
Miss Bonnie Venter
PhD Student, BA, MA
Expertise
I teach Health, Medical, and Tort Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. My socio-legal research explores how law, ethics, and lived experience shape organ donation, transplantation, and patient care.
Current positions
Lecturer in Law
University of Bristol Law School
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Biography
I joined the University of Bristol in 2019 as a PhD student and Teaching Associate. In September 2024, I successfully passed my PhD viva without any corrections, my examiners were Professors John Harrington and Bobbie Farsides. My thesis examined the legal, ethical, and regulatory dimensions of living kidney donation in the United Kingdom, drawing on qualitative interviews to explore decision-making practices and their alignment with policy frameworks. Alongside my doctoral studies, I contributed to several interdisciplinary research projects in health law and medical ethics, both within the University and through external collaborations.
I have held advisory and committee roles with national and international bodies, including the South African Medical Research Council, New York University (Transplant Ethics and Policy), the European Society of Organ Transplantation, and the UK Kidney Association.
I welcome opportunities to collaborate with academics, students, policymakers, and professionals working in law, ethics, and healthcare.
Research interests
My research focuses on the relationship between the law and organ donation and transplantation. I am particulary interested in how the various role players (donors, recipients and healthcare professionals) experience the legal realities of donation and transplantation.
Other interests include:
- the role of altruism in organ / tissue donation, surrogacy, and research participation;
- xenotransplantation
- bioprinted organs
Publications
Recent publications
20/02/2025Organ donation after assisted dying
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Thinking carefully about organ donation
Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics
Teenager and the transplant
Journal of Medical Ethics
Deemed consent for organ donation in Northern Ireland
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
A NHS Foundation Trust v MC [2020] EWCOP 33:
Medical Law Review