Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics

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Research Ethics and Bioethics has become increasingly important for Uppsala University. As a result, the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics was established on January 1 2008. The centre is placed at the Faculty of Medicine and administratively associated to the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences.

Research

We conduct research on Research Ethics, Bioethics and Medical Law. Research Ethics involves the application of ethical principles and values to a variety of research topics. It aims to create good research, while at the same time studying what good research is. Bioethics, on the other hand, includes philosophical, theological, legal and social scientific aspects of medicine and biology. Medical law spans a wide range of traditional branches of law and is associated to the Centre through our collaboration with the Department of Law at Uppsala University. More information >

Research evaluation

In 2011, Uppsala University conducted an overall evaluation of the University's research, "Quality and Renewal 2011" where CRB came out "top quality".

Education

Ethics is part of the curriculum for both the nursing and medicine programmes at Uppsala University. We offer a web based course in neuroethics and an advanced level course on ethics and public health. We also offer research ethics courses for postgraduate students at all faculties. More information >

Activities

CRB arranges a series of open higher seminars in research ethics and bioethics on a forthnightly basis.

CRB also hosts international multi-disciplinary research conferences. For eleven years, we arranged the annual symposia series on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society. Starting 2010, CRB collaborates with Cesagen on a bi-annual conference in medical ethics.

Collaborations

CRB has several national and international research collaborations, both bi-lateral and multi-lateral. We have formal bi-lateral collaborations with the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) at the National University of Singapore, CESAGEN at Cardiff University and Lancaster University, Expertise Center Ethics of Care at University Medical Center (ECEC) at the Groningen University and Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS) at Newcastle University. We also collaborate with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Karolinska Institutet within the framework of the Network for Research Ethics and Bioethics (NRB).
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Web resources

CRB collaborates with the Swedish Research Council on the website "CODEX - Rules and Guidelines for Research"

Memberships

CRB is an associate member of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME)

Organization

The Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics is an interfaculty centre that is governed by a board of University representatives and led by a Director. The Centre is administratively associated to the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine.

Board 2011-07-01 –

• Jenny Beckman, Senior Lecturer
  Humanities and Social Sciences
• Professor Stellan Sandler
  Medicine and Pharmacy (Chairman)
• Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Senior Lecturer
  Science and Technology

Student representatives (2011-07-01 - 2013-06-30)

• Robin Brostedt, Student (2011-07-01-2012-06-30)
  Student representative
• PhD student representative will be appointed