Education: Teaching and learning ethics & law
Good teaching is informed by sound research. All of our lecturers are involved in research, and most of our researchers and PhD students teach. We teach students in medicine, nursing, technology and natural science.
Medicine, nursing, engineering and other professions involves responsibility. That responsibility is professional, but it also has ethical and legal perspectives. We want to help students develop their ability to understand how ethical and legal issues arise in practice. We also give students the opportunity to practice their critical skills: analyzing ethical and legal problems, finding the relation between them and argue for different views.
Our aim is to help students and staff develop the competence they need to identify the values that are at stake when they face ethical dilemmas in their future professions. We teach future nurses, doctors, biologists and engineers at Uppsala University, offer several separate courses as well as obligatory courses for PhD students and research ethics training for new researchers and teachers in the disciplinary domain of medicine and pharmacy.
Separate courses
We offer advanced level courses in neuroethics, public health ethics, and ethics in research, writing and communication that are open for anyone who meets the criteria.
Courses for PhD students
Research ethics is an important part of advanced academic learning. We offer postgraduate courses in research ethics for PhD students from medicine, pharmacy, science and technology.
Research ethics training for staff
All sciences and academic disciplines give rise to complex ethical issues. We offer mandatory research ethics training for new teachers and researchers in the disciplinary domain of medicine and pharmacy.
Contacts for ethics teaching
Our goal is to help students and staff develop their skills to be able to identify the values at stake when faced with ethical issues in their professions. Do you have questions? You will find contacts for our ethics teaching below.
Ethics and law for medical students and the Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology
Ethics for nursing, midwifery and specialist nursing students
Research ethics for PhD students
Clinical ethics
Web-based training on research ethics and research integrity
Neuroethics
Public health ethics
Ethics in research writing and communication
How do I apply?
Applications for separate courses & programmes go through universityadmissions.se, and you can find syllabi and admission fee information in Uppsala University's catalogue of single subject courses.
PhD students & other staff can find information on how to register for our courses on the staff portal pages about courses and lectures on research ethics.