Abstract
The United Kingdom's plethora of laws and regulations governing the procurement, handling, storage and disposal of human body tissue underwent significant reform in the 2000s. This research briefing note describes a 'model study' for investigating the impact of these changes across a field of regulation that incorporates museums and anatomy collections, bioscience establishments, universities, and hospitals; and is thus largely distinguished by patterns of sectoral and stakeholder heterogeneity. It is postulated within our discussion that one way of accounting for stakeholder heterogeneity in regulatory research may be to combine Locock and Dopson's (1999) conception of 'HQ' governance with Bourdieusian correlations of 'field dynamics'.