IAN MICHAEL KENWAY

CURRICULUM VITAE
(N.B. all appointments and qualifications listed in reverse chronological order)           

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Current Address

The Beast House, Cwmdu, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1RT, WALES, UK
Tel:  +44 (0)1874 730143
Mob: +44 (0)77 48 223090
Fax: +44 (0)792 31 5825
E-mail: I.M.Kenway@cs.cardiff.ac.uk or iank@cischr.org

General Background

Nationality: British
Born: 13 May 1952, Fareham, Hampshire, England, UK
Married: Wilgress Audrey Sealey (née Case) 1978. [see Annexe  below]

Current Position Held

2002–  Director: Centre of the International Centre for the Study of Cyberethics and Human Rights

CISCHR is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the international study of cyberethics. More specifically, the Centre has been established to encourage informed public debate on human rights issues that relate to the actual or potential misuse of information and communication technologies as well as relevant issues concerning social inclusion. Its objectives include:

Further details available at www.cischr.org

In March 2004 I gave a presentation on public trust at a strategy scoping meeting on Cybertrust and Information Security at the Royal Society as part of its Science in Society programme.

In 2004 I was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Ethics and ICT at Cardiff University jointly by the Schools of Computer Science and Religious and Theology Studies. (I am, inter alia, a member of the Digital Watermarking Group in the School of Computer Science and a member of the Meanings of Genetics Group in the School of the Religious and Theological Studies.)

In 2006 I was appointed Co-ordinator of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society.

Previous Positions Held

1999-01   Independent Research in cyberethics and IT, Southern Nevada, USA

1993-99   Director of Studies:  Centre for the Study of Theology at the University of Essex                                       
         
The Centre for the Study of Theology (renamed the Centre for Theology and Society in 1999) at the University of Essex was inaugurated in 1988 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Robert Runcie, as an independent ecumenical centre within the University of Essex. During the 90’s the work of the Centre was appraised favourably by a review panel consisting of Professor David Williams (President of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University), Miss Ruth Etchells (former Principal of St. John’s College, Durham) and Rowan Williams (then Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford).

The aims of the Centre were research, teaching and publication. The interdisciplinary nature of the Centre’s remit also enabled good links to be forged with several academic departments within the University, including Sociology, Government, Philosophy and Law as well as the Human Rights Centre. In particular it sought to foster relevant dialogue between major world faith communities, especially in the areas of ethics and social responsibility, and provided the initial context and sponsorship of the Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society (Routledge, 1996).

Under the ‘banner’ of ‘Community and Personhood’, the Centre was committed to research in the areas of:

While at the University of Essex, I gave a series of public lectures that explored key epistemological and ontological themes in twentieth century philosophy as well as several graduate seminars on privacy and public access in an ‘information culture’.

As Director of Studies, I was, ex officio, a Fellow of the Centre, series editor of the Essex Papers in Theology and Society, Course Director of the MA in Theology and Society directly answerable in this capacity to the scheme’s Management Committee within the University’s Graduate School and managed two Annual Lectures (the Sacks Lecture on Judaism and Inter-Faith Understanding and the Derek Allen Lecture on Sacramental Theology) as well as a weekly Open Seminar on Theology and Society.

During the period 1993-99 the Centre’s Open Seminars included:

Comprehensive details about the history of the Centre can be found at:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/TheologyCentre

In 1997 I was elected onto the Committee of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. Fellow committee members included Oliver O’Donovan, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, and Alastair V. Campbell, Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol. The Committee was charged with appointing the speakers at the Society’s Annual Conference in Oxford, liaising with the Editor of the Journal for the Study of Christian Ethics and generally having oversight of the constitution of the Society.

1988-93  Assistant Secretary of the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility and Editor of Crucible

The terms of reference of the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility required it to “promote and co-ordinate the thought and action of the Church in matters affecting the life of all in society”.

I held the brief for legal and criminal justice affairs at the Board as well as dealing with a number of issues that did not fall easily within its existing committee structure. In addition, I edited the Board’s quarterly journal Crucible and represented it on the Board of Mission’s Inter-Faith Consultative Council (IFCG), the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics and the Prison Chaplaincy Advisory Group.

While a member of the Board’s staff, I established a Legal and Criminal Justice Reference Panel and set up an Order and Law Groups Database. I liaised closely with the Prison Service Chaplaincy and visited a number of penal establishments across the UK. I was actively involved in the development of a nationwide Police Chaplaincy network and was consulted in the planning of its first two residential conferences held at the Police Staff College, Bramshill, Hants. As well as penal affairs, I held a ‘watching brief’ for those organisations concerned with constitutional reform (e.g. Charter 88) and civil liberties (e.g. Freedom of Information Campaign).

During my time with BSR, I wrote background papers, submissions of evidence and briefing papers (including those for parliamentary debates in the House of Lords) on:

During my last year with the Board, I pressed that it should undertake work relating to Ethics and IT. This bore fruit in 1996 when a working party was established to consider the social ramifications and ethical issues relating to information technology. A popular account of its work has been published under the title Cybernauts Awake!: Ethical and Spiritual Implications of Computers, Information Technology and the Internet (Church House Publishing, 1999).   

Finally I had the particular responsibility for overseeing the computerisation of the Department.

1982-88   Priest-in-Charge of St. Mary and St. John, Shaw Hill, Alum Rock, Birmingham

1979-81   Curate at St. Stephen’s, Southmead, Bristol

1976-79   Curate at St Peter’s, Hillfields within Coventry East Team Ministry and Parish

1969-70    Laboratory technician at the Product Assessment Laboratory, Plessey Company, Titchfield, Hants

During my time with the company, I was engaged in a variety of projects including electronic circuit design, reliability studies on electronic components using computer techniques, component and product research for the Royal Navy and the Consumers’ Association.
    

Other Ministerial Appointments

 Education

1986   
Awarded Ph.D. by the University of Bristol for my dissertation Rationality, Judgment and Certainty (Supervisor: Dr Denys Turner, currently Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale University and previously Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge)

1974-76
Trained for the ordained ministry at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield (deaconed 1976, priested 1977)

1971-74
Read Theology (with Philosophy options) at the University of Leeds. Awarded BA Hons Class II(i) degree.

1970-71
Read Electrical Engineering at the University of Bristol

1963-69
Educated at Prices School, Fareham, Hampshire

 Memberships and Positions Held

 Publications

 

Other

Biographical entry in 17th (Millennium) and subsequent edition of Marquis’ Who’sWho in the World.

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