Dr Jon Ives hD, M.Phil, BA(hons), PGCertTLHE

Lecturer in Behavioural Science

Primary Care Clinical Sciences

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 2952

Email j.c.ives@bham.ac.uk

Medicine, Ethics, Society and History (MESH)
Room 127, 90 Vincent Drive
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham, B15 2TT

About

Jonathan Ives is Lecturer in Behavioural Science in the School of Health and Population Sciences.

Jon publishes predominantly in the field of biomedical ethics, focussing on fatherhood and families, methods in empirical bioethics, and to a lesser extent on research ethics, public health ethics and ethics in medical education. He has published in other areas as a methodologist. He has held grants from the Wellcome Trust and the Economic and Social Research Council.

Jon is currently co-convener and chair of an academic network on Interdisciplinary and Empirical Ethics running jointly with King’s College London.

Jonathan teaches on a number of programmes, covering topics in Biomedical Ethics, Medical Sociology and Research Methods. He is programme director for the BMedSc ( PoSH) in Healthcare Ethics and Law, Module coordinator for the MBChB module ‘Doctors, Patients and Society’, and deputy module coordinator for the MPH module ‘Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods’.

Qualifications

  • PGCERT Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Award for Excellence), 2011
  • PhD, Biomedical Ethics and Law, 2007
  • M.Phil, Philosophy, 2005
  • BA (Hons), Philosophy, 2003
     

Biography

Jonathan initially studied Philosophy, before moving to Primary Care in 2004 to take up a Welcome Trust Prize Studentship in Biomedical Ethics and Law. His doctoral research looked the responsibilities and rights of fatherhood, and resulted in the development of a novel methodological approach for combining empirical and ethical analysis.

After being awarded his PhD in 2007, he took a position as a Research Fellow, jointly across the Departments of Philosophy and Primary Care at Birmingham, working on an NIHR RfPB project exploring the obligations of healthcare worker’s during an influenza pandemic.

He took up his current post as Lecturer in Behavioural Science in December 2008. He became part of the newly formed MESH unit in 2011, and his primary research interests are the philosophy and sociology of fatherhood, and method in bioethics.

Teaching

Teaching Programmes

Postgraduate supervision

Jonathan is currently supervising three PhD students:

• Greg Moorlock (2009-2012) - An empirically informed ethical analysis of directed and conditional cadaveric organ donation.
• Simon Jenkins (2010-2013) - The ethical allocation of eggs donated for the purpose of fertility treatment
• Derek Kyte (2011 – 2014) - The Methodological and Ethical Issues Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Clinical Trials

Jonathan is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

• The ethics and sociology of fathers, fatherhood and parenthood
• Men, fatherhood and mental health.
• Ethics in and of medical education.
• Theory and methods in Empirical Bioethics

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Jonathan on the contact details above, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: dr@contacts.bham.ac.uk or call +44 (0)121 414 5005.

Research

Other activities

  • Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Ethics Committee
    Consulting to Acacia Family Support, on an evaluation project of a new service to fathers, ‘Acacia Dads’
  • Consulting to the University of Zurich’s Institute of Biomedical Ethics on developing and delivering a training course on empirical bioethics methodology, 2011.
  • Member of the University of Lincoln Faculty Research Ethics Committee
  • Member of the editorial board for Health Care Analysis 
  • Member of the Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare Trust Clinical Ethics Advisory Group 2006-2008.
  • Reviewer for: BMC, JME, Bioethics, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Health Care Analysis, Clinical Ethics, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Health Sociology Review, Sociology of Health and Illness.
  • Reviewer for: ESRC; Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences; The Wellcome Trust.

Publications

Ives, J. Redwood, S. Damery S. (2012) PPI, Paradoxes and Plato: Who’s sailing the ship? Journal of Medical Ethics. Online advance: doi:10.1136/medethics-2011-100150

Ryan, A. Ives J. Wilson, S. Greenfield, G. (2010) Why members of the public self-test: An interview study. Family Practice, 27:570-581

Ives, J., Dunn, M. (2010) ‘Who’s arguing? A call for reflexivity in bioethics.’ Bioethics, 24(5): 256-265

Draper, H., Sorell, T., Ives, J., Damery, S., Greenfield, S., Parry, J., Petts, J., Wilson, S. (2010) Non-professional health care workers and ethical obligations to work during pandemic influenza . Public Health Ethics, 3(1): 23-34

Damery, S., Draper, H., Wilson, S., Greenfield, S., Ives, J., Parry, J., Petts, J., Sorell, T. (2010) Healthcare workers' perceptions of the duty to work during an influenza pandemic. Journal of Medical Ethics, 36:12-18

Draper, H., Ives, J. (2009) ‘Paternity testing: A poor test of fatherhood’. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 31(4):407-418. 

Ives, J., Draper, H., Damery, S., Wilson, S. (2009) ‘Do Family Doctors have an obligation to participate in research’. Family Practice, 26:543-548.

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