Humanitarian Research Ethics Job - King's College London

Research Associate

Reference: THW/16/059639/000344 

Salary Details: £32,600 to £38,896 per annum 

Allowances: £2,323 London Allowance 

Contract Type: Temporary/Fixed term 

Contract Term: Full time 

We invite applications for a post of Research Associate to participate in the Wellcome Trust funded project “Towards a Humanitarian Research Ethics”. The project aims to contribute to developing a robust humanitarian health research ethics, by 1) systematically reviewing the existing literature on the ethics of conducting clinical and public health research in humanitarian emergencies; 2) identifying and interviewing key stakeholders about the unsolved ethical challenges in conducting such research; and 3) developing a larger empirical bioethics project on humanitarian health research ethics.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the further development, design and implementation of the programme of research on this project, under the guidance and supervision of the Principal Investigator, Dr Annette Rid. The post holder will undertake interdisciplinary bioethics research utilising concepts and methods from bioethics, philosophy, the social sciences, and policy research. He or she will contribute to disseminating the project results, by 1) communicating to multi- and interdisciplinary audiences at seminars, workshops, conferences and public outreach events and 2) publishing peer-reviewed academic papers in high-impact bioethics, social science or other journals.

The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications, within the Grade 6 scale, currently £32,600 to £38,896, per annum plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance.

This post is offered on a fixed term contract for 12 months.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 April 2016.

Interviews will be held 12 April 2016.

Equality of opportunity is College policy.

To apply for this post, you will need to register with the HireWire system first to download and submit the application form. Please note, should you wish to submit a CV and/or a short statement, you will need to copy & paste these at the end of the application form as the system will only allow one document to be uploaded.

Closing date: 01 April 2016 

Attachments: 
Job Pack (Word Document 344k) 

If you have questions about this role, please contact: Dr Annette rid, Email: annette.rid@kcl.ac.uk,

Application form:

Note: Only one document can be uploaded. If you wish to submit any additional information please include it within the application form.

First principles of health justice: a human right to be healthy | Sridha...

sorry, i rarely put things of myself. but this one i had to.


 

Routledge offers open access to curated articles on health inequalities http://bit.ly/Health_Inequalities

Routledge are pleased to offer a broad look into the complex and controversial issue of Health Inequalities.

In order to gain a full perspective on the subject we have brought research together on the following elements, all of which are impacted in some way by health inequalities in their various forms:

• Children
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• Ethnicity
• Families
• Gender
• HIV/AIDS and sexuality

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Global Justice - Taking Stock Conference - Wenar, Caney, Lichtenberg, Dumitru - 10 September Georgetown University

Global Justice, Taking Stock -- Pre-Conference event at the HDCA annual conference 

10 September 2015  

Georgetown University

Leif Wenar, King's College London

Simon Caney, Oxford University

Judith Lichtenberg, Georgetown

Speranta Dumitru, Université Paris Descartes 

Due to limited space, registration is required.  https://globaljustice2015.eventbrite.co.uk 

The new millennium opened with much activity in global justice philosophy.  The initial debates about cosmopolitanism versus nationalism have now largely died down without it being clear which side won. Some global justice scholars say the way forward is more engagement with empirical evidence and methods (Blake & Taylor Smith, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Others argue that the recognition of a plurality of contexts of justice within and beyond the state will be the distinctive mark of future global justice theorizing.  There is even the further argument that while philosophers should attend to the best science of our day, philosophers should be more ambitious and frame theories about the world that the social scientists have not tested and, perhaps, cannot yet test.

A one-day ‘pre-conference' event before the annual Human Development and Capabilities Association (HDCA) conference will take stock of the current state of global justice theorizing.  Global justice philosophy and engagement with 'real world' empirical evidence and methods has been a long standing and defining aspect of the capabilities approach developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum.  The pre-conference event aims to bring together some of the leading thinkers to reflect on the state of the field including Leif Wenar (King’s), Simon Caney (Oxford), Judith Lichtenberg (Georgetown), and Speranta Dumitru (Univ. Paris Descartes.)

The global justice pre-conference event is open to all and will finish at 4:00 PM.  Participants can then also attend the opening plenary session of the annual HDCA conference featuring presentations by Martha Nussbaum and others on the conference theme of capabilities and human aspirations.

Participation in the annual HDCA conference in the days following is encouraged. But it is not a requirement for participating in the pre-conference event.  It is open and free to all academics.  All voluntary donations will help offset cost of conference materials.

HDCA 2015

The annual Human Development and Capability Association conference brings together international scholars and practitioners that seek to build an intellectual community focused on the ideas of human centered development and the capabilities approach.

"Capabilities on the Move: Mobility and Aspirations" September 10-13, 2015

http://hd-ca.org/conferences/2015-conference-washington-d-c

Abstracts:

Blood Oil: Tyranny, Resources, and the Rules That Run the World (2016)

by Leif Wenar

' Tyranny, war, corruption and terrorism follow oil and other natural resources—because of the same law that once allowed the slave trade and genocide, conquest and apartheid. The West can lead the world beyond blood oil and conflict minerals to a more united, enlightened future. '

Global Justice: Recent Trends and New Directions

Simon Caney

‘I will discuss ways in which the debate about global justice has evolved, and seek to identify the main methodological and substantive issues and debates.  I will also suggest new directions for future research.’

Distant Strangers: Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty

Judith Licthenberg

‘In Distant Strangers Judith Lichtenberg shows how a preoccupation with standard moral theories and with the concepts of duty and obligation have led philosophers astray. She argues that there are serious limits to what can be demanded of ordinary human beings, but this does not mean we must abandon the moral imperative to reduce poverty.’

Equal Accessibility

Speranta Dumitru

Prof. Dimutru will be pressing a paper on ‘equal accessibility’ as a principle of justice in mobility inspired by the CA and applicable to different groups (migrants, disabled, gender, etc.).

Due to limited space, registration is required.  https://globaljustice2015.eventbrite.co.uk 

If you have problems with registration, please contact sridhar.venkatapuram(at)kcl.ac.uk.

Visiting Ethics Fellowship - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 31 August 2015

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TEDxLSHTM Theme: Emerging 15 September 2015 London

15 September 2015 !!

Find more event information here:  TEDxLSHTM

NIH Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Program for Low Middle Income Country Researchers

New career development program launched for LMIC scientists

July / August 2015 | Volume 14, Issue 4

Photo by Richard Lord for Fogarty

Recognizing the struggle scientists in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can face in carving out time to gain research experience and skills, Fogarty has launched a new mentored junior faculty career development award, called the Emerging Global Leader program. The initiative's overarching goal is to build research capacity at foreign institutions and foster long-lasting collaborations to benefit science.

To be eligible, applicants from LMICs are required to have worked at least a year at an LMIC institution, which must be willing to release the faculty member for three-quarters of their work time, so they can pursue mentored career development activities and a research project that both addresses a health priority in their country and has potential to garner further grant support.

Grants will provide up to five years of funding and require input from mentors from both the U.S. and the LMIC, who each are accomplished investigators in the proposed research area and experienced in guiding independent investigators. In addition to Fogarty, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) are also participating in the program, and additional partners may join.

The new award, using the K43 mechanism, is similar to Fogarty's existing career development award targeted at U.S. scientists interested in global health, the International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) (K01). Fogarty has also reissued the IRSDA program, a longstanding program that provides protected time for global health research and career development activities. The program requires grantees to spend half their award period conducting research in an LMIC.

The application deadlines are Dec. 16, 2015 for the new Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award and March 2, 2016 for the IRSDA.

More Information

• Learn more about the new Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award for LMIC scientists, and the International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) for U.S. scientists.