Centre for Bioscience, The Higher Education Academy

 




 

Professional Development Event

Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students

Tuesday 16th December 2008

University of Cambridge: Vivien Stewart Room, Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall).

This event provided a further opportunity for colleagues to get together and discuss how best to prepare students to deal with the ethical issues associated with advances in the biosciences and other ethical dilemmas. The programme for the day focused partly on assessment and was aimed at teachers with some experience of the teaching of ethics, although, all individuals with an interest in the event were welcome to attend. As usual the format of the event included a mix of activities, presentations and opportunities for discussion.

 

Programme
 
10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.20 Welcome and introduction to the day
John Bryant, University of Exeter
10.30 Plenary: The science and ethics of cybrids
Chris Willmott, University of Leicester
11.00 You can't assess ethics!

Three 'show and tell' presentations on aspects of assessment of ethics-related learning

11.30 Refreshments
11.45
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Parallel sessions
  • Teaching Professional Ethics - the Ethics of a Scientist, Anna Smajdor, University of East Anglia
  • Going deeper into Ethics, John Bryant, University of Exeter and Morven Shearer, University of St Andrews
14.45 Refreshments
15.00 Swapshop session: short informal contributions from delegates - an opportunity to share your ideas or practice on aspects of ethics teaching and a chance to get feedback from colleagues.
16.00 Reflections on the event and close

Report from the day (pdf)

Related resources:

Ethics resource list

Professional Ethics resource list