The 35th Annual Ilkley Colloquium on Health Care Ethics
- Date: Saturday 17 January 2026, 09:30 – 18:35
- Location: Off-campus
- Cost: £22 - £70
Each January, IDEA the Ethics Centre runs an informal colloquium on Biomedical and Health Care Ethics.
All current MA BMHCE students (campus or online), MAAPE students, alumni, potential IDEA students, philosophers and professionals are welcome.
Led by Dr Sarah Carter-Walshaw, Dr Matilda Carter, and Dr Danielle Bromwich, this year’s colloquium welcomes new speakers and topics, including IDEA Centre staff, PGRs, recent alumni, and external academics. Our speakers will be presenting and leading discussions on diverse topics in biomedical and healthcare ethics. The event is also part of IDEA’s 20th Anniversary celebrations.
The colloquium takes place at the Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley. The hotel is five minutes’ walk from Ilkley railway station. For details on accommodation, please contact them directly: http://www.craiglands.co.uk/
Tickets:
Tickets can be purchased on the University of Leeds Online Store
Day Delegate price (including lunch): £42;
Dinner: £28;
Leeds Student (not in fulltime employment): – £22
Leeds student dinner Price: £11
Programme:
09.30 – 10.00 Arrival, registration and coffee
10:00 – 11:00 Dr Matilda Carter (IDEA Centre) “What do We Want Social Care to Be?”
11:00 – 11.15 Tea and Coffee
11:15 – 12:15 Dr Ben Davies (Sheffield): “A Balanced Formula: Scientific Pathologies, Deviant Naturalism and the Research-Recommendation Gap”
12:15 – 13:15 Dr Alison Toop (PRHS, Leeds): “Feminism and Fetuses - Do we have a collective obligation to care for fetuses?”
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 16:15 Walk / Shop (tea available from c. 16.00)
16:15 – 17:30 Dr Jim Baxter (Leeds): Psychopathy and Moral Responsibility – A book discussion with critical friends – Mark O Farrell, Consultant Psychiatrist, Leeds; Elizabeth Fistein, Consultant Psychiatrist, Cambridge
17:30 – 17:35 Quick comfort break
17.35 –18.05 Hannah Byrne (MA alumni, Leeds): ‘Screened Out? Is Prenatal Screening an Ethically Justifiable Practice?’
18.05-18.35 Safia Munir (MA Intercalator, Leeds): ‘Responsibility and Blame in Psychiatric Practice’
18.40 – 21:00 Conference Dinner