10 Year Anniversary Applied Ethics Conference

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An image of a cake to celebrate the IDEA Centre's 10th anniversary. It is a square cake covered in white icing, with a purple icing trim, and blue candles and writing.

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Applied Ethics Conference

To celebrate 10 years of the IDEA Centre, we held evening celebrations and two day Applied Ethics conference. Topics included Media Ethics, Big Data, Climate Change, Ethics and Economic Sanctions and many more.

Below are the full videos of some of the presentations from this event.

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Evening celebrations

In a week that saw VW hit the headlines for faking fuel emissions and the Government debating the country’s responsibilities to refugees, the IDEA Centre celebrated its 10th Year Anniversary.

Speaking as Guest of Honour at the celebration dinner, the Vice Chancellor, Sir Alan Langlands, said he was in no doubt of the value of rigorous teaching in ethical decision making. The aim of the Centre - to equip students and professionals with the ability to identify, analyse and respond effectively to ethical issues – is clearly as important today as it was ten years ago. The Vice Chancellor also commended the Centre’s efforts to embed ethics across programmes of study at the University and was encouraged by the growing numbers of professionals taking the Centre’s online Masters courses and the increasing list of organisations benefiting from its training and consultancy.

Transforming professional practice through our distinctive ability to integrate inter-disciplinary research, consultancy and education in applied ethics.

A speech taking place at the IDEA Centre's 10th anniversary evening celebrations.

Amongst the guests were senior members of the University, as well as partners in distinguished professional, academic and public bodies including the Chartered Banking Institute, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, Institute for Accountants in England and Wales, Royal Academy of Engineering, British Academy, and Commonwealth Secretariat.

The Centre’s Director, Professor Chris Megone, thanked guests for their continued support: “Our unique approach is heavily reliant on partnership for its success – students and professionals want to consider ethical issues in their discipline and within the context of their profession. Through partnership we can ensure that ethics is grounded in practice and enable individuals to apply it within their own context.”

So what about the next 10 years? Building on its successful partnerships in seven faculties, the Centre wishes to fulfil its aspiration for all students at Leeds to graduate with confidence in ethical decision making. Through its training, consultancy and online programmes it will continue to enable professional bodies and public policy, as well as students at Leeds, to benefit from its high quality research in areas such as responsibility and climate change, leadership and integrity, and ethics in big data.

The Centre held an inter-disciplinary ethics conference to celebrate its anniversary. The presentations from this and previous conferences, events and research seminars will soon be available.

A group shot at the evening celebration for the IDEA Centre's 10th anniversary.

Top row, left to right: Dr Megan Kime, Jim Baxter, Dr Kevin Macnish, Professor Chris Megone, Dr Jamie Dow.

Bottom row, left to right: Dr Helen Morley, Florence Carr, Sarah Foster, Kathryn Blythe, Dr Elizabeth Ellis, Dr Rob Lawlor and Dr Carl Fox.