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Southampton Ethics Centre

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We aim to build on existing interdisciplinary ethics teaching, and to nurture interdisciplinary research and outreach.

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With members from departments/schools including Chemistry, Computer Science, Criminology, Economics, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, History, Law, Management, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology and Social Policy, and from research centres including C2G2, CELS, CLEG, HEAL and the Parkes Institute, the Southampton Ethics Centre organises ethics-focused events and showcases ethics-related multi-disciplinary work already under way at the University.

The Southampton Ethics Centre organises ethics-related events, aims to nurture collaborations across the University on ethics-related issues, and to publicise ethics-focused events.

Among the events organised by the Southampton Ethics Centre are the annual Ethical Challenges Lecture, and the annual PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Lecture.

We also host a Southampton Ethics Centre Seminar each semester, as well as a series of online workshops, on topics such as the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the Ethics of Race, and the Ethics of Climate Change.

We also publish regular bulletins containing information about ethics-related events and activities across the university.

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Explore our news and events pages to find out more about our activities.

People, projects and publications

People

Professor Gerry Stoker

Chair in Governance

Research interests

  • 1. Much of Gerry Stoker's intitial work focused on local government and urban politics. Key publications include Remaking Planning, 1989 ( with Tim Brindley and Yvonne Rydin and the single-authored The Politics of Local Government (1988) and Transforming Local Governance (2004) 
  • 2. A broader focus on the concept and practice  of governance is reflected  in various article widely cited articles and co-authored  books published including Towards Holistic Governance(2002), Governance Theory and Practice(2009) and Nuclear Power and Energy Policy. The Limits to Governance(2015) 
  • 3. Contributions to debates about how to conduct political science are reflected in four editions of the edited volume (with David Marsh) Theory and Methods in Political Science (1995, 2002, 2010, 2018)  and a co-edited book The Relevance of Political Science. Articles on developing a design arm or solution-orientation to political science have also been written

Email: g.stoker@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Giulia Felappi

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Philosophy of language
  • Metaphysics
  • History of Early Analytic Philosophy

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: g.felappi@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Emeritus Professor Hazel Biggs

Research interests

  • Healthcare law
  • Medical law
  • Bioethics

Email: h.biggs@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Helen Spurling

Associate Dean Research & Enterprise

Research interests

  • Jewish-Christian relations and Jewish-Muslim relations
  • Interpretation of midrashic literature
  • Apocalyptic, eschatology and messianism

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: h.spurling@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Professor Jenny Fleming

Chair in Criminiology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.fleming@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Jonathan Havercroft

Professor

Research interests

  • 17th Century European Political Theory
  • International Relations Theory
  • Global Constitutionalism

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.havercroft@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Jonathan Way

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Ethics
  • Epistemology
  • Normativity

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.way@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Lee Walters

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Language and Logic
  • Aesthetics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: l.walters@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Professor Markus Heller

Professor of Biomechanics

Email: m.o.heller@soton.ac.uk

Address: B7, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Emeritus Professor Raymond Monk

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Contact us

Dr Brian McElwee, the Director of the Southampton Ethics Centre, welcomes your enquiries.
+44(0)23 8059 5847
b.m.mcelwee@southampton.ac.uk

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BF

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