Our People
Dr David Albert Jones is the Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford (courtesy of whom, profile picture left), Professor of Bioethics at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and Vice-Chair of the Ministry of Defence Research Ethics Committee.
Dr Mehmet Çiftçi is the Centre’s Public Bioethics Fellow. He read moral theology at the University of Oxford, completing first the MPhil at Blackfriars Hall, followed by the DPhil at Trinity College. He later undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at St Michael’s College in the University of Toronto.
Gwen McCourt is Administrator at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre.
Peter D. Williams is Media and Communications Advisor at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. He serves as Director of the Family Education Trust having previously worked as Executive Officer of Right To Life, and has over a decade of experience in human rights advocacy and Catholic apologetics.
Michael Wee is an Associate Research Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, and is leading the Centre’s project on ‘Advance Decisions and Ethical Choices’.
Dr Christopher M. Wojtulewicz is an Associate Research Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, and is assisting the Centre with a number of collaborative projects in the area of bioethics education.
Phoebe Rutaquio is Junior Associate Scholar at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. She will be assisting the Centre in collating and analysing data relevant to bioethical issues, for example data on assisted suicide, on unassisted suicide, on abortion and on maternal health.
Dr Xavier Symons is Director of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics of the Australian Catholic University, where he was previously a post-doctoral research fellow, and is also an outgoing post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Human Flourishing Program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
Jorge Martínez Barrera is Professor at the Department of Humanities, San Pablo Catholic University, Arequipa, Peru. He is also Associate Professor in the Institute of Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he is a Member of both the Centre for Bioethics, and the Committee of the Master’s Program in Bioethics.
Prof. Ryan Meade is the Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Dr Toni Saad is a junior doctor currently based in Cardiff. He is editor for book reviews at The New Bioethics.
Stephan Kampowski is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome.
Dr Thomas Finegan is Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland.
Fr. Nicanor Austriaco is Professor of Biology and Professor of Theology at Providence College in Providence, RI, USA, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Religious Studies and Ethics, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines.
Anselm Müller, a former student of Elizabeth Anscombe, is a Chicago Moral Philosophy Seminar Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.
Daniel Sulmasy is Acting Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University and a Senior Research Scholar. He holds a joint appointment at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, and is the inaugural Andre Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics.
The late Joseph Boyle was Professor of Philosophy, Fellow and Former Principal (1991-2002) at St. Michael’s College, Toronto and a Member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto.
Fr Berry has lectured for over fifteen years on bioethics for the BA in Divinity and for the last nine years for the BA in Applied Theology at Maryvale Institute for Theology, Philosophy, Catechesis and Religious Education in Birmingham.
John Keown is Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.
The Rev. Dr Andrew Pinsent is Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at Oxford University, and a Catholic Priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in England.
O. Carter Snead is Professor of Law, Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, and Concurrent Professor of Political Science, at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States.
Dr Thomas Finegan is Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at Mary Immaculate College in Ireland, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre in 2016.
John Haldane is the J. Newton Rayzor Sr Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Baylor University, and Professor of Philosophy, Senior Fellow, and Co-Director at the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.
Dr Gavin Jarvis is Associate Professor of Analytical Pharmacology at the University of Sunderland, and a qualified veterinary surgeon (non-practising).
Bishop Kevin Doran is Bishop of Elphin in Ireland, Chairs of the Committee for Bioethics of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ireland, and is a Member of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
Bishop John Keenan is the Bishop of the Diocese of Paisley, and presently serves as Vice-President of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland and the Episcopal President of the Conference’s Marriage, Family and Life Commission.
Bishop John Sherrington is an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Westminster, Titular Bishop of Hilta, and a former lecturer in moral theology.
Dr Stephen Barrie is Deputy Director of Ethics and Engagement at the Church of England Pensions Board, where he works across the Board’s investment stewardship activities. He is a Director of the Investor Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative, and a Trustee Director of the Church Investors Group.
Justin Bozzino is Growth Director at Telecom Plus, and is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Regina Caeli UK, a centre for home educators operating in the Catholic tradition.
Patricia Casey is Professor of Psychiatry at University College Dublin, and consultant psychiatrist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin.
Dr Berry Kiely is a retired paediatrician and Senior Medical Officer with the Health Service Executive, Ireland. She is medical advisor to the Pro-Life Campaign and a member of the Council for Life of the Irish Bishops’ Conference.
Dr Pia Matthews is a senior lecturer at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and a lecturer at Allen Hall Seminary in Chelsea.
Chris Whitehouse KSCG has worked in politics, public affairs and communications for over 40 years. He is Chairman and Managing Director of Whitehouse Communications and a Trustee of the Right to Life Charitable Trust.
Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church.
The Rev. Kevin Flannery S.J. is Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, a Catholic moral philosopher, and author. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1977, and has served as a Consultor of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 2002.
John Haldane is the J. Newton Rayzor Sr Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Baylor University, and Professor of Philosophy, Senior Fellow, and Co-Director at the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.
John Keown is Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.
Christopher McCrudden is Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Neil Scolding is the Burden Professor and Director of the Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Frenchay Hospital, University of Bristol.
Ilina Singh is Professor of Neuroscience and Society at the University of Oxford.
John Wyatt is Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, Ethics & Perinatology, and a Senior Researcher at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge.
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The Anscombe Bioethics Centre is supported by the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but has also always relied on donations from generous individuals, friends and benefactors.