Research

Here’s an overview of my more recent work. Although I aim to publish Open Access where possible, if you have trouble downloading anything, drop me a line and I can forward you a copy.

Psychedelic Stuff:

• Rajwani, K., Jacobs, E., Bruce, L., Hokanson, J., Almonte, M. T., Feroz, F., … & Earp, B. D. (2025). Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations. The Lancet: Child and Adolescent Health.
• Jacobs, E., & Insua-Summerhays, B. (2025). The psychosocial environment as therapeutic context: family-centered approaches to adolescent psychedelic research. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.
• Jacobs, E. (2025). Excusing psychedelics and accommodating psychedelics. American Journal of Bioethics.
• Cheung, K., Propes, C., Jacobs, E., Earp, B. D., & Yaden, D. B. (2025) Response to the US Congress Request for Information (RFI) on psychedelic research for mental health, as submitted by the Hub at Oxford for Psychedelic Ethics.
• Insua-Summerhays, B., & Jacobs, E. (2025). Holding without touch: supportive touch in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. American Journal of Bioethics.
• Evans, J., Aixalà, M., Anderson, B. T., Brennan, W., Bremler, R., Breeksema, J. J., … (I’m in here somewhere), … & Yaden, D. B. (2025). On Minimizing Risk and Harm in the Use of Psychedelics. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice.
• Caraccio, M., Cheung, K., Mann, S. P., Bruce, L., Jacobs, E., Villiger, D., … & Earp, B. D. (2025) Psychedelics Beyond Medicine: Treatment, Enhancement, Hype, Consent, and the Limits of Medicalization. Philosophical Psychology
• Rajwani, K., Almonte, M. T., Feroz, F., Hokanson, J., Jacobs, E., Savulescu, J., … & Earp, B. D. (2025). Clinical Psychedelic Therapy Research Involving Adolescents: Protocol for a Scoping Review of Intervention Studies. Wellcome Open Research, 10, 334.
• Jacobs, E., Earp, B. D., Appelbaum, P., Bruce, L., Cassidy, K., Celidwen, Y., Cheung, K., Clancy, S., Devenot, N., Evans, J., Fernandez-Lynch, H., Friesen, P., Garcia-Romeu, A., Gehani, N., Maloof, M., Marcus, O., Moen, O. M., Mertens, M., Nayak, S. M., … Yaden, D. B. (2024) The Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE) Working Group Consensus Statement. American Journal of Bioethics.
• Jacobs, E., Murphy-Beiner, A., Roullier, I., Nutt, D., & Spriggs, M. J. (2024). When the trial ends: the case for post-trial provisions in clinical psychedelic research. Neuroethics, 17(3).
• Cheung, K., C. Propes, E. Jacobs, B. D. Earp, and D. B. Yaden. Psychedelic group based integration: ethical assessment and initial recommendations. International Review of Psychiatry (2024).
• Song-Smith, C., Jacobs, E., Rucker, J., Saint, M., Cooke, J., & Schlosser, M. (2024). UK medical students’ self-reported knowledge and harm assessment of psychedelics and their application in clinical research: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open
• Jacobs, E. (2023). Transformative experience and informed consent to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1108333.
• Jacobs, E., Yaden, D. B., & Earp, B. D. (2023). Toward a Broader Psychedelic Bioethics. AJOB neuroscience, 14(2), 126-129.
• Gandy, S., Bonnelle, V., Jacobs, E., & Luke, D. (2022). Psychedelics as potential catalysts of scientific creativity and insight. Drug Science, Policy and Law, 8, 20503245221097649.
• Jacobs, E. (2021). Public attitudes to psilocybin-assisted therapy. Drug Science/Psilonautica
• Jacobs, E. (2020). A potential role for psilocybin in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 4(2), 77-87.

Other work:

• Pavarini, G., Lyreskog, D., Newby, D., Lorimer, J., Bennett, V, Jacobs, E., Winchester, L., Nevado-Holgado, A, and Singh, I. (2024) Tracing Tomorrow: young people’s preferences and values related to use of personal sensing to predict mental health, using a digital game methodology. BMJ Mental Health, 27:e300897.
• Lyreskog, D. M., Pavarini, G., Jacobs, E., Bennett, V., Mawdsley, G., & Singh, I. (2023). Testing design bioethics methods: Comparing a digital game with a vignette survey for neuroethics research with young people. AJOB empirical bioethics, 14(1), 55-64.
• Sattler, S., Jacobs, E., Singh, I., Whetham, D., Bárd, I., Moreno, J., … & Allansdottir, A. (2022). Neuroenhancements in the military: A mixed-method pilot study on attitudes of staff officers to ethics and rules. Neuroethics, 15(1), 11.
• Lyreskog, D. M., Pavarini, G., Lorimer, J., Jacobs, E., Bennett, V., & Singh, I. (2022). How to build a game for empirical bioethics research: The case of ‘Tracing Tomorrow’. Health Expectations, 25(1), 304-312.
• Jacobs, E. (2018). “Aristotle and the Zoon Politikon”: A response to Abbate. Journal of Animal Ethics, 8(2), 150-158.