Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Medical law and ethics
- The connection between religious and/or cultural beliefs and medical law
- Capacity in the context of children
- Capacity in the context of adults, especially dementia
- Assisted suicide
- Conscientious objection to abortion
Public outreach & key achievements
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Contributors’ Blog and Book reviews’ editor, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
- Member of the editorial board, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
- Author of Religion, Medicine and the Law, and editor of Global Patient Safety: Law, Policy and Practice
- Presented papers at home and abroad
- Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
- Member of the Irish Association of Law Teachers
- Member of the Northern/Irish Health Law and Ethics Network
- Member of the Health and Human Rights Unit, QUB
- External Member, Durham Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
- Published articles, case commentaries and book reviews in leading journals
Research students
| PhD area | The human right to health: Developing the economic accessibility component of the AAAQ framework |
|---|---|
| Name | Gema Ocana Noriega |
| PhD area | Criminal law and the autistic defendant: Solving the tension between the objective nature of criminal liability and emerging theories on neurodiversity |
| Name | Matthew McCallion |
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