QUT | Staff Profiles | Steph Jowett

Name

Dr Steph Jowett

Position(s)

Lecturer
Faculty of Law,
Law School

Discipline *

Law, Public Health and Health Services

Phone

+61 7 3138 3357

Email

s.jowett@qut.edu.au

Location

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Identifiers and profiles

Qualifications

PhD (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Laws - Second Class Honours - Division A (Queensland University of Technology)

Professional memberships and associations

Steph Jowett is a member of:

QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research
QUT’s Childhood Adversity Research Program
Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL)

Steph is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Keywords

ACHLR, children's consent, health and medical law, medical ethics, trans and gender diverse youth, legal barriers to accessing healthcare, coronial determinations of suicide

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Steph Jowett commenced with the School of Law in 2020. Steph is engaged in research that spans a range of socio-legal issues, predominately focusing on the intersection of children’s health and law. Her doctoral research examines legal barriers to consent for medical treatment of trans and gender diverse youth.

Steph’s research interests include:

consent for medical treatment of young people
access to healthcare for trans and gender diverse youth
adolescent decision-making capacity and the law
consent for involvement of children in health research
coronial determinations of suicide
genomic data-sharing
health law.

Steph graduated from QUT in 2013 with a Bachelor of Laws and was awarded her doctorate from the School of Law at QUT in 2020. She was made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2020.

This information has been contributed by Dr Steph Jowett.

Units currently taught

Fellow, Higher Education Academy

This information has been contributed by Dr Steph Jowett.

Jowett S, Mathews B, (2020) Current legal and clinical framework for treatment of trans and gender diverse youth in Australia, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health p1856-1860
Then S, Jowett S, (2020) Removal and use of paediatric tissue for research purposes: Legal and ethical issues in Australia, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health p359-363
Jowett S, Carpenter B, Tait G, (2019) Determining a suicide under Australian law: A comparative study of coronial practice, The University of New South Wales law journal p534-556
Jowett S, Carpenter B, Tait G, (2018) Determining a suicide under Australian law, University of New South Wales Law Journal p355-379
Jowett S, Dallaston E, Bennett B, (2020) Genomic Research and Data-Sharing: Time to Revisit Australian Laws?, The University of Queensland Law Journal p341-369
Tait G, Jowett S, Carpenter B, (2020) Coronial decision-making and the management, classification and conceptualisation of the finding of 'suicide', Mortality p297-312
Carpenter B, Tait G, Jowett S, (2020) The inevitability of suicide for Aboriginal Australians, The Broader View of Suicide p312-328
Tait G, Carpenter B, Jowett S, (2018) Coronial practice, indigeneity and suicide, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health p1-14
White B, Willmott L, Tilse C, Wilson J, Lawson D, Pearce A, Dunn J, Aitken J, Feeney R, Jowett S, (2018) Community knowledge of law at the end of life: availability and accessibility of web-based resources, Australian Health Review p266-271

For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Dr Steph Jowett

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