Institute of Applied Ethics
The Institute of Applied Ethics is the focus of research in
applied ethics at the University of Hull. The Institute brings
complementary interests across the university together in ways that
provide a supportive and creative forum for the development of
programmes and projects that allow for the empirical grounding and
the rigorous theoretical input and interaction that is necessary to
research in applied ethics.
We interpret applied ethics broadly, as the application of ethical
considerations, reasons, principles, values and ideals to any
policy or practice, personal, social or professional, for the
purpose of evaluating (and thus endorsing, rejecting or revising)
that policy or practice on ethical grounds. The Institute has a
number of interrelated research programmes with an overarching
focus of Ethics in Public Decision-Making. There are three
principal streams in the work of the Institute:
The specific aims and objectives of the Institute are:
- The development of a group of related interdisciplinary
programmes and projects.
- Interaction and collaboration between established and less
established researchers, and between ethical, political and legal
theorists and more empirically oriented researchers across the
university.
- Publication of high-quality books, articles and reports in a
large range of areas.
- Development and submission of applications for external
funding.
- Conducting conferences and seminars.
- Consolidating and enhancing the university library resources in
Applied Ethics.
- Developing a critical mass of postgraduate students across a
range of programmes and projects.
- Developing materials for use in relevant courses and
programmes, and for the development of new programmes.
- Developing selected reach-out activities, such as consultancies
and short courses for practitioners, in order to demonstrate
research.
- Developing appropriate external research links.
- Attraction of research visitors to programmes and
projects.