Centre for Regulatory Studies

Research

AREAS

The Centres research activities are currently focussed on the following areas of regulation;

PROJECTS

The following are ongoing projects;

Australian Research Council (ARC) – Linkage
Public Accountability in the Contractualised State: Australian National Audit Office (Hodge)
Keeping Regulators Accountable, project research report to the Consumer Utilities Advocacy Centre (Hodge, Bowman, Cantley-Smith, Mutabazi)
Consumer Consultation: International Best Practice Models, report to the Consumer Utilities Advocacy Centre (Hodge, Bowman, Cantley-Smith, Naylor)
Green Power: An Environmental Audit of the National Electricity Market, project research report to the Consumer Utilities Advocacy Centre (Cantley-Smith, Bowman)
Where is the Consumer? The Implications of Legislative and Regulatory Reforms in the National Electricity Market for Australian Consumers, report to The National Consumers Electricity Advocacy Panel (Cantley-Smith, Bowman and Hodge with CUAC)
Review of Possible Impacts of Nanotechnology on Australia’s Regulatory Frameworks, Project research report to Department of Industry Tourism and Resources (Hodge, Ludlow and Bowman)

HDR STUDENT RESEARCH (in progress)

AFFILIATED FACULTIES

Law

Australian Research Council (ARC) – Discovery Grant
The World Trade Organisation and Human Rights (S.Joseph, D. Kinley, J.Waincymer)
ARC – Discovery Grant
Developing a systemic, inclusive and just jurisprudential account of TRIPS (M.Davison)
ARC – Discovery Grant
Confidentiality in Therapeutic Relationships: Developing Guidelines for Mental Health (B.McSherry, J.R. Ogloff/ Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences)
HDR Student research (in progress)
- Legal and regulatory protection against false and misleading promotion (advertising) of pharmaceutical products by internet pharmacy
- The impact of trade agreements on tobacco regulation
- Regulatory of Private Equity Funds: an international comparison

Arts

Monash Small Grant
Regulation, risk and natural rights approach to justice (T. Handfield, School of Philosophy & Bioethics)
Informed Consent and Clinical Accountability. The Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeons. Cambridge University Press, 2007 (Ed. J.Oakley, Centre for Human Bioethics)
Patients and Risk in Principles of Health Care Ethics. 2^nd edition (Ed. R Ashcroft, A Dawson, H Draper, J McMillan). John Wiley 2007 (J. Oakley)
Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles. Cambridge University Press, 2001 (Ed. J.Oakley, Centre for Human Bioethics)

Business and Economics

Australian Research Council (ARC) – Discovery Grant
Regulating for Innovation: The relationship between labour market regulation and workplace innovation (C. Arup, A. Forsyth, R.Mitchell, Dept. of Business, Law and Taxation)
ARC – Discovery Grant
Regulating intellectual property contracts for innovation economy (C. Arup, Dept. of Business, Law and Taxation)
ARC – Discovery Grant
Regulatory Networks: Assessing the relevance of the “rule of law” to business regulation in Vietnam (J.Gillespie, Dept. of Business, Law and Taxation)
Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group
Dept. of Business, Law and Taxation (Director: J. Gillespie)
Regulation of Financial Markets (G. Gilligan, Snr Research Fellow, Dept. of Business, Law and Taxation)
Professor Jayne Godfrey (Deputy Dean- Research) is a member of the Water Accounting Development Committee which sets national standards.

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Australian Research Council (ARC) – Discovery Grant
Confidentiality in Therapeutic Relationships: Developing Guidelines for Mental Health (B.McSherry/Law, J.R. Ogloff; School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine)

NHMRC Preventative Healthcare and Strengthening Australia’s Social and Economic Fabric Research Grant (B. Loff, A. Peeters, B. Swinburn, M. Lawrence, M. Auckland; Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine)