The Ethox Centre
The Ethox Centre is a multidisciplinary bioethics research centre that aims to improve ethical standards in healthcare practice and in medical research through education, research, and the provision of ethics support to health professionals and medical researchers. In all its activities the centre aims to be close to practice and to engage with ethical issues faced by people in real world settings. The centre places particular value on approaches which bring together empirical research and rigorous ethical analysis.
Research projects
Clinical genomic medicine and the need for a public health ethics account
Developing a robust and supportive ethical and governance framework for genomic research in Africa – an exploratory study in Ghana, Uganda and Zambia
Embedding ethics in collaborative global health research
Ethical issues in the care of vulnerable adults
Ethical issues in the prenatal assessment of genomes and exomes
Facing ethics: identifying ethical issues in computational phenotyping research
The ethics of austerity in healthcare
The ethics of risk in clinical research with children
The legal, ethical and practical aspects of resource allocation in adult social care
Treatment pressures in community mental health care
Understanding the enduring ethical complexity of obtaining valid consent to research in low-income settings
Doctoral projects
Care in transition: dementia family caregiving in low-resource settings
Infectious diseases data and sample sharing: perspectives on ethics and governance
Investigating young people’s moral perspectives on the identification of biomarkers in psychiatry
Mothers and babies: early intervention ethics
Personalised mental health and religious ethics
The nature and ethical justification of research governance, using the case of Emergency Medicine Research (EMR)