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  • University of Melbourne

CURRENT RESEARCH

Emerging and Converging Technologies Program:

    This program deals with risks and responsibilities relating to research into technologies that combine with or add to existing technologies, including ethical issues in bio/nanotechnology, computing and IT. More

Poverty Program:

    This program focuses on building an ethically and empirically based account of what development is, what standards it ought to use, and the like. Issues addressed include the measurement of poverty and global minimal labour standards. More

Health Program:

    This program will conduct research in relation to a range of interconnected ethical issues in the public health domain. More

Ecology Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Economy Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Security Program:

    This program focuses on the ethical dimensions of a range of current domestic and international security problems, including ethical issues pertaining to terrorism, crime, and humanitarian intervention. More


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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

PhD Candidate Adam Henschke Australia Talks on Privacy.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:Joy Gordon on Iraq Sanctions

 

CAPPE Canberra Seminar

CAPPE Canberra Seminars will start for 2012 in February. Watch this space!

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Conferences

 

Workshop: Designing Just Institutions for Global Climate Governance (June 30 - 1 July). Click here for details

Past News



Andrew Alexandra

Director of University of Melbourne Division

Business and Professional Ethics
Criminal Justice Ethics

a.alexandra@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 8344-3863
Facsimilie +61 (03) 9348-2130
View my cv (.pdf)

BA, MA, BPhil

Biography

Andrew Alexandra’s main research interests are in the areas of political philosophy and applied philosophy. He is the editor of the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, and is Senior Researcher Fellow at CAPPE's University of Melbourne division.

Fields of special interest

  • War and peace
  • Intellectual property
  • Professional ethics
  • Political ethics
  • Police ethics
  • Consumerism
  • Morality of the market

Publications

Books

Media, Markets and Morals (co-authored with Anne Dunn, Aaron Quinn and Ed Spence)
Malden: Wiley-Blackwell 2011. ISBN: 9781405175463. Translated into Arabic and published
by Cairo: Dar Al-Fajr (forthcoming).

Integrity Systems for Occupations (co-authored with and Seumas Miller) Aldershot: Ashgate 2010, pp. ix + 141, ISBN 978-0-7546-7749-9.