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Professor Richard Ashcroft

Executive Dean

The City Law School

Contact details

Address

Professor Richard Ashcroft T350 , Law School Building [T]
City St George's, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Richard Ashcroft is the Executive Dean for The City Law School. He joined The City Law School in September 2019 as Deputy Dean and Professor of Bioethics. He is the University’s lead for sustainability as well as being the University’s neurodiversity champion.

Previously he was Professor of Bioethics at Queen Mary, University of London, where he had been Deputy and Acting Head of the Department of Law.

He is an expert on biomedical research ethics and public health ethics, with more than 200 publications in these fields. He has had numerous public roles, including most recently a year as an Alan Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2018-19), working on ethics and artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Sep 1990 – Dec 1995
  • BA (Hons), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Sep 1987 – Jul 1990

Employment

  • Executive Dean, City St George's, University of London, Dec 2022 – present
  • Chair, Senate Research Ethics Committee, City St George's, University of London, Aug 2020 – Sep 2022
  • Deputy Dean, City St George's, University of London, Sep 2019 – Dec 2022
  • Professor of Bioethics, City St George's, University of London, Sep 2019 – present
  • Professor of Bioethics, Queen Mary University of London, Sep 2007 – Sep 2019
  • Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Queen Mary University of London, May 2006 – Aug 2007
  • Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Medical Ethics, Imperial College London, Mar 2000 – Apr 2006
  • Lecturer in Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, Jan 1997 – Mar 2000
  • Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Liverpool, Nov 1995 – Dec 1996

Languages

French (can read), German (can read) and Italian (can read, speak and understand spoken).

Publications

Publications by category

Books (3)

  • Ashcroft, R.E., Dawson, A., Draper, H. and McMillan, J.R. (Eds.), (2006). Principles of Health Care Ethics. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-02713-4.
  • (2006). Part Introduction. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-02713-4.
  • Ashcroft, R., Lucassen, A., Parker, M., Verkerk, M. and Widdershoven, G. (Eds.), (2005). Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83549-7.

Chapters (36)

  • Germain, S., Ashcroft, R. and Benatar, S.R. (2025). International Perspectives on Resource Allocation. International Encyclopedia of Public Health (pp. 355–362). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-323-97280-2.
  • Schüklenk, U. and Ashcroft, R.E. (2020). Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries: Conflicts between ethical and economic imperatives. Ethics and AIDS in Africa the Challenge to Our Thinking (pp. 127–140).
  • Wallace, S.E. and Ashcroft, R. (2019). Ethical Issues in Statistical Genetics. (pp. 551–30). Wiley. ISBN 978-1-119-42914-2.
  • Schiiklenk, U. and Ashcroft, R.E. (2017). Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries: Conflicts between ethical and economic imperatives. Health Rights and Globalisation (pp. 123–139).
  • Ashcroft, R. (2017). Equipoise, Knowledge And Ethics In Clinical Research And Practice. Human Experimentation and Research (pp. 433–445). Routledge.
  • Benatar, S.R. and Ashcroft, R. (2017). International Perspectives on Resource Allocation. International Encyclopedia of Public Health (pp. 316–321). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-803708-9.
  • Schüklenk, U. and Ashcroft, R.E. (2017). Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries: Conflicts between ethical and economic imperatives. Health Rights (pp. 279–295).
  • Ashcroft, R. (2016). Ethical Issues in a Trial of Maternal Gene Transfer to Improve Foetal Growth. Research Ethics Forum (pp. 247–263). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-26510-0.
  • Ashcroft, R. (2016). Hanging around with Jackson: Consistency in ethical argument, and how to avoid it. From Reason to Practice in Bioethics (pp. 44–55).
  • Ashcroft, R.E. (2015). Bioethics: Philosophical Aspects. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 631–636). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-097087-5.
  • (2015). CLINICAL RESEARCH CONTRACTING— A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE. In Outsourcing in Clinical Drug Development (pp. 71–84). CRC Press.
  • Ashcroft, R. (2015). Ethical considerations in outsourced clinical trials. Outsourcing in Clinical Drug Development (pp. 73–85).
  • Ashcroft, R. (2014). Incentives in health: Ethical considerations. Routledge Companion to Bioethics (pp. 302–311).
  • Bell, J., Reed, K.D., Ashcroft, R., Witton, J. and Strang, J. (2012). Treating Opioid Dependence with Opioids. Addiction Neuroethics (pp. 57–74). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-385973-0.
  • Ashcroft, R. (2012). Human Research Subjects, Selection of. Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (pp. 653–664). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-373932-2.
  • Ashcroft, R.E. (2012). Health Technology Assessment. Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (pp. 556–565). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-373932-2.
  • Bell, J., Reed, K.D., Ashcroft, R., Witton, J. and Strang, J. (2012). Treating opioid dependence with opioids: Exploring the ethics. Addiction Neuroethics the Ethics of Addiction Neuroscience Research and Treatment (pp. 57–74).
  • Ashcroft, R. (2011). Smoking, health and ethics. Public Health Ethics (pp. 85–99). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86897-6.
  • Ashcroft, R.E. and Dixon-Woods, M. (2011). The Social Forms and Functions of Bioethics in the United Kingdom. Bioethics Around the Globe (pp. 76–92). Oxford University PressNew York. ISBN 0-19-538609-4.
  • Bell, J., Reed, K.D., Ashcroft, R., Witton, J. and Strang, J. (2011). Treating Opioid Dependence with Opioids: Exploring the Ethics. Addiction Neuroethics the Ethics of Addiction Neuroscience Research and Treatment (pp. 57–74).
  • Ashcroft, R. (2009). IS IT IRRATIONAL TO HAVE CHILDREN? Cutting Through the Surface (pp. 183–195). BRILL. ISBN 978-90-420-2739-8.
  • Ashcroft, R. (2008). The Troubled Relationship Between Bioethics and Human Rights*. Law and Bioethics (pp. 31–51). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954552-0.
  • Ashcroft, R.E. and Viens, A.M. (2008). Clinical trials. The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics (pp. 201–206). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87284-3.
  • Ashcroft, R., Campbell, A.V. and Capps, B. (2007). Ethical Aspects of Developments in Neuroscience and Drug Addiction. Drugs and the Future (pp. 439–465). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-370624-9.
  • Ashcroft, R.E. (2007). Ethics Issues in Statistical Genetics. (pp. 1323–1345). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-05830-5.
  • Ashcroft, R.E. (2006). The Ethics and Governance of Medical Research. (pp. 681–687). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-02713-4.
  • Ashcroft, R. (2006). Race in medicine: From probability to categorical practice. Nature of Difference Science Society and Human Biology Pbk (pp. 135–153).
  • Ashcroft, R., Campbell, A.V. and Capps, B. (2006). Ethical Aspects of Developments in Neuroscience and Drug Addiction. Drugs and the Future Brain Science Addiction and Society (pp. 439–465).
  • Ashcroft, R.E. (2005). Current Epistemological Problems in Evidence-based Medicine. Evidence-based Practice in Medicine and Health Care (pp. 77–85). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-22239-2.
  • Ashcroft, R. (2005). ‘Power, corruption and lies’: ethics and power. Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics (pp. 77–94). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83549-7.
  • Parker, M., Ashcroft, R., Verkerk, M. and Widdershoven, G. (2005). Philosophical reflections. Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics (pp. 225–230). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83549-7.
  • Ashcroft, R., Parker, M., Verkerk, M. and Widdershoven, G. (2005). Philosophical introduction: case analysis in clinical ethics. Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics (pp. 1–6). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83549-7.
  • Ashcroft, R.E. (2004). Bioethics. Gynecologic Cancer (pp. 855–863). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-443-07142-3.
  • Ashcroft, R.E. (2001). Ethics of Clinical Trials: Social, Cultural and Economic Factors. The Advanced Handbook of Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare (pp. 25–37). SAGE Publications Ltd.
  • Ashcroft, R.E. Genetic Information and “genetic Identity”. Genetic Information (pp. 207–218). Springer US. ISBN 978-0-306-46052-4.
  • Corrigan, O. Genetic Databases. Routledge.

Conference papers and proceedings (12)

  • Burman, M., Zenner, D., Copas, A., Gosce, L., White, P., Hickson, V. … Kunst, H. (2021). Is the Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Amongst Recent Migrants Safe and Effective in Primary Care?
  • Burman, M., Zenner, D., Copas, A., Goscé, L., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., White, P. … Kunst, H. (2021). S39 Is the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection amongst recent migrants safe and effective in primary care? British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2021 Online, Wednesday 24 to Friday 26 November 2021, Programme and Abstracts. doi:10.1136/thorax-2021-btsabstracts.45
  • Tutton, R., Smart, A., Martin, P.A., Ashcroft, R. and Ellison, G.T.H. (2008). Genotyping the Future: Scientists' Expectations about Race/Ethnicity after BiDil. doi:10.1111/j.1748-720x.2008.292.x
  • Müller-Wille, S. and Rheinberger, H.-.J. (2008). Race and Genomics. Old Wine in New Bottles? doi:10.1007/s00048-008-0301-6
  • Ashcroft, R.E. (2007). Scientific or Social Priorities for Brain Science? – Making a Difference. doi:10.1177/026010600701900215
  • Thiele, F. and Ashcroft, R.E. (2005). Bioethics in a small world.
  • Ashcroft, R.E. and Franey, C. (2004). Further ethical and social issues in using a cocaine vaccine: response to Hall and Carter. doi:10.1136/jme.2003.005017
  • Ashcroft, R.E. (2004). Drugs symposium: introduction. doi:10.1136/jme.2004.009589
  • Ashcroft, R. (1999). To feed or not to feed? Ethical issues in nutritional support.
  • Ashcroft, R. (1999). Equipoise, Knowledge and Ethics in Clinical Research and Practice. doi:10.1111/1467-8519.00160
  • Ashcroft, R. (1998). One year on: LRECs & MRECs in the West Country: meeting report.
  • Thiele, F. and Ashcroft, R. Introduction. doi:10.1007/3-540-26951-7_1

Journal articles (168)