Dr Piers Gooding is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and Melbourne Law School, at the University of Melbourne. His work focuses on disability law, policy and practice.
He is the author of A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017) with Cambridge University Press, and he is on the editorial board of the International Journal for Mental Health and Capacity Law. Dr Gooding has worked with a range of international organisations and agencies, including the UN Special Rapporteur for the Rights of People with Disabilities, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, the World Health Organisation, and he serves as a consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of the Asia Pacific. In 2014-15, Dr Gooding was a research associate at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he worked on legal capacity law and policy reform in the EU, the Western Balkans and Turkey. He has a background in law and humanities, with degrees from the University of Melbourne and Monash University. In 2010, Dr Gooding was awarded a Menzies Australian Bicentennial Fellowship to serve as a visiting fellow at Kings College London.
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FEATURED Journal article
Preventing and Reducing "Coercion" in Mental Health Services: An International Scoping Review of English-Language Studies.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Vice-Chancellor’s commendation for thesis excellence, Faculty of Law recipient
Australian Bicentennial Scholarship
Greek/Australian Legal & Medical Conference
Australian Postgraduate Award - PhD scholarship
Australian Postgraduate Award - PhD scholarship
Credentials
Positions
Research Fellow
Law
Member
Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
Education
Bachelor of Arts
University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy of Law
Monash University
Doctor of Philosophy (Law)
Monash University