Eliana Close

Dr Eliana Close is a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research is focused on the legal and ethical dilemmas that arise in response to the changing landscape of death and dying. She has published on various aspects of end-of-life law, policy and practice, with a particular focus on decision making in critical care and voluntary assisted dying.

Eliana graduated with First Class Honours in Psychology from the University of Calgary, Canada, and completed her MA in Law at Oxford University, as Rhodes Scholar. Prior to coming to QUT, Eliana worked as a management consultant at Google and conducted criminal prosecutions and appeals with the Alberta Crown Prosecution service, with expertise in litigating complex Charter of Rights issues.

Eliana is currently a member of the Queensland Children’s Hospital Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, which provides ethical consultation for treating teams and a collaborative forum for case discussion around specific clinical ethical issues. She has presented on aspects of end-of-life law to medical audiences and contributed to curriculum development for the Victorian, Western Australian, and Queensland governments' voluntary assisted dying training for medical and nurse practitioners. Eliana was Research Fellow on the ARC Linkage Grant, Futile Treatment at the End of Life: Legal, policy, sociological, and economic perspectives. She is passionate about using data on lived experiences to inform appropriate regulation.