SHADE Research Hub

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SHADE sits at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies and the Environment. It describes itself as guided by a fundamental question: how should the balance between AI/digital enabled health and planetary health be struck in different areas of the world, and what should be the guiding principles? To address this, SHADE promotes interdisciplinary enquiry to understand and make visible sustainable practices situated in specific geographical and societal contexts. Undertaking both normative and solutions based research, it draws on empirical, epistemic and ethical perspectives from philosophy, law, sociology and ethics, as well as from more quantitative approaches such as life cycle sustainability assessment.

SHADE was formed in September 2023, launched by the School of Global Affairs in partnership with the Ethox Centre in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, and is situated within the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King's College London. It reports a global membership that includes academics as well as societal actors. Its activities include a members' meeting (June 2024), a newsletter, an online compilation of resources and, in July 2024, an exhibit at the British Academy Summer Showcase on the environmental impacts of digital technologies and their associated social justice issues. Its page lists eight projects of its members, among them two funded by SHADE: a localised study of e-waste in India and research on the knowledge, beliefs and attitudes underpinning research ethics in Senegal, Kenya, Egypt and the UK.

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Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2023

Contact details

King's College London, Strand
London
Greater London
WC2R 2LS

Website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/shade-research-hub

Public email: shade@kcl.ac.uk

@ShadeResearch

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King's College London (KCL)
London

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Ethox Centre - Oxford Population Health

The Ethox Centre is a multidisciplinary bioethics research centre dedicated to enhancing ethical standards in healthcare practice and medical research. It achieves this through education, research, an… read more about Ethox Centre - Oxford Population Health

Oxford

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2026-11-04 18:58:29