Data Ethicist

A data ethicist assesses the societal effect of technology and data, and produces recommendations for other data professionals. This involves thinking about fairness, accountability, the law, moral dilemmas and risks in the creation of technology and data products and policies.

In this role, you will:

• provide research and expertise on data ethics
• enable others to implement data ethics best practice in their work (for instance by providing training, advising data science teams or demonstrating how to apply ethical principles in practice through examples and case studies)
• communicate effectively to explain and raise awareness of data ethics issues, and to listen to, convene, advise and mediate between various parts of the organisation
• help people to ask questions, express concerns and discuss ethical dilemmas

Want to connect with other Data Professionals in Health and Care?

Then join the AnalystX community of practice, here you find specialist community peer groups for:

• Applied Evaluation
• Data Engineering
• Data Science
• Data Viz and BI
• Geo Health
• Gen AI
• NHS Pycom
• NHS R Users
• NHS SQL
• Process Mining
• RAP
• Health Stats User Group (HSUG)

Looking to pursue accreditation as a Data Ethicist?

Then look at the Data Ethicist job profiles created by The Federation for Informatics Professionals in Health and Care.