Data-driven ethics | Science and Ethics

Data-driven ethics —
Ethicizing Science

WE WORK TO

Ethicize research through revamping policies and practices with empirical findings about ethics

Deploy world best practices of bridging ethics, science and technology

Create ethically-friendly research mindset and environment in Russian academia

Boost empirical ethics research

Why Data-driven or Empirical Ethics Matter?

Empirical ethics is a core methodology of the Center initiatives which seek to use social science data and survey instruments (usually about stakeholder attitudes, beliefs, and experiences) to enhance ethical analyses of different topics, and inform policy and decision- making.

Empirical ethics is commonly understood as a variety of methodologies that have different views about how to respond to the challenge of connecting normative ethical analysis to the realities of lived moral experience.

Expand scalable models of data-driven ethics seeking for integration between university, society and industry

Conduction of pioneering empirical ethics studies in the area of genetics, IT and artificial intelligence, medicine, health care and biotechnology, cultural diversity, neurolinguistics and cognitive sciences, social and behavioural studies.

Current projects

Project AWARE
(Ask What Are Research Ethics)

Development of research tools and creating of a data bank on research ethics in Russian scientific and educational organizations using the best world practices and methodology of empirical ethics.
This is our survey

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Voices of Ethics and Bioethics

An interview series with leading Russian scientists.

Trendsetter researchers in the fields of biological and biomedical sciences answer these questions:

which bioethics does Russian scientists working wih laboratory animals need;
how does bioethical principles are used in practice in Russian laboratories;
how does research bioethics connected with culture of experimental practice and the quality of scientific results?

expert interviews on the importance of a differentiated approach to the implementation of bioethics

Published materials paint a picture of “live”, not “bookish” bioethics.

The project is prepared by the research team leader doctor of historical sciences Nataliya Shok under the initiative of Russian Scientific Fund for research bioethics with participation of laboratory animals.

“If you can do a thing without animals and still get an adequate result, then do it! If you can’t, then you should consider not just every step but each miniscule action”

Marina Zenkova
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expert interviews on the importance of a differentiated approach to the implementation of bioethics

"Researcher in ethics should combine interests of science and the community; not enforce but bring harmony"

"Treat animals the way you would like to be treated in the similar situation"

"Bioethical issues permeate every aspect of laboratory animals usage”

"We should teach scientist who work with animals ways of scientific work with animals”

“If you can do a thing without animals and still get an adequate result, then do it! If you can’t, then you should consider not just every step but each miniscule action”

“Today we don’t have an instrument to say, “You can’t do that!””

“Bioethical principles are a sort of pitchfork, whereby we “tune” entire experiment design”

"Scientific Responsibility and Society: Can Bioethics Affect Medical Practice”