Dr Kathryn Francis
Senior Research Fellow
Kathryn is a Senior Researcher in the Neuroscience, Ethics & Society (NEUROSEC) team and Co-Director of the Design Bioethics Laboratory, within the Department of Psychiatry. She is also co-director of the Wellcome Discovery Platform ‘ANTITHESES’. Before joining the University of Oxford, she directed the Moral Minds Lab at the University of Leeds as an Assistant Professor.
Kathryn’s background is in experimental moral psychology, with a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the Marie-Curie funded CogNovo programme at Plymouth University, an MSc in Psychological Research, and a BSc in Psychology from Bangor University.
Kathryn’s research covers three central themes:
- Moral disagreement and moral inconsistency
- Morality and human-animal/nature relations
- Morality, bioethics, and medicine
