Working Ethics

Welcome to Working Ethics – and greetings to those who have been here before.  We get several visits a day and we welcome comments.  So if you are interested in following up ideas raised here do get in touch. 

This site is for people interested in ethics in the professions and public life. It aims to help you develop a practical working ethic.  The site is managed by me, Richard Rowson.  To know more about the site or me, please click on the right. 

Please get in touch if you are interested in any of the issues, activities and organisations mentioned below.  There are networks of people interested in these topics and I can put you in touch with them if you would like that.

How to contact me:

I’m at richardhrowson  and the rest of the address is @aol.com – sorry to put it that way, but I’m trying to avoid spam.  Don’t forget to put the “h” between “richard” and “rowson”. 

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In November 2009 I presented a paper on ethical aspects of using older people in medical research at the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice.   Basically I was showing how the FAIR framework (developed in Working Ethics – how to be fair in a culturally complex world ) is able to highlight ethically significant aspects of this area of research and provide a useful  analytic tool when issues are open to debate.  The Forum is concerned with relating ethical practice to developments in medical science.  For more information go to www.efgcp.be

At Kingston University I am developing a new research project on shared values.  The ideas is to see how far the FAIR ethics framework (see Working Ethics) is an appropriate ethical basis for community leaders and people working in the public space.    

Since this framework is successful in helping members of different professions work together it might help people working across cultural divides and in culturally complex situations.

We are currently in discussion with various organisation on how best to organise this research and will keep you posted on its progress.