Bioethics and in particular ethics in relation to tissue and organ transplantation and organ replacement therapies, social robotics, military medical ethics, public health ethics, research ethics and human reproduction and parenting.

Member of Social Science and Systems in Health.
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Heather Draper joined the University of Warwick in 2017, taking up the newly established Chair of Bioethics in Warwick Medical School. Heather studied Theology before completing her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Manchester but chose to develop her bioethics career within medical schools rather than remaining in Philosophy. Her research therefore strives to bridge the distinctive research cultures of medicine and applied philosophy. As a bioethicist researcher she engaged in inter- and multi- disciplinary research, including working with health technology developers. Since the early 2000s she has introduced methods from social science into her research, using a methodology called 'empirical ethics'. Her research has been funded by UKRI, NIHR and the EU. She has worked on transplantation/donation ethics, pandemics, clinical ethics, military medical ethics, care robotics, assisted reproduction and parenting ethics. She has nearly 200 publications - a full list of which can be found on her Google scholar page (link below). Heather has a committed and enthusiastic educator. She is a member of the WMS MBChB Value Law and Ethics (VLE) team (currently VLE lead for Phases 2 & 3) and also organises and delivers clinical ethics training. She has worked part-time since Feb 2022 and decided to concentrate on teaching rather than research in August 2023 when it became clear the demand for ethics teaching in WMS was permanently going to outstrip available ethics teaching capacity. Heather has served on several national policy bodies (UK Donation Ethics Committee, Human Genetics Commission (co opted), Unrelated Live Transplantation Regulatory Authority) as well as being active in clinical and research ethics locally. She is a member of the Defence Medical Service Ethics Committee. Heather is also a member NHS BT's Deceased Donor Family Tissue Advisory Group, on the Advisory Board of the NGO 'International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China'. Full publication list can be found on Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=3MXclk8AAAAJ&hl=en).