About
Dr Rebecca Limb is a Lecture in Law at Southampton Law School with a specialist interest in Child Medical Law and Biomedical Law and Ethics.
Research
Research interests
- Child Medical Law
- Biomedical Law and Ethics
- Children’s Participation
- Disability Rights
Current research
Rebecca’s research focuses on children’s meaningful participation in their healthcare. Rebecca specialises in Biomedical Law and Ethics, Children’s Rights and Social Justice with an interest in bridging the gap between medicine and the law. Through capturing, collecting, and engaging with the lived experiences of patients, children and those with disabilities, Rebecca’s research introduces previously absent and under-represented voices into the wider academic debate from which she seeks to change policy and clinical practice. Rebecca's research interests include children’s consent to and refusals of medical treatment, child organ donation, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on vulnerable people, compulsory child vaccination and children’s participation in their health care.
Rebecca uses Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Lived Experience methodology in her research.
Rebecca is currently collaborating with colleagues from the University of Warwick to investigate the potential use of data trusts to safeguard the data rights of children in research projects such as birth cohort studies.
Rebecca is on the editorial board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications journal.
Publications
Teaching
Rebecca has experience teaching Medicine and the Law, Children’s Medical Law, Modern English Legal Systems and Equity and Trusts. Rebecca teaches ‘Thinking Water’ and ‘Genetics: Science and Society’ at the Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning as a guest lecturer.
Rebecca is a dissertation supervisor and welcomes applications from potential PhD candidates in the area of child medical law.
This academic year, Rebecca will be teaching on the modules ‘Remedies in Contract and Tort’ and ‘Equity and Trusts’.
Rebecca is Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and an Associate Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy.
Biography
Rebecca joined the University of Southampton in January 2023. Before joining the University, Rebecca worked at the University of Warwick in the School of Law, Medical School and the Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL).
Rebecca has a LLB (Warwick, 2016) and a PhD (Warwick, 2019/20). Rebecca's PhD investigated the extent to which children participate in their healthcare and the practical and legal barriers that children experience when seeking to meaningfully participate in decisions about their health care. This research led to the design of initiatives to facilitate children's meaningful participation in their healthcare.
In 2019, Rebecca was awarded a competitive IAS/IATL Early Career Fellowship where she produced publications out of her PhD work, strengthened her interdisciplinary research interests, taught law to an interdisciplinary audience and developed the research ‘lived experiences’ methodology into a teaching pedagogy from which she is creating teaching and learning materials for higher education tutors.
In 2021/2022 Rebecca was a Wellcome Trust Broadening Horizons Mentee.