The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice
Project Team
Margaret Brazier is a Professor in Law at the University of Manchester, and co-director of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy with Professor John Harris. Professor Brazier has written widely on medical law and ethics and has published in most of the leading legal journals. Professor Brazier was appointed Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee 1993-98, Chair of Review of Surrogacy Arrangements 1996-98, Chair of the Retained Organs Commission 2001-2004; member of the Arts and Humanities Research Board 1998-2001, and recently Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party the Ethics of Prolonging Life in Fetuses and the Newborn. She is also the Chief Editor of the Medical Law Review. Her specific research interests include the criminal process and health care, the use of human tissue, patients' responsibilities, the history of medical law, the ethics of prolonging life in severely disabled fetuses and newborn infants. Professor Brazier is the Principal Investigator for the present AHRC project.
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, individual moral responsibility and blameworthiness, and the relationship between human values and rational arguments.
Suzanne Ost is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University. Her teaching interests lie in health care law and ethics, the law relating to child pornography and sexual grooming and related aspects of criminal law. Her main research interests are the legal and societal responses to child pornography and the sexual grooming of children, law and medical ethics (particularly euthanasia), related aspects of criminal law, law and literature and the 'euthanasia' and medical experimentation programmes that were implemented in Nazi Germany. She is currently writing a monograph entitled 'Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses' (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2008), and has recently been involved in the organisation of a mini-colloquium upon the theme of constraints in law and literature. She has published widely in her field, and is also editor for book reviews for the Medical Law Review journal and a reviewer for the Journal of Medical Ethics. Dr Ost is a member of the project management board on the present AHRC project.
Anne-Maree Farrell is a Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Manchester. Her teaching and research interests lie generally in health law and ethics, particularly on a comparative/EU basis. Her current research interests focus on EU health governance (in particular the regulation of human material - blood, tissue, organs) for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship (2006); medical malpractice; and patients' rights and responsibilities. In conjunction with colleagues in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP) at Manchester, she is managing the ESRC-sponsored seminar series Transplantation and the Organ Deficit in the UK: Pragmatic Solutions to Ethical Controversy. She has been retained by the European Commission to advise on ethical aspects associated with scientific research funded under FP7. She is also currently a member of the national executive of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA). She previously worked as a lawyer in private practice in both Australia and Ireland, specialising in medical malpractice, product liability and mass torts. Dr Farrell is a member of the project management board on the present AHRC project, and will be working on a particular aspect of the project with Professor Brazier involving a comparative case study analysis of the HIV-contaminated blood in France and organ retention in the UK.
Andrew Sanders is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Birmingham. He taught at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, Bristol and Manchester before taking up his current post in December 2009. Professor Sanders was Head of the School of Law, University of Manchester from 2003-2007. Professor Sanders is a Member of Northern Ireland Life Sentence Commission (from 2000 to date). He has previously been a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales and of the Attorney-General’s Advisory Board for the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, and he was an EU Expert in its PHARE Rule of Law Programme for the candidate countries, 2001-3. His research interests lie in working on ways to integrate victim, suspect and defendant perspectives in criminal justice. Professor Sanders is a member of the project management board of the present AHRC project, having particular responsibility for an empirical study of how people come to be regarded as victims of crime in the health care system.
Amel Alghrani is a Research Associate on the present AHRC project. As an undergraduate Amel read law and was the successful recipient of the Yarborough Anderson Benefactors Award and Scholarship Award of £10,000 from The Honorable Society of Inner Temple. She went to complete the Bar Vocational Course, and was called to the Bar in 2003 having attained a Very Competent Grade. Amel went on to work in the Fitness to Practice Directorate of the General Medical Council before deciding to further pursue her interest in Medical Law. She undertook a Masters in Healthcare Ethics and Law at the University of Manchester and was subsequently appointed as an Associate Lecturer. Amel completed her PhD at the University of Manchester looking at the regulation of reproduction. She has recently published in the Medical Law Review and Child and Family Law Quarterly.
Danielle Griffiths is a Research Associate on the present AHRC project. Danielle studied for an undergraduate degree in Sociology (2001) and an MA in Social Research Methods (2002) in the Sociology Department at Manchester University. She went on to complete her PhD at the same place in 2006. Since then she has worked as a research fellow and part time lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. Prior to this she has worked on various funded research projects including studies based at Oxford University’s Centre for Criminological Research on minority ethnic defendant’s and witness’s perceptions of fairness in the criminal courts as well as a project on minority ethnic young people in the youth justice system. Danielle’s main research interests lie in the areas of social and cultural theory, gender and sexuality and research methodology.
Melinee Kazarian is a PhD candidate carrying out research in support of the present AHRC project. She read French law at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 in France as an undergraduate and completed a Bachelor’s degree, having undertaken two diplomas in English law and American law. Melinee has studied for one year at the University of Manchester as an erasmus student.
Alexandra Mullock is a PhD candidate carrying out research in support of the present AHRC project. As an undergraduate Alex read law before completing a research based LLM on healthcare law and ethics at Keele University in 2003. Whilst studying for her Masters Alex taught A level law at a college in Staffordshire, during which time Alex also completed a PGCE in post compulsory education. In 2004 Alex took over as Head of law at the college, a position she recently left in order to join the team at the University of Manchester.
Kate Bradbury is based at the University of Manchester. She is the Administrative Secretary to the AHRC funded project and to the Medical Law Review, Oxford University Press. She moved to Manchester in September 2005, having previously lived in Canada.