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Rachel Jenkins is a third-year PhD candidate at Durham University’s Durham Law School, specializing in Medical Law and Ethics. She concurrently serves as a part-time tutor, teaching Medical Law on the LLB programme, and previously instructed Criminal Law. Her research focuses on mental health law, capacity, consent, and healthcare policy. She is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and affiliated with the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS) and Gender and Law at Durham (GLAD).
Her upcoming internship (April–July 2024) with the UK Ministry of Justice will address health and wellbeing in prisons. Key publications include contributions to The Practical Handbook of Eating Difficulties and a blog analyzing end-of-life care for severe eating disorder patients across Canada and Great Britain.
Rachel holds an LLM and LLB from the University of Bristol. Her work integrates legal analysis with healthcare challenges, emphasizing ethical dilemmas in medical decision-making and systemic gaps in mental health care.
