About

Dr Helen Watt

Dr Helen Watt holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and is a Research Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. From 2010-2021 she was Senior Research Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford prior to which she was the Anscombe Centre Director. She joined the Centre in 1992 as Research Fellow and from 1993-1996 she was also Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Her publications include the Routledge monographs The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth (2016) and Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics (2000), together with the edited collections Cooperation, Complicity and Conscience (2005), Incapacity and Care (2009), and Fertility and Gender (2011).  She has also published internationally in journals including the Journal of Medical Ethics and Clinical Ethics.  Her research interests include reproductive ethics, gender issues, action theory, and cooperation and conscientious objection.

Dr Greg Pike

Dr Greg Pike, PhD is the founding Director of the Adelaide Centre for Bioethics and Culture in Adelaide, South Australia and former Director of the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute.  He has a research background in neurobiology at the University of Adelaide and University of Pittsburgh, and also in clinical trials in laparoscopic surgery at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. In 1998 he moved into bioethics, and has a particular interest in its relationship with public policy.  He has worked on ethical issues related to illicit drugs, stem cells, cloning, abortion, reproductive technology, genetics, and end-of-life decision-making.  He has written widely in these areas, participated in public debate, and engaged with policy makers and the community.

He has served on several State and Federal Government consultative committees, and is currently a member of the Federal Government’s Gene Technology and Ethics Community Consultative Committee.  He was also a member of the Federal Government’s peak body, the Australian Health Ethics Committee, for the 2006-09 triennium.

Dr Ilaria Bertini

Dr Ilaria Bertini holds a Ph.D in Constitutional Law from the University of Milan-Bicocca along with a Doctor Europaeus certificate, and a MA and BS in Philosophy from the University of Milan. From 2015 to 2017 she held the position of Research Fellow at the Fundamental Rights Laboratory (LDF) in Turin (Italy); in 2012 she was Visiting Scholar at the Law School, City University, London. She has also taught classes for the MA English course of Advanced Constitutional Law and for the course of European Constitutional Law at the Law School, University of Milan-Bicocca. Her publications include New Forms of Parenting. Use and Abuse of the Word “Nature” (Nuove forme di filiazione e genitorialità. Uso e abuso del richiamo alla natura, Il Mulino, 2018).