Explore our recommended research directions by theme
Contents
Animal welfare, advocacy and alternative protein
Farmed animal advocacy and welfare
- Farmed animal welfare
- Behavioural and attitudinal change in animal products consumption
- Black soldier fly sentience and welfare
- Improving aquatic animal welfare
Alternative proteins
Wild animal welfare
- Improving the measurement of animal welfare
- Cause specific mortality in wild animals
- Moral weight research
- Wildlife fertility control research
Existential and Global Catastrophic Risks
AI Safety and Policy
Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
- Preventing release of dangerous pathogens
- Improving pandemic governance
- Detection and identification of dangerous pathogens
- Non-pharmaceutical pandemic interventions
- Medical interventions against dangerous pathogens
- Antimicrobial resistance
Other X-risks and GCRs
- Preventing great power conflict
- Great power coordination
- Specific nuclear winter scenarios
- Risks from volcanic eruptions
- Civilisation collapses
- Exploring extreme climate change scenarios
- Resilient foods research
- Attitudes to existential risk and longtermism
- Reducing risks from malevolent individuals
- Space governance
Human health and wellbeing
Mental health and wellbeing
Global health and development
Physical health
Improving institutional decision-making
Prioritisation Research
Altruistic decision making
Foundational research
Understanding progress and change
- Forecasting the long-term future
- Moral circle expansion
- Understanding the impact of social movements
- Historical persistence and contingency
- Progress studies
- Most important historical trends