1 March 2007

President of the British Academy to speak at University of Dundee

Professor Baroness Onora O'Neill, President, The British Academy -
Rethinking Informed Bioethics

Baroness Onora O’Neill, President of the British Academy, will give the next in the acclaimed Saturday Evening Lecture series this weekend.

Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve will discuss the idea of consent in medical advancement and the ethical issues surrounding it in a fascinating discussion at the University of Dundee’s D'Arcy Thompson Tower Lecture Theatre on Saturday 3rd March at 6pm.

The Baroness has chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Human Genetics Advisory Commission, and she is currently chair of the Nuffield Foundation. She has been President of the Aristotelian Society, and a member of the Animal Procedures (Scientific) Committee. In 1999 she was made a life peer as Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, and sits as a crossbencher.

Onora O'Neill was born in Northern Ireland in 1941 and educated partly in Germany and at St. Paul's Girls School in London. She studied philosophy, psychology and physiology at Oxford before going on to complete a doctorate at Harvard. During the 1970s she taught at Barnard College, the women's college at Columbia University, New York.

In 1977 she returned to the UK and took up a post at the University of Essex; she was Professor of Philosophy there. She was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, from l992 to 2006.

03 March 2007
Professor Baroness Onora O'Neill, President, The British Academy -
Rethinking Informed Bioethics
6pm D'Arcy Thompson Tower Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee. Everyone is welcome to attend, entry is free, and there will be a drinks reception following the lecture.

For media enquiries contact:

Anna Day
Press Office
University of Dundee
Nethergate Dundee, DD1 4HN
TEL: 01382 384768
E-MAIL: a.c.day@dundee.ac.uk