Emma Curran is a Departmental Lecturer in Ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Hertford College. Before joining Oxford, Emma was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rutgers University. Emma holds both a PhD and MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, and completed her undergraduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Emma works in normative ethics, practical ethics, and metaphysics. Her most recent work has centred around three themes: the nature of our moral reasons to bring about worse worlds; the conceptualisation, aggregation, and distribution of risk; and our obligations to far-future people. Emma also works within clinical and population-level bioethics, thinking about the ethics of abortion, vaccination schemes, and future pandemics.