The PatentsInHumans team is delighted to announce that it is currently recruiting a new position, a Post-Doctoral Researcher!
PatentsInHumans is a 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant funded project led by Principal Investigator, Professor Aisling McMahon. The rapid pace of scientific developments has led to significant advances in health-technologies, such as medicines, vaccines, and medical devices which are often patentable or have patentable elements. How patents are used over such technologies can impact how we treat, use and modify the body, with knock-on bioethical implications. PatentsInHumans aims to develop a deeper understanding of such bioethical implications, and how they are, or could be better, engaged with by relevant decision-making systems in Europe. Ultimately, it seeks to bridge the disconnect between patent law and bioethics in such contexts.
As part of this project, we are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher which excellent empirical/participant research skills to explore complex and important empirical questions at the interface of health innovation, bioethics and patent law. The candidate will work primarily on the empirical strand of the project, and for this role, we are looking to appoint a candidate with a background in using empirical methods and analysis, such as semi-structured interviews and/or focus groups. It is also desirable that the successful candidate has relevant knowledge of, at least one area related to the project, such as, bioethics, an area of law related to the project, for example, health law, human rights, or intellectual property law, or broader areas considered by the project, including institutional influences on decision-making, theories of governance etc.
Further details and information relating to the application process for the Post Doctoral Researcher post is available here. The closing date for applications is 23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Thursday, 24th April 2025.
Successful candidates will join a dynamic, well-supported multidisciplinary team within the PatentsInHumans project which currently includes the Principal Investigator, a Post Doctoral Researcher and a Project Manager. They will be part of the research-intensive School of Law and Criminology and Assisting Living and Learning Institute (ALL) in Maynooth University. They will be supported in their personal career development plan throughout the project by Professor Aisling McMahon.