Please join us for this lecture series celebrating 30 years of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine.
Our next speaker and the first of 2027 is Dr Louise Austin, Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester who will talk about 'Informed Consent: How Can We Assess Whether Patients Understand?'
Dr Louise Austin is a Lecturer in Law and a member of the Centre for Rights and Equality in Health Law at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on informed consent to medical treatment, examining the relationship between medical ethics, professional regulation, and medical law through empirical ethics and socio-legal analysis. She is the author of Informed Consent in Medical Ethics, Regulation, and the Law: A Unified Model (Routledge) and co-editor, with José Miola, of the Research Handbook on Medical Consent (Edward Elgar). Before entering academia, Louise practised as a solicitor specialising in medical negligence.