Doctoral Research Fellowship (PhD) in Medical Ethics in an ERC-funded project (ref 261057)

The position form part of the European Research Council-funded Starting Grant-project “Ethics of Mortality Measurement” (ETHME), which will consist of Principal Investigator Carl Tollef Solberg, two postdoctoral research fellows, two associated doctoral candidates, and a research coordinator. In addition, five leading researchers constitute the advisory board of ETHME. ETHME is a theoretical project that investigates the theoretical and normative grounds for measuring deaths and evaluating their disvalue in summary measures of population health, such as the disability-adjusted life year (DALY). The project seeks to develop an “ethics of mortality measurement” which involves deliberation on choices and rationales behind the scope, construction and applications of mortality measurements. ETHME consists of three work packages: WP1 – Understanding the nature of harm in death, WP2 – Building theoretically robust summary measures and WP3 – Evaluating procreation in future individuals.

The tasks of the Doctorial Research Fellow will be to work on WP1. The candidate’s research project will focus on foundational philosophical aspects of the harm of death, in addition to applied aspect related to epidemiological measurement of mortality. Central research questions are: What is the nature of harm in death? What is the relationship between the badness of death for those who die and others? Is it possibility numerically measure the harm of death? The Doctoral Research Fellow will participate in ETHME’s research group based at a leading research centre on medical ethics.

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/261057/doctoral-research-fellowship-phd-in-medical-ethics-in-an-erc-funded-project