Dr Alex McKeown

Research Fellow with the Neuroscience, University of Oxford

Interests

Neuroethics, Neurotechnology, Neuroscience, Ethics in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Philosophy of Mind

Background

Dr Alex McKeown is a Research Fellow with the Neuroscience, Ethics & Society team (NEUROSEC) and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and the Humanities (WEH), and Deputy Director of the UKRI Pandemic Ethics Accelerator, providing rapid ethics analysis to challenges arising in the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to this I worked on the MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder which aims to harness health informatics and data science to improve mental health outcomes, and the EU ROADMAP project which sought to use Real World Data to improve outcomes in Alzheimer's disease.

I have a PhD in Bioethics from the University of Bristol. My thesis focused on the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of human enhancement technologies. I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society Small Grant to take forward the conclusions of my thesis, examining the relation between human enhancement and public health, which remains a significant research interest.

Contact

alexander.mckeown@psych.ox.ac.uk