Professor Hayden Ramsay

Professor Hayden Ramsay Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor Chair of College, Philosophy and Theology, Sydney Email: dvc.syd@nd.edu.au Phone: 02 8204 4293

Professor Hayden Ramsay is Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia and Chair of College, Philosophy and Theology Sydney. He is also Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the University.

Hayden came to Australia from Scotland in 1994. Previously, he studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and taught philosophy both there and at Stirling University in Scotland. Hayden worked for five years at Melbourne University and La Trobe University before beginning teaching in the Archdiocese of Melbourne at Catholic Theological College and John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family. He moved to Sydney in 2003, teaching at Catholic Institute of Sydney and in Good Shepherd Seminary and then moved to Notre Dame. From 1998 until 2007 Hayden also served as an academic on the Personal Staff of the Archbishops of Melbourne and then of Sydney.

Hayden has published several books and many articles in philosophy, mainly in ethics. He teaches in a number of areas of philosophy and believes passionately in the universal importance of basic philosophical thinking. His great academic interest is in the relation between a strong mind and a strong faith.