Professor Tom Sorell has just received an AHRC-DFG funding award with Sven Berneker at Cologne University on Vaccine Hesitancy and Epistemology. The value of the UK part led by Tom is over £330,000 over 24 months, starting in February 2022. The project considers the difference between vaccine scepticism and vaccine hesitancy in relation to Covid vaccines and vaccines more generally. Vaccine scepticism rejects expert authority. Vaccine hesitancy is probably something different and is differently justified. The research will explore different influences on vaccine hesitancy, including social media misinformation and views about "natural" and unnatural treatments. The project brings epistemology and applied ethics together, and is informed by empirical health psychology while being primarily philosophical.