DoctorLindsey Te Ata o Tū MacDonald

Lindsey Te Ata o Tū MacDonald (Kai Tahū) is a senior lecturer in political philosophy and a research associate of the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre at the University of Canterbury

His early career was in New Zealand’s State Services (now Public Service) Commission and Te Puni Kōkiri (Ministry of Maori Development). He completed his PhD while lecturing in the Māori and Political Science departments at the University of Canterbury. As part of his public service, he was on the National Ethics Advisory Committee (2021-5), where he was Deputy chair for the last two years, and was on the Health Research Council Ethics Committee (2023-25), where he was co-chair. He is currently co-chair of the University of Canterbury human research ethics committee.

He is also co-chair of the Aotearoa Research Ethics Trust, which provides pro-bono research ethics review for community researchers, and founded the Independent human research ethics collective, which provides paid research ethics review for government and commercial researchers. His blog posts on research ethics can be found at https://www.ihrec.co.nz/blog