Society and Ethics (formerly biomedical ethics) grants awarded: UK and Republic of Ireland

Strategic Awards

Michael Parker (2011)
University of Oxford
A programme to build capacity in global health research ethics and community engagement across the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programmes

Professor Theresa Marteau (2008)
King's College London
Centre for the study of incentives in health

Professor Julian Savulescu (2008)
University of Oxford
The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics

Professor Clare Williams (2008)
King's College London
The ethics of translational research: from 'unnatural entities' to experimental treatments

Professor John Harris (2008)
University of Manchester
The human body: its scope, limits and future

Enhancement Awards

Professor Susan Golombok (2008)
University of Cambridge
Redefining families: Bioethics, assisted reproduction and emerging family forms

Professor Michael Parker (2008)
University of Oxford
The ethics of collaborative global health research: a network to build capacity in the United Kingdom and developing countries

Professor Malcolm Dando, Dr Alexander Kelle and Dr Brian Rappert (2008)
Universities of Bradford, Bath and Exeter
Building a sustainable capacity in dual-use bioethics

University Awards

Dr Sahra Gibbon (2008)
University College London
Admixture, ancestry and breast cancer in Brazil: an ethnographic investigation of population genetics, disease risk and identity as the basis for a critical bio-ethics.

Dr Guy Kahane (2008)
University of Oxford
Wellbeing, consciousness and moral decision-making: key concepts in biomedical ethics

Senior Investigator Awards

Professor Mary Dixon-Woods (2012)
University of Leicester
Ethics of patient safety and quality in healthcare

Professor Susan Golombok (2012)
University of Cambridge
Future families: the social and psychological outcomes of emerging assisted reproductive technologies for individuals, families and society

Dr Ian Harper (2012)
University of Edinburgh
Understanding TB control: technologies, ethics and programmes

Professors Rosamund Scott and Stephen Wilkinson (2012)
King's College London and Keele University (respectively)
The donation and transfer of human reproductive materials

Research Fellowships

Dr Sian Beynon-Jones (2011)
University of York
Making sense of the ethics of gestational time in the abortion clinic: A comparative analysis of clinical and lay understandings.

Ms Patricia Kingori (2011)
University of Oxford
Finding Solutions to Moral Dilemmas in Ethically Charged Contexts: the case of Paediatric HIV/AIDS research in Developing Country settings.

Dr Jillian Craigie (2011)
University College London
Agency, mental capacity and criminal responsibility in mental disorder.

Ms Kerry Woolfall (2011)
University of Liverpool
Consent Methods in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care Trials .

Dr Martyn Pickersgill (2010)
University of Edinburgh
Access Denied: The Roles of Clinical Knowledge and Moral Discourse in Mediating Access to Psychological Therapies.

Dr Sridhar Venkatapuram (2010)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Capabilities theory and global population-level bioethics.

Dr Bennett Foddy (2010)
University of Oxford
Ethical Lifespan Enhancement.

Dr Alexandra Hillman (2010)
Cardiff University
Ethics in practice: An ethnographic study of decision-making and their implications in dementia care

Dr Neema Sofaer (2009)
King's College London
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Post-Trial Access to Trial Drugs, Health Care and Information

Dr Thomas Douglas (2008)
University of Oxford
The Dual-Use Dilemma in Biomedical Science: An Ethical Analysis

Research Fellowships for Health Professionals and Scientists

Dr Andrew Trathen (2011)
King's College London
Dental professionalism and ethics: what does it mean in practice?

Dr Madeleine L H Campbell (2011)
Royal Veterinary College
Bioethical decision making in the clinical practice of assisted reproductive techniques in non-human mammals.

Dr Joanne Gordon (2010)
Keele University
The Management of Alcohol Dependence Syndrome: Autonomy, Compulsion and Ulysses Contracts

Dr Gareth Owen (2009)
King's College London
A phenomenological study of decision-making capacity in psychiatric disorders

Dr Hanna Pickard (2009)
University of Oxford
Responsibility and Morality within Personality Disorder

Dr Paul Baines (2008)
Keele University
Making medical decisions for children: a philosophical approach

Wellcome Trust/Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Fellowships

Dr Sridhar Venkatapuram (2011)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Hierarchy of evidence in public health research and policy.

Dr Gareth Owen (2010)
King's College London
Interpreting the Mental Capacity Act (2005) in mental health care.

Dr Scott Vrecko (2009)
London School of Economics and Political Science
Criminal Offending

Dr Thomas Douglas (2008)
University of Oxford
Censoring science: the dual-use dilemma and science publication

Dissemination Awards

Prof Stephen Wilkinson (2010)
Keele University
Eugenics and Genetics: dissemination project.

Dr Lubomira Radoilska (2010)
University of Cambridge
Pharmaceutical ethics beyond distributive justice

Professor Nikolas Rose (2009)
London School of Economics and Political Science
Human genomic diversity in biomedicine: social ethical and policy implications of categorisation

Small grants

Dr Darryl Gunson (2011)
University of West of Scotland (Formerly University of Paisley)
Habermasian Bioethics: a new approach to emerging biomedical technologies?

Dr Sahra Gibbon (2011)
University College London
BRCA Gene Research and Medical Practices. A comparative transnational social science workshop.

Dr Peter Wemyss-Gorman (2011)
British Pain Society
For the 'Annual meeting of Special Interest Group of the British Pain Society for Philosophy and Ethics' to be held in Launde Abbey, Leicestershire on 16-19th May 2011.

Professor Marie Fox (2011)
Keele University
Research with living beings: a multidisciplinary conversation on primates and human embryos in research.

Professor Steven D Edwards (2011)
Swansea University
Brain death and organ transplantation.

Dr Maya Unnithan (2011)
University of Sussex
Global Flows, Human Rights, Sexual And Reproductive Health: Ethnographies of Institutional Change in the Global South.

Prof. Jenny Kitzinger (2011)
Cardiff University
Coma, Consciousness and Serious Brain Injury: medical humanities and decision making.

Dr Neil Davison (2011)
Royal Society
The Security Impact of Developments in Neuroscience.

Dr John Owens (2011)
King's College London
Interdisciplinary and Empirical Ethics Network (IEEN).

Prof G.A.M Widdershoven (2011)
Vrije University Medical Centre
7th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation (ICCEC 2011 Moving Ethics).

Dr Mark Sheehan (2011)
University of Oxford
Ethics, Equipoise and Research on Charged Particle Therapy.

Dr Jane Kaye (2010)
University of Oxford
International Data Sharing Conference 2010.

Dr Sarah Chan (2010)
University of Manchester
Humans and other animals: challenging the boundaries of humanity - public lecture.

Dr Adam Oliver (2010)
London School of Economics & Pol Science
Issues in end of life care: a UK-US comparative perspective

Professor Adam M Hedgecoe (2010)
Cardiff University
Microbiology, genomics, and beyond: regulating dual use technologies into the 21st Century.

Dr Antonia Cronin (2010)
King's College London
The ethics of organ retrieval: Goals, rights and responsibilities.

Ms Patricia Walsh (2010)
King's College London
Autism Ethics Group.

Mr Peter Littlejohns (2010)
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Social Values and Health Priority Setting: An International Comparative Analysis.

Dr Martyn Pickersgill (2010)
University of Edinburgh
Translating the Brain: Ethics, Publics, Prospects.

Dr David Misselbrook (2010)
Royal Society of Medicine
Ethics of the ordinary.

Professor Michael McNamee (2010)
Swansea University
Ethical and Scientific issues for Genetics in Sports Medicine.

Mr Stephen Peckham (2010)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ethical dilemmas: public health.

Professor Christopher Wathes (2010)
Royal Veterinary College
First International Conference on Veterinary Ethics/ Principles and practice of veterinary ethics

Dr Nathan Emmerich (2010)
Queen's University Belfast
Social Scientific Approaches to Bioethics: Method and Methodologies

Dr Georgia Testa (2010)
University of Leeds
Philosophy in Research Ethics

Dr Cathleen Schulte (2010)
Human Genetics Commission
Understanding the concept of genetic discrimination

Dr David Hunter (2010)
Keele University
Ethical Issues in Infectious Disease Control

Dr Angus Dawson (2010)
Keele University
Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: Problems and Prospects

Professor Anneke Lucassen (2009)
University of Southampton
Genetic testing of Children: Updating national guidelines

Professor John Harris (2009)
University of Manchester
Proprietary challenges in stem cell research: scientific innovation and global justice

Ms Sheelagh McGuinness (2009)
Keele University
Conscientious Objection in Public Life

Dr Lubomira Radoilska (2009)
University of Cambridge
Autonomy and mental health

Dr Alison Mohr (2008)
University of Nottingham
Healthy partnerships or conflicting interests