- Kim Atkins, University of Tasmania
Kim Atkins is Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Child Health Care. She became a registered nurse in 1985 and specialised in intensive care nursing for over twenty years. Kim also has extensive experience in health system management within the Tasmanian Department of Health. Kim completed a PhD in philosophy and taught at Macquarie University before going on to teach philosophy and ethics in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Nursing programs at the University of Wollongong and the University of Tasmania. Kim is the author of Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective, editor of Self and Subjectivity, and co-editor of Practical Identity and Narrative Agency. She is currently researching self-forgiveness, especially for clinicians.
- Esther Erlings, Macquarie University, Sydney
Esther Erlings is a senior lecturer in law at Macquarie University where she teaches Health Law, Family Law and Applied Legal Ethics. She is a member of the Humanities & Social Sciences' Human Research Ethics Committee, for which she reviews higher risk ethics applications, and an Executive Member of the Smart Green Cities Research Centre, which has a 'Cities and Health' division. Esther is the President of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, an association that promotes socio-legal research. She was part of the team that developed the mandatory voluntary assisted dying training for doctors in South Australia, and, whilst employed at Flinders University (until 2023), was a member of the Course Quality Advisory Group for Health Care Management. Esther is involved in projects on detention of persons under guardianship, child-friendly cities, climate change and mental well-being, and nature prescriptions in age-friendly cities.
- Stephen McKeever
Stephen McKeever is Institute of Health Management's (Australia) Academic Dean. Stephen has over 37 years' experience as a nurse. His clinical nursing experience has focused on caring for critically ill patients, and their families, across the life span. This experience has been gained in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia. Stephen is actively involved with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses. He is chair of the College's Paediatric Advisory Panel and a member of their Global Heath Advisory Panel. In August 2012, Stephen graduated with a PhD from the University of Melbourne. His doctoral thesis examined electroencephalograph changes occurring in children during anaesthesia. Since then, he has provided education to students from undergraduate to post-doctoral level in both the UK and Australian university sectors. In addition, Stephen is part of the Phoenix Nursing Programme faculty. This international group facilitates nursing education for Myanmar nurses. In 2017, Stephen joined the Journal of Child Health Care's editorial team. Since January 2020, Stephen has been this journal's editor in chief.