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Centre for Bioscience Professional Development Programme

Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students: Challenges Old and New

Wednesday 7th December 2005

Belfast Castle, Northern Ireland

Our ethics events have proved consistently popular and here is another opportunity for you to discuss and share ideas on how to prepare students to deal with ethical issues. Having attended you will take away views on why it is important to teach ethics to Bioscience students and examples of appropriate approaches, techniques and methods for teaching ethics to bioscience students.

 

Programme
 
10.00 Registration; Tea and Coffee
10.20 Welcome and Introduction to the day
10.30 Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students: why and how?
John Bryant, University of Exeter and Convenor of the Special Interest Group
11.00 Strategies for developing ethical reasoning skills in bioscience students
David Hunter, University of Ulster
11.30 As seen on TV: video clips as a tool for teaching about ethics
Chris Willmott, University of Leicester
12.00 Introducing a final year Bioethics course at The University of Manchester
Caroline Bowsher, University of Manchester
12.35 Lunch
13.15 Workshop session- Debates
Facilitated by Andy Bond, University of Westminster
14.30 Refreshments
14.45 Swapshop - Examples of teaching bioethics
15.45 Final discussion, reflection on the day and close

PDF summary

 

Related resources

Willmott, C.J.R., Bond, A.N., Bryant, J.A., Maw, S.J., Sears, H.J. & Wilson, J.M. (2004) Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students - A Survey of Undergraduate Provision. Bioscience Education E-journal, Volume 3.

Ethics audit tool, incorporating sustainability (pdf)

Ethics resource list (as a pdf)

Reports from other ethics events

Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students: engaging with the issues
Ethics Teaching: one dilemma after another?
Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students
The Rights and Wrongs of Teaching Ethics to Bioscience students