Neuroscience, Ethics and Society
- +44 (0)1865 618236
- alexandra.almeida@psych.ox.ac.uk
- http://begoodeie.com/
NEUROSEC was founded in 2015
Senior Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust for BeGOOD project, 2015-2020
Our Young People's Advisory Group was formed in 2016
Launch year award from the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute for the project NeuroGenE, Mar 2017-Jun 2018
We conduct independent ethics research and we deliver ethical guidance for a range of scientific and clinical studies in the Oxford Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. We also work with a variety of international institutions and researchers. Our core research interests involve young people, mental health and neuroscience innovations in a global context.
Our location within the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience is a key strength of our team, allowing us to develop work that is integrated with world-leading, cutting edge research and clinical development in psychiatry and neuroscience. We also maintain an important independence, grounded in a cross-appointment to the Oxford Uehiro Centre in Philosophy and a close relationship with the Oxford Ethox Centre in the Nuffield Department of Population Health. From October 2017, these collaborations form part of the new Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (Principal Investigators: I. Singh, M. Parker, J. Savulescu, M. Harrison).
The range and scale of ethics and societal foresight needs in psychiatry and neuroscience are extensive and exciting. We work with colleagues across Oxford and beyond who have relevant ethics and social science expertise for specific projects, and we build collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams that represent a genuine, critically engaged and reflexive integration of science, ethics and society.
Our multidisciplinary projects inform each other, such that researchers on our team have an opportunity to build knowledge and to exchange expertise across the range of projects and disciplines.
This integrative and responsive, yet critically reflexive perspective informs the development of a teaching and ethics advising programme in Psy-Ethics, building on current strengths across Oxford (for example, in the Oxford Ethox Centre and in the Department of Philosophy) and the Oxford NHS Trust. In collaboration with Oxford colleagues we are leading the work on Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in the newly awarded Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), dedicated to mental health and dementia.
We have recently been awarded funding from the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute to launch the Oxford Global Initiative in Neuropsychiatric GenEthics (NeuroGenE). Over the next year, NeuroGenE will build up personnel in Oxford and will engage bioethics expertise across regions of scientific interest for the Stanley Center internationally, including China, Japan, Australia and Finland.
NEWS
June 2019
Congratulations, Dr. Rose Mortimer, for being the first BeGOOD:EIE DPhil graduate. It has been a pleasure working with you and we wish you all the success!
work with us
Our team
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Ilina Singh
Professor of Neuroscience & Society
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Alexandra Almeida
Research Manager
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Alex McKeown
Visiting Scholar
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David Lyreskog
Neuroethics Researcher
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Jessica Lorimer
DPhil Student
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Gulamabbas Lakha
DPhil Candidate & Tutor
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Edward Jacobs
DPhil Student
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Rosemary Musesengwa
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Bessie O'Dell
DPhil Graduate
Mental Health Apps
Watch Prof. Ilina Singh and NEUROSEC's Young People's Advisory Group on the special 2017 World Mental Health Day episode of BBC Tomorrow's World.
