Date: 7.00 – 9.30pm, 29 April 2019 Location: Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD End of Life Choices? A free event organised by Lapidus Scotland and members of the Glasgow Die-a-log group Monday 29 April 2019, 7.00 – 9.30pm, Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD Screening of two short… Continue reading
Date: 2-8pm, Wednesday 26th September Location: The Lighthouse (Conference Suite), 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, G1 3NU www.thelighthouse.co.uk Date: 9.30am-6pm, Thursday 27th September Location: St Luke’s (Main Hall), 17 Bain Street, Glasgow, G40 2JZ www.stlukesglasgow.com This free event will explore how digital technologies and infrastructure help enable innovative co-creation and co-research with communities and can build… Continue reading
Date: Saturday 14 April 2018 Location: Filmhouse Cinema 3, 88 Lothian Road, EH3 9BZ Edinburgh A film celebration of Everyday Cyborgs and Humanimals If you had the choice between animal, mechanical or human parts to repair or replace your failing organs what would you choose? If an individual is no longer 100% biologically human does that change… Continue reading
Date: 7.30pm, Tuesday 28th November 2017 Location: Filmhouse Cinema, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ After an inaugural event that packed Filmhouse, Who’s Your Dandy? returns with more off-the-wall, accessible and film-based artworks from Scotland and beyond. Equivalence, Sandra Alland’s live short story with film by Ania Urbanowska, receives a remount after sold-out shows at Transpose Barbican and Anatomy. Who’s Your Dandy? also… Continue reading
The Academy of Medical Sciences is launching a new grant scheme for the health social sciences and medical humanities, designed to address the recommendations of its latest report. Last year, the Academy, with the support of the Wellcome Trust, launched a new career-enhancing scheme, Springboard, to support biomedical researchers at their first independent position. The… Continue reading
Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival Edinburgh, Fri 4th – Sun 6th December 2015 How does biomedical research take place? Is it safe? Who undertakes the research? Should vulnerable individuals, such as children, be used in biomedical investigations? The Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival, the first of its kind, will seek to answer some of these… Continue reading
Can We Speculate to Regenerate? Beyond the Hype in the Delivery of Future Medicines The Mason Institute will celebrate its 3rd anniversary on Thursday, 18 June 2015 at Surgeons’ Hall in Edinburgh. The theme of this year’s event will be “Can We Speculate to Regenerate? Beyond the Hype in the Delivery of Futures Medicines” and… Continue reading
The Mason Institute are planning to show GATTACA in the Brass Monkey (4 Drummond Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH8 9TU) on Thursday 26th March from 5.30 till 8pm. Dr Shona Kerr has very kindly agreed to give a short talk about some of the issues raised by the film (see here for her research profile) in… Continue reading
The Tenth International Biomedical Ethics Film Festival will be taking place from the 21st to the 23rd of November 2014 at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. The topic for 2014 is The Moral Status of the Human Embryo. This event is being supported by the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics in conjunction with the Edinburgh Filmhouse, St Marys’… Continue reading
ESRC Festival of Social Science Join us and the Innogen and Mason Institute, Edinburgh, on Tuesday, 4th November at 6pm for the world premiere of a specially commissioned documentary film that explores the implication of regenerative medicine (RM) through the views of scientists developing new RM therapies, academics exploring the impact of RM, and those… Continue reading
