Ruby Reed-Berendt

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

LLM, LLB

Ruby Reed-Berendt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the project ‘Medicine without Doctors: reimagining care and voice through play.’ Working with Dr Agomoni-Ganguli-Mitra, her research focuses on abortion care, access to abortion services, and issues of structural and epistemic injustice.  

Ruby’s research sits within the Health, Medical Law, and Ethics subject area. Her expertise is in mental health and disability law and bioethics, and in critical approaches to law. Her doctoral research offers an intersectional analysis of mental capacity law in England and Wales and critiques the law’s claims to empower disabled people.

During her doctoral studies, Ruby worked as a Research Associate in Edinburgh Law School on various projects, which covered topics including organ donation and devolution, decolonisation and the impact agenda, and the regulation and experiences of healthcare workers. She has also taught on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses as a tutor and seminar leader, including Mental Health Law, Fundamentals in Bioethics, Reproduction and the Law, Public Law of the UK and Scotland, and Advanced Legal Writing.

Ruby holds a Bachelor of Laws in Law and French Law (First Class Honours) from University College London, and a Master of Laws in Medical Law and Ethics (Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh. Ruby also holds a Diploma in French Law (Distinction) from Aix-Marseille Université. She is a Deputy Director of the Mason Institute for medicine, life sciences, and the law, and a member of the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society.