Past Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics Workshops and Events
Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society Regional Meeting
'Governance and Intellectual Property of Biotechnology: Developed and Developing Countries Perspectives'
2nd March 2012
The Moot Court, School of Law, University of Sheffield
Our Postgraduate research students Anna Hescott, Jessica Bell and Carlos Conde hosted the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society Regional Meeting on 2 March 2012.
The theme for the meeting was 'Governance and Intellectual Property of Biotechnology: Developed and Developing Countries Perspectives'.
The regional meeting was an opportunity for postgraduate students to meet, share their research and discuss the latest challenges in their area of research.
Learn more about this meeting and the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society PFGS 2012
Regulation and Governance of Medical Database Research in the United Kingdom
A one day workshop
17th June 2011 10am -4pm
Moot Court, Bartolome House, University of Sheffield
Organised by, Christopher Roy-Toole, Sebastian Sethe and Mark Taylor (Sheffield)
Speakers:
•Prof. Deryck Beyleveld (Durham)
•Prof. Sir John Burn (Newcastle)
•Prof. Graeme Laurie (Edinburgh)
•David Townend (Maastricht)
This is a very topical matter given that the Coalition Government have announced plans to create a new Health Research Agency. This one day workshop discussed the future face of NHS Information Governance in medical database research.
Find out more and download the presentations
Round-table: Feedback of clinically relevant research results to participants.
5 October 2010
The School of Law and the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics hosted an informal round-table discussion of the issues surrounding the feedback of clinically relevant research results to participants. Of particular interest is the issue of incidental findings.
Dr Mark Taylor hosted the event and Professor’s Brownsword (Kings College London), Laurie (Edinburgh), Richards (Cambridge) and Dr’s Kaye (Oxford), Lawford (Sheffield) and Douglas (Newcastle), as well as Andrew Harris (chair of the National Information Governance Board Ethics and Confidentiality Committee) attended the round-table and will be contribute to research that will be published and possibly influence policy development in this area.
Following the round-table some of our SIBLE Postgraduate Research students presented their research to the round-table. Professor Martin Richards (Cambridge) (Vice Chair of Biobank EGC) and Dr Fiona Douglas (Newcastle) (Clinical Geneticist) spent some time in the afternoon hearing about the work that SIBLE students are doing and providing constructive feedback. It provided SIBLE students with another opportunity to discuss their work with some very experienced academics who work and publish in relevant fields.
Exhibition: SIBLE at ICOSS July - October 2010
The Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS) hosts Social Science-themed exhibitions produced by staff and research students from around the Faculty. Sheffield's Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics (SIBLE) exhibition was held from July to October 2010.
SIBLE is an interdisciplinary institute with an international reputation for research on legal and ethical aspects of biotechnologyand the biosciences. SIBLE is a university wide centre with members from law, medicine, biomolecular science, tissue engineering and developmental biology.
SIBLE has extensive collaborative research links through externally funded projects with bioscientists, bioethicists, lawyers and policy makers from around the world. Our research themes include Legal & Ethical Issues in the New Genetics, Global Governance of Research and Commercialization of Research in the Biosciences
Everyone was welcome to visit the ICOSS centre to see the latest research projects that staff and students from SIBLE are working on.
The launch event for the exhibition was on 5 July 2010 at 5:00pm in the Foyer at ICOSS.
Summer School and Symposium: Intellectual Property and the Biosciences, 7-8 July 2010
Aurora Plomer presented and Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy, Syahliza Warnoh (PGR), and Carlos
Conde (PGR) attended. Aurora Plomer is the Principle Investigator for Sheffield for the project. The aim is to raise the international standing of the Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield on IPR and the biosciences, in
the first instance via linkage with the newly created IPBio Network (including Harvard, Yale, MPI, CERMES (Paris)
recently established by Dr Radick (Leeds) and to explore opportunities for further collaborative research.
ESRC Seminar Series: European Law and New Health Technologies, 13 November 2009
The first in a series of seminars discussing the defining features of the European law approach to new health technologies and its significance was co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Law in Society and the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics.
This first seminar was convened by Tamara Hervey of the School of Law other members of the School involved include:
Gordon Bache
Jihun Cho
Vicky Chico
Aurora Plomer
Mark Taylor
Amanda Warren-Jones
Participants also included academics and research students from across Europe.
Information on the series and future dates
Workshop: Personal Data and Health Research, 18 November 2009
The Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics (SIBLE) and the University's Research Ethics Committee (UREC) co- hosted a workshop for 40 researchers from across the University interested in the use of personal data for health and medical related research. Led by Mark Taylor speakers included Karen Thomson, (National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (NIGB) and Lilian Edwards.
The workshop was opened by the PVC for Research and Innovation and discussed various current legal issues including the scope of the research exemption from the Data Protection Act 1998, the adequacy of the current opportunities to set aside the duty of confidence for medical research and the issues raised by trans-national flows of personal data. It provided a platform to develop collaborative interdisciplinary links with other faculties and subsequent meetings with researchers in the Northern General and the Royal Hallamshire hospitals have already been planned.