Dr Kathryn Francis

Kathryn is a Senior Researcher with the Neuroscience, Ethics & Society (NEUROSEC) team in the Department of Psychiatry, and a Senior Researcher in the Uehiro Oxford Institute. She formerly directed the Moral Minds Lab at the University of Leeds as an Assistant Professor, and prior to that was lecturer in Psychology at Keele University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow across the Department of Philosophy and School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading. Kathryn completed her PhD in experimental moral psychology in the Marie-Curie funded ‘CogNovo’ programme at the University of Plymouth. Kathryn’s research focuses on four areas: 1) moral judgment-behaviour discrepancy, 2) moral psychology, bioethics, and technology, 3) morality of human-animal relations, and 4) experimental epistemology and experimental ethics. Kathryn has extensive experience using Virtual Reality to simulate morally-conflicting situations supporting dynamic measurements of moral decision-making.