Speakers

Anthony Bailey, BSc, MBBS. Cheryl and Reece Scott Chair of Psychiatry (Autism), University of Oxford holds the Cheryl and Reece Scott Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and his research centres upon the study of autism. He took a BSc in Experimental Pathology at the London Hospital Medical College, graduated in Medicine and before moving to Oxford in 2002 was an MRC Clinical Scientist at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, as well as Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry. His main research has been concerned with investigating the neurobiological basis of autistic disorders, using genetic, neuropathological and neuroimaging approaches in an attempt to understand the mechanisms involved in the development of autistic behaviour. His interest in this field was stimulated by participation in the second UK study of same sex twins with autism, which demonstrated both the strength of genetic influences on the development of autism yet also the considerable variability in its manifestations. He coordinates the International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium: a large international team of clinical and laboratory scientists brought together in 1995 by Michael Rutter and Tony Monaco to identify susceptibility genes for autism; this group published the first complete genome scan of autism and has been at the forefront of the UK’s contribution to understanding the genetic basis of autism. Professor Bailey is a Trustee of the Prior’s Court Foundation and the Oxford Playhouse and is a Professional Advisor to TreeHouse. He is an Editor of the Journal of Neural Transmission and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Autism Research.
   
Deborah Bryceson is a Research Associate at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University. She recently published and edited collection with Deborah Potts entitled African Urban Economies (Palgrave/Macmillan) and is involved in a comparative study of urban growth and occupational change in Africa and Asia funded by DANIDA in collaboration with the Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen. The study focuses on settlement, livelihood and mobility patterns notably the phenomenon of fast-growing urban settlements in the gold and diamond mining zone of Mwanza and Shinyanga regions in northwestern Tanzania. She has also researched the interactive impact of HIV/AIDS and famine on rural Malawian smallholder households.
   
Dr. James Giordano is Samueli-Rockefeller Professor in the Department of Medicine, and Scholar in Residence at the Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. As well, he is the Director of the Center for Brain, Mind, and Healing Research at the Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA, USA. Dr. Giordano's research has focused upon the molecular, chemical and anatomical substrates of neuropathic pain and neuropsychiatric spectrum disorders, and clinical applications of the development and implementation of neurological drugs and novel technologies. His current work addresses the neuroethics of pain, suffering and sentience, and examines how new developments in neuroscience inform and sustain an evolving philosophy and ethics of mind and medicine.  Dr. Giordano is the author of 110 peer-reviewed publications, 5 books, and is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pain Physician, Associate Editor of the journal Neuroethics, bioethics section editor for Practical Pain Management, neuroscience and ethics section editor for the international journal Forschende Komplimentärmedizin, and Associate Editor for science and ethics of the journal Spirituality and Health International.  He has given over 100 invited lectures, both nationally and internationally, on neuroscience, neuroethics, pain, and the ethics of pain research and therapeutics.
   

Jonathan Herring, Professor of Law, Exeter College in the University of Oxford has written on criminal, family and medical law. Professor Herring has written two best selling textbooks on criminal law. He has researched the law on sexual offences, crimes against corpses and failures of parents to protect children from death. He has written a popular textbook in this subject and has edited a book on theoretical issues in family law. He has examined the way the law balances the interests and rights of children and parents. He has also analysed legal disputes over contact between children and parents and issues surrounding children's rights. He is a member of the editorial board for the Family Court Reports and is the case commentary editor for the Child and Family Law Quarterly. He is currently working on a book on law and older people and (with Shazia Choudhry) a book on family law and human rights.
Jonathan Herring has written a leading textbook on this subject of Medical Law. He has written on the regulation of pregnancy and enforced medical treatment. He has also co-authored with Dr P-L Chau a series of papers on the medical and legal definition of sex, with particular consideration of intersex people and issues surrounding human cloning. He has also written on the ownership of body parts and bodily fluids, as part of a project for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group.

   
Mary Hilton is a University Teaching Officer in Primary Literacy and Literature in the Faculty of Education at Cambridge University. She originally trained and practised as an architect and taught art history before taking the primary PGCE in 1982. She then worked for twelve years in Primary schools, studying in detail the ways young children respond to creative tasks, particularly those in the visual and language arts. She holds an MA in Education and an MSc in Research Methods. She is co-convenor of the MPhil in Arts, Culture and Education. Mary Hilton researches and publishes in the area of children's literature, popular culture, and children's writing and engagement with moving image texts. She is a consistent critic of the government's standards agenda, particularly of the practices and anxieties created by the annual NC tests for 7 and 10 year old children, and the resulting narrowing of the primary curriculum.
   
Isobel Hurst, D.Phil, is a Tutor at Queen Mary College, University of London.  Dr. Hurst holds a BA in Classics and English, an M Phil in English Studies and a D Phil in English from the University of Oxford. Her popular book, Victorian Women Writers and the Classics was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. She has taught at Marlboro College, Vermont, and at Universities of Bristol, Warwick, and Oxford, United Kingdom.
   
Richard Margrave (Ph.D., London School of Economics) is a senior communications and marketing professional with direct experience of journalism, the legislative and political environment and the formulation of national and international policy. Richard was for nine years special adviser to leading UK politicians, Jack Straw MP, Chris Smith MP and the late Lord Shore of Stepney.  With them he was in charge of policy development, campaigns and media handling.  He has worked on political portfolios as diverse as education, local government, health, law and order, defence, environment and the business of the House of Commons. During the last eight years he has worked in-house as Director of Communications, Association of Teach ers and Lecturers and the Director of Marketing, Communications and Business Development for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.  In these posts he has worked closely with the media and national policy makers on issues ranging from public private finance initiatives in education to the changing needs of the engineering profession in a global economy.  He is an accomplished senior manager, highly regarded for his leadership skills, grasp of corporate objectives and the successful development of new business strategies. He established his own marketing and public relations company in January 2002 and already includes amongst his UK clients the educational architecture think-tank, School Works, the Federation of Prisoners’ Families Support Groups and business enterprise trainers, Catalyst for Success Ltd.  He is a writer and broadcaster, appearing in newspapers such as the Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and the Times Educational Supplement and on national television and radio.  He is a Member of the UK Institute of Public Relations.  He is a Visiting Lecturer in Journalism at the London Institute.
Canon Brian Mountford served as Fellow and Chaplain of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Vicar of Southgate in North London, before becoming Vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, in 1986. He is also an honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. During his time, St Mary’s has become a center where Christian theology intersects with other academic disciplines and the modern challenge to traditional theology is taken seriously. St Mary’s has three main functions: the church of the University of Oxford (the Vice Chancellor’s installation happened there last September); a parish church; and a tourist center - the ‘most visited parish church in England’. Canon Mountford is also Chaplain of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, the only remaining all-women’s college, and Chairman of the ‘Gatehouse’ drop in center for the homeless. His book Perfect Freedom will be launched in the USA this July after initial success in the UK and his most recent books Christianity – a ten minute guide and Happiness – a ten minute guide will be published at the end of this year.

Terezinha Nunes is Professor of Educational Studies and a Fellow of Harris-Manchester College, Oxford University. She started her career as a clinical psychologist in Brazil and moved to a research career by obtaining a doctorate in Psychology at City University of New York, where she was supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. Her work spans the domains of children's literacy and numeracy, including both hearing and deaf children's learning, and her focus of analysis covers cognitive and cultural issues, with a special interest in educational applications. Her work on "street mathematics" in Brazil uncovered many features of children's and adults' informal knowledge, and her subsequent work in the U.K. investigates how this informal knowledge can be used in education. Her literacy research focuses on the connections between moprhological awareness, spelling and vocabulary growth.
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Elizabeth Solopova works in the Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK, and teaches Medieval English Literature and the history of English Language at the Departments of Continuing Education in Oxford and Cambridge.

 Professor Sally Tomlinson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Educational Studies, Oxford University. Sally Tomlinson has researched for over 25 years in the areas of educational policy, the education of racial and ethnic minorities, special education, home-school links and 14-19 education. She recently (2005) published a second edition of her book "Education in a Post-Welfare Society" which won a Society for Educational Studies book prize award in 2002. She is currently writing a political history of race and education in the UK. She is a member of Strand 1 of the Departmental Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training. She is also Chair of Trustees of the Africa Educational Trust, an organisation which works to educate young people post-14 in countries in conflict in Africa.

Richard Tur MA. LLB Hons(Dundee) is a CUF Lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford University. Professor Tur holds university qualifications in Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy and has been Benn Law Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford since 1979. Publications include; R H S Tur, 'Time and Law' (2002) 22(3) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 463-488;

R H S Tur, 'Resources and Rights: Court Decisions in the United Kingdom' in Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P Battin, and Anita Silvers (eds), Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (OUP 2002); R H S Tur, 'Legislative Technique and Human Rights: The Sad Case of Assisted Suicide' (2003) January Criminal Law Review 3-12 and R H S Tur, 'Two Theories of Criminal Law' (2003) 56(2) SMU Law Review 797-818.

 
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