Dr. Stephen Coleman is Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Leadership & Vincent Fairfax Foundation Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, with the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA). He has previously held appointments in ethics at the Australian National University, Charles Sturt University and Monash University.

He is the author of one book (The Ethics of Artificial Uteruses: Implications for Reproduction and Abortion published in 2004) and over twenty papers in academic journals and edited collections on a diverse range of topics in applied ethics, including military ethics, police ethics, medical ethics, and the practical applications of human rights. In addition to these published papers he has presented at conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States.

He has worked on research projects for both Foods Standards Australia and the Victorian Police, and as a special consultant on a recent project to provide the Australian Defence Force with a framework to deal with issues in military health ethics. He has provided advice on Codes of Conduct to the Police Forces of New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, and on policies to ensure the ethical conduct of research involving humans for the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation.

At ADFA he teaches courses in military ethics and practical ethics at both undergraduate and post-graduate level and is also the convenor of the ADFA Human Research Ethics Advisory Panel. For the 2009-2010 academic year while on study leave from his permanent position in Australia, he is serving as a Resident Fellow in Ethics at the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy

He can also make balloon and origami animals, juggle, breathe fire and ride a unicycle.