Our Work
Our work sits at the intersection of ethics, health policy, and emerging technologies. We conduct independent, interdisciplinary research, deliver ethical impact assessments, and provide guidance on governance, regulation, and responsible innovation. Through collaboration with communities, policymakers, and scientific partners, we help shape decisions that protect rights, promote equity, and strengthen public trust.
Reproduction
Our work in reproductive ethics focuses on the social, legal, and moral questions raised by assisted reproduction, genetic technologies, and evolving ideas of family and parenthood. We explore issues such as autonomy, access, parentage, and the governance of emerging reproductive innovations to support fair, transparent, and future-ready policy.
Our current project focuses on parentage and ectogenesis. This project explores how artificial womb technologies may transform long-standing legal and ethical ideas about gestation, responsibility, and parental status. By examining scenarios where gestation is no longer tied to the pregnant body, we investigate how parentage could be allocated, contested, or shared, and what this means for genetic, intended, and social parents. We analyse implications for reproductive autonomy, state involvement, family law, and the rights of the child, drawing on comparative legal frameworks and stakeholder perspectives. Our goal is to provide anticipatory ethics and policy guidance to support transparent, equitable, and future-ready governance as ectogenesis moves from concept to potential clinical reality.
Mental Health
Our mental health portfolio focuses on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging digital and neuroadaptive technologies for people with complex or treatment-resistant psychiatric conditions. We examine issues such as autonomy, equity, data governance, algorithmic responsibility, and the role of lived experience in shaping new forms of care. By integrating perspectives from service users, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers, we work to ensure that innovation in mental health remains human-centred, transparent, and aligned with public values. Our aim is to support safe, equitable, and ethically grounded pathways for emerging interventions that are rapidly transforming the landscape of mental healthcare.
Space and Ethics
Our work in space bioethics addresses the growing ethical and governance challenges associated with human health, genomics, and biological research in space environments. As science extends beyond Earth, questions of risk, responsibility, planetary protection, and global cooperation become increasingly urgent. We explore the implications of human biological data in orbit, the ethics of experimentation in microgravity, and emerging frameworks for safeguarding people and ecosystems. By examining governance models, scientific practice, and international norms, we aim to support responsible, transparent, and collaborative approaches to the biological future of space exploration.