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Yvette Maker

University of Tasmania

Yvette Maker

Yvette Maker is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania and an Honorary Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Australia;
Topics Access to care; Accountability; Care justice; Deinstitutionalisation; Ethics and care; Gender and care; Rights and people’s voices in LTC systems; Social Protection; Support for unpaid carers;
Methods Discourse analysis; Expert consultations; Focus groups; Interviews; Legal analysis; Qualitative studies; Theory and frameworks;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Australian Long-Term Care Interest Group;
Websitehttps://discover.utas.edu.au/Yvette.Maker
ORC.IDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3713-6273
GOOGLE SCHOLARhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Zfz6xrIAAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/yvette-maker-59805631a/
Research interests

Yvette has a background in law and social policy and her work focuses on the disability- and gender-related dimensions of law, policy and practice. She has particular interests in the design and regulation of rights-based care and support systems and the regulation of restrictive practices across disability, aged care and mental health settings.
Key publications

Relevant publications include:

Yvette Maker, Expectations on the Treatment of People Deprived of their Liberty in Health and Social Care (Office of the Tasmanian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), 2025).

Yvette Maker, ‘From Care and Welfare to Independent Living? Interpreting and Assessing the Human Right to Live Independently and be Included in the Community’ in Sally Robinson and Karen Fisher (eds), Elgar Handbook on Disability Policy (Elgar, 2023) 274–288.

Yvette Maker, Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism: Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Bernadette McSherry and Yvette Maker (eds), Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings: Legal, Policy and Practical Responses (Routledge, 2021).

Yvette Maker and Bernadette McSherry, ‘Regulating Restraint Use in Mental Health and Aged Care Settings: Lessons from the Oakden Scandal’ (2019) 44(1) Alternative Law Journal 29–36.