Current PhD students

View research profiles and thesis themes for some of our PhD students in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence and Law.

Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP)

Adam Grainger
Thesis title: Detention, Health Inequality and Vulnerability: Assessing the Adequacy of Judicial and Policy Responses to the Health Care Needs of Those in UK state Detention Through the Lens of Universal Vulnerability
Panagiota Nakou
Thesis title: Can we develop Routine Prenatal Screening in an ethically defensible way?
Anna Nelson
Thesis title: Ectogenesis: A Promise of Liberation or a Tool for Control?

Manchester International Law Centre (MILC)

Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance and Public Law (ManReg)

Parveen Bunglawala
Thesis title: Eradicating modern slavery with transparency regimes
Naomi Cousins
Thesis title: Conceptualising legal research habits for Child Arrangements Orders: understanding the online resources accessed by Litigants in Person following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
Emmanuel Egbeyong Bechem
Thesis title: A Human Touch to Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) for Sustainable Infrastructure Development in the Central African Sub-Region.

Law

Suzanne Gower
Thesis title: Are the safeguards within the criminal justice system sufficient to prevent and detect wrongful allegations when dealing with historical complaints?
Shirin Khawjah
Thesis title: Liability in Artificial Intelligence

Programmes

As a research student in Law at Manchester, you'll work with inspiring academics to tackle some of today's major legal, ethical and criminal challenges.