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Our Mission

Based at the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute, the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities responds to a pressing need for ethics and humanities research on the challenges presented by advances in neuroscience, big data, genomics and global connectedness, and by their convergence. The Centre provides a flexible multidisciplinary research platform capable of engaging with the new and profoundly difficult questions presented by the form, scale, scope and societal implications of these developments. Through its research and public engagement activities, the Centre aims to lead debate on the ethical requirements for scientific research and technological innovation capable both of improving health and of commanding well-founded public trust and confidence.

Upcoming events

Human challenge studies in endemic settings: ethical issues

Wednesday, 07 October 2020, 11am to 12.30pm @ This WEH/Ethox seminar will be held on Zoom, see link below.

Self-Defeating Codes of Medical Ethics and How to Fix Them: Failures in COVID-19 Response and Beyond

Wednesday, 21 October 2020, 2.30pm to 4pm @ This WEH/Ethox seminar will be held on Zoom, see link below.

Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape From Tribalism

Thursday, 22 October 2020, 1pm to 2.30pm @ This meeting will be held via Zoom. See registration details below.

The New St Cross Special Ethics Seminars are jointly arranged by the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH).