Leslie Silver International Faculty
Applied Global Ethics
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Gavin Fairbairn
Gavin Fairbairn is Running Stream Professor of Ethics and Language. He describes himself as a teacher and jobbing philosopher, whose academic and professional interests focus on two main areas – applied ethics (especially the ethics of care) and academic literacy and style.
His concerns with ethical issues began as a teenager when he was particularly interested in issues relating to world poverty, and extended into an interest in professional ethics during his practice career. He is unusual in being an applied philosopher who has worked in many of the applied areas about which he writes.
Following many years as a teacher and social worker in mental health and learning disability, he worked in teacher education for thirteen years. Following that he was Professor of Professional Development in Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Glamorgan, the Professor of Education at Liverpool Hope, prior to his move to Leeds Met.
Professor Fairbairn has a strong interest in storytelling as an approach to research and pedagogy, and as an alternative model of academic writing for those academics (and there are many of them) who write pseudo-academic gibberish, in an effort to impress, rather than inform. His most recent books, Writing Your Abstract: a guide for would-be conference presenters (with Susan Fairbairn) and Becoming an Author; advice for academics and other professionals (with Professor David Canter) were published in 2005. Currently he is writing a book entitled Telling positive stories; challenging negative stereotypes.
Professor Fairbairn is an associate member of the Iona Community and a parishioner at Manchester Anglican Cathedral.