Rate My Professor Katrina Hutchison

Katrina Hutchison is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, at Macquarie University, and a member of the Ethics and Agency Research Centre. Her research focuses on topics in feminist philosophy, bioethics, and moral psychology. A significant strand examines gender bias, including the underrepresentation of women in surgical careers and academic philosophy. Another major area addresses surgical ethics, such as the ethics of innovative surgical procedures and implantable medical devices. She contributed to the development of the Macquarie Surgical Innovation Identification Tool (MSIIT), which has informed policy on safely introducing surgical innovations. Hutchison co-edited the book Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change? (Oxford University Press, 2013), which has informed efforts to improve the climate of philosophy for women. She also edited Social Dimensions of Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her surgical ethics research has appeared in leading journals including Annals of Surgery, Bioethics, and Journal of Medical Ethics. Notable publications include "Four types of gender bias affecting women surgeons and their patients" (Journal of Medical Ethics, 2020), "Epistemic exclusion: theorizing Dalit feminism" (Hypatia, 2025, with Surbhi Arora and Wendy Rogers), "Cost-related non-adherence to prescribed medicines: what are physicians' moral duties?" (American Journal of Bioethics, 2025, with Naomi Ghinea, Mianna Lotz, and Wendy Rogers), and "Evidence-based medicine in theory and practice: epistemological and normative issues" (Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, 2024, with Wendy Rogers).

Dr Hutchison employs qualitative empirical methods alongside analytic philosophy to produce work reflecting lived experience and informing policy and practice. She leads an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) project on epistemic injustice and cumulative micro-inequities impacting women's surgical careers. Previously, she was a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Monash University (2015-2016) and serves as an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (since 2016). In 2019, she received the Macquarie University Early Career Researcher of the Year award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) category. Her research has resulted in peer-reviewed publications in top outlets, invitations to international forums, competitive funding, collaborations with leading researchers and stakeholders, integration into policy and practice, and mainstream media coverage.