Some examples of the research our current students are working on:
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Ben Bessey (Works on capability approach and justice). Supervised by Heather Widdows and Iain Law
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Toby Betenson (Works on the problem of evil and ethics). Supervised by Yujin Nagasawa
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Sabrina Intelisano (Works on happiness and imprisonment). Supervised by Jussi Suikkanen
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Sarah-Louise Johnson (Works on commodification of bodies and persons). Supervised by Heather Widdows
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Herjeet Marway (Works on female suicide bombers and agency). Supervised by Heather Widdows
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Alfred Ongera (Works on corruption in Kenya). Supervised by Iain Law
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Ruth Oswald (Works on faith schools and multiculturalism). Formally supervised by Tom Sorell, from Nov 2012 supervised by Iain Law and Michael Hand (Education)
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Rob Shrimpton (works on self-deception and wellbeing). Supervised by Iain Law
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Lauren Traczykowski (Works on emergency situations and global justice). Supervised by Heather Widdows.
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Peter West-Oram (Works on global justice and health). Supervised by Heather Widdows
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Andrew Woodhall (Works on global animal ethics). Supervised by Lisa Bortolotti and Heather Widdows
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Ibrahim Yuksel (Works on ancient philosophy and virtue theory and multiculturalism). Supervised by Iain Law and Heather Widdows
Student publications
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Peter West Oram and Heather Widdows ‘Global Population and Global Justice: Equitable Distribution of Resources Among Countries’. In eLS 2011, John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Chichester, 2012 http://www.els.net/ [DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0024140]
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Heather Widdows and Peter West Oram ‘Why bioethics must be global’ in Global Health edited by John Coggon, Bloomsbury academic, forthcoming, 2012.
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Heather Widdows and Emma Bullock ‘Reconsidering Consent and Biobanking’ in Biobanks and Tissue Research. The Public, the Patient and the Regulation eds. Christain Lenk and Nils Hoppe Springer, 2011, pp 111-125
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Emma Bullock ‘Informed Consent as Waiver: The Doctrine Rethought?’ (2010) Ethical Perspectives, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 531-558
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Herjeet Marway. “The UK law and global ethics of commercial surrogacy”, Travail, Genre et Sociétés, forthcoming (2012)
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Herjeet Marway. “Scandalous subwomen and sublime superwomen: exploring portrayals of female suicide bombers’ agency”, Journal of Global Ethics, 2011, 7:3, pp 221-240
Awards and funding
Emma Bullock, Peter West-Oram and Andrew Woodhall all won AHRC awards and Ben Bessey won a College-Scholarship.
In addition, Peter won an AHRC Library of Congress Fellowship (2011-2012) and Herjeet Marway won the ‘Matthew K. O’Rourke Prize for Doctoral Excellence’ (2011) and has been awarded a £1500 U21 Scholarship to visit McGill University (November, 2011).