Areas of expertise
The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP) is one of Europe's leading institutions, undertaking research and teaching in bioethics and biolaw.
An active programme of research in CSEP is organised around ten principal topics and generates continuing volumes of outputs:
- reproduction and reproductive technologies (Becki Bennett);
- uses of human organs and tissues (Margot Brazier, Charles Erin, Anne-Maree Farrell);
- health care and medicine (Margot Brazier, Becki Bennett, Simona Giordano);
- stem cells, cloning and embryo research (John Harris, Catherine Stanton, David Gurnham);
- 'genethics' (Becki Bennett, Kirsty Keywood);
- genetic modification (John Harris, Catherine Stanton);
- enhancement, ability and disability (John Harris, Matti Häyry);
- philosophy in bioethics (Matti Häyry, Iain Brassington);
- law and bioethics (Kirsty Keywood, David Gurnham, John Coggon);
- clinical negligence (Sarah Devaney, Anne-Maree Farrell, Angela Melville, Frank Stephen).