Kim Atkins

Kim Atkins is Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, and Education Manager at Laurel House (the sexual assault support service for North and North West Tasmania). 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 Ph.D. in philosophy and taught at Macquarie University. She went 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. She also runs workshops on values in the workplace, having difficult conversations, and trauma-informed practices. Kim is the author of Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective (2008), editor of Self and Subjectivity, and co-editor of Practical Identity and Narrative Agency.