Biography

I am Professor of Philosophy at UCL, where I am also co-director of  the UCL Health Humanities Centre. I am also co-Director of MA Health Humanities. I was  Vice-Dean (Interdisciplinarity) for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities from 2015--19. My book Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy: Beyond the Neglectful State is published by Oxford University Press.

In 2011-12, I spent nine months on secondment to the Royal Society, working as a Senior Policy Adviser 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.

My roles outside of UCL include: