MI events
The Mason Institute offers an exciting calendar of events throughout the year for students, academics, practitioners, and the public.
Mason Institute usually organises two special lectures throughout the year:
- Winter Lecture (November/December)
- Annual Lecture (February/March)
The 2021 J Kenyon Mason Institute Annual Lecture was delivered on the 5th of May 2021 by Dr Alicia Ely Yamin, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics Harvard Law School on the subject: Pandemic Inequalities: An Inflection Point for Global Health and Human Rights.
Watch the lecture on the Mason Institute Media Channel
Mason Institute Seminar Series occur monthly, featuring talks from well-respected international guests speakers in the law and ethics field. The seminars are free of charge, but registration is required.
About MI Seminar Series
Human health is essential for the enjoyment and maximisation of almost all human activities. As our health futures rapidly evolve alongside great medical, scientific, and technological advancement, we are faced with the obligation to both protect patients and promote ethical research. How to successfully navigate these interconnected and complex relationships is a challenge not yet met. The Mason Institute is at the forefront of research into the protection and promotion of human health. The MI Seminar Series reaches across the boundaries of discipline and institution to directly engage with crucial human health actors – researchers, practitioners, policymakers, patients, and the public – to exploit on-going research and explore this challenge.
If you would like to be a part of our series, please contact: mason.institute@ed.ac.uk
Every year Mason Institute (MI) provides an exciting opportunity to join The Great Medico-Legal Debate between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The J Kenyon Mason Institute (MI) regularly holds events geared towards younger scholars and hosted an event on the 19th and 20th of April 2021 on career development and support, entitled ‘Developing a career in bioethics and health law’. This event was targeted to postgraduate students (LLMs and PhDs) and early career contract researchers (ECCRs) across the UK, but with a particular focus on Scotland and the north of England, tapping into the Northern Bioethics Network connections.
The event consisted of several invited (external and internal) speakers, including a mix of career level and career type (academic, policy, practice), who spoke to their career experiences. The four sessions took place over two days, focusing on PhD research proposals and thesis writing; writing and publishing research; grant funding (how to, resources); and career opportunities. Recordings of each session can be found below:
Session 1 - Writing PhD research proposals and thesis writing - Jonathan Ives (Bristol) and Mary Neal (Strathclyde)
Session 2: Writing and publishing your research - Mikey Dunn (Oxford) and Sara Fovargue (Lancaster)
Session 3: Writing grant applications - Lucy Frith (Liverpool) and Sarah Chan (Edinburgh)
Session 4: Career opportunities in bioethics and health law - Mary Guy (Lancaster) and Simon Woods (Newcastle)
