Biography for Jenny Conder

Jenny currently works half time as a senior researcher with the Donald Beasley Institute and half time as a Principal Lecturer in nursing at the Otago Polytechnic. Her nursing experience includes working in the fields of intellectual disability and child health. She has been a nurse educator for twenty years with a focus predominantly on the primary health domain. The three areas of intellectual disability, child health and primary health inform her research interests and collaboration with the researchers at the Donald Beasley Institute on projects to date. She is currently working on a study of the parenting experience for people with intellectual disabilities.

With a master’s degree in bioethics, Jenny is also interested in ethics particularly as it relates to the development of relationships between people and how the relationship may influence the person's moral behaviour.

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