Dr Faye Tucker

Lecturer in Professional Practice, Values and Ethics

Research Overview

My background is in moral and political philosophy. Broadly my research interests are: the rules, principles, and features that characterise human relationships (inc. applied to questions of autonomy and decision making; adolescence; transition; consent; empathy, trust and care, AI-relations, violence in sport); metaphilosophical questions about doing philosophy (philosophy as a pedagogy); the intersection between philosophy and public policy.

My Role

Lecturer in Professional Practice, Values and Ethics (Lancaster Medical School)

Director of Special Study Modules

Curriculum Co-Lead for Professional Practice, Values and Ethics

Lancaster Medical School Library Representative

INCHES Engagement Champion

Profile

Although I have an interest in a broad range of areas/questions, the core concern is around human relationships. My PhD thesis focused on autonomy development and socialization, and how young people acquire the rights and responsibilities of adulthood. In particular, I examined the role of others in fostering agency in children and young people.

During my PhD studies I held a studentship with the EC-funded I.Family study. This study had two main objectives: (1) To understand the interplay between barriers against and drivers towards healthy food choice; (2) Develop and disseminate strategies to induce changes that promote healthy dietary behaviour in European consumers especially adolescents and their parents. As part of my work for the study, I considered current policy and intervention strategies that aim to support adolescent decision making.

My work critically engages with policies and frameworks, and the rules and expectations embedded within them, to identify theoretical and practical challenges in healthcare and medicine. I am particularly interested in the unique challenges that adolescence presents for institutional frameworks in health and social care and identifying ethical risk in existing health policy and system design. My research informs patient-clinician interactions, institutional frameworks, and policy and practice, and shapes clinical and commissioning decisions that lead to better health outcomes for individuals and across populations. I'm currently doing work on transition between child and adult health and social care services, focusing on philosophical and ethical analysis of pathways for transition, and more broadly on the normative assumptions that underpin these.

I am also increasingly interested in academic questions about doing philosophy, having been a practitioner of philosophy and public philosopher since 2013. This extends to questions about the role of philosophy in medical education.