Professor Richard Ashcroft

Overview

Richard Ashcroft joined City Law School in September 2019 as Deputy Dean and Professor of Bioethics. Previously he was Professor of Bioethics at Queen Mary, University of London, where had had been Deputy and Acting Head of the Department of Law. He is an expert on biomedical research ethics and public health ethics, with more than 200 publications in these fields. He has had numerous public roles, including most recently a year as an Alan Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2018-19), working on ethics and artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Sep 1990 – Dec 1995
• BA (Hons), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Sep 1987 – Jul 1990

Employment

• Chair, Senate Research Ethics Committee, University of London, Aug 2020 – present
• Deputy Dean, City, University of London, Sep 2019 – present
• Professor of Bioethics, City, University of London, Sep 2019 – present
• Professor of Bioethics, Queen Mary University of London, Sep 2007 – Sep 2019
• Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Queen Mary University of London, May 2006 – Aug 2007
• Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Medical Ethics, Imperial College London, Mar 2000 – Apr 2006
• Lecturer in Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, Jan 1997 – Mar 2000
• Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Liverpool, Nov 1995 – Dec 1996

Languages

French (can read), German (can read) and Italian (can read, speak and understand spoken).

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