Mrs Sinead Prince
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
Sinead is a research assistant within the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She has undertaken research with a variety of health law academics in consent laws for trans and gender diverse youth, health programs in youth justice, covid-19 and the law, regulation of pediatric biobanking, and debates around voluntary assisted dying laws.She is also undertaking her PhD within the Australian Centre for Health Law Research on the ethical permissibility of genetic enhancement. She is researching the philosophy of health and disease and theories of well-being, and how these apply to genetic enhancement. She has published on theories of equality in relation to genetic enhancement and how these are impacted by the gene-environment interaction.
She graduated from QUT in 2021 with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Distinction), in which she held a Vice-Chancellor's Academic Excellence Scholarship. In 2021, she was awarded the Australian Centre for Health Law Research Postgraduate Scholarship for the duration of her PhD.
Personal details
Positions
- QUT Postgraduate Research Award (QUTPRA) (Domestic) Scholarship
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Teaching
Sinead has been a sessional academic at QUT since 2022. She has tutored in LWS101, Ethics, Law and Healthcare since 2022, and written and delivered a lecture for this unit. She has also marked in a variety of health law related undergraduate and postgraduate units since 2022, including LLH471, LWN164, and LLH401.
She has undertaken professional development training by undergoing the QUT Teaching Advantage intensive course in 2023 and undertaken other workshops including Creating Engaging Environments and Assessment and Feedback through QUT.
Experience
Sinead co-hosts a podcast, alongside Ruthie Jeanneret, called 'Learn Me Right' where they interview health law and bioethical experts to translate evidence-based research into digestible content for non-academics. The podcast is intended to give advice for the listener on how they, as an individual, can help with modern health law and bioethical issues.
Publications
Research outputs by year
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Sinead, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).