CAPPE

  • CSU
  • 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



Dr Kieran Donaghue

 

Justice and the Human Good

Kieran.Donaghue@anu.edu.au
Telephone +61 2 61259635
Facsimile +61 2 61256579
View my cv (.pdf)

BA, MA, PhD

 

Biography

Kieran Donaghue has an MA in Philosophy from the ANU and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He worked from 1987 to 2006 for the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) in a variety of roles, including a period (2001-2004) as microfinance adviser. He is currently a research associate on the ARC Linkage Project “Assessing development: designing better indices of poverty and gender equity” (project leader Thomas Pogge).

 

Fields of special interest

  • Global Justice
  • Justification of belief

 

Publications

Journal Article

“Microfinance in the Asia Pacific”, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature,vol. 18, no. 1, May 2004.

 

Book Chapter

"Human Rights, Development INGOs and Priorities for Action” in Keith Horton & Chris Roche (eds.) Ethical Questions and International NGOs, Springer (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy vol. 23), 2010.