Workshops

ELPIN closing workshop

The final ELPIN workshop took place on Friday 22nd October in the Glucksman Gallery on the UCC campus. The programme covered a wide-ranging agenda and we were so fortunate to have both in person and online experts to contribute to a wide ranging programme covering a range of themes. We were delighted to have 16 delegates in attendance in person, along with two online speakers, and a further 7 remote attendees on the day.

ELPIN has run for nearly 20 months and has provided an opportunity to a multidisciplinary range of academics, clinicians and advocates to engage and debate on themes relating to pregnancy, abortion, rights and choices. Having been originally imagined as a 1 year project to deliver 3 workshops, we were fortunate that our funders, the Wellcome Trust, extended our grant to support and enable us during 2020 and 2021 to continue our work in line with Covid restrictions, and we ended up running 2 in person and 8 online workshops engaging a wide range of speakers.

We were delighted to have engaged a fantastic group of international and multidisciplinary speakers for our programme (which was a blended workshop with in person and on line participants) was as follows:

SESSION 1: Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion Care (UnPAC) Study

Catherine Conlan (Assistant Professor, TCD and UnPAC PI) Discussant: Keelin O’Donoghue, Professor/Consultant Obstetrician

SESSION 2: Birth Rights and Choices:

Camilla Pickles (Asst Professor of Biolaw, Durham University)

Rebecca Brione (Bioethicist and PhD candidate KCL)

Margaret Murphy (Lecturer in Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC)

SESSION 3: Philosophy and Epistemology of Pregnancy and Birth: Values, Ethics and Decision-Making

Stella Villarmea (Professor of Philosophy, University of Madrid)

Elselijn Kingma (Professor of Philosophy, KCL)