Senior Research Fellow in Medical Law and EthicsĬatriona McMillan started working on the project as a Research Assistant while also studying for her PhD. Senior Research and Teaching Fellow in BioethicsĮmily Postan joined the Liminal Spaces team as an Early Career Fellow in Bioethics, and in April 2021 will begin a prestigious Chancellor’s Fellowship at Edinburgh Law School. She prepared a briefing policy note for the projects on "How health research regulation can better support access to experimental treatment." Lynn Kennedy was a third year PhD candidate in 2021, conducting research into Medical futility and experimental treatment at Edinburgh Law School. Kate Harvey joined the Liminal Spaces team in 2020 as a Research Fellow on secondment from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
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Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Bioethics and Global Health EthicsĪgomoni Ganguli Mitra began Research Assistant on the project, and in 2017 secured a prestigious Chancellor’s Fellowship in legal and ethical aspects of biomedicine, which led to an offer of a full lectureship at Edinburgh Law School. Zahra Jaffer was a research assistant on the project. Rhiannon Frowde was a research fellow on the project. Isabel Fletcher joined the project as a Senior Research Fellow and is currently Senior Research Fellow on the Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe (SHAPE-ID) project at the University of Edinburgh. View Graeme Laurie's profile Research TeamĮdward Dove began as a Wellcome doctoral candidate on the project as has since transitioned to a full-time lectureship in health law and regulation at Edinburgh Law School. Professorial Fellow and Founding Director, Mason Institute (2012-2017)
The Liminal Spaces Project was based within Edinburgh Law School and involved an interdisciplinary team of researchers examining regulatory spaces across the entire spectrum of health research regulation. Appeals to the public interest can be strengthened and better justified if linked to robust engagement and learning from publics themselves. While engagement with publics and other stakeholders in now commonplace, much remains to be done to demonstrate how this best improves the regulatory environment.More can be done by all stakeholders involved to demonstrate trustworthiness of their own actions – and of the system itself – especially in times of crisis and change. Trustworthiness of the health research ecosystem is of crucial importance to its success.The inherent uncertainty of human health research can be seen as an opportunity to improve the responsiveness of the regulatory environment, especially in promoting flexibility and co-production of regulatory responses.More can, and should, be done to make this a central feature of the regulatory landscape. The role of best practice is health research regulation is currently under-represented in regulatory ecosystems.
A whole system approach should be oriented more clearly towards realising the full range of social value that human health research can generate. Social value does not simply refer to scientific outcomes from research. The social value of the research enterprise is currently poorly captured and shared.This can be promoted by further adopting of principles-based approach to regulation. Many stakeholders in the regulatory ecosystem support the co-production of regulation as a form of partnership.The value of regulatory stewardship is currently under-recognised and requires further investigation. Empirical research confirms the supportive and productive role of key actors in health research regulation – such as research ethics committees – who work closely with researchers to get research done.A processual approach to regulation can generate feedback loops (continuous cycles of learning) to improve learning and efficiency of health research regulation.Lessons can be learned across different sectors of health research regulation about the value and importance of key regulatory tools such as proportionality and public interest and how their roles can be strengthened in the future.Adopting a whole system approach to health research regulation better promotes the ecosystem as a learning system driven by a commitment to generating social value.
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