Lecturer in Ethics, Law & Professio
Overview
Ruthie's teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of law and healthcare. She is particularly interested in voluntary assisted dying and the role of patients and family caregivers in shaping healthcare regulation. Ruthie will be teaching in the Ethics, Law and Professionalism stream of the Year 1 medical degree and will also be an active teacher and researcher in the School of Law.
Ruthie Jeanneret, BA, LLB (Hons), GradDipLegPrac, is currently completing her PhD thesis at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT. Her empirical PhD thesis investigates patients' and family caregivers' perspectives and experiences of voluntary assisted dying regulation in Australia and Canada. Ruthie has been involved in writing the voluntary assisted dying mandatory training for participating practitioners in Queensland, Western Australia, and Victoria, and currently manages the Western Australian training programme through QUT. She also has experience in teaching undergraduate law and nursing students.
From 2018 - 2020, Ruthie worked as a litigation lawyer in Queensland and Tasmania, practising primarily in commercial litigation.
Qualifications
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, University of Tasmania
- Bachelor (Honours) of Law, University of Tasmania
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Tasmania
Publications
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Journal Article: Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape
Jeanneret, R. and Prince, S. (2024). Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. doi: 10.1007/s11673-024-10370-y
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Journal Article: Patients' and Caregivers' Suggestions for Improving Assisted Dying Regulation: A Qualitative Study in Australia and Canada
Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana, Willmott, Lindy, Downie, Jocelyn and White, Ben P. (2024). Patients' and Caregivers' Suggestions for Improving Assisted Dying Regulation: A Qualitative Study in Australia and Canada. Health Expectations, 27 (3) e14107, e14107. doi: 10.1111/hex.14107
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Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana, Downie, Jocelyn, Willmott, Lindy and White, Ben P (2024). 'My Advocacy is Not About Me, My Advocacy is About Canadians': A Qualitative Study of how Caregivers and Patients Influence Regulation of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada. Medical law review. doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwae012
Publications
Journal Article
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Jeanneret, R. and Prince, S. (2024). Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. doi: 10.1007/s11673-024-10370-y
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Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana, Willmott, Lindy, Downie, Jocelyn and White, Ben P. (2024). Patients' and Caregivers' Suggestions for Improving Assisted Dying Regulation: A Qualitative Study in Australia and Canada. Health Expectations, 27 (3) e14107, e14107. doi: 10.1111/hex.14107
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Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana, Downie, Jocelyn, Willmott, Lindy and White, Ben P (2024). 'My Advocacy is Not About Me, My Advocacy is About Canadians': A Qualitative Study of how Caregivers and Patients Influence Regulation of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada. Medical law review. doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwae012
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White, Ben P., Jeanneret, Ruthie and Willmott, Lindy (2023). Barriers to connecting with the voluntary assisted dying system in Victoria, Australia: a qualitative mixed method study. Health Expectations, 26 (6), 2695-2708. doi: 10.1111/hex.13867
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Close, Eliana, Jeanneret, Ruthie, Downie, Jocelyn, Willmott, Lindy and White, Ben P. (2023). A qualitative study of experiences of institutional objection to medical assistance in dying in Canada: ongoing challenges and catalysts for change. BMC Medical Ethics, 24 (1) 71, 1-24. doi: 10.1186/s12910-023-00950-9
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White, Ben P., Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana and Willmott, Lindy (2023). Access to voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators. Medical Journal of Australia, 219 (5), 211-217. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52004
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White, Ben P., Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana and Willmott, Lindy (2023). The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions. BMC Medical Ethics, 24 (1) 22, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s12910-023-00902-3
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White, Ben P., Del Villar, Katrine, Willmott, Lindy, Close, Eliana and Jeanneret, Ruthie (2022). Mapping the legal regulation of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: the coherence of a new practice within the wider legal system. Journal of Law and Medicine, 29 (3), 783-810.
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Jeanneret, Ruthie, Spiranovic, Caroline, Eckstein, Lisa, McWhirter, Rebekah, Arstein-Kerslake, Anna, Scanlan, Joel, Kirkby, Kenneth, Watters, Paul and Vickers, James (2019). Enhancing early detection of cognitive impairment in the criminal justice system: feasibility of a proposed method. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 31 (1), 60-74. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2018.1556283
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Australia: regulating genomic data sharing to promote public trust
Eckstein, Lisa, Chalmers, Donald, Critchley, Christine, Jeanneret, Ruthie, McWhirter, Rebekah, Nielsen, Jane, Otlowski, Margaret and Nicol, Dianne (2018). Australia: regulating genomic data sharing to promote public trust. Human Genetics, 137 (8), 583-591. doi: 10.1007/s00439-018-1914-z
