Iain is a lecturer in Bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, in the Law school at Manchester.  His background is philosophical.  (When he found himself teaching law at a medical school a few years ago, having no experience in either field, he thought that hilarious… and scary.)  He’s taught at Keele, Birmingham, and Warwick (a bit), and has also been a schoolteacher, barman, lorry-driver and private tutor in his time.

 When he’s squinting at a camera, he looks like this:

His research interests are varied, though attacks on John Harris seem to be reasonably frequent.  Given that Harris is his boss, Iain wonders whether he ought to hold back on these - but probably won’t, because he’s having too much fun.  Things like autonomy and euthanasia keep creeping into his sights; at some point in the future, he wants to do something that’ll provide an excuse to look at Nietzsche and Heidegger from a bioethical perspective.  But he has no idea what that something’ll be.

Iain enjoys writing about himself in the third person, which is lucky.  He can be contacted via iain.brassington@manchester.ac.uk.