Speaker: Dr Dan Lyons, Director, Uncaged Campaigns.
Place: Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford.
Dr Lyons is one of the country's leading authorities on the politics of animal experimentation. He has carried out extensive academic research into the evolution of UK animal research policy and was awarded the Political Studies Association's Walter Bagehot Prize for the best thesis in Government and Public Administration in 2008. In 2003, he won a historic legal victory on public interest grounds that allowed the publication of leaked confidential information describing xenotransplantation experiments on primates. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield and also serves as a Councillor on Stocksbridge Town Council.
Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford).
Admission free, refreshments provided.