Associate ProfessorNeera Bhatia

Associate Professor

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School

  • 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 

 

ARC Discovery Grant: DP260104306

 

Professor Catherine Mills, Associate Professor Neera Bhatia, Dr Karin Hammarberg, Dr Molly Johnston and Dr Giselle Newton 

 

Ethical, social and regulatory implications of informal sperm donation

 

$777,889.00

 

This project aims to address ethical, social and regulatory issues in sperm donation for family formation in Australia to ensure that all people who need the assistance of a spem donor to become a parent can do so safely. This project expects to generate new knowledge to address the informal provision of sperm via the internet, while also improving the formal and regulated system of sperm donation. Expected outcomes include a more ethically robust and equitable system for accessing donor sperm for family formation achieved through cohesive, stakeholder informed recommendations. It is expected to have long-lasting benefits for poeple who donate sperm, people who need to access donor sperm and for people conceived through sperm donation. 

 

GRANTS

  • 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