Leslie Silver International Faculty
School of Applied Global Ethics
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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