Centre for the Study of Global Ethics (UoB)

Global Ethics Master's - Open Lunch

2011-03-17T06:32:00.000-07:00

What: Informational Meeting about Global Ethics Master’s programmes at Birmingham (with lunch provided)

When and Where: Monday, March 21, 12-1 p.m., Muirhead 417

This is Luis Cabrera from the POLSIS staff, writing to invite you to an information meeting on the Master’s programmes in Global Ethics here at Birmingham.

The programmes are offered by the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics. It’s an internationally known centre that is very active in pursuing funded ethics research, as well as bringing leading scholars of global ethics to campus for regular seminars.

The Centre currently offers an MSc in Global Ethics and an MSc in Human Rights & Human Values as well as several Diploma and Certificate Programmes and the option to undertake flexible study.

MSc in Global Ethics

MSc in Human Rights and Human Values

Postgraduate Diploma/Certificate in Global Ethics

Postgraduate Diploma/Certificate in Human Rights and Human Values

This meeting will be to provide details about the programmes and answer any questions you may have. It will be chaired by Professor Tom Sorell, head of the Global Ethics Centre. Lunch is free for all attendees.

Global Poverty - Call for Proposals

2011-03-09T01:06:00.000-08:00

Call for Proposals

Impact: Global Poverty

Academics Stand Against Poverty UK Launch Meeting

When: Monday, May 23, 2011, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with buffet/reception to follow

Where: University of Birmingham

Hosts: Thomas Pogge (Yale University), and Luis Cabrera (University of Birmingham)

Background: Academics Stand Against Poverty is a developing worldwide network of scholars focused on global poverty and global/trans-state justice. Its aim is to help academics leverage their research expertise on such issues by making effective interventions in public debates, by supporting good work by international agencies and non-governmental organisations, and by launching real-world projects aimed at realizing positive change.

This meeting marks the launch of the ASAP network in the UK. It will be co-hosted by Thomas Pogge, who has been at the centre of ASAP development efforts in the United States and elsewhere. Confirmed participants include such leading scholars of global justice, ethics, and development economics as Simon Caney, Darrel Moellendorf, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Sonia Bhalotra, Suzanne Uniacke, Christien Van Den Anker, Thom Brooks, Elizabeth Ashford, Paul Jackson, Heather Widdows, Tom Sorell, and others.

This open call is for contributions of up to 1,500 words outlining a project proposal that academics might initiate toward making concrete contributions to the reduction of world poverty or addressing related issues, e.g., climate change, aspects of immigration. Examples of proposals that are well on their way toward implementation are available at the internet links below.

Proposers for the May 23 meeting are encouraged to provide details in three main categories:

1) Normative and/or empirical research that could be conducted as groundwork for the project (as well as salient research that has been produced by yourself or others and could feed into the project). It would be particularly helpful here also to identify any potential for collaborative research with others as part of the project.

2) Any opportunities for collaborative funding proposals to support the research.

3) An outline of ways in which the project might achieve its practical aims, and ways in which other members of the ASAP network in the UK and elsewhere would be able to contribute. Part of the aim of ASAP is to help identify best practices for making actual interventions, so this category should be viewed as open to all ideas. Interventions could involve anything from strategically targeted opinion pieces by project members, to NGO partnerships, broad advocacy campaigns, including online and media outreach; policy maker interaction, etc. Again, all ideas are welcome as a means of generating fruitful dialogue and sharing of experience and expertise at the May 23 meeting. (Please see the links below for details on how some intervention campaigns have been structured).

Draft proposals will be posted online for open discussion by participants. Selected proposals will receive structured attention at the May 23 ASAP Launch meeting at Birmingham, and shared-interest groups will be formed to take them forward as collaborative research and intervention projects.

All those working on aspects of global poverty, global justice and related issues are invited to submit proposals and attend the meeting. You need not submit a proposal to attend, and broad participation will be encouraged. Lunch and a dinner buffet with wine reception will be provided.

To register to attend the event (for catering purposes), and to submit a draft proposal, please contact: Luis Cabrera (University of Birmingham Political Science and International Studies) a.l.cabrera(at)bham.ac.uk

Examples of proposals or efforts underway:

1) Giving What We Can (Toby Ord, Oxford University): http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

2) Clean Trade in Natural Resources (Leif Wenar, King’s College, London) http://cleantrade.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/clean_trade_brief_9-10.pdf

3) Health Impact Fund (Thomas Pogge, Yale University) http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/igh/

Ethics Consulting for FP7 project FOCUS

2011-02-16T04:33:00.000-08:00

Prof. Sorell has been specially engaged as a consultant for the future FOCUS project, which is being funded under the 3rd FP7 Security Call. FOCUS is a project on scenario building for EU security threats. The work is worth 30k Euros to the Centre, and starts in 2011.

FRONTEX CoC Ethics Advice

2011-02-16T04:30:00.000-08:00

The Centre for the Study of Global Ethics will be providing the European Border Agency (FRONTEX) with ethics advice on a Code of Conduct for Frontex border operations, which supplements the work the Centre already does on FRONTEX on the ethics of border guards. The work will bring an additional €5k to the Centre.

CASE EREBUS - Telecare PhD Studentship

2011-02-16T04:25:00.001-08:00

A CASE EREBUS Collaborative PhD Studentship for the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics has been announced. Jennifer Worrall-Lynch will be researching Telecare Commissioning, co-supervised by Prof. Tom Sorell and Suzanne Robinson in the Health Services Management Centre, and is sponsored by Sandwell Primary Care.

CHASM - Financial Inclusion Project

2011-02-16T04:22:00.000-08:00

The Centre for the Study of Global Ethics is contributing to the research programme of the Centre for Household Asset Management (CHASM) at the University of Birmingham on issues surrounding Financial Inclusion, with initial funding of £5k.

AHRC Microfinance Network Extended to June 2011

2010-10-19T14:55:00.000-07:00

AHRC Microfinance Network Extended to June 2011

GE Public Seminar Details Announced

2010-10-08T06:30:00.000-07:00

The Centre for the Study of Global Ethics has announced three upcoming public seminars. For abstracts and more details about the talks, visit the GE site.

Microfinance - 3rd & 4th November

2010-10-08T06:15:00.000-07:00

The Fifth meeting of the AHRC Microfinance Research Network will be held on 4 November 2010 in the University of Birmingham Conference Centre. This event is being jointly organized with the Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi) in Brussels c0-directed by Dr Marek Hudon.
The two themes are: women and microfinance and donors and microfinance. The confirmed speakers are Patrice North, Inez Murray, Ahmad Nawaz, Bruno Molijn and Bernd Balkenhol.

On the 3rd November in the afternoon (2-5.30 pm), there will be discussions about possible funded research projects involving Network members, and a paper will be given by Roy Mersland (University of Agder, Norway). This event will be held at Staff House, University of Birmingham. This event is for senior researchers. Participation is open to those with ideas for research projects only. Anyone wishing to attend who has not been invited please send a brief outline of a research proposal to Professor Sorell (t.sorell@bham.ac.uk)

Ethics advisory services for FOCUS

2010-08-17T04:49:00.000-07:00

From January 2011 for 3 years.
Euros 24k. Prof. Tom Sorell

http://www.globalethics.bham.ac.uk/projects/

AHRC Research Network on Shared Parenthood

2010-08-17T04:48:00.000-07:00

AHRC Research Network on Shared Parenthood - in collaboration with Centre for Biomedical Ethics. From Jan 2011 for 2 years. £38k PI: Prof. Heather Draper; Co-I Dr Alex Masardo (CSGE)

http://www.globalethics.bham.ac.uk/projects/

DETECTER.EU Is Now Live

2010-08-12T03:46:00.000-07:00

www.detecter.eu

FRONTEX Research Bid Successful

2010-08-12T03:43:00.001-07:00

Ethics and Border Security

Project to study (a) codes of conduct for border guards in countries party to the Schengen Agreement; (b) issues raised by detection and identification technologies used at borders.

This project results from an open tender process with Europe-wide competition. Funder: FRONTEX (European Borders Agency). 6 months from August 2010. Euros 50k. PI: Prof. Tom Sorell; Co-Is: Prof. Mark Ryan (Computer Sciences); Dr Lou Cabrera (POLSIS)

AHRC Microfinance Meeting - 4th November

2010-08-12T03:42:00.000-07:00

Lund DETECTER Meeting - 12th & 13th November

2010-08-12T03:41:00.000-07:00

Internet Surveillance, Human Rights and Ethics

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Canadian Symposium on Humanitarian Work and Ethics: November

2010-04-22T17:50:00.000-07:00

Canadian Symposium on Humanitarian Work and Ethics: November 2010

DETECTER: Zurich June Meeting

2010-04-22T17:46:00.000-07:00

The next meeting of DETECTER will take place in June, hosted by the University of Zurich.

Meeting 3: June 10 & 11 2010 (Zurich)

Data Mining, Human Rights and Ethics

For more details, see the DETECTER home page.

DETECTER on BBC News

2010-03-25T17:49:00.000-07:00

DETECTER on Midlands Today, BBC News

Microfinance Programme Announced

2010-03-21T08:04:00.000-07:00

A preliminary agenda for the Fourth AHRC Microfinance meeting on the 26th May, 2010, at the University of Birmingham, is now available. Speakers will include Udo Reifner, Ana Marr, and Malcolm Harper.

For more details of the event, and about the Microfinance Network, visit the Microfinance home page.