The 5th UK and Ireland Postgraduate Bioethics Conference:
Social Scientific Approaches to Bioethics: Methods and Methodologies.
The 5th to the 7th of January 2011.
The Wellcome Conference Centre, Euston Road, London.
Funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness and Cesagen.
Also Sponsored by Nuffield Bioethics, Wiley-Blackwell, and the School of Law, QUB.
Guest speakers: Prof Alan Crib (CBAS, KCL); Leigh Turner (University of Minnesota); Dr Alexandra Plows (Bangor) and Dr Duncan Wilson (CHSTM, Manchester)
Post the empirical turn scholars at work in bioethics have been making continually greater use of social scientific approaches. One the one hand this can be seen as a fulfilment of the promise of bioethics as a truly interdisciplinary area of research, on the other we risk becoming as a recent paper has it “Jack of all trades, master of none” (Clinical Ethics 3(4) 2008). This conference seeks to go some way to engaging with this issue through offering four masterclasses on bioethics and an area of social scientific research. These will be focussed on contemporary history; researching publics; sociology; and empirical ethics. Each of these masterclasses will be prefaced by an established academic giving a presentation on the methodological contours of their approach. We seek postgraduate participants for the proposed masterclasses as well as paper presentations which address the conference theme. There are also some limited audience member places. Preference may be given to those which address the conference them and fall within the four areas identified.
There will also be a plenary lecture and some ‘added value’ sessions on academic life. These will include talks by funders, a session by early career researchers and a dedicated networking event, will also form part of the programme.
Please note there are limited presentation slots, places in the masterclasses and conference venue capacity. We will be making our decisions on the basis of addressing the topic at hand, presentation panel and masterclass coherence. There may be some audience only places available once the selction process has been completed.
The conference web site is here.
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