Madeleine Archer

Madeleine Archer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), Faculty of Business and Law. Her research focuses on voluntary assisted dying and end-of-life law. She is currently working on projects in ACHLR's End-of-Life program, including a project delivering mandatory training for health practitioners on voluntary assisted dying in Queensland.

Madeleine recently completed her PhD, which was supervised by Professor Ben White, Professor Lindy Willmott, Professor Luc Deliens, and Professor Kenneth Chambaere. Madeleine’s PhD sat within Professor Ben White’s Australian Research Council Future Fellowship Project Enhancing end-of-life decision-making: Optimal regulation of voluntary assisted dying. Her PhD used multiple qualitative research methods and examined assisted dying regulation in Belgium and how it influences health professionals' conduct. It aimed to identify how assisted dying regulation might be improved in Belgium, and has broader significance for understanding and improving assisted dying regulation in other jurisdictions, including Australia.