Postgraduate Research Students

Keele Law School has a thriving, visible and sizeable community of PhD and MPhil students researching various areas of law. More information about our current research students, including contact information and their research interests, can be found at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/risocsci/currentstudents/ourstudents/

Al-Quasem, Leena (DMedEth)                                             

Topic: The Ethics of Clinical Trials in Developing Countries

 

Alshareef, Nourah (Law)                                                       

Topic: Child Trafficking from the Perspective of Islamic Law: A Case Study of Saudi Arabia

 

Arawi, Thalia (DMedEth)

Topic: Medical Education and the Virtues                            

 

Atherton, Diane (Law)                                  

Topic: The experiences of Muslim women solicitors working within the legal profession.

 

JBurrows-Oyarzun, J.E. (Ethics/Law)                       

Topic: A Just Health Care System in Context of Developing Countries

 

Cholak, Ozlem (Law)                                    

Topic: A Critique of the Consummation Requirement in Marriage

 

Clayton, Kathryn (DMedEth)                                               

Topic: Research Trials

 

Courthold, Jonathan .J. (DMedEth)                          

Topic: Psychological Aspects of Informed Consent in Renal Medicine

 

Coyle, S (Law)                                   

Topic: Clash of Rights: Sexuality and Religion

 

Darragh, Kathryn (Law)

Topic: Mental Health legislation & Psych Ethics

 

Dasgupta, Rohee (Law)                     

Topic: Hidden Ghettos: Jewish Identity and the Processes of its Political, Social & Legal Reconstructions in Poland from 1945 to the Present

 

Dobson, Alex (Law)                                      

Topic: Assessment of Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act: focus is on the prosecution of small and medium size companies

 

Ellison, Geoff (DMedEth)                                         

Topic: Ethics of ECT

 

Emmerton, Robyn (Law)                                                                   

Topic: Transgender, Prisons and HRs

 

Floyd, Lucy (Law)                                         

Topic: The Role of the Legal Practice Course in the Formation of Female Solicitors Professional Identities

 

Freer, Elaine (Law)                

Topic: Social Mobility at the Bar: Embedded Professionalism and Interventionist Professional Actors – An Evaluation of the Pegasus Access Scheme

 

Sandra Gallagher (DMedEth)                                                

Topic: Obesity Policy

 

Alan Green (DMedEth)                                             

Topic: Moral Particularism in Medical Ethics

 

Griffin, Sam (Ethics/Law)                                         

Topic: Giving Weight to Religious Beliefs in the NHS.

 

Hill, Rebecca (Law)                                                               

Topic: Law and Suicide

 

Hobden, Alison (DMedEth)                                      

Topic: Health Care Provision in Prisons

 

Hughes, Carys (Law/SPIRE)                   

Topic: The use of a-legal space to affect social and political change

 

Ige, Rhoda (Law)                                                                                          

Topic: An Exploration of the Contributions of African Feminism to the Development of International Human Rights

 

Johnson, Joe (Ethics/Law)                                         

Topic: Social Value in Healthcare Resource Allocation

 

Jones, Emma (Law)   

Topic: What is the Role of Emotion in UG Legal Education

 

Krishnaroothy, Arjun (Law)                                      

Topic: The law of property and ownership in relation to the human body and separated body parts

 

Leask, Kathryn (DMedEth)                                       

Topic: Prenatal Diagnosis and Disability

 

McDonald, L (DMedEth)                                          

Topic: HIV Positive Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Clinical Trials

 

Richardson, V (Law)                                     

Topic: The test of harm in care proceedings: a psycho-social study

 

Rumbold, John (Law)                                                

Topic: The framing of expert evidence about sleepwalking and other parasomnias as a defence

 

Suffield, W (DMedEth)                                            

Topic: Maternal/Foetal Conflict

 

Thornton, Vicky (DMedEth)                         

Topic: Organ Transplants

 

Samantha Walker (Law/Crimy)

Topic: Living with Honour: Multi-Stakeholder perspectives of the Needs and Experiences of Victims of ‘Honour’ Based Violence in Rural England

 

Westwood, Sue (Law)                                                           

Topic: Equality, Ageing and Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Identities

 

Sally Whelan (Law)                                       

Topic: Easements, Covenants and Legal History

 

Williams, June S (DMedEth)                         

Topic: Research Governance re Drug Development

 

Williams, Kay (DMedEth)                                         

Topic: Clinical Ethics Committees: An Analysis of their Role and Function

 

Wolfensberger, M (DMedEth)                                              

Topic: The Role of Trust in the Patient-Physician Relationship

 

Yate, Zainab (DMedEth)                               

Topic: Ethics of harm Reduction Policies