Bronwyn Parry

Bronwyn Parry is an academic who currently serves as the Dean of the Australian National University's College of Arts and Social Sciences, a position she began in early November 2022. She focuses on social impact initiatives within academic settings. and was an Professor in Global Health & Social Medicine (2016–2022).

She was the first female carpenter in the Australian film and television industry. , as well as the opening of the Commonwealth Games. She later moved to the United Kingdom to complete a PhD in Geography at the University of Cambridge on a Commonwealth Scholarship.

Bronwyn began her professional academic career at The University of Cambridge as a Junior Research Fellow from 1997 to 2000 and then as a Senior Research Fellow from 2000 to 2004. An exhibition related to this project was shown at Shoreditch Town Hall in October 2011 and as part of the Wellcome Trust's wider The Brain: Mind as Matter display.

Bronwyn was appointed to a chair at King's College London (KCL) in 2012 to establish the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine From 2016- 2019 she was Academic Lead of the Padileia refugee student education consortium. In June 2020, Bronwyn was appointed as vice president and Vice Principal for Service at KCL

It was announced in mid-2022 that Bronwyn would become the Executive Dean of The Australian National University's College of Arts and Social Sciences. She took up this position in early November 2022.

Personal life Bronwyn lives with her wife Sally in Canberra. They have two sons, Alex and Jacob. She is an advocate for LGBT rights, and the Dignity in Dying campaign organisation.

Selected works

Bioinformation (2017) Bodies across borders: The global circulation of body parts, medical tourists and professionals (2015) Mind Over Matter: Memory, Forgetting, Brain Donation and the Search for Cures for Dementia (2011) Trading the Genome: Investigating the commodification of Bio-information (2004)