Recent Reports Highlight Key Issues in Regulating Elderly Care

By Catriona McMillan and Nayha Sethi

A recent investigation by the BBC has raised concerns regarding the treatment of individuals in the care home setting. This brings to the fore a number of ethical and legal issues which, considering the increase in ageing population, invite closer scrutiny.

Liminal Spaces Project: Report on First Advisory Board Meeting

By Annie Sorbie

One year into the Liminal Spaces Project, there has been a distinct air of industry amongst the team as it moves apace towards the next phase in Year 2. The scene was set for the first external Advisory Board Meeting, which took place at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh on 13 January 2016.

The inaugural year’s aims have been achieved; including, identification of each member’s research objectives, and the production of a detailed co-authored concept paper.  The concept paper sets out the team’s multi-disciplinary approach to liminality and establishes concrete ways that this anthropological concept can offer insights into health research regulation, and vice versa. The team has also gone beyond these year one aims, for example by producing an article analysing a European Court of Human Rights case judgement on organ transplantation (the article is currently in press for Medical Law International), and by submitting a co-authored paper on social value to another peer-reviewed journal.