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New Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics

Professor Heather Widdows has been made the new Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics

University of Birmingham Aston Webb building

Heather is globally recognised as a discipline-shaper in the field of Global Ethics. She is one of the editors of the Journal of Global Ethics   and, with Nigel Dower, co-editor of The Edinburgh Series in Global Ethics (Edinburgh University Press). As well as Global Ethics: An Introduction she has written the following papers on global ethics:

  • ‘Global Ethics: An Overview’ in Encyclopaedia of Applied Ethics, Second Edition, volume 2ed. Ruth Chadwick San Diego: Academic Press; 2012. pp. 514–522.
  •  ‘Is Global Ethics Moral Neo-colonialism? An investigation of the issue in the context of bioethics’, Bioethics, 2007, 21, 6, pp. 305-315
  • ‘Interview with Noam Chomsky: Global ethics, American foreign policy and the academic as activist’, Journal of Global Ethics 2005, 1, 2, pp. 197-205
  •  ‘Global Population and Global Justice: Equitable Distribution of Resources Among Countries’. With Peter West-Oram in eLS 2011, John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Chichester, 2012 www.els.net/ [DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0024140]
  •  ‘Why and what global ethics?’ in Ethics in an Era of Globalisation Continuum Books edited by Wim M.S. Ronald Commers, Wim Vandekerckhove and An Verlinden Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp. 95-112
  • Global Ethics: Foundations and Methodologies’in Global Ethics and Civil Society, edited by John Eade and Darren O’Byrne Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. pp. 74-88
  • For a full list of Heather's publications go to her staff page