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As Vice President & Vice Principal (Service), Bronwyn is responsible for devising and delivering King’s Service Strategy, one of five priorities within Vision 2029, which embodies the university's commitment to delivering positive social impact, at home in London, across the UK and around the world. This means helping to shape and transform local, national and international communities through social reform; embedding service to society within the educational experience; delivering research focused on meeting societal need; supporting volunteering amongst our students, staff and alumni; and helping to protect the environment around us.
A crucial way that King’s deliver on this commitment is by ensuring that the institution, its staff and students have opportunities to become empowered changemakers, capable of delivering significant social reforms in our wider service to society.
As part of Bronwyn's role as Vice President & Vice Principal (Service), she is the Senior Sponsor of the King’s Climate Action Network, an interdisciplinary forum that supports the university’s commitment to be net zero carbon by 2025. She also leads King’s Sanctuary Programme, the university’s response to the global issue of forced displacement.
Research
Bronwyn's first book, 'Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-information' revealed how biological materials are collected for use in the US pharmaceutical industry and how the engineered artefacts derived from them (ie cell lines, tissues samples and sequenced DNA) are then traded internationally as part of a new global resource economy in ‘bio-information.’
She subsequently received a major grant from the Wellcome Trust to investigate the social, ethical and legal complexities that attend the creation and operation of human tissue banks in the UK, completing this work through a three-year ethnography of the Addenbrooke’s Hospital Brain bank.
As part of her wider commitment to promoting the visual arts as a medium for communicating complex ethical issues in science to a wider public, she mounted a groundbreaking interactive exhibition 'Mind Over Matter' with the artist Ania Dabrowska in 2011, which explored attitudes to memory loss and brain donation for dementia research.
Bronwyn was elected to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in 2007 and has contributed to reports on the forensic use of bio-information, the recent crisis in public health in the UK and dementia care. She has also undertaken comparative work on the role of international regulatory regimes and acted as a consultant for the United Nations and the UK government in this capacity.
Bronwyn’s primary research interests lie in investigating how human-environment relations are being re-cast by technological, economic and regulatory change.
She is about to embark on a new collaborative international bioethics project that investigates the production, consumption and regulation of assisted reproductive services in rural and urban centres within India.
Research interests
The rise and operation of the life sciences industry,
Informationalism
The commodification of life forms
Posthumanism
Applied bioethics
Legal approaches to the regulation of nature
Public understanding and reception of science
A crucial way that King’s deliver on this commitment is by ensuring that the institution, its staff and students have opportunities to become empowered changemakers, capable of delivering significant social reforms in our wider service to society.
As part of Bronwyn's role as Vice President & Vice Principal (Service), she is the Senior Sponsor of the King’s Climate Action Network, an interdisciplinary forum that supports the university’s commitment to be net zero carbon by 2025. She also leads King’s Sanctuary Programme, the university’s response to the global issue of forced displacement.
Research
Bronwyn's first book, 'Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-information' revealed how biological materials are collected for use in the US pharmaceutical industry and how the engineered artefacts derived from them (ie cell lines, tissues samples and sequenced DNA) are then traded internationally as part of a new global resource economy in ‘bio-information.’
She subsequently received a major grant from the Wellcome Trust to investigate the social, ethical and legal complexities that attend the creation and operation of human tissue banks in the UK, completing this work through a three-year ethnography of the Addenbrooke’s Hospital Brain bank.
As part of her wider commitment to promoting the visual arts as a medium for communicating complex ethical issues in science to a wider public, she mounted a groundbreaking interactive exhibition 'Mind Over Matter' with the artist Ania Dabrowska in 2011, which explored attitudes to memory loss and brain donation for dementia research.
Bronwyn was elected to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in 2007 and has contributed to reports on the forensic use of bio-information, the recent crisis in public health in the UK and dementia care. She has also undertaken comparative work on the role of international regulatory regimes and acted as a consultant for the United Nations and the UK government in this capacity.
Bronwyn’s primary research interests lie in investigating how human-environment relations are being re-cast by technological, economic and regulatory change.
She is about to embark on a new collaborative international bioethics project that investigates the production, consumption and regulation of assisted reproductive services in rural and urban centres within India.
Research interests
The rise and operation of the life sciences industry,
Informationalism
The commodification of life forms
Posthumanism
Applied bioethics
Legal approaches to the regulation of nature
Public understanding and reception of science
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