Research Projects
The Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) undertakes a broad range of research projects relating to the law at end of life. Research collaborators include government, health and legal professionals, the health services sector, other universities and non-government organisations and the community. ACHLR aims to translate its research into change that has real impact and makes a difference to the community.
Current research projects
- Dying in Pain
- Effective decision making support for people with cognitive disability
- Enhancing community knowledge and engagement with law at the end of life
- Reducing non-beneficial treatment at the End-of-Life 2018-2019
- End of Life Law for Clinicians
- Centre academics are also undertaking a number of research projects through the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Excellence in End of Life Care
Previous research projects
- Futile treatment at the end of life: legal, policy, sociological and economic perspectives
- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment from adults who lack capacity: The role of law in medical practice
- Enduring documents – improving the forms, improving the outcomes
- Families and generational asset transfers: making and challenging wills in contemporary Australia
- Improving service provision by legal practitioners to clients in relation to enduring powers of attorney and advance health directives
- Managing family objection to autopsy: A case study of the Queensland coronial system
- Investigating the coronial determination of suicide as a category of death