About the Institute
DIRECTORS
DIRECTOR
Professor James Connelly, BSc, PhD
(Southampton)
James Connelly is also Director of the Political Ethics
Programme of the IAE. He is Professor of Politics at
the University of Hull, in the Department of
Politics and International Studies. His research
interests in political ethics relate primarily to the ethics and
politics of the environment and to the topics of citizenship,
virtue and character. His recent publications include
articles and chapters on 'Respecting Nature' and 'The Virtues of
Environmental Citizenship', and 'Character, Duty and Historical
Consciousness'. Recent books include the second edition of
Politics and the Environment: From Theory to Practice
(with G Smith) and Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The
political Philosophy of R G Collingwood. He is currently
writing a monograph on environmental citizenship and virtues for
Routledge.
Email: j.connelly@hull.ac.uk
DEPUTY DIRECTORS
Dr Phil
Beilby, LLB (Hull) PCHE (Sheffield),
PhD(Sheffield)
Phil Bielby is also Director of the Biomedical Ethics
and Law Programme of the IAE. He is lecturer in the
Law School.
Phil is the author of Competence and Vulnerability in
Biomedical Research (Springer, 2008) and a number of articles
on bioethics and medical law. His research interests lie in
bioethics, especially ethico-legal issues in mental capacity and
mental health concerning consent to treatment and research, along
with normative legal philosophy and moral theory, especially
autonomy, vulnerability and rights.
Email: p.bielby@hull.ac.uk
Professor Gerry Johnstone, BA (NUI), MSc, PhD
(Edin)
Gerry Johnstone’s research interests are in criminology, criminal
justice studies, and the sociology of law. He is the author of
Restorative Justice: Ideas, Values, Debates (Willan, 2002)
and Medical Concepts and Penal Policy (Cavendish, 1996),
as well as numerous articles on therapeutic interventions into
criminal justice, popular justice, and critical legal education. He
is Professor in the Law School,
University of Hull.
Email : j.g.johnstone@hull.ac.uk
Dr Suzanne Uniacke, BA, MA (La Trobe), PhD
(Sydney)
Suzanne Uniacke was Foundation Director of the Institute of
Applied Ethics (2003-2008). She has published widely in
applied ethics, normative moral theory and political and social
philosophy. She is Editor of the
Journal of Applied Philosophy and she has an adjunct
professorial appointment in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and
Public Ethics in Australia. Her publications include:
Permissible Killing: the Self-defence Justification of
Homicide (Cambridge University Press, 1994); 'Replaceability
and Infanticide', Journal of Value Inquiry, 31, 2, 1997;
'Was Mary’s Death Murder?', Medical Law Review, 9, 3,
2001; 'Self-Defence and Just War', in Dieter Janssen & Michael
Quante (Hrsg), Gerechte Kriege (Paderborn: Mentis-Verlag,
2002); 'Emotional Excuses', Law and Philosophy, 26, 2007;
‘On Getting One’s Retaliation in First’, in Preemption:
Military Action and Moral Justification (ed.) Henry Shue &
David Rodin (Oxford University Press, 2007). Dr
Uniacke is Reader in the Department
of Philosophy, University of Hull.
Email : s.m.uniacke@hull.ac.uk
Director of Criminal Justice Ethics Programme
Dr
Tony Ward, LLB, LLM (London), PhD (De Montfort),
Barrister-at-Law
Tony Ward is a Reader in the Law School. He is
co-author with Mick Ryan of Privatization and the Penal
System (1989) and with Penny Green of State Crime:
Governments, Violence and Corruption (2004), and co-editor
with Bev Clucas and Gerry Johnstone of Torture: Moral Absolutes
and Ambiguities (Baden-Baden, Nomos, in press). His main
current research interest is in the ethics and epistemology of
expert testimony.
Email: a.ward@hull.ac.uk
Management Committee
Prof Gerry Johnstone; Dr Phil Bielby; Prof James Connelly; Dr
Suzanne Uniacke; Dr Tony Ward
External Advisers
Prof Susan Mendus, Department of Politics, University of York;
Prof Roger Brownsword, School of Law, King's College London; Prof
Tony Hope, Ethox, Institute of Health Sciences, University of
Oxford
Contact
Prof James Connelly
Institute of Applied Ethics
University of Hull
Hull HU6 7RX
(01482) 465754
j.connelly@hull.ac.uk
Director: James Connelly
(01482) 465754
j.connelly@hull.ac.uk