
Overview
Background
Bernadette Richards, BA, LLB (Hons), PhD is the Associate Professor of Ethics and Professionalism and Director Higher Degree Research at the University of Queensland Medical School. Prior to that she was working on the Future Health Technologies Project at the Singapore ETH Centre, Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), Singapore, exploring trustworthy data governance. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the Queensland University of Technology Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She is recent past member of the NHMRC’s Australian Health Ethics Committee, the Embryo Research Licensing Committee and current member of the Dietary Guidelines Governance Committee. She was previously a member of the South Australian Voluntary Assisted Dying Taskforce and was also the Chair of the Mitochondrial Donation Expert Working Committee and was involved in the proposed amendment to the law. Bernadette was the President of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL, 2014-2024) and is now the ‘Teaching Ethics’ Stream Lead and has been awarded Life-Time Membership. She is an active researcher, having completed major projects on organ donation, consent to treatment and legal issues around innovative surgery. She is a chief investigator on four current major grants, MRFF 2021 Genomic Health Futures Mission, “Ethical governance for clinical and genomic data”, NHMRC Partnership Grant, “Strategies for the inclusion of vulnerable populations in developing complex and sensitive public policy: A case study in Advance Care Planning”, NHMRC Ideas Grant, 'The algorithm will see you now: ethical, legal and social implications of adopting machine learning systems for diagnosis and screening' and ARC Discovery Grant, 'Support or Sales? Medical Device Representatives in Australian Hospitals'. Her co-authored book, ‘Technology, Innovation and Healthcare: An evolving relationship’ was published in February 2022 and she has over 100 other scholarly publications.
Availability
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Works
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2014
Journal Article
Investigating Research and Accessing Reproductive Material
Lemmens, Trudo and Richards, Bernadette J. (2014). Investigating Research and Accessing Reproductive Material. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 11 (1), 11-19. doi: 10.1007/s11673-013-9503-2
2014
Book
Medical Law and Ethics a Problem-Based Approach
Richards, Bernadette and Louise, Jennie (2014). Medical Law and Ethics a Problem-Based Approach. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: LexisNexis Butterworths.
2013
Journal Article
Who Makes the Decisions, Especially When it Concerns Minors?
Pope, Thaddeus Mason and Richards, Bernadette (2013). Who Makes the Decisions, Especially When it Concerns Minors?. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 10 (4), 441-444. doi: 10.1007/s11673-013-9486-z
2013
Journal Article
Informing Patients and Making Decisions
Richards, Bernadette and Coggon, John (2013). Informing Patients and Making Decisions. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 10 (2), 139-143. doi: 10.1007/s11673-013-9439-6
2013
Journal Article
Professional Conduct and Making Decisions for Minors
Richards, Bernadette and Stewart, Cameron (2013). Professional Conduct and Making Decisions for Minors. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 10 (1), 11-15. doi: 10.1007/s11673-012-9410-y
2013
Book Chapter
Patient consent conversation
Richards, Bernadette (2013). Patient consent conversation. Legal and Forensic Medicine. (pp. 853-864) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-32338-6_32
2013
Book Chapter
Informed choice not informed consent: Shifting focus and protecting interests
Richards, Bernadette (2013). Informed choice not informed consent: Shifting focus and protecting interests. Ethics, Law and Society. (pp. 183-199) edited by Nicky Priaulx and Anthony Wrigley. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315094342-13
2012
Journal Article
Making Decisions
Richards, Bernadette, Hayes, Tom and Tsui, Mabel (2012). Making Decisions. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 9 (4), 385-393. doi: 10.1007/s11673-012-9399-2
2012
Journal Article
Organ Donation, Discrimination After Death, Anti-Vaccination Sentiments, and Tuberculosis Management
Coggon, John, Madden, Bill, Cockburn, Tina, Stewart, Cameron, Singh, Jerome Amir, Bhan, Anant, Upshur, Ross E. and Richards, Bernadette (2012). Organ Donation, Discrimination After Death, Anti-Vaccination Sentiments, and Tuberculosis Management. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 9 (2), 125-133. doi: 10.1007/s11673-012-9370-2
2012
Journal Article
Perceptions of embryo status and embryo use in an Australian community
De Lacey, Sheryl, Rogers, Wendy, Braunack-Mayer, Annette, Avery, Jodie, Smith, David and Richards, Bernadette (2012). Perceptions of embryo status and embryo use in an Australian community. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 24 (7), 727-744. doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.01.014
2012
Journal Article
Regulating Consent to Organ and Embryo Donation: The Legal Dimensions of the Problem
Naffine, Ngaire and Richards, Bernadette (2012). Regulating Consent to Organ and Embryo Donation: The Legal Dimensions of the Problem. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 9 (1), 49-55. doi: 10.1007/s11673-011-9348-5
2012
Journal Article
Sale of Sperm, Health Records, Minimally Conscious States, and Duties of Candour
Stewart, Cameron, Richards, Bernadette, Huxtable, Richard, Madden, Bill and Cockburn, Tina (2012). Sale of Sperm, Health Records, Minimally Conscious States, and Duties of Candour. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 9 (1), 7-14. doi: 10.1007/s11673-011-9347-6
2012
Journal Article
Who controls the uses of organs after death? Law in the books, law in practice and the view of the people
Naffine, Ngaire, Richards, Bernadette, de Lacey, Sheryl, Braunack-Mayer, Annette and Rogers, Wendy (2012). Who controls the uses of organs after death? Law in the books, law in practice and the view of the people. Journal of law and medicine, 20 (2), 295-305.
2011
Journal Article
Considering the "Born-Alive" Rule and Possession of Sperm Following Death
Richards, Bernadette, Madden, Bill and Cockburn, Tina (2011). Considering the "Born-Alive" Rule and Possession of Sperm Following Death. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 8 (4), 323-327. doi: 10.1007/s11673-011-9324-0
2011
Journal Article
Recent Developments
Richards, Bernadette, Madden, Bill and Cockburn, Tina (2011). Recent Developments. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 8 (2), 113-119. doi: 10.1007/s11673-011-9300-8
2010
Journal Article
Recent Developments
Stewart, Cameron and Richards, Bernadette (2010). Recent Developments. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 7 (4), 341-343. doi: 10.1007/s11673-010-9256-0
2010
Journal Article
Directed embryo donation: free choice or discrimination?
de Lacey, Sheryl, Rogers, Wendy and Richards, Bernadette (2010). Directed embryo donation: free choice or discrimination?. Journal of law and medicine, 18 (1), 169-177.
2009
Journal Article
Scaring us all to death: the need for responsible legal scholarship on post-mortem organ donation
Naffine, Ngaire, Richards, Bernadette and Rogers, Wendy (2009). Scaring us all to death: the need for responsible legal scholarship on post-mortem organ donation. Journal of law and medicine, 16 (4), 696-707.
2008
Journal Article
Organ donation after cardiac death: Legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions
Rogers, Wendy A. and Richards, Bernadette J. (2008). Organ donation after cardiac death: Legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions. Medical Journal of Australia, 188 (3). doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01574.x
2007
Journal Article
Organ donation after cardiac death: Legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions
Richards, Bernadette and Rogers, Wendy A. (2007). Organ donation after cardiac death: Legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions. Medical Journal of Australia, 187 (3), 168-170. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01178.x
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Transforming Medical Education: Leadership, Ethics, and Professionalism in the Age of Clinical Innovation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Alison Ledger
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Doctor Philosophy
The Tobacco Endgame: The legal framework to end the tobacco epidemic in Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Coral Gartner
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Doctor Philosophy
Support for Commercial Tobacco Endgame Policies among People Who Experience Tobacco-Related Stigma
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Henry Marshall, Professor Coral Gartner, Dr Kylie Morphett
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Doctor Philosophy
Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: exploring consumer drivers
Associate Advisor
Completed supervision
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Human Fetal and Embryological Collections: a paradigm lens to revisit ethics and informed consent
Associate Advisor
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