Peter Lee
Professor Peter Lee, Professor of Applied Ethics, is Co-Director of the University of Portsmouth Centre for Defence, Risk and Resilience.
His research has spanned the politics and ethics of war, the ethical, operational and other human aspects of UK Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (drone) operations, the ethics of AI and autonomous weapon systems, and moral injury and mental harms experienced by military and police personnel.
In 2020 Peter led a CREST-funded project which explored moral injury in police online child sex crime investigators and RAF Reaper (drone) operators. In 2022 he undertook a national survey of police child sex crime investigators’ mental health and moral injury in partnership with the Policing Institute in the Eastern Region (PIER) at Anglia Ruskin University: ‘Understanding the impacts of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE) investigations.’ In 2024/25 he collaborated with colleagues at the Durham University International Centre for Moral Injury and at Southampton University on a project to explore mental health, wellbeing and moral injury in military chaplains and civilian clergy. He is currently a member of the Ministry of Defence Artificial Intelligence Ethics Advisory Panel.
