Sign-ups close tomorrow (Thursday 29th February) at midday! Miss Isabel Quiroga and Professor Richard Smith, 'Founding the first successful womb transplant programme in the UK: Fertility Preservation and Restoration' Sign up can be completed here: forms.office.com/e/Urqnixhk63

Thank you to Professor Richard Smith and Miss Isabel Quiroga for their fantastic presentation today on Fertility Preservation and Restoration: Founding the first successful womb transplant programme in the UK. Truly science fiction in action!

Beyond excited to announce the upcoming conference "Tackling #ObstetricViolence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" on 📅20 May, 9-5pm, at Exeter College, Oxford Cohen Quad with a STELLAR line-up of speakers!💫 Register to join us in person or online: forms.office.com/e/esm5mKehjv

The Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law's Empirical Bioethics Stream is under new management! Myself, @Supriya_S5, Hilary Bowman-Smart, Yves SJ Aquino, MD, PhD and Nina Roxburgh (She/Her). We're kicking off a new program of online and in-person events with a 'critical dialogue' probing key questions. Register: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Our Trinity Term Card is out!!! Registration is mandatory and can be done via this link: forms.office.com/e/kEsNQFxWEw

So tired of these positions being published 🙄 #ObstetricViolence is not their experience to name and define, and their stamp of approval isn’t needed. From my piece in Hypatia (cambridge.org/core/journals/…):

Very excited to join my PhD Sisters: Eva Maria Bredler and Georgia Speechly in a collaborative panel at our upcoming Conference. We will be discussing consent principles across three very different jurisdictional contexts: Germany, South Africa and the UK.

Thank you so much to the wonderful Victoria Butler-Cole KC for her presentation on 'Charlie Gard and Beyond' on Friday 10th May. This was a brilliant insight into how the current legal framework for children's medical cases is perhaps in need of radical change.

You are invited to enter the Marcus Pembrey BioNews Writing Prize Full details of how to enter, the competition rules, tips for writing and the judging process can all be found on our website: progress.org.uk/bionews-writin… Closing date is 30 June 2024. Good luck from the team at PET

This week, Convenor Frances Hand organised an international conference on Obstetric Violence, alongside current and returning Faculty members, as well as current research students and soon-to-be Doctorate holders! Congratulations to everyone who made this event such a success!

Event tomorrow: Dr Tristan Cummings, 'Playing with gods? The importance of play for understanding the child’s right to religion' - 11.30-1, Law Fac, Seminar D In-person attendance is strongly encouraged, but if you need an online link please email [email protected]

Reminder of our excellent upcoming talk on Friday: Ian Brownhill, 'Protester or patient: Can the law determine in food refusal cases?' Ian Brownhill Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/kEsNQFxWEw

Thank you to Dr Tristan Cummings for a marvellous talk on children's right to religion and how this intersects with the concept of play. Those who signed up to the talk will have access to his slides soon.

Happening today! So looking forward to our panel, ‘Grey Zones of Care: Infrastructures, Methods, and #ObstetricViolence’ at the Caring Futures conference 🤩 See you soon @DrRChadwick, Rodante van der Waal & Dr. Kaveri Mayra ♥️

Thank you to Ian Brownhill for an insightful talk on prisoners' choice to VSED.

Our final talk of the Term Card 2024 will be this Friday, Professor Emma Hitchings will be discussing her latest project 'Fair Shares', on the division of money and property upon divorce Sign up closes Thursday midday: forms.office.com/e/kEsNQFxWEw

Call for Papers: Medical humanities in the 21st Century UEA Medical & Health Humanities MedicalHumanities@NCLUni Medical Humanities Uni Vienna Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group, Oxford Family and Medical Law Research Group, Oxford Durham Institute for Medical Humanities King's CHH Medicine, Health and Wellbeing in the Humanities Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Edinburgh Health and Medical Humanities Network

Thank you to Professor Emma Hitchings for a fantastic final presentation of our term card on the division of money and property on divorce. Such an insightful end to myself and Anjali's tenure as Convenors!