University of Central Lancashire
Natasha Burns is a Research Associate and PhD Student within the Innovation In Society Unit at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). Natasha graduated from UCLAN in 2008 with a LLB Law degree and immediately began her PhD studies entitled: “Theorising New Concepts to Regulate Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells” due for completion in 2012.
Natasha began her research career in 2008 as a Harris Fund intern for the Pharmacy Practice Team (UCLAN) which explored issues of professionalism within pharmacy practice. Natasha then joined the Innovation in Society team as a research assistant to various projects. She has recently been promoted to research associate managing and supporting a number of research projects including GLEUBE. Natasha holds a wide range of research interests including reproductive technologies, embryology, converging technologies, youth engagement, disability access rights, criminal justice, public engagement and policy, ethics, law and governance.
Email: NALBurns1@uclan.ac.uk
Dr Floris Tomasini Before 1993 Floris Tomasini had a varied career, including: a roadie for major rock bands, a drug and alcohol counsellor at a London night shelter, a trawler man, a military journalist and a history teacher.
In the mid 1990’s Floris went back to Lancaster University to do an MA in environmental philosophy and Ph.D. in philosophy and science studies (ESRC/CASE studentship). The Ph.D. was directed at both academic philosophers and practitioners, namely English Heritage who part sponsored the project and used the findings in their policy and attitude towards sense of place in their response to ancient monuments.
After his Ph.D. Floris interests developed from place and belonging to personal identity i.e. how we belong to ourselves and relate to others through the lens of personal identity. While Floris area of expertise is in continental philosophy, phenomenology and ethics, he has accrued interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary skills over the years widening his scope of interests and publications.
Email: FJTomasini@uclan.ac.uk
Cardiff University
Dr. Choon Key Chekar has been working at Cesagen since 2008 and taking part in various research projects including: Comparative Analyses of˜Public Discourse" and "Discourses about The Public" in Relation to Stem Cell Research as part of Stem Cell Capacity Building and Awareness Raising Project. Most recently Dr. Chekar has been working as a member of ELSI work-package in the EU FP7 Project Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) with Professor Ruth Chadwick.
Email: CHEKAR@cardiff.ac.uk
Dublin City University
Elizabeth Yuko is a researcher and PhD student at the Institute of Ethics at Dublin City University. She obtained a BA in Political Science from The College of Wooster, prior to completing an MA in International Security and Conflict Studies and an LLM at Dublin City University. Both her MA and LLM dissertations were on the subject of human trafficking laws and policies in Europe. Elizabeth is currently also working on her PhD on ectogenesis and the European Union funded Tiss.EU project.
Email: elizabeth.yuko2@mail.dcu.ie
University of Oslo
Dr Jens Erik Paulsen is trained as an engineer in computer science and holds a PhD in philosophy (Differentiation Otherness. Groundwork for an Other-based Ethics). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Ethics Programme and the Section for Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo,
Norway.
Among his interests are research ethics, professional ethics – particularly how professional roles are influenced by ethics education, as well as narrative ethics and ethics of caring as particularist approaches to medical ethics. He is member of a clinical ethics committee and serves as member of the board of the Norwegian Network for Professional Ethics.
E-mail: j.e.paulsen@ifikk.uio.no
University Of Helsinki
Markus Neuvonen is a PhD student at the Department of Economic and Political studies in University of Helsinki within the unit of Social and Moral Philosophy. He graduated M. Soc. Sci. in 2009 as a philosophy major, having done his Master’s thesis on theorizing on ethical responsibility for neglected diseases within global pharmaceutical research. He anticipates his doctoral dissertation on the related topics to be ready by 2013.
He has received a personal fund from the Finnish Cultural Foundation to start working on his thesis, but he has been actively employed in teaching on various topics as well as coordinating and organizing several education-related projects within the University of Helsinki. For the moment he is working as a part-time research assistant to prof. Matti Häyry in the GLEUBE and a part-time researcher on a university-funded research project on the concept of responsibility. His research interests meander between substantial ethical and political issues in pharmaceutical research, and methodological and meta-philosophical questions in bioethics.
Email: markus.neuvonen@helsinki.fi
