PhD position (100%) on medical decision making with minors

The project Societal perspectives on medical decision making with minors, or the Minors in Medicine Study (MiMeS) for short, is led by an interdisciplinary research group that has been working intensively together for several years on the medical decision process with minors. Indeed, Belgian law allows minors to make medical decisions on their own if their doctor considers them to be sufficiently mature. In practice, however, this still often raises questions and it is from these questions that the research unit came into being. Experts from family law (Prof Ingrid Boone), medical law (Prof Steven Lierman), bioethics (Prof Kris Dierickx), parenting and family studies (Prof Karla Van Leeuwen), family sociology (Prof Jan Van Bavel, Dr David De Coninck), paediatrics (Prof Jaan Toelen and Prof Peter de Winter) are enthusiastically looking into these issues. The ultimate goal of the project is to be able to give a voice to children and ensure that their rights are better exercised in practice. For the research within the project, the PhD student to be recruited will collaborate with two other PhD students: a master in law and a master in medicine. All researchers are a member of the KU Leuven Child and Youth Institute, which offers additional expertise, a broad research network and contact with societal stakeholders.

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Job interviews are scheduled on August 22

More information is available from:

prof. dr. Jaan Toelen (Medicine), mail: jaan.toelen@uzleuven.be . tel: +32(0)16 34 20 97

prof. dr. Karla Van Leeuwen (Parenting & Family studies), mail: karla.vanleeuwen@kuleuven.be . tel: +32 (0)16 32 62 32

prof. dr. Jan Van Bavel (Sociology), mail: jan.vanbavel@kuleuven.be . tel: +32 (0)16 32 30 48

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