Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group

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The Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group (IERG) identifies ethical concerns emerging from technology, international development, and finance sectors. It provides guidance to a diverse group, including policymakers, technology developers, practitioners, police, intelligence officers, emergency workers, and development officers. IERG specialises in a range of areas including security ethics, big data and AI, cyberethics, ethics in international development, health security, and assistive technology.

The group leverages analytic, moral, and political philosophy to shape the framing of policy issues across disciplines. In addition to generating project deliverables, the IERG participates in advisory boards that tackle research and data ethics. Furthermore, it provides customised training to those wishing to broaden their understanding and skills regarding ethical issues.

The research group is engaged in several projects.   SUNRISE, a major three-year project under Horizon Europe, aims to enhance the resilience of critical infrastructures in Europe in the face of future pandemics. The collaboration involves CI authorities, operators, experts in social sciences, ethics, epidemiology, and security researchers. Another project, Moral Obligation, Epistemology and Public Health: The Case Against Vaccine Hesitancy, funded by the AHRC and DFG, explores the rationality and ethics of vaccine hesitancy. Lastly, the GEMS project examines the role of the video-gaming ecosystem in online extremism and radicalization, and to propose measures to prevent the radicalization process in the video-gaming ecosystem.

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University of Warwick, Coventry
Coventry