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researcher in bioethics

• Research Grade 7: £38,674 - £46,913 per annum
• Full time (part time considered),
• Fixed term for 2 years.
• Closing date for applications is noon on 14 July 2025.

We are seeking a Researcher in Bioethics to work closely with Professor Michael Parker and Professor Patricia Kingori on a project called ‘What Should We Talk About?’ This Project is an activity of the ANTITHESES Platform for Transformative Inclusivity in Ethics and Humanities. ANTITHESES addresses an urgent need for research that can engage meaningfully with the radical moral disagreements and informational uncertainty characteristic of contemporary medical science, practice, and policy.

Against a background of increasing polarisation, contestation, and radical moral disagreement, the question of what should be talked about can be highly charged. The role will include undertaking reviews and analyses of relevant ethics, social science, and political philosophy literature, drafting papers, developing and coordinating a seminar series, and overseeing the development of a journal special issue, and of a podcast on this cluster of topics.

You will hold, or be close to completion of, a relevant PhD/DPhil, have relevant experience in the integration of social science methods and ethical analysis and possess sufficient specialist knowledge of ethics to work within established research programmes.

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