Challenges at the Interface of Biolaw & Bioethics. 3rd Annual Postgraduate Conference in Bioethics
Organisers:
Sheelagh McGuinness
Sheelagh is a PhD student in the School of Law, University of Manchester. Her PhD thesis is entitled ‘Reason, Judgment, and Rationality in the Embryo Debate’. Her doctoral research is supervised by Professors Margaret Brazier and John Harris, and funded by the AHRC and the School of Law. Sheelagh’s broader research interests include moral philosophy and social ethics, research ethics, organ donation, and assisted reproductive technologies. Sheelagh has taken part in the Researcher in Residence programme, and is now, through this programme, promoting organ donation as a topic to be discussed in schools; see here.
Marleen Eijkholt
Marleen Eijkholt is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Manchester. She graduated in 2005 at the Maastricht University in the Netherlands with the equivalent of an LLM Law degree (Meester in de Rechten). During her degree she focused on comparative health law and studied in Aix-en-Provence, France and Manchester, the United Kingdom. After finishing her degree Marleen started lecturing at the Maastricht University at the Department of Health Law. In April 2006 she was awarded a 'Talent for the Future' scholarship at the University and continued to work in the same department, but in the position of a researcher under supervision of Jos Dute and Guido de Wert. In January 2007 she decided to move to Manchester to start as a PhD student in the doctoral programme of Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence. Currently she pursues her research about the right to procreate under supervision of Margot Brazier, Matti Häyry and Charles Erin.
Mikey Dunn
Mikey Dunn is a final year PhD student based in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. His background is in the social sciences, and his academic interests lie at the intersection of mental health law, ethics, policy and practice. He is currently undertaking research into the ways that decisions are made, and care is provided, for men and women who lack mental capacity, are defined as ‘vulnerable’, or are otherwise dependent on other individuals for personal and social support. He has a longstanding interest in bioethics more generally, and was involved in organising the 2nd Annual Postgraduate Conference in Bioethics, ‘Why Bioethics? Our research in context’, held at King’s College Cambridge, in July 2007.
Amel Alghrani
Amel is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. Amel studied law as an undergraduate and went on to qualify as a Barrister in 2003 having been awarded the Yarborough Anderson Benefactors and Scholarship Award. She went on to work in the General Medical Council, but left to pursue her interest in Medical Law. She completed a Masters in Healthcare Ethics and Law before going on to do a PhD under the supervision of Professors John Harris and Margaret Brazier.
Sarah Devaney
Sarah has been a Lecturer in Medical Law at the University of Manchester since January 2008. Before that she was an Associate Lecturer here between September 2004 and December 2007. She is a non-practising solicitor having trained and specialised in clinical negligence litigation. Sarah's PhD seeks to establish whether there can be an ethical regulated market in stem cell therapies. This involves consideration of issues such as the status of providers of tissue for stem cell research (such as ova or embryos) and property in the body, and will lead to suggestions as to the elements which a bespoke regulatory system in this area should contain. Sarah also has a strong research interest in the system of clinical negligence litigation. Together with a number of other colleagues at the University, she is working on the use of 'legal consciousness' as a means to understanding claimant/lawyer relations in the field of clinical negligence and analysing how different contractual relations impact on case management.
Muireann Quigley
Muireann is a medical doctor. She qualified from the Manchester/St. Andrews medical course in 2003. She has worked as a Pre-registration House Officer in General Medicine and General Surgery from 2003-2004, and as a Senior House Officer in Accident and Emergency and in General Medicine from 2004-2005. She also completed her Intercalated BSc in Health Care Ethics and Law in 2002, and in 2006 finished her M.A. in this area. She has previously worked as a Research Fellow in Bioethics and Law in the School. She has recently been appointed as a Lecturer in Bioethics in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, and the new Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation. She is also undertaking a PhD. Her specific research interests are the ethics of reproduction and the reproductive technologies, organ transplantation, genetics, rights - specifically property rights in the human body and its parts, and issues of justice and responsibility in healthcare.
The organisers can be contacted at: BioLawConf08@manchester.ac.uk