The Black and Brown in Bioethics network aims to create spaces to discuss issues affecting ethnic minorities in the UK, nurture underrepresented communities through knowledge exchange, academic interactions and driving change in bioethics. This conference, organised by Matimba, focused on the theme “Engaging Diversity in Bioethics Theory and Practice”. BBB chose this theme for our first conference to counter the lack of active recognition and consideration given to meaningful engagement of diverse voices and experiences in the bioethics field.

We were very pleased to have participants in person and online from a range of disciplines and countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. We were grateful to our keynote speakers, Sridhar Venkatapuram (King’s College London) and Rita D’Alton-Harrison (Royal Holloway, University of London), fireside chat interviewees, Anna Dowrick (University of Oxford) and Tanvi Rai (University of Oxford), and panelists Alya Khan (London Metropolitan University), Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (University of Edinburgh) and Mavis Machirori (Ada Lovelace Institute).

We were also delighted to be supported by our session chairs Jordan Parsons (University of Birmingham), Jonathan Ives (University of Bristol), Rachael Gooberman-Hill (University of Bristol) as well as Eve Kamau, (Fabulous Minds Founder & Senior Director at Thermo Fishier Scientific), our volunteers Helen Smith, Shyamli Suneesh, Avgi Stavrou, Faiq Habash and funders the Institute of Medical Ethics; please visit ime-uk.org for further information, the Society for Applied Philosophy; please visit www.appliedphil.org, Fabulous Minds follow fabulousminsco on Instagram, and Inclusive Research Collective; please visit inclusiverc.com/. Lastly we enjoyed the comedy performance by Muhsin Yesilada who made us all laugh with antidotes about dark humour, misinformation and academia. The BBB24 music playlist was made by Harleen and can be found on Spotify.

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Conference Materials

BBB 2024 Conference booklet containing information on the Conference programme, Venue, Speakers, Abstracts, Website and Social Media. The BBB 2024 conference slides are available for review and the BBB 2024 e-Poster digital gallery is available on demand until the end of July 2024.