2025 Monthly Seminars
AI in Healthcare: Addressing Legal, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
Dr Owen Bradfield and Dr Nitya Phillipson
4 March 2025
Resources:
- AI Scribes in Healthcare –Legal, Ethical and Practical Issues
Dr Owen Bradfield
(seminar slides) - AI in Health & Medical Research
Dr Nitya Phillipson
(seminar slides)
The Use of Qualitative Methods in Health Ethics Research
Dr Fiona Lynch and Assoicate Professor Danya Vears
1 April 2025
Resources:
- Vears, D. F. and Gillam, L. (2022) ‘Inductive content analysis: A guide for beginning qualitative researchers’, Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multi-Professional Journal. Adelaide: Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators, 23(1), pp. 111–127
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Qualitative research resource
Human Rights and Disability Systems: International and Australian Perspectives?
Dr Kay Wilson and Assoicate Professor Anna Arstein-Kerslake
6 May 2025
Resources:
- What Do the Royal Commissions into Mental Health, Disability and Aged Care mean for the future of social support and the human rights of vulnerable Australians?
Dr Kay Wilson
(seminar slides) - Right to Autonomy in Intl Law
Associate Professor Anna Arstein-Kerslake (seminar slides) - Arstein-Kerslake, A. (2017). Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition before the Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Wilson, K., Maker, Y., Gooding, P., & Walvisch, J. (eds.). (2023). The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law (1st ed.). Routledge
- Wilson, K. (2021) Mental Health Law: Abolish or Reform? Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online edn, Oxford Academic (2021)
- Wilson, K. (2025) ‘The Public Mental Health Framework: thinking about law as preventive medicine’, Medical Law Review. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 33(1) Winter 2025
- A New Disability Rights Act
Women's Reproductive Health Needs and Work - Lived Experiences, Tensions, and Most Importantly, Solutions
Tom Hvala and Associate Professor Rosalind McDougall
3 June 2025
Resources:
- Women's Reproductive Health Needs and Work – Lived Experiences, Tensions, and Most Importantly, Solutions
Tom Hvala (PhD Candidate)
(seminar slides) - Comments from Beth Gaze
What Matters Most: A Legal-ethical Analysis of Reasonable Enquiries in Obstetric Care
Dr Naomi Holbeach and Shanee Katz
5 August 2025
Resources:
What Makes Paediatric Ethics Different?
Dr Georgina Hall and Dr Jenny O'Neill
9 September 2025
Resources:
- What makes paediatric ethics different?
Dr Georgina Hall and Dr Jenny O-Neill
(seminar slides)
Alcohol Labelling in Australia: A Tool for Protecting Public Health and Countering Industry Marketing
Professor Paula O'Brien and Professor Simone Pettigrew
7 October 2025
Resources:
- Alcohol Labelling in Australia: A Tool for Protecting Public Health and Countering Industry Marketing
Professor Paula O'Brien and Professor Simone Pettigrew
(seminar slides) - Simone Pettigrew, Tazman Davies, Paula O'Brien, Bella Sträuli, Mark Petticrew, Jacquie Bowden, 'The Absence of Mandatory Pregnancy Warning Labels in Online Alcohol Purchasing Contexts' (2024) Drug and Alcohol Review
- Simone Pettigrew, Bella Sträuli, Asad Yusoff, Paula O'Brien, Jacqueline Bowden, Michelle Jongenelis, Aimee Brownbill, Tanya Chikritzhs, Mark Petticrew, Angela Matheson, Fraser Taylor, Alexandra Jones, '“There's Just a Lot of Numbers and I Just Want to Have a Drink”: The Challenge of Communicating the Energy Content of Alcohol Products' (2025) Appetite
- Simone Pettigrew, Asad Yusoff, Bella Sträuli, Leon Booth, Paula O’Brien, Jacquie Bowden, Aimee Brownbill, Julia Stafford, Michelle I Jongenelis, Tazman Davies, Tanya Chikritzhs, Tim Stockwell, Fraser Taylor, Alexandra Jones, 'The Prevalence of Mandated and Voluntary Health Information on Alcohol Products in Australia' (2025) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
- Tazman Davies, Paula O'Brien, Jacqueline Bowden, Bella Sträuli, Asad Yusoff, Michelle Jongenelis, Alexandra Jones, Aimee Brownbill, Tanya Chikritzhs, Julia Stafford, Simone Pettigrew, 'Suboptimal Uptake and Placement of a Mandatory Alcohol Pregnancy Warning Label in Australia' (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy
- Asad Yusoff, Bella Sträuli, Alexandra Jones, Paula O’Brien, Jacquie Bowden, Michelle Jongenelis, Aimee Brownbill, Tim Stockwell, Simone Pettigrew, 'Suboptimal Industry Adherence to the Design Specifications of the Mandatory Pregnancy Warning Label' (2025) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
- Paula O'Brien, ‘Warning Labels about Alcohol Consumption and Pregnancy: Moving from Industry Self-regulation to Law’ (2019) 27 Journal of Law and Medicine 259–73
- Paula O'Brien, Deborah Gleeson, Emmanuel Kuntsche, Robin Room, ‘A Chance for Countries to Support Ireland’s World-leading Cancer Warning Labels’ (2024) Drug and Alcohol
Medicinal Cannabis and Regulatory Challenges: Perspectives from the Therapeutics Good Administration and Medico-Legal Liability
Professor Robyn Langham AM and Dr Owen Bradfield
28 October 2025
Abortion Law Reform in Scotland: Lessons for Reproductive Rights Advocates
Dr Lynsey Mitchell and Professor Sally Sheldon
27 November 2025
Resources:
- Abortion Law Reform in Scotland: Lessons for Reproductive Rights Advocates
Lynsey Mitchell and Sally Sheldon (seminar slides)
The speakers note that these remarks are offered in a personal capacity only and do not represent the views of the Expert Group or the Scottish Government.
- Anna Glasier et al, Review of Abortion Law in Scotland: Expert Group Report (Report, Scottish Government, 14 November 2025)
- Sally Sheldon, ‘The Decriminalisation of Abortion: An Argument for Modernisation’ (2016) 36(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 334, 334–65
This seminar was co-hosted with Hallmark Research Initiative on Reproductive Justice, Monash Health Law Group, Deakin Centre for Law as Protection, and La Trobe University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences