Events
Upcoming Events
The BABEL project team are delighted to announce the upcoming conference: Best Interests Decision-Making in Clinical and Legal Practice. This one-day event, on Tuesday 25 June 2024, will share some of the key findings from the Wellcome Trust funded BABEL project, which comes to a close this July.
The event will bring together voices from across the “best interests” process, including people with lived experience, advocates, medical and legal professionals, and academic researchers in law and ethics.
Registration is free. To reserve your place, please book by following this link.
The conference will be held in the Bristol Royal Marriott hotel, College Green. The draft programme can be viewed here Babel Conference programme June 2024 (PDF, 59kB)
Previous events
Spring into BABEL Webinar Series 2022
Across four 90 minute webinars held throughout April and May 2022, the Spring into BABEL webinar series aimed to explore the theory and practice around ‘best interests’ decisions in healthcare. We considered what it means and what it involves – for patients, those close to them, professionals, and researchers. We also reflected on what is working well, as well as what could be improved going forward.
Please visit our individual pages for each webinar, linked below, to watch a video recording and read a summary.
Spring into BABEL Webinar 1: Best interests in healthcare: Theory and practice
Spring into BABEL Webinar 2: In the best interests of the child patient?
Spring into BABEL Webinar 3: In the best interests of the adult patient?
Spring into BABEL Webinar 4: Thinking differently about 'best interests' decisions?
WECIL community group meeting at We The Curious, April 2019
Members of the BABEL team attended a WECIL community group meeting at We the Curious science museum in Bristol on 1 April 2019. This was an interactive session, which used some illustrative “props” to help generate discussion. The discussion focused on a story, in which a key question was whether it was in the best interests of a young child to be vaccinated.