Congratulations to ACJI’s Dr Marnie Manning
ACJI warmly congratulates Dr Marnie Manning on the recent successful examination of her doctoral thesis and award of her PhD at Monash University.
Marnie’s research investigates the reasoning employed by judges and medical practitioners when resolving disagreements about treatment of young people with serious medical conditions. She conducted vignette-based interviews with 15 judges and 12 medical specialists to shed important new light on unseen decision processes in these high-stakes and emotionally-charged disputes. Marnie’s research engaged frameworks from bioethics and health law, ultimately identifying a gap between what the law prescribes and key actors’ in-practice reasoning processes.
During her candidature, Marnie developed valuable skills in empirical research, and spent time as a visiting researcher at Oxford University and presenting her work at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Marnie’s work makes a terrific contribution to our understanding in the important area of medical treatment decision-making. Well done, Marnie!