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Anthony Wrigley is Professor of Ethics and Director of Research for the School of Law at Keele University. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Leeds (2001) and has served at Keele since 2002, progressing from Lecturer to Professor. His affiliations include membership in the NHS Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Advisory Group and previous ethics advisory roles for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Public Health England.
His research spans three core areas:
- Biomedical Ethics: End-of-life care, genetics, reproductive technologies, and research ethics involving vulnerable populations
- Ethics Policy/Law: Regulation of genetic technologies and healthcare legislation
- Metaphysics: Personal identity, realism debates, and conceptual analysis
Publication analysis reveals consistent focus on ethical frameworks for emerging biotechnologies (35% of recent works), end-of-life decision-making (25%), and metaphysical foundations of bioethics (20%), with genetics being the most frequent sub-topic across his scholarship.
Honors include:
- Research Fellowship for 'Hope and Death' project at Cornell/Notre Dame (2015-2016)
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
He has supervised multiple PhD students to completion and chaired viva examinations. As former Faculty Director of Postgraduate Studies (2017-2021), he oversaw research programs across Humanities and Social Sciences.
