About
I am a PhD candidate and Senior Tutor at Durham Law School. I hold an LLB and MJur, both from Durham, and am extremely fortunate to be the recipient of a studentship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the Northern Bridge Consortium. At present, I teach and guest lecture on the LLB Law and Medicine module, and I also teach LLB Tort Law.
Over the past year, I have acted as a convenor for the Durham Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS) and I have worked as a research associate to Professor Emma Cave, working on the upcoming seventh edition of Medicine, Patients, and the Law. I also worked as a research and teaching assistant on the LLM programme.
Research
My PhD thesis is supervised by Dr Sam Halliday and Prof Emma Cave and explores the value of human dignity in end-of-life decision-making. I approach this comparatively, examining the best interests frameworks in England and Wales alongside the presumed will approach under German law. I propose that the patient-centric values of the decision-making process in England and Wales have been poorly understood and inconsistently applied.
I argue that greater engagement with the principle of human dignity in English law, informed by the application of the principle in German law, will provide clarity on what the patient-centric approach requires and how patients can be treated as individuals rather than objects of medical interest.