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MA(Hons), MLitt by research, LLM(Dist.), PhD
Emily is an Chancellor's Fellow in Bioethics within Edinburgh School of Law. She is also Deputy Director of the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law, with responsibility for the Institute’s role in policy engagement and consultancy.
She is an interdisciplinary bioethicist with a background in philosophy. She has philosophy degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling, and an LLM from the University of Edinburgh. She was awarded her PhD for her thesis ‘Defining Ourselves: narrative identity and access to personal bioinformation’ in 2017. Her monograph 'Embodied Narratives: protecting identity interests through ethical governance of bioinformation' will be published by Cambridge University Press in early 2022.
Between 2017-2021 Emily was a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project, Confronting the Liminal Spaces of Health Research Regulation.
Emily’s main research interests lie in exploring the ways in which health technologies and healthcare practices - and the information these depend upon and generate - impact on our identities. Her wider research interests include:
She was a member of the Scottish Feminist Judgments Project, in which legal judgments in important Scottish cases are revisited to imagine might have been decided differently if the judge had adopted a feminist perspective.
Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law
Emily is Course Organiser for and tutor on:
Fundamentals in Bioethics LAWS11397 (Masters, on-campus)
Fundamentals in Bioethics LAWS11390 (Masters, online distance learning)
Biotechnology, Bioethics and Society LAWS11371 (Masters, on-campus)
Biotechnology, Bioethics and Society LAWS11372 (Masters, online distance learning)
She also teaches on:
Fundamentals Issues in Medical Jurisprudence (Masters, on-campus)
Fundamentals Issues in Medical Jurisprudence (Hons)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Emily Postan (Consultant) & Annie Sorbie (Consultant)
Activity: Consultancy types › Providing oral or written evidence for non-academic board, committee, working group or advisory panel