Dr James Wilson

I have been at UCL since 2008, first as Lecturer in Philosophy and Health, and then as Senior Lecturer in Philosophy. I am Vice-Dean (Interdisciplinarity) for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and am co-director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre.  I am also Director of MA Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health, and co-Director of MA Health Humanities.

In 2011-12, I spent nine months on secondment to the Royal Society, working on the Science as an Open Enterprise report. This report identifies the principles, opportunities and problems of sharing scientific information, and makes a number of recommendations to scientists and their institutions, policymakers and others about how to create a socially responsible open data regime.

Before I arrived at UCL in 2008, I was Lecturer in Ethics for four years (2004-8) at the Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, and held temporary lectureships in Philosophy at Birkbeck (2003-4) and University of Roehampton (2002-3). I received my PhD (an examination of Kantian accounts of morality) from UCL in 2002.

My roles outside of UCL include:

• Associate editor of Public Health Ethics (since 2015)

• Independent member of the NHS Digital Data Access Advisory Group (2015--)
  

• Member of the National Data Guardian's Panel (2016--)

• Academic ethicist for General Practice Extraction Service Independent Advisory Group (2013-15)
  

• Joint coordinator of the International Association of Bioethics’s Philosophy and Bioethics Network (INPAB) (since 2007).  The network aims to promote high quality philosophical reflection in bioethics. INPAB also runs a mailing list.