Research projects

• workshop on migrant women and access to reproductive health care in Brighton, Sussex, February 2023

  • Devyani Prabhat, 
  • Sheelagh McGuinness

  Role

  Co-Investigator

  Description

  for workshop on migrant women and access to reproductive health care in Brighton, Sussex, February 2023

  Managing organisational unit

  University of Bristol Law School

  Dates

  07/09/2022 to 05/01/2024

  • RUNNING

• Balancing Best Interests in Health Care, Ethics and Law (BABEL)

  • Richard Huxtable, 
  • Judy Laing, 
  • Jonathan Ives, 
  • Sheelagh McGuinness, 
  • Giles Birchley, 
  • Emanuele Valenti, 
  • Aoife Finnerty

  Principal Investigator

  • Richard Huxtable

  Role

  Collaborator

  Description

  The project explores healthcare decisions that are made in the “best interests” of patients who are unable to make decisions for themselves because they lack (what the law calls) mental…

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  Managing organisational unit

  Bristol Medical School (PHS)

  Dates

  01/09/2018 to 31/08/2023

  • RUNNING

• The Abortion Act 1967: a Promise Fulfilled?

  • Sheelagh McGuinness

  Principal Investigator

  • Sheelagh McGuinness

  Description

  The Abortion Act was passed on 27 October 1967, at the vanguard of a wave of liberalising change across the western world and directly inspiring reform in a number of…

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  Managing organisational unit

  University of Bristol Law School

  Dates

  01/03/2017 to 01/12/2017

  • FINISHED

• Death Before Life

  • Sheelagh McGuinness

  Principal Investigator

  • Sheelagh McGuinness

  Description

  'Death before Birth' is a two-year ESRC-funded project, running from 2016-18. Through it, we aim to examine how people in England who have experienced miscarriage, termination for fetal abnormality, and…

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  Managing organisational unit

  University of Bristol Law School

  Dates

  01/09/2016 to 31/08/2018

  • FINISHED