Madeleine Archer

LLB(Hons 1), Bsc (Psychology and Chemistry), GDLP - University of Tasmania, Australia, PhD (Law)  - Queensland University of Technology

Madeleine Archer is a postdoctoral researcher with a background in law. Her research focuses on assisted dying law and practice, end-of-life decision-making, regulatory theory, and criminal law. Madeleine worked as a researcher on the Independent Inquiry into the Tasmanian assisted dying law, which was subsequently passed. In 2025, Madeleine completed her PhD in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Her thesis used qualitative methods and a literature synthesis to examine assisted dying regulation in Belgium and to make recommendations about legislative reform in Belgium. 

Her promoters were Professor Ben White (QUT), Professor Lindy Willmott (QUT), Professor Luc Deliens (VUB), and Kenneth Chambaere (University of Ghent). Her thesis can be found here: Examining How Regulation Shapes Euthanasia Practice in Belgium: A Qualitative Study of the Literature and Health Professionals’ Perspectives | QUT ePrints. Since completing her PhD, Madeleine has been working as a postdoctoral research fellow and co-lead of the End-of-Life Research and Training program in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research.