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Research Grants

Members of the School of Law have obtained grants, funding, and recognition from a variety of institutions and external bodies. The following is a selection.

  •  Professors Emilios Christodoulidis, Scott Veitch, George Pavlakos (Antwerp and Glasgow) and Patricia Popellier (Antwerp) have been awarded the sum of €90,000 by the Internationalisation Fund of the University of Antwerp for a research project entitled: 'Multi-layered Polities and the Search for the Common Good: A Constitutional Puzzle for the European Polis'.
  • Prof Iain MacNeil and Prof Justin O'Brien, Visiting Professor at Glasgow and Professor of Corporate Governance at CAPPE, have secured £50,000 funding to support an international conference entitled 'The Future of Financial Regulation', which will run in Glasgow on 30-31 March 2009.  Funding was secured from ESRC World Economy and Finance Programme, GOVNET, CAPPE, TIRI, and The Chancellor's Fund at the University of Glasgow.
  • Prof Lindsay Farmer is part of a team (with the Universities of Stirling and Warwick) which has been awarded £625,000 Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to look at developing a normative theory of criminalization.  Two PhD studentships are associated with the grant.
  • Dr Laura Williamson is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in the amount of £155,820 to pursue research under the title 'Health Ethics in the Age of Autonomy: Public Engagement and the Social Challenges of Health Policy' (2008).
  • Prof Emilios Christodoulidis, part of a team with the Edinburgh College of Art, has been awarded a £96,000 speculative grant by the AHRC on ‘The Species of Origin’ exploring the influence of Darwin in arts and philosophy (2007-08).
  • Prof Sheila McLean and Dr Laura Williamson received £152,219 from the AHRC under the title 'An Ethical and Legal Critique of Alcohol Policies in the United Kingdom' (2007).
  • Prof Sheila McLean and Dr Laura Williamson received £50,815 from the British Academy under the title 'Alcohol in the Age of Autonomy: Finding a Safety Net for the Alcohol Dependent in Choice-led Public Health Policies' (2007).
  • Ms Maria Fletcher and Ms Sarah Craig were awarded £60,412 by the Nuffield Foundation in 2006 for the study of immigration and asylum appeals in Scotland.
  • Prof Sheila McLean received £25,561 from the Wellcome Trust to study ethical and practical concerns regarding changes to human tissue legislation (2005).
  • Prof Sheila McLean received £27,349 from The New Zealand Law Foundation to conduct a comparative study on the impact of the Human Genome Project (2005).
  • Prof Sheila McLean was awarded £229,396 by the Wellcome Trust in respect of a project on Ethical Legal Governance in Health Care (2004-7).
  • Prof Charles Woolfson received a Marie Curie Chair Excellence Award of €454,000 from the European Commission (2004-07).
  • Ms Sarah Craig, Prof Tom Mullen, and Prof Jim Murdoch received £40,073 from the Scottish Executive to study the use of the Human Rights Act in the Scottish courts (2003-04).
  • Ms Clare Connelly and others received £69,000 from the Scottish Executive to evaluate the Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2001 (2002-03).
  • Prof Charles Woolfson received €78,872 from the European Commission under the Improving Human Potential Programme of the Fifth Framework (2001-03).
  • Prof Sheila McLean was awarded £48,644 by the Department of Health to prepare a study on the legal and ethical aspects of xenotransplantation (2001).