Paul Russell is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Lund University, where he was appointed in 2018. At Lund he is Director of the Lund|Gothenburg Responsibility Project (LGRP). His position at Lund has been made possible thanks to a major grant from the Swedish Research Council for "the international recruitment of leading researchers" (2014). The LGRP project will continue at Lund until 2025.

He also holds an appointment as Professor at the University of British Columbia, where he was first appointed in 1987. Since 2015 he has been on reduced appointment (half-time) at UBC. He will be leaving UBC at the end of June 2020.