Mr David Worswick

Position/s:Associate Lecturer in Law , Associate Lecturer, Flinders Prevention, Promotion and Primary Health Care
Flinders Law School
 Associate Lecturer in Health Law
Social Health Sciences
Phone: +61 8 82015772, +61 8 82015549
Email:
Location: Law Commerce (233), Sturt South Wing (S281)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

I am a specialist health law academic. I lecture both in Law and in the School of Medicine. I split my time so that I am in Law the first half of the week, and in Medicine the second half. My specialty is health law, an area which I teach, research, and publish in.

Qualifications

  • BA (ANU)
  • LLB (Adelaide)
  • GDLP (UniSA)
  • LLM (Flinders)

Honours, awards and grants

Flinders University Teaching and Innovations Grant 2004.
Team Application - Ms Judith Bannister, Mr David Worswick and Professor Gary Davis
School of Law, Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology
Awarded for the Modularisation of teaching and learning in LLAW 1101 Legal Method (Legal Research).

Key responsibilities

I work in two schools: Law and Medicine. My responsibilities vary with location.
Law Responsibility:
In Law I teach various core topics, that have in the past included Legal Method, Administrative Law, Tort Law and Health Law. In 2013 I will be teaching and coordinating the popular and relevant elective Health Law. This toopic frequently leads to higher degree papers. I conduct research into Health law and am doing papers on medical tourism. I am on the law board, and law board of examiners. My chief administrative responsibility is as law school photographer. Duties include taking photos at functions, post-processing images, archiving , printing, resizing and transmitting images. I work closelely with marketing and publicity officers to create images for the law school and university use.
Medical School Responsibility:
Since 2010 I have been employed by the School of Medicine (0.5FTE) as a lecturer in Health Law responsible for the provision of legal information into the School of Medicine. This is chiefly done at first and second year level, where I lecture about legal regulation of healthcare, consent, negligence, professional regulation, records, and privacy and confidentiality. I work closely with the Professor of Ethics and Professionalism to integrate ethicsc, professionalism and law training for all medical students. I am publishing articles about medical tourism and also provide legal expertise and guidance to the Flinders School of Medicine's PBRC Committe that looks at disciplinary issues arising within the School.

Teaching

Teaching interests

Health Law

Topic Coordinator:

Topic Lecturer:

Research and supervision

Research expertise

  • Law

Research interests

Health Law

Supervisory interests

  • Health law

RHD research supervision

Current

Associate supervisor: Health Law (2); Transgender law (1);

Publications

Book chapters
Worswick, D.G. (2009). My Law Career: How can I best prepare for it? In Michelle Sanson, Trischa Baker, ed. Connecting with Law. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 341-361.
Worswick, D.G. (2009). The Profession: What do Lawyers do? In Michelle Sanson, Trischa Baker, ed. Connecting with Law. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 286-314.
Worswick, D.G. (2009). Research: How do I find the law? In Michelle Sanson, Tricia Baker, ed. Connecting with Law. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 93-125.
Worswick, D.G. (2009). Law in Society: How do People Access Justice? In Michelle Sanson, Trischa Baker, ed. Connecting with Law. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 315-340.
Worswick, D.G. (2009). Applying Law: How are cases resolved? In Connecting with Law. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 258-285.
Worswick, D.G. (1997). The Australian Securities Commission. In Alan Leaver, ed. Investigating Crime: A guide to the powers of those agencies involved in the investigation of crime in Australia. Sydney: LBC Information Services, pp. 365-393.
Worswick, D.G. (1997). The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. In Alan Leaver, ed. Investigating Crime: A guide to the powers of those agencies involved in the investigation of crime in Australia. Sydney: LBC Information Services, pp. 394-407.
Refereed journal articles
Young, R.W., Worswick, D.G. and Stoffell, B.F. (2001). Complementary Medicine in Intensive Care: Ethical and Legal Perspectives. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 29(3), pp.227-238. [online]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11439792.
Journal articles
Worswick, D.G. (2012). Obtaining Informed Medical Consent: A legal perspective. Law Society Bulletin Sa, 34(1), pp.22-26.

Professional and community engagement

Health Law Committees, Ethics Committees, Health Law Consultation/Panels etc., Law School Board, PBAC Committee Medical School, First Year teachers Committee (Law)

Photography, photo retouching work.

Expertise for media contact

  • Health Law Also Medical Law, Medico-legal Issues.

Subject/s

  • Health/Medical law

Further information

Please note that email is the best means of contact, as I am frequently in different locations at the university.



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