CAPPE

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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

WHAT'S NEW

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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



Professor Doris Schroeder

Justice and the Human Good

doriss@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 9349-0764
Facsimile +61 (03) 8344-3889
View my cv (.pdf)

Dipl.Betr., B.A. (Hons), M.A., PhD

Biography

Doris Schroeder studied economics and management as well as philosophy, politics, and English literature at Aachen universities. She undertook Ph.D. research at the Universities of Manchester and Birmingham and was previously employed as a strategic planner for Warner Music and a lecturer in philosophy at Lancaster University.

Professor Schroeder has a joint appointment between CAPPE and UCLAN in the United Kingdom, where she heads the Centre for Professional Ethics and holds the title Professor of Moral Philosophy.
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Fields of special interest

  • International Justice
  • Political Philosophy
  • Human Rights
  • Applied Ethics