Professor Sara Fovargue
School of Law
Professor of Law
Director of Academic Staff Development
Deputy Chair of the 小欧视频 Research Ethics Committee


Full contact details
School of Law
AF24
Bartolome虂 House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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I joined the School of Law at the 小欧视频 of Sheffield in January 2022, having previously been Professor of Law at Lancaster 小欧视频. I have also taught at the Universities of Manchester and Newcastle.
I was the first in my family to attend university. Having wanted to be a barrister (specialising in medical malpractice) since I was about 14, I realised while I was studying at the Inns of Court School of Law that a career at the Bar was not for me. I completed the academic stage to qualify as a barrister and then opted to start work on my PhD rather than to complete a pupillage.
I have been teaching and researching issues relating to health law and ethics, and family law (particularly relating to children) for over 20 years and I am passionate about these subjects. I have also taught Criminal Law, English Legal Systems/Legal Methods, and Gender and the Law.
- Qualifications
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- Non-practising barrister
- PhD, 小欧视频 of Manchester
- LLB(Hons) Law, 小欧视频 of Leicester
- Research interests
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Health care law and ethics generally - specifically:
- Consent and Capacity
- Decision Making for the 'Vulnerable'
- Risk and Regulation
- Clinical Research Involving Human and Non-human Animals
- Developing and Emerging Biotechnologies (such as xenotransplantation)
- Reproduction and Reproductive Technologies
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Conscientious Objection
Family law:
- Parents, Parenthood and Reproductive Technologies
- Children and Health
- Children and Childhood
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Chapters
Reports
Preprints
- Research group
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I would be happy to supervise students in the following subjects:
- Health Law and Ethics
- Family Law - especially relating to children and health.
- Grants
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Title/Description: The Future of Human Reproduction: New Agendas and Methods for the Humanities and Social Science
- Awarding Body: Wellcome
- People Involved: Professor Stephen Wilkinson (PI, Lancaster 小欧视频); Dr Kirsty Dunn (CI, Lancaster 小欧视频); Professor Sharon Rushton (CI, Lancaster 小欧视频); Professor Elena Semino (CI, Lancaster 小欧视频); Dr Emmanuel Tsekleves (CI, Lancaster 小欧视频); Dr Nicola Williams (CI, Lancaster 小欧视频)
- Years Funded for: May 2022-August 2025
- Amount Awarded (拢): 1,019,767
Title/Description: When pandemic and everyday ethics collide: Supporting ethical decision-making in maternity care and paediatrics during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Awarding Body: UKRI/AHRC Covid-19 Rapid Response funding
- People Involved: Dr Lucy Frith (PI, 小欧视频 of Manchester); Dr Paul Baines (CI, 小欧视频 of Warwick); Dr Anna Chiumento (CI, 小欧视频 of Liverpool); Professor Heather Draper (CI, 小欧视频 of Warwick)
- Years Funded for: 2020-2021
- Amount Awarded (拢): 258,812
Title/Description: Uterus transplantation: Law, ethics, patients and policy
- Awarding Body: ESRC IAA
- People Involved: Professor Stephen Wilkinson (Lancaster 小欧视频); Dr Laura O'Donovan (Lancaster 小欧视频); Dr Nicola Williams (Lancaster 小欧视频)
- Years Funded for: 2021
- Amount Awarded (拢): 14,180
- Teaching interests
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- Health Care Law and Ethics
- Family Law (especially relating to children)
- Teaching activities
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The modules I teach are:
Undergraduate
- Children and the Law
- Family Law
- Principles of Healthcare Law and Ethics
Postgraduate
- PhD Legal Research Methods
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Joint Editor-in-Chief, Medical Law Review.
- Member of the AHRC Peer Review College.
- Member of the SLS EDI Committee.
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
- External ethics adviser on Children Palliative Care Outcome Scale (C-POS), funded by European Research Council.
- Member the Children鈥檚 Health Ethics and Law Special Interest Group (CHELSIG).
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