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Associate Professor Bernadette Richards
Associate Professor

Bernadette Richards

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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

Associate Professor Bernadette Richards is:
Available for supervision

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

Investigating Research and Accessing Reproductive Material

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.

Medical Law and Ethics a Problem-Based Approach

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

Who Makes the Decisions, Especially When it Concerns Minors?

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

Informing Patients and Making Decisions

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

Professional Conduct and Making Decisions for Minors

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

Patient consent conversation

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

Informed choice not informed consent: Shifting focus and protecting interests

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

Making Decisions

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

Organ Donation, Discrimination After Death, Anti-Vaccination Sentiments, and Tuberculosis Management

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

Perceptions of embryo status and embryo use in an Australian community

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

Regulating Consent to Organ and Embryo Donation: The Legal Dimensions of the Problem

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

Sale of Sperm, Health Records, Minimally Conscious States, and Duties of Candour

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.

Who controls the uses of organs after death? Law in the books, law in practice and the view of the people

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

Considering the "Born-Alive" Rule and Possession of Sperm Following Death

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

Recent Developments

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

Recent Developments

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.

Directed embryo donation: free choice or discrimination?

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.

Scaring us all to death: the need for responsible legal scholarship on post-mortem organ donation

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

Organ donation after cardiac death: Legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions

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

Organ donation after cardiac death: Legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions

Funding

Current funding

  • 2022 - 2027
    Ethical Governance for clinical genomic data (MRFF grant led by University of Sydney)
    University of Sydney
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Transforming Medical Education: Leadership, Ethics, and Professionalism in the Age of Clinical Innovation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Alison Ledger

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Tobacco Endgame: The legal framework to end the tobacco epidemic in Australia

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Coral Gartner

  • 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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: exploring consumer drivers

    Associate Advisor

Completed supervision

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