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My main research interests are in applied philosophy, especially Bioethics and Public Health Ethics. Projects Co-Investigator: Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre.
Research interests: Early Modern Philosophy; Nothingness and Possibility; Perception, Consciousness and Dreaming; Nightmares and Memory in Trauma; AI and Data Ethics
Jul 18, 2019 · Peter Holland. Peter Holland is Linacre Professor of Zoology. Awarded: Darwin Medal. Professor Holland’s research has compared genes and embryos between species, focusing particularly on insects, mammals and a small marine animal, amphioxus: a distant relative of backboned animals.
Stephen Holland is a Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Health Sciences, University of York. Stephen’s main research interests are in ethics, including moral and political philosophy, bioethics, and public health ethics.
His research interests include evolutionary developmental biology, genome evolution, homeobox genes, and molecular phylogeny. Peter Holland was awarded the Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London (2015), Linnean Society Medal for Zoology (2012), Alexander Kowalevsky Medal (2006), Blaise Pascal Medal in Natural Sciences (2005), the first ...
Research Interests I am interested in how animal diversity relates to evolution of the genome. When we compare genome sequences between species, we find hundreds of examples of gene duplications, novel genes and gene sequences changing rapidly in evolution.
Professor Holland has been awarded this Medal in light of his significant work towards elucidating key aspects of how changes in the genome have influenced the evolution of animal development. Our first departmental recipient of the medal since Bill Hamilton in 1988, Professor Holland says: “I am astonished and delighted in equal measure.
