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Associate ProfessorNeera Bhatia

Associate Professor

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
  • +61 3 924 46594 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

* End of Life Decision Making for Critically Ill Infants and Children

* Child Medical Tourism - parents travelling overseas for novel treatments for sick children
* Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD)
* Organ and Tissue Donation
* Determination of Death and Dying
* Reproductive Technologies and Ethics (including assisted reproductive technology)

* Emerging Health (Bio)Technologies

* Regulated and Unregulated markets for Biological Materials  
* Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)

* Cryonics

* Contemporary issues in Health Law, Ethics and Bioethics

 

Grants not listed elsewhere 

 

Nichola Robertson, Chris Mayes, Neera Bhatia and Michael Polonsky, Generating Research Opportunities Within cross-disciplinary networks (GROW) scheme: Project: ‘Sold the Dream, Overlooked Disposition Reality: Egg Freezing’s Ethical Gap’, Faculty of Business and Law, $10,299

 

 

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Ethical, social and regulatory implications of informal sperm donation
    7 Jul 2026 - 6 Jul 2029
    People funded by this grant:
    • Mills C,
    • Bhatia N,
    • Johnston M,
    • Newton G
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP260104306 - $310,570.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Commercial and Economic Determinants of Health July 2024
    1 Jul 2025 - 30 Jun 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    VicHealth - CEDoH - $4,400,000.00
  • GRANT
    Children's Medical Tourism: Developing an inclusive base for international study.
    4 Sep 2023 - 3 Sep 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Birchley G,
    • Bhatia N
    AHRC Networking Grant - AH/X013146/1 - $29,674.00
  • GRANT
    Unregulated methods of creating non-traditional families and assisted reproductive technology
    New Ideas Grant1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bhatia N,
    • Mills C
    $9,446
  • GRANT
    Immortalising organs: a feminist study of emerging placental technologies
    Deakin Science and Society Network (SSN) Grant1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bhatia N,
    • Keaney J,
    • Dalziell J,
    • Winter M,
    • Martin D
    $7,500
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Disagreements in the care of critically ill children: Challenges for policy in changing social and medical contexts.
    1 Aug 2018 - 30 Sep 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Neera Bhatia
    Nuffield Council on Bioethics - $4,555.47
  • GRANT
    End of Life Care
    Deakin University Research Network (DURN)1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bhatia N,
    • Martin P,
    • Bartel R
    $110,000
  • GRANT
    Gen(e)quality
    Deakin University Research Network (DURN)1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    $110,000