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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.

Part of Law, Medicine, Philosophy

About

We organise ethics-focused events, and showcase ethics-related work underway at the University. We have members from schools and departments across the University. These include the sciences, humanities, social sciences and medicine.

Our members are also active in a variety of research centres. These centres explore topics like citizenship, law, globalisation and intercultural relations.

We aim to nurture collaborations across the University on ethics-related issues. We also promote ethics-focused events.

Our annual lectures include Ethical Challenges, and Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

We host a Southampton Ethics Centre Seminar each semester. We offer online workshops exploring ethics in relation to a range of topics. These include artificial intelligence, race, and climate change.

Our regular bulletins contain information about ethics-related events and activities across the university.

News and events

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
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Dr Giulia Felappi

Lecturer

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Emeritus Professor Hazel Biggs

Research interests

  • Healthcare law
  • Medical law
  • Bioethics
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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

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Professor Jenny Fleming

Chair in Criminiology

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Professor Jonathan Havercroft

Professor

Research interests

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

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Professor Jonathan Way

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Ethics
  • Epistemology
  • Normativity

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Dr Lee Walters

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Language and Logic
  • Aesthetics

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Professor Markus Heller

Professor of Biomechanics
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Contact us

Dr Brian McElwee, the Director of the Southampton Ethics Centre, welcomes your enquiries.

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

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