Author: Dr Warren Pearce “This is to imagine that there could be a point where ethics and politics could perfectly coincide, and this is precisely what I am denying because it means erasing the violence that is inherent in sociability, violence that no contract or dialogue can eliminate because it constitutes one of their dimensions.” … Continue reading “Public participation, ethical expertise and epistemic authority: lessons from the IPCC”
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How to Avoid Robodebt 2.0: Lessons for Public Sector Ethics
Author: Dr Sarah Ball In August 2025, I had the privilege of joining the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) for a webinar called “How to Avoid Robodebt 2.0.” Held during Social Sciences Week, the session explored the ethical lessons of the Robodebt scandal — a chapter in Australian … Continue reading “How to Avoid Robodebt 2.0: Lessons for Public Sector Ethics”
Ethics-policy advisory ecosystems (Part 2): a potted history
In Part 1, Jessica Pykett has discussed the history of ethics-policy advisory ecosystems. In the second part, she presents some of our research project’s findings and maps of how advisory systems are organised across Australia, Germany, and the UK. Draft institutional maps of ethics advice to governments: UK, Germany and Australia In our current research, … Continue reading “Ethics-policy advisory ecosystems (Part 2): a potted history”
Ethics-policy advisory ecosystems (Part 1): a potted history
Why research how ethics advice is provided to governments? There is little existing evidence of who is providing ethics advice to governments, how this advice is organised and most importantly, what its impacts are. When we began planning this research, we therefore needed to provide a basic description of ethics advisory bodies across our national case … Continue reading “Ethics-policy advisory ecosystems (Part 1): a potted history”
Annual Board Meeting of the “Ethics & Expertise” Research Project
In a rare event of sunny and warm British summer, “Ethics & Expertise” project has brought together project team and Advisory Board to review the work done over the last year and set the direction for the next one. Over two days, we presented our emergent findings and ran a workshop with members of Ethox … Continue reading “Annual Board Meeting of the “Ethics & Expertise” Research Project”
New Code on Research Ethics during Pandemics: shifting narrative and practice on pandemic preparedness
Dr Marija Antanavičiūtė joins researchers and policymakers to discuss ethics during crisis in a launch of new code and book. On 3rd of June, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris the long-awaited PREPARED Global Code of Conduct for Research During Pandemics was launched. The code, available in 13 languages, sets out an operational ethics and integrity … Continue reading “New Code on Research Ethics during Pandemics: shifting narrative and practice on pandemic preparedness”
Australian AI in health ethics witness seminar
Author: Dr Sarah Ball In November 2024, the Australian investigators for the ESRC funded project “Expertise and Ethics in Times of Crisis” ran a witness seminar with six deidentified participants to get a better understanding of the ethics advisory landscape in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in health policy. During this seminar we learned a lot about the … Continue reading “Australian AI in health ethics witness seminar “
COP29 and One Health agenda: where are the mechanisms to include ethics?
As COP29 wraps up, it is important to recognise the ethical issues that policymakers face when implementing the One Health approach and other health and climate change policies. The impact of climate change to health has been widely evidenced, including WHO’s work stream on Climate Change and Health. In the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), WHO … Continue reading “COP29 and One Health agenda: where are the mechanisms to include ethics?”
Ethics capabilities in civil service: reflections from a roundtable
This #GlobalEthicsDay, we’ve been reflecting at the ESRC “Ethics and Expertise” policy roundtable with UK experts on how science, policy and ethics intersect. We wanted to find out more about whether ‘ethics expertise’ and ‘ethics training’ are needed or wanted as part of the professional capabilities of civil servants, what kinds of forms this might … Continue reading “Ethics capabilities in civil service: reflections from a roundtable”
Ethics and Expertise in times of crisis: takeaways from the 2nd Advisory Board meeting
The ESRC-funded “Ethics and Expertise” project has been progressing over the last year and is currently in its data collection phase. In July 2024, researchers from participating institutions, including the Universities of Birmingham, Bielefeld, Sheffield, Melbourne, and Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB), had the second meeting with the project’s Advisory Board in Berlin. The meeting … Continue reading “Ethics and Expertise in times of crisis: takeaways from the 2nd Advisory Board meeting”