Chloë FitzGerald
My research has always revolved around the ethics of the opaque parts of the mind, those murky areas that we find difficult to control. This led me from moral philosophy to empirical research on implicit biases and their potential effects in health care and other areas. My focus now is on how research can be used to combat sexism, racism and other forms of inequality and discrimination. I am working on various books aimed at raising the public awareness of implicit stereotypes and bias, particularly in Catalonia (Spain), where I reside.
I was a research fellow at iEH2 (Institute for Ethics, History and the Humanities), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva from 2017 to 2020.
Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow on the Swiss National Science Foundation project, ‘Understanding implicit bias in clinical care’, with Primary Investigator Samia Hurst from October 2013 to February 2017 at iEH2. We conducted empirical research into the presence of implicit weight and mentall illness bias in physicians in different specialties and with different levels of experience, testing an intervention to reduce these biases. In the year preceding, I was a postdoctoral fellow on the project 'ENABLE - Protecting Vulnerable People in Health Care', also headed by Samia Hurst. We conducted a systematic literature review on the presence of implicit bias in health care professionals.
From September 2011 - September 2012, I was a postdoctoral fellow on the CIHR-funded interdisciplinary project, ‘Let conscience be their guide? Conscientious refusals in reproductive health care’, headed by Carolyn McLeod in the Philosophy department of the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
In 2011, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l'Université de Montréal (CRÉUM) for 9 months, where I worked with my supervisor, Christine Tappolet, and, Daniel Weinstock, the director of CRÉUM, among others.
I defended my PhD thesis in Philosophy, ‘Moral intuitions: what they are and how we should use them’, at the University of Manchester in March 2011. The PhD was funded by the Wellcome Trust and I was supervised by Peter Goldie and Jonathan Quong. I analysed recent empirical and philosophical work on emotion and moral judgement to provide an accurate descriptive picture of the phenomena involved in moral intuition.
I was a research fellow at iEH2 (Institute for Ethics, History and the Humanities), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva from 2017 to 2020.
Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow on the Swiss National Science Foundation project, ‘Understanding implicit bias in clinical care’, with Primary Investigator Samia Hurst from October 2013 to February 2017 at iEH2. We conducted empirical research into the presence of implicit weight and mentall illness bias in physicians in different specialties and with different levels of experience, testing an intervention to reduce these biases. In the year preceding, I was a postdoctoral fellow on the project 'ENABLE - Protecting Vulnerable People in Health Care', also headed by Samia Hurst. We conducted a systematic literature review on the presence of implicit bias in health care professionals.
From September 2011 - September 2012, I was a postdoctoral fellow on the CIHR-funded interdisciplinary project, ‘Let conscience be their guide? Conscientious refusals in reproductive health care’, headed by Carolyn McLeod in the Philosophy department of the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
In 2011, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l'Université de Montréal (CRÉUM) for 9 months, where I worked with my supervisor, Christine Tappolet, and, Daniel Weinstock, the director of CRÉUM, among others.
I defended my PhD thesis in Philosophy, ‘Moral intuitions: what they are and how we should use them’, at the University of Manchester in March 2011. The PhD was funded by the Wellcome Trust and I was supervised by Peter Goldie and Jonathan Quong. I analysed recent empirical and philosophical work on emotion and moral judgement to provide an accurate descriptive picture of the phenomena involved in moral intuition.
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