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Biomedical Ethics PhD – (Ph.D.)
University of Birmingham
School of Health & Population Sciences (HaPS)| Application Deadline: | None, but early application advised | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,232 - ≈ € 12,870 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Birmingham / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Birmingham
Biomedical Ethics covers a wide range of research interests. Current funded research projects (including PhD studentships) are underway in the following areas: transitions to fatherhood; directed and conditional organ donation; post-separation family life and shared residence; research ethics; telecare; and, the allocation of human eggs for reproductive purposes.
More broadly, we are also interested in supervising research on organ and tissue transplantation and donation, parenting including the role of fathers, research ethics, end of life, professionalism, infectious disease control particularly in relation to public health ethics, clinical ethics, and the teaching of medical ethics. We are also interested in potential projects that combine ethics and the history of medicine.
The Centre for Biomedical Ethics has the following aims:
* To achieve a national reputation for empirically informed bioethics
* To continue to produce high quality, internationally recognised publications in mainstream/philosophical bioethics
* To assist with ethical issues that arise in clinical practice, including both giving ethics advice to practitioners and providing ethics support to research teams across the School
* To continue to provide excellent teaching in ethics across the Medical School
* To work with the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics to develop projects on the international dimensions of healthcare and healthcare ethics
* To continue to work, with other relevant academics across the University interested in applied ethics, towards giving the University an applied ethics ‘brand’.
* To continue with appropriate external commitments that enhance the reputation of the Centre and the University.
Key facts Type of Course: Doctoral research
Duration: 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time; MPhil:1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
Start date: Research degrees may start at any time of the year, though for most this will be September 2011
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We are able to supervise traditional philosophical bioethical research but also actively encourage students to use to empirical bioethics methodologies, in particularly those that include qualitative methods. A new MRES, which would include training in empirical bioethics, is being planned for the academic year 2011.We are therefore able to assist prospective students who are looking for funding for 1+3 studentships.
We are also interested in mixed methods research beyond empirical bioethics and would be willing to co-supervise the ethical dimensions of more clinical or epidemiological projects.
Research interests of staff
* Ethical issues related to organ and tissue donation including for reproductive purposes, parenting, parenthood and reproduction, public health ethics, ethics and telecare
Dr Heather Draper (Professor of Biomedical Ethics)
Tel: +44 (0)1214146941
Email:h.draper@bham.ac.uk
* Ethical issues related to developing professionalism, including religious and cultural diversity, ethical issues in medical education.
Dr June Jones (Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics)
Tel: +44(0)121 414 2532
Email: j.jones.1@bham.ac.uk
* Parenting (particularly the ethics and sociology of fatherhood), ethical issues in medical education, public health ethics, research ethics, theory and methods in empirical bioethics.
Dr Jonathan Ives (Lecturer in Behavioural Science)
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 2952
Email: j.c.ives@bham.ac.uk
* Legal and ethical issues in health care education and mental health.
Ms Catherine Hale (Lecturer in Medical Law)
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3775
Email: C.Hale@bham.ac.uk
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To gain admission to a research degree programme (with the exception of the Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) or Doctor of Medicine (MD)) an applicant must comply with the following entry requirements:
* Attainment of an Honours degree (normally a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant subject awarded by an approved university, or
* Attainment of an alternative qualification or qualifications and/or evidence of experience judged by the University as indicative of an applicant’s potential for research and as satisfactory for the purpose of entry to a research degree programme.
In addition:
* Admission and registration for a research degree programme may be conditional on satisfactory completion of preliminary study, which may include assessment.
* In some cases you will also need to have completed a Masters degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject.
Please note
* Entry onto many programmes is highly competitive, therefore we consider the skills, attributes, motivation and potential for success of an individual when deciding whether to make an offer.
* Specific entry requirements are given for each programme. Any academic and professional qualifications or industrial experience you may have are normally taken into account, and in some cases form an integral part of the entrance requirements. If your qualifications are non-standard or different from the entry requirements stated in the online prospectus, please contact the relevant school or department to discuss whether your application would be considered.
* After we have received your application you may, if you live in the UK, be invited for an interview or to visit us to discuss your application.
English language requirements
* IELTS 6.5 with no less than 6.0 in any band;
* TOEFL IBT 93 with no less than 20 in any band
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Master's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 93 |
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