Associate Professor Shih-Ning Then

Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Law

Doctor of Philosophy (University of Sydney), Masters of Law (University of Edinburgh)

Associate Professor Shih-Ning Then commenced with the School of Law in 2008. Shih-Ning is a socio-legal academic who researches and teaches in the areas of medical law and ethics. She is an experienced interdisciplinary researcher who has published with medical practitioners, ethicists and other interdisciplinary scholars.

Research:

Shih-Ning’s research interests include:

• regulation of biomedical science
• artificial reproductive technologies
• involvement of minors in a health context
• use of human tissues and tissue transplantation
• substituted and supported decision-making
• health law.

Shih-Ning is a chief investigator on an ARC funded linkage grant looking at effective decision-making support for people with cognitive disabilities (https://research.qut.edu.au/achlr/projects/effective-decision-making-support-for-people-with-cognitive-disability/).   She is currently a member of the NHMRC Organ and Tissue Working Committee and has experience as a member of a human research ethics committee. Shih-Ning would be interested in supervising PhD students in her areas of expertise.
Shih-Ning is currently Higher Degree Research Coordinator for the Law School.

Background:

Shih-Ning graduated from The University of Queensland in 2003 with First-class honours in Law and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science. In 2009 she completed a Master of Laws in Innovation, Technology and the Law at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with Distinction and in 2015 completed a PhD at the University of Sydney. Prior to joining QUT, Shih-Ning worked as an associate to Justice Davies in the Queensland Court of Appeal, a lawyer at Minter Ellison Lawyer and as a legal officer for the Queensland Law Reform Commission.

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