TARGeT

  We are now recruiting a second PhD student for our TARGeT Project. This project will have a focus on empirical bioethics research. You'll be based that the School of Social Sciences and the Disability Innovation Institute, UNSW and will be supervised by Professor Jackie Leach Scully. Click here to learn more: UNSW PhD Stipend   (scroll down to the listing: "ARC PhD Scholarship in Stakeholder Views of Autonomy in Reproductive Genomics") The stipend is open to those who are legally able to work in Australia. Closing date is 23 July 2021 . 

Hello! My name is Isabella Holmes, and I’m joining the TARGeT project team as a PhD student, writing on the theoretical aspects of autonomy in reproductive genomics.  I have moved from Melbourne to Sydney to join Ainsley Newson and Kathryn MacKay at Sydney Health Ethics, and so far have been especially enjoying living by the beach. I have been interested in reproductive ethics since studying bioethics electives during my undergraduate degree, but it wasn’t until I was trying to choose a topic for my honours thesis that I realised how much I had enjoyed reading and writing about the roles and expectations of parents. That lead to a year-long examination of philosophical justifications of parent-child relationships. I am grateful to be able to use the skills and concepts gained through that experience and apply them to an entirely new aspect of reproductive ethics for my PhD.   I’m incredibility excited to join the TARGeT project, especially the prospect of exploring notions of autonomy