Biomedical Ethics covers a wide range of research interests. Current funded research projects (including PhD studentships) are underway in the following areas: transitions to fatherhood; directed and conditional organ donation; post-separation family life and shared residence; research ethics; telecare; and, the allocation of human eggs for reproductive purposes. More broadly, we are also interested in supervising research on organ and tissue transplantation and donation, parenting including the role of fathers, research ethics, end of life, professionalism, infectious disease control particularly in relation to public health ethics, clinical ethics, and the teaching of medical ethics. We are also interested in potential projects that combine ethics and the history of medicine.
We are able to supervise traditional philosophical bioethical research but also actively encourage students to use to empirical bioethics methodologies, in particularly those that include qualitative methods. A new MRES, which would include training in empirical bioethics, is being planned for the academic year 2011.We are therefore able to assist prospective students who are looking for funding for 1+3 studentships.
We are also interested in mixed methods research beyond empirical bioethics and would be willing to co-supervise the ethical dimensions of more clinical or epidemiological projects.
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For further information on our publications, past and present research projects please visit our website: www.haps.bham.ac.uk/primarycare/cbme/index.shtml
School of Health and Population Sciences website: www.haps.bham.ac.uk