Diana Blackburn

Prior to emigrating to Australia, Diana was a barrister (UK) with both a criminal and civil practice. In Australia Diana then practiced as a solicitor. Across the last two decades Diana has taught in a variety of higher education courses covering a wide range of topics aligned to wellbeing, mental health, and professional ethics. Given her legal background a particular passion of Diana’s is rational thinking and what happens when it goes wrong, for this reason she contributes to the unit Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, And Decision-Making. Diana is also currently completing a PhD at the University of Divinity focused on Domestic Violence and perpetrator/victim-survivor identity. For this reason she also teaches in the unit Human Development, Personality, And Identity.

Role:

1. Teacher specialising in logical thinking.
2. Teacher specialising in issues of identity formation.

Biography:  Prior to emigrating to Australia, Diana was a barrister (UK) with both a criminal and civil practice. In Australia Diana then practiced as a solicitor.  Across the last two decades Diana has taught in a variety of higher education courses covering a wide range of topics aligned to wellbeing, mental health, and professional ethics.  Given her legal background a particular passion of Diana’s is rational thinking and what happens when it goes wrong, for this reason she contributes to the unit Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, And Decision-Making.  Diana is also currently completing a PhD at the University of Divinity focused on Domestic Violence and perpetrator/victim-survivor identity.  For this reason she also teaches in the unit Human Development, Personality, And Identity.

Research profile:  Diana has presented in Australia and the USA and is a chapter author on an up-coming volume whereby she extends upon Plato’s notion of virtues as underlying the good society.