This is the Website for the UK Annual Postgraduate Bioethics Conference.
The conference is now in its fourth year. Details about this and previous conferences can be found below.
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New Sponsors: CESAGEN and Bioethics
Posted on April 27th, 2009 No commentsWe are please to announce that the conference will be sponsored by Cesagen and by Wiley-Blackwell as the publishers of the journal Bioethics. A panel will be convened to represent the interests of Cesagen; papers focussing on the ethical implications of Genetics/ Genomics are strongly encouraged. Papers given at the conference will be considered for publication by the editors of Bioethics.
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First Annual Postgraduate Bioethics Conference.
Posted on April 6th, 2009 No commentsBioethics: Past, Present and Future.
The first Postgraduate Conference in Bioethics was held at the University of Birmingham on the 23rd and 24th of June 2006. Funded by the Wellcome Trust the conference aimed to:
- Bring together post-graduate researchers working in bioethics and related disciplines.
- Provide a platform for postgraduate bioethicists to present their research.
- Facilitate discussion on future directions in the field of bioethics.A selection of the papers delivered at this conference were published in Healthcare Analysis Vol.6. No. 1. March 2008. Details are here.
The conference co-ordinators and the editors of the special edition of Healthcare Analysis were: Jonathan Ives, Emma Baldock, Adelé Langlois, and Anna Smajdor
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The Second Annual Postgraduate Bioethics Conference:
Posted on April 6th, 2009 No commentsWhy Bioethics: Our Research in Context.
The Second Postgraduate Conference in Bioethics was held at King’s College, Cambridge on the 30th and 31st of July 2007. Funded by the Wellcome Trust, King’s College and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Science and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge the conference aimed to bring together postgraduate researchers from different disciplines, including the humanities, and the social, natural and medical sciences, to explore the bioethical foundations and implications of their research.
Organising Committee Mikey Dunn (Department of Psychiatry) Zeynep Gurtin-Broadbent (Centre for Family Research) Jonathan Ives (Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham) and Jessica Wheeler (Department of Psychiatry). The organising committee wrote a geust editorial in Clinical Ethics Vol.3.No.4. Dec. 2008.
A conference report is available here.
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The Third Annual Postgraduate Bioethics Conference.
Posted on April 6th, 2009 No commentsChallenges at the Interface between BioLaw and Bioethics.
The Third Annual Postgraduate Conference in Bioethics was held at the University of Manchester on the 30th of June and the 1sdt of July 2008. The conference was sponsored by the School of Law, University of Manchester, the
Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester, Hart Publishing Ltd. and Eversheds LawFirm.The conference organisers were Sheelagh McGuinness, Marleen Eijkholt,Mikey Dunn, Amel Alghrani, Sarah Devaney and Muireann Quigley. The conference website is here.
The conference programme is available here.