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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Sandall" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:09 AM Subject: Fw: [MEDSOCNEWS] 2 studentships Bioethics of Assisted Reproduction ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Statham" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 1:27 PM Subject: [MEDSOCNEWS] 2 studentships Bioethics of Assisted Reproduction +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:28:29 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 Wellcome Trust PhD Studentships Bioethics of Assisted Reproduction Centre For Family Research, University of Cambridge Applications are invited for 2 PhD studentships in bioethics in the Centre for Family Research. These have arisen as part of a Bioethics Enhancement Award from the Wellcome Trust. The studentships are available for a period of three years commencing in October 2009. A maintenance grant at standard Wellcome Trust rates (approximately £19500 per year, NI and tax-free), as well as payment of University and College fees (home/EU student rate) will be available to the successful candidates. The Centre for Family Research (CFR) has approximately 25 members, and has an annual research grants income that currently exceeds £500,000 pa. The work of the Centre is described in detail on our website http://www.ppsis.cam.ac.uk/CFR/ and potential applicants are encouraged to look at this before applying. The CFR has a long-standing reputation for empirical work in an area laden with bioethical considerations - the use of assisted reproductive technologies and the impact on children and families of living in the variety of family forms that have become possible with these technologies. The CFR has been granted a Bioethics Enhancement Award from the Wellcome Trust to enable engagement between social scientists working at the interface between empirical research and biomedical ethics, and philosophers who focus on biomedical ethics in the field of assisted reproduction. The aim is to integrate bioethical and empirical approaches from the outset, thus enhancing both ethical analysis and empirical research. The two PhD students will choose their research area from within the broad scope of the award which will address issues including parental rights, autonomy, consent and the welfare of children in relation to three newly-emerging family forms resulting from assisted reproductive procedures: (i) gay father families (ii) single mothers by choice, and (iii) donor siblings (i.e. donor conceived children raised in different families who the same donor). Each student will be co-supervised by Professor Susan Golombok and a bioethicist with interests relevant to the subject of the PhD. It is anticipated that the successful applicants will have a Masters degree or equivalent in philopsophy, bioethics or a related subject; applicants without a Masters should hold a first degree at 2:1 or first class level or the equivalent standard from a European University. Information about the admissions criteria can be found in the Graduate Studies Prospectus on the universtiy web site http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/gradstud/. Formal application for admission to the University of Cambridge as a graduate student requires the completion of an application form provided by the Board of Graduate Studies. This formal procedure should not begin until after the selection process is complete and the successful applicants have been recommended by the Centre. For further information about the Enhancement Award and the studentships, please email: Abby Scott at [log in to unmask] Applications should include i) a full CV ii) a covering letter explaining how your educational, research and employment (if applicable) experiences make you the right person to take up this studentship iii) a brief 1-2 page proposal of the sort of research you might wish to undertake within the bioethics programme and how you would go about it and iv) the names and full contact details of two referees familiar with recent relevant experiences. Please note that the proposal you describe here will not necessarily be the area you eventually choose to work in. Applications should be emailed to Abby Scott at the above address by 4.00pm on Friday, 10th April 2009. Candidates to be called for interview will be contacted by 22nd April 2009. Interviews will be held on May 1st 2009. Helen Statham Senior Research Associate Centre for Family Research University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 3RF Tel (+44) 1223 334513 ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. 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