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    Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM
    with Elisabeth Hildt, Kelly Laas, and Eric M. Brey
    In E. Hildt, K. Laas, C. Miller & E. Brey (eds.), Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-13. 2024.
    Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are central to any educational system. The term started with the National Science Foundation as “SMET” and was changed to STEM at a later date due to phonetic reasons. The term was not widely used until Virginia Tech University began offering a “STEM education” degree in 2005 (Friedman 2005). The term STEM covers a broad spectrum of different disciplines. While, in general, STEM is used as an umbrella term for the natural sciences, …Read more
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    This chapter describes the development of a workshop series focused on helping students develop research lab ethics guidelines. The workshop was developed through a National Science Foundation-funded project that situates ethics education within the research environment. Students in four departments at a private research university were recruited to join a Student Ethics Committee that collaboratively developed context-specific codes-of-ethics-based guidelines for their departments. These bottom…Read more
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    Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM (edited book)
    with E. Hildt, K. Laas, and E. Brey
    Springer Verlag. 2024.
    This book shares innovative approaches to effectively engage students and faculty working in research labs, lab-based classrooms and courses to build inclusive ethical cultures. The frameworks and approaches presented move beyond traditional research ethics training to strengthen the ethical culture in research labs. The chapters in the book showcase best practices and approaches to embedding educational interventions in courses, research labs and departments. The book is based on the two-day wo…Read more
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    Empowering Graduate Students to Address Ethics in Research Environments
    with Elisabeth Hildt, Kelly Laas, Stephanie Taylor, and Eric M. Brey
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28 (3): 542-550. 2019.
    :In this article, we present an educational intervention that embeds ethics education within research laboratories. This structure is designed to assist students in addressing ethical challenges in a more informed way, and to improve the overall ethical culture of research environments. The project seeks to identify factors that students and researchers consider relevant to ethical conduct in science, technology, engineering, and math and to promote the cultivation of an ethical culture in exper…Read more
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    Leadership, ethical dilemmas and 'good' authority in public service partnership working
    with Michael Broussine
    Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 14 (4). 2005.
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    Attributing 'Priority' to Habitats
    Environmental Values 6 (3). 1997.
    A close scrutiny of a European Community directive on habitats and of the statutory instrument by which it is implemented in Britain reveals small but nevertheless significant concessions towards an ecocentric approach. Planning law now allows interference in the habitats of protected species only when human interests are demonstrably overriding. Recent decisions of the European Court of Justice have given a very restrictive interpretation of the circumstances in which such interference may be p…Read more