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Current Vacancies 

researcher in Ethics and Infectious Disease

  • Research Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum (including Oxford University weighting)
  • Full time (part time considered),
  • Fixed term for 2 years.
  • Closing date for applications is noon on 30 October 2025.

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Ethics and Infectious Disease to work as part of the Oxford – Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE) and the Pandemic Sciences Institute to carry out research on ethical issues in infectious disease and pandemics. Research will be conducted within the context of the GLIDE Collaborative and will be presented and discussed at regular GLIDE workshops.

You will be responsible for carrying out collaborative research with colleagues at the Berman Institute and play a key role in participating in the exchange programme with Johns Hopkins University. You will also be responsible for contributing new research project ideas, managing your own administrative activities and developing new research methodologies, as well as actively participating in public engagement activities of the Ethox Centre.

To be considered, you will hold (or be close to completion of) a PhD/DPhil in bioethics, medical ethics, or other relevant subject, possess sufficient specialist knowledge in the discipline, have the ability to work independently, previous experience of publishing in peer-reviewed journals and willingness to spend at least four weeks at the Berman Institute in Baltimore, US.

For full details including the job description and instructions on how to apply, please see the vacancy on the University of Oxford jobs website

researcher

  • Research Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum (including Oxford University weighting)
  • Full time (part time considered),
  • Fixed term for 3 years.
  • Closing date for applications is noon on 29 October 2025.

We are seeking a Researcher to work on the Wellcome-funded Environmentally Sustainable Health Research project (SHARE ) at the Ethox Centre. The SHARE project seeks to explore what it means for health research practices and policies to be environmentally responsible. It takes an empirical and decolonial approach to this question by engaging with researchers and groups from different epistemic, cultural and geographical contexts and asking critical questions around fairness of environmentally responsible practices in the context of global health research as well as limits of top-down and compliance-based approaches.

This is an exciting role that involves developing and delivering conceptual and normative guidance to environmentally sustainable practices and policies in health research. We are particularly interested in conceptual and normative approaches that draw on feminist, relational, non-western or non-anthropocentric approaches. The post holder be working closely with Associate Professor Federica Lucivero and the project collaborators in the UK, India, Kenya, Ghana and Brazil. The role will include undertaking reviews and analyses of relevant literature, engaging with the analysis of qualitative interviews and research, identify relevant conceptual and/or normative frameworks, actively contributing to the co-designing practical resources with research communities and drafting papers.

You will be responsible for managing your academic research and administrative activities, adapting existing and developing new concepts in relation to the qualitative empirical data gathered in the project, as well as contributing to ideas for new research projects.

You will hold (or be close to completion of) a PhD/DPhil in (bio)ethics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology or other relevant subject. You will have some experience and sufficient specialist knowledge in the discipline to work effectively within the research programme. You will have experience with applying conceptual reflection to empirical data.  You will also have experience of independently managing a discrete area of a research project, and have excellent communication skills.

For full details including the job description and instructions on how to apply, please see the vacancy on the University of Oxford jobs website