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TEACHING

Teaching Areas

Applied Ethics 
Bioethics

Medical Law
Moral Psychology

Ethics
Philosophy of Science   

Courses

DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

 

Dr Mohammad Hosseini             (2017-2021)
Thesis: ‘Normative Aspects of Scientific Authorship’      
Dublin City University 
Degree: Ph.D. in Philosophy 
Grade: Passed (No Corrections)
Supervisory Panel: Bert Gordijn and Jonathan Lewis

 

DOCTORAL EXAMINATION

 

Role: External Examiner            (2021)
Student: Anson Fehross
Doctoral Thesis: ‘Valuing for Others: A New Model of Proxy Decision Making’
University of Sydney
Supervisory Panel: Christopher Ryan, John McMillan and Sascha Callaghan


POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION

 

University of Manchester (MSc, MA and LLM Healthcare Ethics and Law) 

  • Supervised dissertations for 10 MA and LLM students and MSc intercalated medical students (2022)

  • Dissertation topics:

    • Consent in obstetric emergencies

    • “Dying to donate: The ethical quandary of fatal organ donation”

    • “Are advance euthanasia directives ethically justifiable for people with dementia?”

    • The fight for recognition of queer bodies in reproductive medicine

    • Adolescent refusal of treatment grounded in veganism

    • Conscientious objection, future reproductive technologies and medical law

    • Patient autonomy and the social determinants of health

    • Adaptive and equal access to health for sexual abuse victims

    • “How should scarce healthcare resources be prioritised in situations where individuals are perceived to have contributed to their own poor health?”

 

Dublin City University (MA in Ethics)     (2018-2021)

  • Dissertation topics include: 

    • Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence in health care systems

    • Health, well-being and obligations

    • The ethical and legal dimensions of biomedical enhancement 

 

 

POSTGRADUATE COURSE LEADER

 

University of Manchester (MA in Healthcare Ethics and Law)

  • Research Ethics                (2021-Present)

 

POSTGRADUATE TEACHING

 

University of Manchester (MA in Healthcare Ethics and Law)
Lecturer:

  • Research Ethics                (2021-Present)

  • Ethics, Genetics and Genomics        (2022-Present)

 

Dublin City University (PhD Graduate Training Modules)
Lecturer:

  • Research Ethics                (2017-2021)

 

Dublin City University (MA in Ethics)
Lecturer:

  • Contemporary Topics in Ethics (2019-2021)

  • Dissertation Supervisor            (2017-2021)


UNDERGRADUATE SUBJECT LEADER/MODULE CONVENOR

 

Dublin City University 

  • Introduction to Logic                (1st Year Module)

  • Aesthetics                                 (2nd Year Module)

  • Wittgenstein                             (3rd Year Module)

 

Royal Holloway, University of London 

  • Introduction to European Philosophy I    (2nd Year Module)

  • Introduction to European Philosophy II   (2nd Year Module)


UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING

 

Dublin City University

  • Applied Ethics                               (2017-2021)

  • Introduction to Logic                    (2018-2020)

 

University of Cambridge

  • Aesthetics                                      (2014-15)

  • Dissertation Supervisor               (2014-16)

  • Early Modern Philosophy             (2014-15)

  • Ethics                                             (2014-15)

  • European Philosophy from Kant (2013-15) 

  • Metaphysics and Epistemology   (2014-15)

  • Set Texts                                        (2013-15)

  • Wittgenstein                                  (2014-15)

 

Royal Holloway, University of London

  • Fundamental Questions in Philosophy      (2013-14)

  • Introduction to European Philosophy I      (2012-13)

  • Introduction to European Philosophy II     (2012-13)

  • Philosophy and the Arts                              (2011-14)

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