Adam Hedgecoe, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Associate Director of the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) at Cardiff University
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is Sexual Orientation Determined at Birth?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Jan. 27, 2012.
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Associate Director of the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen), Cardiff University (Wales, United Kingdom)
- Recipient, BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, 2006
- Recipient, BSA MedSoc Sociology of Health and Illness Book of the Year, 2005
- Recipient, European Commission funded grant to compare research ethics committees in four European countries and the impact of the Clinical Trials Directive, 2004-2007
- Worked for the technology assessment units of both the European and British Parliaments
- Former Consultant, Organisation for the Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Former Wellcome Trust funded Postdoc Fellowship to explore the developing technology of pharmacogenetics
- Education:
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- PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, University College London, 2000
- MA, Applied Philosophy, University of Hull (United Kingdom), 1994
- BA, Philosophy and Psychology, University of Durham (United Kingdom), 1993
- Other:
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- Conducted research on a European Union funded project into the ethics of genetic screening