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
Research for development (R4D): what is it and what ethical challenges does it pose?
Thursday, 14 November 2019, 12pm to 1.30pm @ Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford Manor Road Oxford OX1 3UQ
Inherited Secrets; what do you really want to know about your DNA?
Thursday, 14 November 2019, 6.30pm to 8pm @ Modern Art Oxford 30 Pembroke Street Oxford OX1 1BP
Archival Ethics from Below: The Case of the Uganda Cancer Institute's Records
Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 4pm to 5.30pm @ Ethox and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities are based at the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7FZ. The talk will be held in seminar room 0.
This talk was originally due to take place in February and has been rescheduled.