Health law and bioethics at the frontiers of innovation

'Health law and bioethics at the frontiers of innovation'


Supported by the Southampton Ethics Centre, the Society for Applied Philosophy and the Analysis Trust.


The Postgraduate Bioethics Conference invites abstracts for its forthcoming conference on 4th and 5th September 2014 to be held at the University of Southampton. The Postgraduate Bioethics Conference is a highly prestigious annual conference aimed at doctoral researchers whose research involves bioethical analysis. Over the past seven years, the Postgraduate Bioethics Conference has become established as a leading environment for doctoral candidates to meet, network and present their work. A competition is also being run which, subject to peer review, will give winning papers the opportunity to be published in the Medical Law Review, Health Care Analysis, Sociology of Health and Illness and possibly one other bioethics journal. The theme for this year’s Postgraduate Bioethics Conference is 'Health Law and Bioethics at the Frontiers of Innovation' and invites participants to reflect on the impact of new developments affecting bioethics and health and how these are informed and influenced by various ethical, moral, social, practical, legal and scientific viewpoints.


The Conference is a two-day event, designed to give opportunities for doctoral researchers involved in bioethical research to present their current work. The conference will also include four keynote addresses from senior scholars in their respective fields and two workshops, entitled ‘Bioethics in Practice’ and ‘Publishing in Bioethics’. Confirmed keynote speakers include


Professor John Bryant (University of Exeter/University of Cambridge)

Professor Bobbie Farsides (Brighton and Sussex Medical School)

Professor John Harris (University of Manchester)

Professor Jonathan Montgomery (Chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Chair of Health Research Authority and UCL)



and confirmed workshop speakers include



Professor Ruth Chadwick (University of Cardiff/University of Manchester)

Dr John Coggon (University of Southampton)

Dr Sara Fovargue (University of Lancaster)

Professor David Hughes (Swansea University).