Registration Link: For HKU members
RGC GRF/ECS 2026-27 Brainstorming Workshop – How to write a successful grant application by Professor Justin Oakley
Title: How to write a successful grant application
Date: 4 Aug 2025 (Mon)
Time: 1:15 – 2:15 pm HKT
Venue: 3SR-SR4, Room 403, 4/F, HKUMed Academic Building, 3 Sassoon Road
Registration Link: For HKU members
Speaker:
Professor Justin Oakley
Professor and Deputy Director of Monash Bioethics Centre
Monash University
Justin Oakley BA, PhD (Philosophy) is Professor and Deputy Director of Monash Bioethics Centre, at Monash University. He is the author of Morality and the Emotions (Routledge, 1993, 2020), and Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles (with Dean Cocking) (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and is editor of Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: The ethics of report cards on surgeon performance (with Steve Clarke) (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Bioethics (Ashgate, International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics, 2009). He has published articles on a variety of topics in ethics, applied ethics, and moral psychology, including virtue ethics, virtue attribution, shame, role-based evildoing, hope in healthcare, informed consent, surgeon report cards, surrogate motherhood, and the ethics of pharmaceutical advertising. Justin is also co-editor of the quarterly refereed journal Monash Bioethics Review.
Justin teaches clinicians and other professionals in the Master of Bioethics course at Monash, and he has overall responsibility for ethics curriculum development in the Monash MBBS/MD program. He is currently working on a book-length project on policy applications of virtue ethics in professional practice, Virtue ethics from the inside out: moral psychology to policy. Also, he is leading an Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project on ‘Religion, Pluralism, and Healthcare Practice: A Philosophical Assessment’.
Justin has 35 years’ experience in clinical ethics research with 91 peer-reviewed publications. Also, he has secured over AU$1 million in research grant funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council, and he has served as an assessor on many research grant applications for these and other national and international organisations which fund research in bioethics. Justin has extensive experience in applying ethical theories (such as virtue ethics), concepts, and principles to improve clinical practice and health care policy.
*Professor Oakley will be available to provide advice for Faculty members preparing their GRF/ ECS grants proposals on the afternoons of 1 Aug and 4 Aug, 2025. Please note that we have limited slots available for reservations. Interested Faculty members are welcome to contact Mr Edison Cheng (ccycheng@hku.hk) to schedule a lot. Thank you.
Welcome to join us!
Enquiry: Please contact Mr Edison Cheng (mehu@hku.hk).