Staff profiles
Neil Allen
Neil Allen, Lecturer, LL.B (Hons.) (Manchester, 1998), Barrister (Thirty Nine Essex Street Chambers). Having read Law at Manchester University and the Inns of Court School ofLaw, Neil joined the University in 2003 and is a Lecturer and the Deputy Director of its Legal Advice Centre. With particular research interests in mental health and incapacity law and human rights, he has published in books and legal journals, teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and delivers training to health, social care and legal professionals and organisations. He practises from Thirty Nine Essex Street Chambers, predominantly in the Court of Protection. His recent cases include Cheshire West and Chester Council v P [2011] EWCA Civ 1257, P v M (Vulnerable Adult) [2011] 2 FLR 1375,G v Eand Manchester City Council and F[2010] EWHC 621; [2010] EWHC 1115;[2010] EWCA Civ 822; [2010] EWHC 2042;[2010] EWHC 2512and A County Council v MB[2010] EWHC 2508. He also adjudicates fitness to practise hearings, is trustee of the NorthWest Legal Support Trust and a mental health charity and has held research positions.
Rebecca Bennett
Rebecca Bennett, is Senior Lecturer in Bioethics. Rebecca has taught bioethics for eighteen years and has published widely on diverse issues in bioethics. In 2002 she devised and launched the innovative distance learning MA in Health Care Ethics and Law which she ran until 2009. She is now the Programme Director for the PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence – another innovative programme that bases a doctoral thesis around published papers. She has recently launched a comprehensive package of short electronic CPD courses in medical ethics and law. Rebecca has published widely on diverse issues in bioethics including antenatal HIV testing, assisted reproductive technologies, prelimplatation genetic diagnosis, genetic testing in pregnancy, arguments surrounding attempts to eradicate disability, responsibility in pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, cloning, stem cell research, ecotognesis, selective treatment of infants, the role of public consulations in ethics and law and the possibility of ethical compromise.. Recent publications are listed on Rebecca's staff webpage:
Website: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/staff/rebecca_bennett/
Iain Brassington
Iain Brassington BA (Hull), MSc, PhD (Birmingham), FHEA, FRSA; Lecturer in Bioethics and Medical Law, and Programme Director for the Intercalated MSc in Healthcare Ethics and Law. Iain came to Manchester in 2006, having previously taught at Keele, Birmingham and Warwick (a bit). He received his PhD in 2003 for a staggeringly dull thesis in metaethics that was almost completely unrelated to the research he does now. That research currently revolves around themes of enhancement, genetics and the control of genetic information, autonomy, and moral theory and its place in bioethics- he has a not-so-secret fascination with Kantian moral philosophy, which he thinks wrong but beautiful (as opposed to Mill's, which is wrong and ugly), and almost no time for either "Principlism" or empiricalbioethics. He has also written fairly extensively on euthanasia and assisted dying, and suspects with some pride that one of his papers on this topic is the second most sweary publication in the history of legal scholarship. He is currently writing his third book, Bioscience and the Good Life, and edits of the Journal of Medical Ethics' blog.
Margot Brazier
Margaret Brazier, Professor of Law, OBE 1997, LL.B. 1971, Barrister 1973, F.R.S.A. 1993. Her research and teaching interests centre on the relationship between law, medicine and ethics and the law of torts. In those contexts she has published Medicine Patients and the Law (3rd edition, 2003), Protecting the Vulnerable: Autonomy and Consent in Health Care (1991, with Mary Lobjoit), and was responsible for the 8th, 9th and 10th editions of Street on Torts. She was an editor of Clerk and Lindsell on Torts from 1974 - 1998 becoming the General Editor in 1990 for the 17th edition. She chaired the Home Office Animal Procedures Committee from 1993 - 1998 and sat on the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 1994 - 1998. She was a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ Working Party on Fetal Awareness in 1997 and chaired the Review of Surrogacy Arrangements on behalf of the Department of Health. She chaired the NHS Retained Organs Commission 2001-2004. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Medical Law Review, Medical Law International, and the Journal of Medical Ethics. She was a founder member of the Arts and Humanities Research Board from 1998 - 2001. She was President of the Society of Public Teachers of Law in 1997 - 1998.
Website: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/staff/margot_brazier/
Sarah Devaney
Sarah Devaney, LL.B (Hons), M.A. Sarah is a lecturer in medical law in the Centre for Social Ethics & Policy. She is currently writing her PhD on the regulation of stem cell research and therapies, as part of which she is undertaking research on issues surrounding property in the body and theories of regulation. Sarah is a non-practising solicitor. While in practice she specialised in clinical negligence litigation and her research and teaching in this area are informed by this experience.
Website: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sarah_devaney/
Charles Erin
Charles A. Erin, B.Sc. (Wales), M.Sc. (London), M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Manchester) is Senior Lecturer in Applied Philosophy at the Centre for Social Ethics & Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, and a Fellow of the Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics. He is Programme Director of the M.A./Postgraduate Diploma in Health Care Ethics and Law. He has published on diverse issues in bioethics, and his current research interests include self-ownership, the commodification of the human body, and the relationship between human values and rational arguments.
Simona Giordano
Simona Giordano, PhD, Reader in Bioethics. She was previously a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manchester from 2002 to 2004. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rome and at the Consulta di Bioetica in Milan. Her main research interests lie in philosophy and clinical psychology, health care resources and ageing. She has published extensively on anorexia and bulimia nervosa, and on transsexualism in children. She is the author of Understanding Eating Disorders, Oxford University Press, Exercise and Eating Disorders, Routledge, Children with Gender Identity Disorders, Routledge, and co-editor of Scientific Freedom (with John Coggon and Marco Cappato). She has also published on a variety of bioethics topics, ranging from genetics to equality, to IVF, child abandonment, end-of-life issues, sports ethics and may others.
John Harris
John Harris, FMedSci., B.A., D.Phil Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics University of Manchester. Educated at the University of Kent and at Balliol College, Oxford, John Harris was elected a Fellow of the United Kingdom Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2001, the first philosopher to have been elected to Fellowship of this new National Academy which was established to serve “the medical sciences in the same way as the Royal Society serves the natural sciences (and) the British Academy serves the humanities”. He has been a member of The United Kingdom Human Genetics Commission since its foundation in 1999 and formerly served on the United Kingdom Government Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing from its foundation in 1996 until its closure. He is also a member of the Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association. He was one of the Founder Directors of the International Association of Bioethics and is a founder member of the Board of the Journal Bioethics and Associate Editor (Genetics) of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics and many other journals. He frequently appears on radio and television both in the United Kingdom and overseas to discuss Bioethics and related issues.
He has acted as Ethical Consultant to national and international bodies and corporations including the European Parliament, The World Health Organisation, The European Commission, The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), The United Kingdom Department of Health, The Health Council of the Netherlands, The Research Council of Norway, The British Fluoridation Society, Smithkline Beecham, Astra-Zeneca and Granada Television. He is the Series Editor of “Social Ethics and Policy” published by the international publishers Routledge and is the founder and General Editor of a major series of books for Oxford University Press entitled Issues in Biomedical Ethics. In 1994 John Harris was elected a member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences. John Harris is the author or editor of fourteen books and over one hundred and fifty papers.
Recent publications are listed on John’s staff webpage.
Matti Hayry
Matti Häyry is Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Law. He studied and taught philosophy and ethics in Finland before moving to the United Kingdom in 2001. He joined the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy in 2004, and launched in 2007 the Centre’s Doctoral Programme in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence. During 2009-2011 he was a Professorial Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland. His areas of expertise include the history and theory of moral, social, and political philosophy, bioethics, and the ethics of new technologies. Completing a decade-long project on reproductive ethics, genetics, and notions of rationality, he published in 2010 Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? (Cambridge University Press). Currently, his research interests include issues in justice and exploitation, and the nature of humanity.
Søren Holm
Søren Holm, Professor of Bioethics and Director of CSEP. Søren is a medical doctor and philosopher. He further holds a PhD and a higher Danish doctorate in medical ethics. He has worked in bioethics and philosophy of medicine since the early 1990s and have published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals on very wide range of issues. His current research focuses on issues in research ethics, foundational issues in the relation between moral philosophy and bioethics, and anything else that turns out to be interesting and worthwhile researching. Apart from his Chair in Manchester he also holds a permanent, part-time Chair in Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the current Editor in Chief of the journal Clinical Ethics, published by RSM Press, and is among other things a member of the UK Stem Cell Bank Steering Committee and the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council.
Kirsty Keywood
Kirsty Keywood, LL.B (Leicester) LL.M (Leicester). Senior Lecturer in Law, formerly lecturer in law, University of Liverpool. Ms Keywood’s research interests are in medical law, gender and law and mental health law. She is particularly interested in health care decision-making by, with and for vulnerable adults. She has also undertaken considerable work in the field of gender and health care law. Recent publications are listed on Kirsty’s staff webpage.
Muireann Quigley
Muireann Quigley, BSc (St. Andrews), BSc (Hons) (Manchester), MB ChB (Manchester) MA (Manchester). Lecturer in Bioethics. 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 is currently a Research Fellow in Bioethics and Law and is also undertaking her PhD on ‘A Right to Healthcare?’ Her specific research interests are the ethics of reproduction and the reproductive technologies, genetics, rights - specifically property rights in the human body and its parts, and issues of justice and responsibility in healthcare.
Website: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/muireann_quigley/
Catherine Stanton
Dr Catherine Stanton – BD Hons (St Andrews), Solicitor (non-practising), MA (Manchester), PhD (Manchester) Lecturer in Health Care Law. Catherine teaches and researches in the area of medical law. She is Programme Director of the MA/PG Diploma in Health Care Ethics and Law by Distance Learning. She also supervises doctoral students. Catherine’s doctoral thesis examined legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of genetic information within the family. Catherine is also interested in the overlap between medical law and criminal law. She, David Gurnham and Hannah Quirk have recently been awarded ESRC funding for a series of seminars to examine issues surrounding the criminalisation of the transmission of disease.