Dr Christina Lamb

Dr. Christina Lamb is a bioethicist and Research Associate at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Disciplines at Athabasca University, Canada. She was previously a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford (2024–25), and held a Fellowship in Science-Engaged Theology at the University of St Andrews (2020–22).

Her research addresses child-centred bioethics and conscience in healthcare, with particular focus on children’s moral and spiritual experiences of serious illness, dying, death, and ethical decision-making at the end of life. She is currently leading a national qualitative study in Canada exploring the meaning of dying and death for mature minors.

Alongside this, she directs the Aletheia Conscience Project, an interdisciplinary programme advancing an account of conscience as an integrating feature of moral personhood and practical moral reasoning, and its role in healthcare practice and professional judgement. The international project contributes to contemporary debates on conscience and ethical decision-making in healthcare.

Her research is informed by clinical expertise in paediatric oncology and palliative care in Canada, and clinical ethics in the United States, as well as global health work in Rwanda in collaboration with the National University of Rwanda, Western University, and the Kigali Health Institute, supported by the Canadian International Development Agency.

Her scholarship brings together bioethics, philosophy, theology, and empirical research, and contributes to international debates in bioethics, practical ethics, and philosophical and theological anthropology relevant to the medical humanities, clinical practice and public moral life.