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Leslie Silver International Faculty

Applied Global Ethics

Study Abroad

Study Abroad

Study Abroad

Eddie Halpin

Dr. Edward Halpin is Associate Dean, Research, Partnerships and Consultancy, in the Leslie Silver International Faculty. He is also a Director of the Praxis Centre (Centre for the Study of Information and Technology for Peace, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights).

He was born in Birmingham but is proud of his Irish heritage. Edward holds a Masters degree in Public Policy and for his PhD studied the use and application of information and information technology for human/child rights. He describes himself as a political scientist with a particular interest in human rights, child rights, peace and conflict resolution, and the use of information in the pursuit of these issues. He is also concerned with the practical application of ethics, critical thinking and action research within his areas of specialist interest.

 He has gathered his personal skills in a variety of working environments including the Civil Service, Local Government, in posts funded by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and most recently within academia.

Edward has been involved in research since the early 1990s. Working as a Social Policy Officer funded by the CRE he undertook work looking at the differences in treatment encountered in the payment of Welfare Benefits by the then Benefits Agency and then worked on projects dealing with the discrimination in Age and Race, including the European Network on Ageing and Ethnicity. In 1998 he undertook research for the European Parliament’s Scientific and Technical Options Assessment (STOA) Unit as an expert consultant on the use of the Internet for human rights, in 2000 publishing the book Human Rights and the Internet (Hick, Halpin and Hoskins, Eds, 2000).

More recently he has undertaken work with the Child Rights Information Network and acted as an expert for Canadian Child Rights organisations in looking at how best the rights to information can be afforded within Canada. Edward continues to research on a wide range of topics including eGovernment and is awaiting the publication of a book on Cyber, Netwar and the Revolution in Military Affairs with Palgrave publishers (Halpin, Trevorrow, Webb and Wright, Eds, 2006).