Sheelagh McGuinness

Professor Sheelagh McGuinness is Reader in Law at the University of Bristol Law School, where she is Co-Director of the Centre for Health, Law, and Society.

She has wide-ranging research and teaching interests in health law and policy, particularly regarding the regulation of reproduction.

Sheelagh has published widely, including in Law, Ethics, and Healthcare journals, and was recently a co-investigator on an ESRC-funded projected entitled “Death before Birth: Understanding, informing and supporting the choices made by people who have experienced miscarriage, termination, and stillbirth”.

Sheelagh's educational roles include being coordinator on the "Health Law and the Body" unit of the University of Bristol's LLM in Health, Law, and Society.

Sheelagh's committee experience includes her currently being a member of the Research and Ethics Committee of bpas.

Previously she has served as a member of the Independent Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank and the Ethics Committee of the Royal College of General Practitioners.