We run a range of educational outreach initiatives for lower sixth form through to postgraduate level and for the general public. We tailor events to general, professional and specialist audiences, offering presentations, scholarship, advice, support and training in healthcare ethics. Please contact our Education Officer, Stephen Barrie on education@bioethics.org.uk or see the links on the left for more information. Please also see the 'News and Events' section for events in your area.
The Centre is currently (2012/13) engaging in a major project to support schools. The title of the project is "Ethos: Ethics, Science and Religion in a Catholic school", and will consist in a series of consultations, conferences and the publication a book. We are working closely with teachers, heads, governors and diocesan educationalists. Along with important questions about the 'ethos' or character of a Catholic and Christian schools we are particularly interested in education understood as fostering virtue, in supporting the teaching of ethics, and in the relationship between science and religion.
In mid 2012 we ran a consultation on the initial results of our progress on our project, and were encouraged by extremely positive responses from around the country, and from a great variety of schools. We will be running a further consultation in due course, which will focus on the content of the proposed book, seeking detailed feedback, and encouraging selected partners to trial class materials - using the book as well as reading it.
On Tuesday 30th October the Centre will host a national conference on "Ethos: Ethics, Science and Faith in a Catholic School" at St Gregory's Catholic School, Oxford, from 10am to 4pm. The day will be led by Professor David Albert Jones (Director of the Anscombe Centre and Visiting Professor at St Mary's University College Twickenham), Fr Timothy Gardner OP (RE teacher and Chaplain at Maria Fidelis School, London and department secretary (Catholic Education and Formation) at the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales) and Rev. Dr. Andrew Pinsent (Research Director at the Ian Ramsay Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford and author/founder of Evangelium).
It is not too late to book for this conference - bookings can be made securely at the Anscombe Centre's online bookshop [here]. The conference fee is £80. Free parking is available at St Gregory's, refreshments and lunch are provided.
for more information about this project please contact education@bioethics.org.uk
In mid 2012 we ran a consultation on the initial results of our progress on our project, and were encouraged by extremely positive responses from around the country, and from a great variety of schools. We will be running a further consultation in due course, which will focus on the content of the proposed book, seeking detailed feedback, and encouraging selected partners to trial class materials - using the book as well as reading it.
On Tuesday 30th October the Centre will host a national conference on "Ethos: Ethics, Science and Faith in a Catholic School" at St Gregory's Catholic School, Oxford, from 10am to 4pm. The day will be led by Professor David Albert Jones (Director of the Anscombe Centre and Visiting Professor at St Mary's University College Twickenham), Fr Timothy Gardner OP (RE teacher and Chaplain at Maria Fidelis School, London and department secretary (Catholic Education and Formation) at the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales) and Rev. Dr. Andrew Pinsent (Research Director at the Ian Ramsay Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford and author/founder of Evangelium).
It is not too late to book for this conference - bookings can be made securely at the Anscombe Centre's online bookshop [here]. The conference fee is £80. Free parking is available at St Gregory's, refreshments and lunch are provided.
for more information about this project please contact education@bioethics.org.uk
The Centre is also in the process of developing teaching resources - short fact (and argument) sheets on bioethical topics, and classroom posters. These resouces will be of use across the curriculum, in RE, Science, and philosophy courses most obviously, but also Geography, Economics and History, where the curricula consider ethical questions. We hope to publish the first set of these resouces in 2013.