Qualifications:

PhD Candidate in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, QUB. Funded as part of the Changing Ageing Project.

Working Title: Teaching and Learning Medical Ethics on Clinical Placement in Ageing and Health.

M.Res (Masters in Social Science Research Methods). School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy. Queens University Belfast.

Dissertation: Ethical Decision Making in Doctors and Nurses: A Contribution to the Kohlberg – Gilligan Debate. (2007)

Ma Healthcare Ethics. School of Philosophy. University of Leeds.

Dissertation: The Ethics and Rationality of Suicide. (2004)

Ba (Hons) Philosophy & The History and Philosophy of Science. School of Philosophy. University of Leeds. (2001)

Publications:

On the Ethics Committee: The Expert Member, the Lay Member and the Absentee Ethicist. Research Ethics Review. Volume 5. Number 1. March 2009.

Are Placebos Ethical? Journal of the Northern Ireland Forum for ethics in Medicine. Volume 4. 2007.

Sex and the Social Epistemologist. In Quest Issue 3: Proceedings of the GRF Workshop (Special Edition). Feb 2007. http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUEST/JournalIssues/Issue3ProceedingsoftheGRF/

Conference Papers:

Social Science, Bioethics and Postmodern Ethics: Methodological Reflections. Given at ‘Challenges at the Interface of Biolaw and Bioethics’ The 3rd Annual Postgraduate Conference in Bioethics, the University of Manchester. 30^th of June & 1^st of July 2009. Dr. Levitt provided a response to my paper.

Social Science, Bioethics and Postmodern Ethics: Methodological Reflections. Given at the Quest postgraduate conference held at QUB 26^th and 27^th of June 2008.

Sex and the Social Epistemologist. Given at Gender Research Forum Workshop ‘Thinking through Gender and Science’ on the 25^th of October 2006.

Book Reviews:

Review of Bosk’s What would you Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography. (2008) Forthcoming in Sociology of Health and Illness.

Review of Webster’s Health, Technology and Society: A Sociological Critique. (2007) Forthcoming in Metascience.

Review of Imber’s Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine (2008) Forthcoming in Metascience.

Review of DeVrie’s et al The View from Here (2007) Forthcoming in International Sociology.

Review of Research Ethics for Social Scientists. Israel, M & Hay, I. In Research Ethics Review (2006) Vol.2. No.4.

Academic Related Activities:

·      Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee for the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust since its inception in March 2008.

·      Member of the Academy of Social Sciences working group on research ethics in the social sciences.

·      Attended the Academy of Social Science’s consultation on the ethics of social science research and the ESRC’s REF on behalf of the Socio-Legal Studies Association.

·      Attended the Third Conference on Medical Ethics and Law -the Core Curriculum and Methods of Assessment run by the Institute of Medical Ethics and the British Medical Association on the 23^rd of January 2009.

·      Editor of Quest, a postgraduate e-journal run by the postgraduates of Queen’s University Belfast. 2006- present. www.qub.ac.uk/quest

·      Organiser for the Quest postgraduate conference 26^th and 27^th of June 2008

·      I have been accepted as a lay member for one the school research ethics committee by the QUB Research Governance office. I am awaiting deployment to a particular school.

·      Council member for Northern Ireland Ethics Forum. http://www.qub.ac.uk/methics/

·      Organiser of the Northern Ireland Forum for Ethics in Medicine and Healthcare evening meeting on the Ethics of Social Scientific Research on Healthcare. 14^th of November 2007.

·      Council Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Ethics in Medicine and Healthcare. (2007- present). www.qub.ac.uk/methics

·      Organiser for the Quest AHRC sponsored conference ‘Perspectives on Power.’ 2^nd-3^rd of March 2007. http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUEST/PastEvents/March2007Conference/#d.en.34817

·      Peer Reviewer for Episteme a postgraduate e-journal. http://research.ncl.ac.uk/e-pisteme/

·      Peer reviewer for Quest.

·      Organiser of the Gender Research Forum Workshop, QUB. November 2006.

·      The Steering Group of the Arts Humanities and Social Science Faculty Postgraduate Research Centre.

·      Attended the Irish Association of Suicidology Conference 2005.

Teaching Experience:

·      Tutor for ‘Ethics in Paediatrics.’ A Student Selected Component of the QUB Medical Degree (MB) program.

·      Seminar leader for ‘Social Science Research Ethics’ delivered to both M.A. and D.Gov. students at The Institute of Governance. QUB.

·      Courses accepted to the Open Learning program, QUB: ‘Introduction to Medical Ethics’ and ‘Science and Society.’ (Neither course ran due to student numbers.)

·      Tutor for ‘Introduction to Ethics’, ‘Theoretical Philosophy’, ‘Mind’ and ‘Reason and Argument’. School of Philosophy, University of Leeds. 2003/04.

Additional Experience:

I was awarded a scholarship to attend the Kennedy Institute of Ethics 34th annual Intensive Bioethics Course in June 2008 at Georgetown University Washington DC.

Observed the meetings of the various committees at the Office of Research Ethics

(Northern Ireland). (The body which reviews the ethics of all research involving the NHS.)

Observed a meeting of the Research Ethics Committee in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Childcare, QUB.