Last updated on: 1/23/2012 | Author: ProCon.org

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:

No position found as of Jan. 27, 2012.

Involvement and Affiliations:
  • 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:
  • 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:
  • Conducted research on a European Union funded project into the ethics of genetic screening