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Call for Applications: International Bioethics Summer School, New York City, July 2-16, 2018

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Date: 2nd-16th July 2018 Location: Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd St., Manhattan, NY. The Global Bioethics Initiative, the New York Medical College, and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association invite students and professionals worldwide to attend the International Bioethics Summer School hosted by the Bohemian National Hall. The program in NYC is open to everyone from… Continue reading

Visiting Researcher and Post-Doctoral Opportunities: Digital Scholarship Fellowships at IASH, Edinburgh

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Location: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh Deadline for Applications: 28th February 2018 for the Visiting Researcher Fellowships and 30th April 2018 for the Postdoctoral Fellowships and Bursaries Applications are now open for two new Fellowships in Digital Scholarship, based at the university’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). IASH… Continue reading

Seminar: ‘Do new tools need new ethics? The challenge of advancing biotechnology for ethics and policy’, Professor Jeff Kahn (Berman Institute for Bioethics), Mason Institute, Edinburgh

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Date: Tuesday 30th January, 1-2pm Location: Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre (second floor) Doorway 1, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh The Mason Institute at the University of Edinburgh invites you to attend a special seminar to be presented by Professor Jeff Kahn (Berman Institute for Bioethics): Title: ‘Do new tools need new ethics? The challenge of advancing… Continue reading

“Going to the Dogs?” A Workshop Series on Research at the Intersection of Disability and Animal Studies, Leeds University Centre for Medical Humanities

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Date: 19th February 2018 from 2–5pm Location: Centre for Medical Humanities in the School of English (6–10 Cavendish Road), University of Leeds The first meeting of ‘“Going to the Dogs?” A Workshop Series on Research at the Intersection of Disability and Animal Studies’ will take place at the Centre for Medical Humanities in the School of… Continue reading

Talk: ‘Medicine, Mistakes and Manslaughter’, Dr Oliver Quick, Edinburgh

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Date: 12.30-2.00 pm, 24th January Location: Elder Room, Old College, University of Edinburgh Please follow the link below for details of a talk by Dr Oliver Quick (University of Bristol) to be given this Wednesday as part of the Criminal Law Seminar Series: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/other_areas_of_interest/events/event?id=234111

Post-Doctoral/Early Career Researcher Opportunity: Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship,The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford

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Location: The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford Deadline: 23rd April 2018 The Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarships, funded by the Ethox Foundation, are awarded annually to post-doctoral or early-career researchers to enable them to spend up to a month at the Ethox Centre working on a topic relating to one of the Centre’s four main research areas: clinical… Continue reading

Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh

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Date: 15.30 – 17.00, Monday 22nd January Location: 6th Floor Staff Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building The Science, Technology and Innovation Seminar Series is pleased to announce its first speaker for this semester: Title: Assembling the conditions for Genome Wide Association Studies: The story of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium Speaker: Dr Catherine Heeney (University of… Continue reading

Mason Institute (MI) Lunch with Beverley Hood – ‘Positively Squishy – creative research in the lab’, Edinburgh

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Date: 12.30 – 2.00pm, Thursday 22nd February Location: Seminar Room 6,Chrystal MacMillan Building,15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD Title: Positively Squishy – creative research in the lab Speaker: Beverley Hood, artist and lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Edinburgh. Abstract: In an environment where bioscientific research undertaking “qualitative field-based inquiries with living… Continue reading

Call for Applications: PhD scholarship: singing and mental health, University of Limerick

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Location: Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick Deadline: 5pm, February 10th 2018 The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick is delighted to announce an opportunity for a well-motivated and capable graduate to undertake a PhD in the Music Therapy Department under the supervision of Dr Hilary Moss. This… Continue reading

Glasgow History of Medicine Seminar Series: Winter 2018

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Date: Tuesday 23rd January 2018 Location: Library Reading Room, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 232-242 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RJ The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in partnership with the Centre for the History of Medicine at Glasgow University are delighted to announce the latest line-up of speaker for their… Continue reading