Dr Sarah Sivers
| Post Nominals | FRSA |
|---|---|
| Biography | After graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in criminal law, Sarah has since built her research and teaching interests around medical law and ethics. She has a particular interest in ethics at the end of life, advance care planning, decision-making and disputes over withdrawal of treatment. She has served 2 terms on the North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee based at NHS Grampian and also served on the Clinical Ethics Committee for NHS Grampian. |
| Research Interests | Medical law and ethics: End-of-life ethics Advance care planning Advance Decisions; advance directives Autonomy, capacity and decision-making Withdrawal of treatment Assisted dying |
| Teaching and Learning | Sarah currently teaches honours modules in healthcare law and ethics. She also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations on a range of topics, and runs Masterclasses for PhD students on a wide variety of issues relevant to studying at doctoral level in the legal discipline. She also supervises at doctoral level. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and Advanced HE, and has held numerous external examiner posts at other universities. |
| Scopus Author ID | 57038323600 |