Gemma Lucy Smart

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I am an academic, writer, and disability advocate with lived experience informing my research. Currently a PhD student working on the history of critical psychiatry in Australia and its relation to new religious movements and spirituality. I serve as the Disability Officer for both the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) and the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA), representing postgraduate students across Australia. I work as a Sessional Academic and bring a strong background in research and ethics to both my academic and advocacy work. In 2019, I completed an MSc by research in Philosophy of Psychiatry, focusing on the proposed psychiatric category 'Internet Gaming Disorder'.

Experience

  • 2018–present
    Editorial Assistant, Australia and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
  • 2009–present
    Lecturer and Tutor, University of Sydney
  • 2017–2017
    Lecturer, Macquarie University
  • 2008–2012
    Manager, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, UNSW

Education

  • 2019 
    University of Sydney, MSc (History and Philosophy of Science)
  • 2008 
    University of New South Wales, Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science) / Bachelor of Arts (History and Philosophy of Science), Hons (Human Geography)

Publications

  • 2019
    Mechanistic models for understanding addiction as a behavioural disorder (Chapter), In book: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of AddictionPublisher: Routledge
  • 2008
    Shaw WS; Smart G; Inu SM, 2008, 'Ethnographic Geographies of Coffee Production in Papua New Guinea', UNSULA: International Journal of Island Affairs, vol. 1, pp. 13 - 22,

Research Areas

  • History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields (2202)
  • History And Philosophy Of Science (Incl. Non Historical Philosophy Of Science) (220206)
  • Applied Ethics (2201)
  • Psychiatry (Incl. Psychotherapy) (110319)
  • Human Geography (1604)
  • Philosophy And Religious Studies (22)

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