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 Steven Curry

Criminal Justice Ethics
Justice and the Human Good

sbcurry@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 8344-3852
Facsimile  +61 (03) 9348-2130
View my cv (.pdf)

BA(Hons) PhD

Biography

Steven Curry has worked as a consultant and research partner on issues of ethics and professional practice with government, non-government and other organisations. His current research partners include Victoria Police and the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth). His book Ethics: A beginner’s guide will be published in 2008.

Fields of special interest

  • Community arts and mental health
  • Policing ethics. Organisational ethics
  • “Modal” non-traditional ethics
  • Inter-cultural history of philosophy

Publications

Books

Curry S. 2004 Indigenous Sovereignty and the Democratic Project, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Bowles W., Collingridge M., Curry S. and Valentine B. 2006 Ethical Practice in Social Work: an applied approach, Sydney: Allen and Unwin and London: Open University Press.