Remove any identifying information from your manuscript and provide a separate title sheet with the title of your essay, your name and contact details, email address and a word count. Please pre-prepare your submission for blind review by the assessors. The focus of the marking will be on the quality and originality of your argument. The essay can draw upon existing published work but must be sufficiently original for it to be eligible for consideration for publication in the Journal of Practical Ethics. References are permitted but not required. The question to be addressed should be stated clearly in bold at the outset. Your essay of up to 2000 words may cover any topic relevant to practical ethics. The two winners from the prize will be invited to take part in an online Q&A, as part of the Oxford Uehiro Festival of Arguments. Revised versions of the two winning essays will be considered for publication in the Journal of Practical Ethics. The winner from each category will receive a prize of £300, and the runner up £100. Two undergraduate papers and two graduate papers will be shortlisted from those submitted to go forward to a public presentation and discussion, where the winner of each category will be selected. It may balance or prioritise different values and interests. It reflects on personal, professional, policy, and social choices and structures and holds them up to scrutiny. Practical ethics is concerned with what we should do in any given situation. Students are invited to enter by submitting an essay of up to 2000 words on any topic relevant to practical ethics. It is open to all Undergraduate and Post Graduate Students enrolled in UK universities. The National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics is an annual competition held in the Spring. Triage in an Italian ICU during the pandemic.Should doctors keep working if they lack protective equipment?.How the coronavirus pandemic exacerbates existing inequalities.Past the peak of the pandemic: which non-Covid-19 patients should get treatment first?.(Un)fair access to Covid-19 treatment in Mexico?.Why we should save the parent when medical resources are scarce.Are coronavirus contact tracing apps safe?.Covid-19: who should be vaccinated first?.

Factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics!.

Should we give COVID vaccines to young children?.

In defence of the selective restriction of liberty during pandemics.

When does (or did) the Covid-19 pandemic end?.

2012 Lectures: Janet Radcliffe Richards.

Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.

UK Ethics Accelerator: Coordinating and Mobilising Ethics Research Excellence to Inform Key Challenges in a Pandemic Crisis.

The Ethics of Genome Editing in Livestock.

Global Terrorism & Collective Moral Responsibility.

Ethics of Behavioural Influence and Prediction.

Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease.

Best interests and sufficient benefit: The ethics of hard decisions in healthcare.

2015 Wellcome & Loebel Lecture in Neuroethics.

Oxford Loebel Lectures and Research Programme.

Undermine purple torch