Projects
Projects
Current Projects
The number of PEALS projects is expanding year on year. Our research has implications for policy, practice and public participation. A concern with the perspectives of lay people spans all our activities.
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Synthetic Portabolomics: Leading the way at the crossroads of the Digital and the Bio Economies
Project Leader(s): Professor Nat Krasnogor
Project Dates: From May 2016 to May 2021 -
When technology fails patients: engaging with stakeholders on metal-on-metal hip joint failures
Project Leader(s): Dr Thomas Joyce
Past Projects
Over the years we've completed a number of innovative projects. Many of these have produced valuable empirical data, been useful to policy and practice, and have frequently fed into ongoing research developments.
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A socio-ethical investigation of the values and experiences of women volunteering to provide eggs for mitochondrial research under a scheme in which money is offered to egg providers
Project Leader(s): Professor Erica Haimes
Project Dates: From November 2013 to September 2016 -
An investigation of women’s experiences of an IVF egg sharing scheme for somatic cell nuclear transfer research
Project Leader(s): Erica Haimes
Project Dates: From May 2008 to April 2011 -
Antenatal Screening Website Resource (AnSWeR)
Project Leader(s): Tom Shakespeare
Project Dates: From March 2003 to February 2005 -
Art, Authenticity and Citizenship in Care Homes (HELIX ArCH)
Project Leader(s): Professor Julian Hughes
Project Dates: January 2017 to March 2018 -
Biosecurity in China (UK-China Fellowship of Excellence)
Project Leader(s): Michael Barr
Project Dates: From February 2008 to May 2008 -
Could I? Would I? Or should I? What can genetics professionals learn from empirical research about the ethics of choice in cancer genetic testing?
Project Leader(s): Professor Erica Haimes
Project Dates: From April 2015 to February 2016 -
Developmental Gene Expression Map (DGEMap)
Project Leader(s): Susan Lindsay
Project Dates: From October 2005 to September 2007 -
DIY Jury on Issues Prioritised by Older People
Project Leader(s): Tom Shakespeare, Tom Wakeford
Project Dates: 2004 -
Does every child matter, post Blair? The interconnections of disabled childhoods.
Project Leader(s): Professor Dan Goodley, Dr Janice McLaughlin
Project Dates: From July 2008 to May 2011 -
Embodied Selves in Transition: Disabled Young Bodies
Project Leader(s): Janice McLaughlin
Project Dates: From May 2011 to October 2013 -
Embryo Donation: a comparative study
Project Leader(s): Erica Haimes and Alison Murdoch, Newcastle NHS Fertility Centre (co-applicant)
Project Dates: From June 2003 to March 2012 -
ESRC Research ‘Seminar series on genetics, technology, security and justice. Crossing, contesting and comparing boundaries’
Project Leader(s): Matthias Wienroth
Project Dates: From October 2015 to September 2017 -
EUCAN-Connect - FAIR and privacy protecting data sharing of high-value cohort data towards personalized health Canada and Europe
Project Leader(s): Dr Morris Swertz (University Medical Center Groningen)
Project Dates: January 2019 - December 2023 -
Exploring interpreters' perspectives on working in legal, health and social work settings
Project Leader(s): Janice McLaughlin
Project Dates: From January 2007 to July 2007 -
Faithful judgements: the role of religion in laypeople's ethical evaluations of new reproductive and genetic technologies.
Project Leader(s): Jackie Leach Scully with Sarah Banks and Robert Song (Durham University)
Project Dates: From October 2011 to January 2014 -
Future of Rural Space (Community X-Change)
Project Leader(s): Tom Wakeford
Project Dates: From June 2007 to May 2010 -
Genetics and kinship - finding morality at their intersection. Living with the aftermath of genetic testing for Lynch Syndrome. What are the intersections between genetics and kinship?
Project Leader(s): Janice McLaughlin and Tracy Finch (Institute of Health & Society)
Project Dates: From September 2007 to August 2011 -
Genetics of Healthy Ageing (GEHA)
Project Leader(s): Tom Kirkwood
Project Dates: From May 2004 to April 2011 -
GM Juries
Project Leader(s): Tom Wakeford
Project Dates: From June 2003 to October 2003 -
How Gay are your Genes?
Project Leader(s): Tom Shakespeare
Project Dates: From April 2004 to April 2006 -
IDARTSS (Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Uses of Reproductive Tissue in Stem Cell Science).
Project Leader(s): Professor Erica Haimes -
Kinship and Genetic Journeys: a study of the experiences of families who are referred to paediatric genetics
Project Leader(s): Janice McLaughlin
Project Dates: From October 2008 to May 2012 -
Memory and Forgetting
Project Leader(s): Tom Shakespeare
Project Dates: From March 2002 to May 2003 -
METADAC
Project Leader(s): Professor Madeleine Murtagh
Project Dates: June 2015-September 2020 -
MusicEmbryos
Project Leader(s): Professor Jackie Leach Scully
Project Dates: 1st October 2017 - 31st March 2018 -
Nano2Life
Project Leader(s): Ken Snowdon
Project Dates: From November 2004 to September 2008 -
North Cumbria Community Genetics Project
Project Leader(s): Erica Haimes
Project Dates: 2001-2003 -
Ordinary Ethics
Project Leader(s): Tom Shakespeare
Project Dates: From October 2002 to April 2005 -
Parents, Professionals and Disabled Babies: Identifying Enabling Care
Project Leader(s): Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield) and Janice McLaughlin -
RD Connect
Project Leader(s): Hanns Lochmüller and Kate Bushby
Project Dates: From November 2012 to October 2018 -
Restricted Growth and Quality of Life
Project Leader(s): Tom Shakespeare
Project Dates: From March 2004 to June 2007 -
Scaling up Juries for Social Justice
Project Leader(s): Dr Tom Wakeford
Project Dates: 2004 to 2008 -
Science, ethics and citizenship: how might we improve the practice and governance of scientific research to enhance community benefit?
Project Leader(s): Professor Erica Haimes
Project Dates: From September 2014 to March 2015 -
SmartHEALTH: Smart Integrated Bio-diagnostics Systems for Healthcare
Project Leader(s): Calum McNeil
Project Dates: From December 2005 to May 2010 -
STRENGTH Study of Connected Health Cities – North East & North Cumbria (CHC NENC)
Project Leader(s): Prof Madeleine Murtagh
Project Dates: May 2018 to September 2019 -
Talking Science in Cumbria
Project Leader(s): Tom Shakespeare
Project Dates: 2003 to 2005 -
TREAT-NMD Network
Project Leader(s): Kate Bushby and Volker Straub
Project Dates: From January 2007 to December 2012 -
Writers in Residence
Project Leader(s): Tom Shakespeare
Project Dates: From October 2000 to September 2003