UKCEN 2026 Conference: Ethical Challenges in the Advent of Digital Health
| Dates: | 5 June 2026 |
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| Times: | 09:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Conferences |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
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| How much: | £160/£95/£60 |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Professor Andy Brass, Professor Jonathan Ives, Jamie Webb, Rachel Thompson, Professor Philip Scott, Alun Thomas, Matt Morgan, Oliver Buff, Professor Age Chapman, Paquita C. De Zulueta |
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The 2026 UKCEN conference will cover a broad range of topics relating to the advent of digital healthcare. While the programme is subject to change, please see the current line-up of talks:
• Healthcare ethics and digital health futures: Promises, Pitfalls, and Practice
• The Transplant Benefit Score, patient disclosure, and human control in algorithmic systems
• Ethical Imagination and Creativity in the Work of Clinical Ethics Committees
• How do the ethical failings of social media threaten planetary health?
• Artificial Intelligence in Mental Healthcare: Promise, Risk, and the Challenge of Trust
• Benchmarking Ethical Judgement in Healthcare Using a Medical Moral Machine
• Transcribing Trust: the impact of AI transcription tools in social care
• The Roberta Project – community data for ethical health research and AI
• AI and Clinical Education: Attitudes, Ethics and Capabilities
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and relational care: Enabler, disabler or substitute?
Conference Fees:
£160 – full rate
£95 – concessions (incl. professions allied to medicine, IME members and UKCEN individual members)
£60 – student
Speakers
Professor Andy Brass
Role: Professor of Bioinformatics, Vice-Dean & Head of the School of Health Sciences
Organisation: University of Manchester
Professor Jonathan Ives
Role: Head of Population Health Sciences, and Deputy Head of Bristol Medical School.
Organisation: University of Bristol
Jamie Webb
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher
Organisation: Ethox Centre, University of Oxford
Rachel Thompson
Role: Researcher
Organisation: University of Oxford
Professor Philip Scott
Role: Professor of Digital Health & Care and Programme Director of the MSc in Digital Transformation
Organisation: University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Alun Thomas
Role: Cheif Executive
Organisation: Adferiad
Matt Morgan
Role: Consultant Intensivist, Hon Professor for Public Understanding of Medicine
Organisation: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Oliver Buff
Role: Researcher
Organisation: Ada Lovelace Institute
Professor Age Chapman
Role: Professor and Head of Digital Health & Biomedical Engineering
Organisation: University of Southampton
Paquita C. De Zulueta
Role: Healthcare Professional, menot & Honorary Senior Lecturer
Organisation: Human Values in Healthcare Forum Imperial College London
Travel and Contact Information
Find event
Cardiff University Main Building - Large Chemistry Lecture Theatre
Park Place
Cardiff
