Members of the group would welcome informal inquiries from suitably qualified individuals who wish to undertake postgraduate research, whether at Masters or PhD levels. Set out below are the areas of research interest and expertise of Members of the Group, as well as their experience in postgraduate research supervision.
Dr Genevieve Grant
Research Interests
- Civil justice
- Dispute resolution
- Empirical legal research
- Expert evidence
- Injury compensation and torts
- Work disability
Current supervision topics
- ‘The design of mechanisms for resolving end of life disputes: Promoting access to justice'
- 'Food Fraud and the Tools for Combat'
- 'Lawyer Use in Compensation Systems
- 'Medical Treatment Decision Making for the Seriously Ill: Clinical Realities, Ethics and the Law'
Dr Karinne Ludlow
Research Interests
- Innovation Law and Policy
- Law and Biotechnology
- Agriculture and Food Regulation and Trade
- Animal and Plant Health Law
- Torts
Current supervision topics
- 'Food fraud and the tools for combat: Regulatory control of compliant food labelling for food fraud prevention in Australia'
Associate Professor Kate Seear
Research Interests
- Alcohol and other drugs
- Addiction and the law
- Gender and feminist theory
- Empirical legal research
Current supervision topics
- 'Safe for whom? Consumers, citizens and safety in raw milk regulation'
- 'Punishment and addiction: exploring the use of medical evidence in sentencing in the wake of DSM V.'
- 'Clinical legal education and student wellbeing: Clinic effects in theory and practice'
- ‘Addiction and Mandated Treatment in the Criminal Justice System’
- ‘Addiction Concepts and China’s Drug Treatment System’
Dr Ronli Sifris
Research Interests
- Reproductive rights
- Right to health
- Gender and health Law
- Mental health law
Current supervision topics
- ‘An analysis of the CEDAW optional protocol mechanism, to test the reflexivity of the international law system when responding to women’s claims for human rights’
- ‘Removing Politics from Human Rights: attitudes and policies of the international community towards human rights development in de facto States’
- ‘The meaning of dignity and its foundational role in human rights: a psychological Perspective’
Completed supervisions
- 'Supported decision-making: a disability and human rights-based concept for mental health law'
- 'Embodiments of Crisis: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Philippines'
- 'The design of mechanisms for resolving end of life disputes: Promoting access to justice'
- 'Medical treatment decision making for the seriously Ill: Clinical realities, ethics and the law'
Eric Windholz
Research interests
- Injury Compensation
- Regulation
- Public Policy
- Federalism
- Occupational Health and Safety
Completed supervisions
- 'Policy transfer and statutory injury compensation in Australia'
Associate Professor Becky Batagol
Current supervision topics
- 'The design of mechanisms for resolving end of life disputes: Promoting access to justice'
- 'Lawyer Use in Compensation Systems'
Professor Graeme Hodge
Completed supervisions
- 'Harmonisation of social regulation in the Australian federation: a case study of occupational health and safety'
- 'Policy transfer and statutory injury compensation in Australia'
- 'The influence of Statutory Land Use Planning on Water Sensitive Urban Design Practices'
Professor Moira Paterson
Current supervision topics
- 'Big data: Opportunities, risks and regulation'
Associate Professor Normann Witzleb
Current supervision topics
- 'Sufficiently serious behaviour - when should cyber-bullying by young people be criminal?'
