Learn more about the projects that have previously taken place at the Mason Institute.
Liminal Spaces was a six-year Wellcome-funded project at Edinburgh Law School, which ended in March 2021 and scrutinised regulatory systems that support human health research.
This project sought to track and analyse developments in law and policy as these apply to health professionals and the contexts in which they work across the four nations of the UK.
Ethics review in Scottish universities: how can we do better? project aimed to investigate the regulatory nature of ethics review in Scottish universities.
This aim of the Public Health, Ethics and Law Research Network (PHELN) was to promote cross-disciplinary research in public health, ethics and law in the UK and Ireland.
This project, ‘Vulnerability and justice in global health emergency regulation: developing future ethical models’, looked at crises that affect health and are of international concern.
This study represents a unique partnership of leading researchers and clinicians with national organisations that will investigate if, how, and why, ethnicity affects COVID-19 clinical outcomes in Healthcare workers.