Overview
Background
Michelle is a sociologist and lawyer: her research focuses on decision-making and the operation of law and regulation in practice for people with disabilities and other impairments to communication and legal capacity. She has research interests in the sociology of law, decision-making (supported and substituted), legal personhood, the UNCPRD, disability law, legal and administrative transition to adulthood, communication impairments, and profound intellectual disability. Her work examines decision-making in practice in a range of areas, including health and aged care, banking and finance, income support, and the NDIS. Michelle is trained in both qualitative and quantitative methods, and has extensive experience in research development, design, and practice, as well as health consumer research and co-design.
Michelle works on the MRFF funded project: Unspoken, Unheard, Unmet: Improving Access to Preventative Health Care through Better Conversations about Care. She leads the experience gathering stage of the project, the co-design elements of the work, and the development of guidelines about communication, decision-making, and aged care.
Michelle is also a consumer and disability advocate, with experience in strategic policy development, implementation, and evaluation, including the co-design of state level strategy for transition to adulthood health care, and on Australia’s National Living Evidence Taskforce. She is also the consumer board Chair of Child Unlimited, a consortium of researchers, clinicians, and consumers working towards best evidence-based practice in health care for children and young adults with chronic ill health and disabilities, and co-chair of the consumer advisory committee for the ARC Centre of Excellence Life Course Centre.
Availability
- Dr Michelle King is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Sociology, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Law, The University of Queensland
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Queensland University of Technology
- Doctor of Philosophy of Law, Queensland University of Technology
Works
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2008
Journal Article
A responsive sanction to promote systematic compliance? Enforceable undertakings in occupational health and safety regulation
Johnstone, Richard and King, Michelle (2008). A responsive sanction to promote systematic compliance? Enforceable undertakings in occupational health and safety regulation. Australian Journal of Labour Law, 21 (3), 280-315.
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Michelle King is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Unspoken, Unheard, Unmet: Improving Access to Preventative Health Care through Better Conversations about Care.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Kirstine Shrubsole
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