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Professor Fiona Fidler is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, holding a joint appointment in the School of BioSciences, Faculty of Science. She completed her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne in 2006, with a thesis entitled 'From Statistical Significance to Effect Estimation: Statistical Reform in Psychology, Medicine and Ecology.' Her undergraduate degree is an honours in Psychology with a second major in Sociology. Early in her career, she held an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Psychological Science at La Trobe University from 2007 to 2010. Subsequently, she served as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Assessment (CEBRA) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) at the University of Melbourne from 2011 to 2014, and in the Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Group at RMIT University in 2015. As an ARC Future Fellow (FT150100297), she advanced to Professor, leading initiatives in metascience. Within the university, she has been Head of the History and Philosophy of Science Program, Deputy Associate Dean (Research Grants) in the Faculty of Arts, and from January 2026, Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts.