Rate My Professor Molly Crighton

Molly Crighton serves as Collection Librarian (Access) at the University of Otago Library in Dunedin. She is part of the Collection Access & Discovery team within the Digital and Collections division, reporting to Manager Jacinda Boivin. Her colleagues include fellow Collection Librarians (Access) Denise Donaldson and Mike Smith, as well as Collection Assistants such as Mareike Barton, Sarah Lawrence, Ruth McCarthy, Dierdre O'Neill, Christy Paterson, Rosie Vlietstra, and Jan Wyllie. In 2023, Molly Crighton won the staff fiction section of the University of Otago Writer 2023 creative writing competition with her story '95 Million Years'. Published in the Otago Daily Times, the story is inspired by campus magnolia trees in bloom and blends everyday university bureaucracy with fantastical metamorphosis, drawing on myths like Daphne and Arachne, fairytales such as The Six Swans, and works like Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation. Judge Kathryn van Beek commended its strong imagery, such as 'the corridor is a dancehall for dust motes', interesting science facts, and clever interpretation of the theme 'The Getting of Wisdom'.

Molly Crighton is actively involved with the Department of Bioethics in the Division of Health Sciences at the University of Otago, serving as the key contact and organizer for numerous seminars and events. These include Bioethics Seminar: Disability Justice, Health Equity, and the Future of Medicine (November 2023), Ecocide in the Anthropocentric Era (October 2023), Justice for the Womb: Research Ethics and the Quest for Ectogenesis (October 2023), Health Equity and the Role of Rights (April 2023), Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making (April 2023), At the Interface between Academic Bioethics and Clinical Practice (May 2023), Rhythms of Life, Brain Damage, and the Recovery of a Self (April 2023), Bioethics Seminar: Addressing Parent-Clinician Conflict in Paediatric Care – Dichotomizing Cultures vs. Ethical Transculturalism (September 2023), and Bioethics Seminar: From Conservation to Compassionate Environmental Management. Her contributions facilitate discussions on pressing issues in bioethics, clinical ethics, health equity, and environmental concerns.