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Leslie Silver International Faculty

School of Applied Global Ethics

Leeds Met Africa

Research

SAGE staff have in research, teaching and consultancy interests in a wide range of professional and academic areas including:

• Ethics in health and social care
• Business ethics
• Peace and conflict
• Cross-cultural ethics
• The ethical challenges of environmental change
• Issues of human rights and child rights
• Ethics and diversity: sexism, racism and equality; representation and treatment of disabled people; representation and treatment of ethnic minorities
• The ethics of business and labour
• Academic storytelling as an ethical approach to sharing knowledge
• Peace and conflict studies, including global citizenship, justice and peace
• Globalisation, global corporate responsibility and development
• Communication ethics
• Health care in prisons
• NGOs and other trans-governmental programmes and organisations
• Pedagogy of ethics; ethical pedagogy
• Ethical research strategies, methodologies, principles and practice
• Uses of storytelling in professional development
• The militarisation of space
• Professional development
• Teacher education
• Scaling up public participation
• Academic literacy and style
• New technologies of political control
• Development studies
• Participative action research
• Engineering ethics
• Globalisation and global perspectives
• Peace and security
• Widening participation
• Inclusion of people with disabilities and special needs
• Ethics and employability
• Justice and peace
• Slavery and emancipation
• Ethics in learning disability
• Peace studies and structural violence theory
• Gender and leadership
• Philosophy and children
• Professional education and professional development
• Religious ethics and care
• Sexuality and learning difficulties
• Disability and special needs
• Sport
• Values and higher education
• Values and social policy
• Multiculturalism

Research Degrees

Within the School of Applied Global Ethics, there are many opportunities to study for research degrees on a wide range of contemporary global issues.  We offer a stimulating and challenging environment for those interested in studying for a PhD, MPhil or Masters by Research. 

Specialist areas include:

 - Business Ethics
 - Corporate Social Responsibility
 - Engineering
 - Ethical Theory
 - Ethics and Culture
 - Ethics and Education
 - Ethics in Medicine and Healthcare
 - Ethics, Employability
 -
Professional Development
 - Global Ethics
 - Media and Communication Ethics
 - Moral and Spiritual Development
 - Relational Ethics
 - Social Policy
 - Special Needs
 - Spirituality, Ethics and Applied Religions

The Praxis Centre

A focal point for research in the areas of peace, conflict resolution and security is The Praxis Centre.  A core team of Dr Halpin, Professor Webb and Dr Wright are supported by a team of active researchers in a key part of the research area that received a grade of 4 in the last Research Assessment Exercise.  The Praxis Centre is especially keen to encourage applicants with interests in the following broad areas of research.

 - Militarisation of Space
 - Non-Lethal Weapons
 - Human Security
 - Human and Child Rights
 - Technologies of Political Control
 - Net-Centric and Information Warfare