Research Students' Achievements
The School is proud of its record in developing promising PhD students. Many have been recognised for their achievements by awards, academic appointments in top law schools, presentations at academic conferences, and publications in peer-reviewed articles.
Prizes and Awards
John Coggon, who completed his PhD in 2007, won the 2006 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research. The prize was awarded by the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics at the University of Southern California in conjunction with the International Association of Bioethics, for his paper "Varied and Principled Understandings of Autonomy in English Law: Justifiable Inconsistency or Blinkered Moralism?" He has gone on to achieve a three year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out research on public health regulation.
Fellowships
Elen Stokes, one of our past PhD students, was awarded the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to carry post-doctoral research into the precautionary principle in practice. The Fellowship was awarded based on the strength of her PhD thesis entitled "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, the definition of risk, and the (in) applicability of the precautionary principle: assessing the ability of precaution to mitigate the impact of scientific uncertainty".
Peer- Reviewed Publications.
A number of our research students have published in acclaimed national and international journals. See a full list of our publications here.
Academic Appointments
After graduation, several of our PhD students have secured academic appointments in Cardiff and prestigious schools such as Cambridge, the London School of Economics and Bristol Law School.
Other Achievements
Natasha Hammond received funding from CESAGen and Cardiff Law School to visit the Science, Technology and Society Center at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007, where she undertook comparative research for her PhD on medical law. She was researching Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research Cures and Bonds Act, the legislation which permits State funding of human embryonic stem cell research in California. Natasha was also a recipient of the Charles Cole Traveling Scholarship in 2007.
