Conference Organizer: Global Bioethics Thursday 30th-Friday 31st March 2017 Aula Magna de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas, Sociales y de la Comunicación Sección Ciencias de la Información Camino La Hornera 37, 38205 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain Abstract: An international meeting of experts in Bioethics field, from diferent disciplines as Philosophy,… Read more »
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MQ launches fifth annual Fellows funding call – Deadline for applications April 25th 17.00 BST
Today we’ve launched our fifth annual Fellows call for researchers exploring new and better ways to understand, treat and prevent mental illness. Our Fellows Award funds the best and brightest early-career scientists and clinicians pursuing a career in mental health research....
Early Intervention: Hoping for the Best

Early intervention (EI) is greatly concerned with the idea of ‘life chances’. This is the ‘good’ that EI seeks to provide for its citizens, and a fair distribution of life chances for children during the early years is seen as...
An Ethnographer in Northside Dublin

In November 2016 I left Oxford to conduct 12 months of fieldwork in Darndale, in Northside Dublin, Ireland. Since then, many among my new friends and colleagues have been asking me what exactly I am doing here. And when I...
Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship – Deadline for proposals 24 April 2017
The Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship is funded by the Ethox Foundation and is awarded annually to a post-doctoral or early career researcher to visit the Ethox Centre. The value of the scholarship is up to £2000, and is intended to...
31st European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care: Emerging Technologies in Healthcare, 16th-19th August
Event Organizer: European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare and Center for the Study of Bioethics (Belgrade) 16th-19th August Hotel M Bulevar Oslobođenja 56a 11000 Belgrade Abstract: This conference will be organized by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (http://espmh.org) and the Center for the Study of Bioethics from Belgrade (www.csb.eu.com).… Read more »
More DetailsDr Rodolfo Maggio will attend a workshop on ‘Critical Medical Anthropology Workshop’, Oaxaca, Mexico, 16-20 January 2017
The workshop is jointly coordinated by University College London and Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. It will convene scholars from UK and Mexico to work on the following themes: 1. Chronic illnesses, 2. Critical engagement with...
Chasing “Normal”: When Do Scientific Representations of Autism Hinder the Search for Effective Interventions?

by Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, The City University of New York What do you really think autism is? When one autism researcher asked four other autism researchers this, our answers were strikingly different. Viewpoints on autism are as diverse as autism itself...
Postdoctoral researcher Gabriela Pavarini and DPhil student Arianna Manzini commence work on the Citizens: EIE project
This autumn, two new BeGOOD team members joined the Citizens: EIE project. Citizens: EIE aims to investigate young people’s moral attitudes to, and judgements about a range of early intervention strategies to manage moral and behavioural development. Working with young...
Rose Mortimer will Give Guest Lecture at King’s College London
We are delighted to announce that Rose Mortimer, DPhil student within the BeGOOD Team, will give a guest lecture at King's College London on the 31st January. Rose will lecture for the Bioethics and Society Masters Programme, focussing on her...