ethical framework for decision-making about a child’s future fertility in the context of chemotherapy risks. Major publications include the co-authored book A Practical Guide for Clinical Educators with Elizabeth Molloy (2018), Teaching clinical reasoning by making thinking visible: An action research project with allied health clinical educators (2014), From Persuasion to Coercion: Responding to the Reluctant Patient in Rehabilitation (2016), Balancing health worker well-being and duty to care: an ethical approach to staff safety in COVID-19 and beyond (2020), The active engagement model of applied ethics as a structure for ethical reflection in the context of course-based service learning (2017), How physiotherapists perceive, interpret, and respond to the ethical dimensions of practice: A qualitative study (2018), and Critical dialogue method of ethics consultation: making clinical ethics visible (2025). Her contributions extend to clinical ethics consultations, public lectures such as on ABC Radio’s Philosopher’s Zone, and educational resources influencing ethical practices in paediatrics, oncology, physiotherapy, and health professions education.