Honorary Research Associate, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School

Paolo Corsico is an Honorary Research Associate in the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School.

In 2024 he worked as a Visiting Scholar in the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, USA.

Prior to this position, he was a Research Associate in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School. Before this, he was a Research Associate at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy in the Department of Law, School of Social Sciences. During this time he worked on the Civic Data Identity Partnership research project. He has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Law, School of Social Sciences since 2018.

Paolo holds a PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence from the University of Manchester, an Erasmus Mundus MSc in Bioethics from KU Leuven, RU Nijmegen, and University of Padua, and an MA in Philosophy and Bioethics from UCSC Milan. Alongside his work at Manchester, in the past years he has worked on several empirical ethics projects at the University of Oxford with the Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, and with the Neuroscience, Ethics and Society Team (NEUROSEC) at the Department of Psychiatry.

Paolo’s research interests lie at the intersection of bioethics, mental health ethics and law, and medical sociology. He investigates the ethical, legal, and societal challenges that arise from the translation of novel technologies into medicine, from the design and delivery of (mental) health services, as well as moral dilemmas arising in health care. He is particularly interested in mental health ethics and law. He is committed to using social science research methods to investigate ethico-legal issue in health care. He has conducted qualitative research with mental health service users, carers, health professionals, researchers, industry professionals, and members of the public.

He is also interested in methodological issues in empirical bioethics, in research ethics, integrity, and research cultures, in the theory and practice of responsible research and innovation, in science and technology studies, and in environmental humanities.

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Law, School of Social Sciences since 2018:

2022-23 (semester 2): Principles of Law, Medicine and Ethics

2020-2021 (semester 1) and 2019-2020 (semester 1): Jurisprudence

2018-2019 (semesters 1 and 2): Research Ethics

• Bioethics and medical law
• Moral philosophy and philosophy of technology
• Psychiatric ethics, neuroethics, mental health law
• Empirical ethics
• Responsible research and innovation