News
January 2012
Dr Ian Kenway sets up a closed Bulletin Board for ASPARRG to assist its research and publishing initatives.
December 2011
Dr Ian Kenway helps organise the Annual ASPARRG meeting at the School of Education, University of Birmingham.
November 2011
Dr Ian Kenway attends the Conference 'Computers and Autism – A Blessing or a Curse?' organised by Research Autism at Church House Conference Centre, Westminster on behalf of ASPARRG
30 November
BAHAR Seminar
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace - Part 3/3
(Presentation: Prof. Geoffrey Samuel, Director of BAHAR, Cardiff University)
(see below)
16 November
BAHAR Seminar
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace - Part 2/3
(Presentation: Dr Chris Groves, CESAGEN, Cardiff University)
(see below)
October 2011
Dr Ian Kenway collaborates with Dr Ed Conley and Dr Philip Scott (University of Portsmouth) in putting together a bid for an eHealth Informatics Research Centre (eHIRC)
Dr Ian Kenway participates in the following Autumn Semester seminars at COMSC:
17th October Informatics Research Group Seminar
"A Naïve Bayes Approach to Classifying Emotions in Suicide Notes" (Presentation: Irena Spasic)
10th Octber Informatics Research Group Seminar
"Nailing jellyfish to the wall " (Presentation: Richard White)
3rd October Informatics Research Group Seminar
"Protecting Patient Privacy in Distributed Collaborative Healthcare Environments by Retaining Access Control of Shared Information" (Presentation: Pete Burnap)
BAHAR Autumn Semesters
Dr Ian Kenway is a contributor to the Autumn Semester BAHAR Seminar Series, specifically organising three seminars that set out to examine some of the themes raised by Adam Curtis in his series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace broadcast on BBC2 in May-June 2011.
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (Part 1/3)
Wednesday 26 October 2011
(Presentation: Dr Ian Kenway, Director of CISCHR and Honorary Research Fellow in Ethics and ICT at Cardiff University)
July 2011
Dr Ian Kenway helps organise and participates in the ASPARRG Summer Seminar Day on 'Autism, Religion and Spirituality' held at the Humanities Building, Cardiff University.
March - May 2011
Dr Ian Kenway is a contributor to the Spring Semester BAHAR Seminar Series.
March 2011
Dr Ian Kenway gives a presentation entitled 'Bytes and Bias: Understanding Net Neutrality' at the Informatics Research Group Seminar at COMSC on Monday 21st March as a contribution to the IRG's Spring Semester Seminar Series.
February 2011
Dr Ian Kenway discusses the development of CISCHR as a Community Interest Company with several interested parties.
December 2010
Dr Ian Kenway attends ASPARRG meeting at the School of Education, University of Birmingham.
Dr Ian Kenway discusses future collaborative work with Dr Jianua Shao at COMSC re privacy and anonymity issues.
November 2010
Dr Ian Kenway is appointed for a further three years as Honorary Research Fellow in Ethics and ICT at Cardiff University. The appointment is one made jointly by the School of Computer Science & Informatics (COMSC) and the newly created School of History, Archaeology and Religion (SHARE).
October 2010
Dr Ian participates in the BAHAR seminar on 'Invisible Boundaries' given by the installation artist Jane Boyd
August 2010
Dr Ian Kenway collaborates with Professor Geoffrey Samuel in a bid for a take part in a four-day consortium-building workshop held in collaboration between the Research Councils UK Digital Economy and Energy Programmes, and the Department of Science and Technology of India. The workshop, which will be held in Nagpur and Wardha, India on 18-21 October 2010, aims to stimulate collaborative thinking around the research challenges of making rural living a sustainable option in both countries in preparation for a joint UK-India call for research proposals.
July 2010
Dr Ian Kenway and Dr Mitzi Waltz (University of Birmingham) meet in Oxford to plan ASPARRG's first national conference on 'Autism, Religion and Spirituality'.
June 2010
Dr Ian Kenway attends a day conference of ASPARRG at the University of Birmingham.
May 2010
Dr Ian Kenway participates in the BAHAR workshop on 'Sustainability and the Humanities: Shaping Culture and Community for a Changing World' held at the Optometry Building, Cardiff University
February 2010
Dr Ian Kenway resigns as Co-ordinator of CCELS
December 2009
Dr Ian Kenway attends two-day conference of ASPARRG at the University of Birmingham.
September 2009
Dr Ian Kenway attends the ETHICSWEB Mid-Project Meeting and Legal Workshop at the Epson Foundation Institute of Technoethics, Barcelona.
June 2009
Dr Ian Kenway attends a day conference of ASPARRG at the University of Birmingham.
Dr Ian Kenway attends the ETHICSWEB WP5 workshop on "Setting Up and Maintaining Ethics Documentation Centres" at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
April 2009
Dr Ian Kenway is a contributor to the Journal of Religion, Disability and Health.
'Blessing Or Curse? - Autism and the Rise of the Internet' Journal of Religion, Disability and Health Vol. 13, Issue 2, 2009, Routledge
March 2009
Dr Ian Kenway leads a KIS seminar at the Cardiff School of Computer Science on 'Utility and Privilege in an Information Age - Some Ethical Reflections'
December 2008
Dr Ian Kenway attends a two-day residential conference of ASPARRG at the University of Birmingham.
August 2008
Dr Ian Kenway is a contributor to Volume 9 of the International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE)
June 2008
Dr Ian Kenway and Dr Jennifer Gunning attend the 'Kick-Off' Meeting of ETHICSWEB at Das Deutsche Referenzzentrum für Ethik in den Biowissenschaften (DRZE) in Bonn on behalf of CCELS.
Dr Ian Kenway attends the second meeting of the Interfaith Legal Advisers Network on behalf of CCELS at the Centre for Law and Religion.
April 2008
Dr Ian Kenway is a participant at the second two-day Symposium of the Religion and Autism Spectrum Conditions Network at Cardiff School for Religious and Theological Studies (the earlier Symposium took place at Aberdeen University – see below). It was agreed at Symposium that participants should formalise their future activities as ASPARRG (Autism Spectrum People and Religion Research Group).
March 2008
Dr Ian Kenway attends the launch of BAHAR (Research Group for Body, Health and Religion) at the School of Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University. His involvement with the Group will reflect his work with CCELS (including links with the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare) and his long-standing personal interest in the body qua (i) epistemology (ii) issues relating to virtuality and communication in cyberspace.
December 2007
The CISCHR website gets a new 'minimalist' makeover.
Dr Ian Kenway contributes to a two-day Symposium Religion and Autism Spectrum Conditions Network, with particular reference to the Internet, on behalf of CISCHR, at the Centre for Health, Disability and Spirituality at the University of Aberdeen.
Dr Ian Kenway attends the inaugural meeting of the Interfaith Legal Advisers Network on behalf of CCELS at the Centre for Law and Religion.
September 2007
CISCHR re-locates to Cwmdu (near Crickhowell) in the Brecon Beacons
August 2007
Dr Ian Kenway attends the 21st European Conference on Philosophy and Health Care on behalf of CCELS. The title of the Conference was “Ethics, Philosophy and Public Health”.
Dr Ian Kenway is appointed for a further three years as Honorary Research Fellow in Ethics and ICT at Cardiff University.
April 2007
CISCHR is represented at the ‘Best Interests’ Workshop at Cardiff Law School.
March 2007
Dr Ian Kenway, Director of CISCHR, is appointed Network Facilitator of the international Human Stem Cells Ethics Network (HSCEN).
October 2006
Dr Ian Kenway is appointed the new Co-ordinator of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society (CCELS).
May 2006
CISCHR is represented at a conference on “The Meanings of Genetics: Science and the Concepts of Personhood” sponsored by Cardiff University and Health Care Analysis journal. The conference brought together speakers from different humanities and social science disciplines “to explore the impact of genetic research on the concept of being human”.
March 2006
CISCHR contributes to CCELS’s “Issue of the Month” with article “Could Do Better? — Hegemony and Freedom in Cyberspace”.
November 2005
Dr Ian Kenway joins the research group on Robust Digital Watermarking at Cardiff University.
World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis (WSIS).
October 2005
CISCHR becomes a signatory of the Joint Declaration on Data Retention.
August 2005
Publication of Ethics, Law and Society Vol.1 (Ashgate, 2005) which includes two contributions on behalf of the Centre.
June 2005
Backgound Report of the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance published.
March 2005
Dr Ian Kenway presents a paper entitled “Whose Information Is It Anyway? Security and Trust in Cyberspace” at the Annual General Meeting of CADFAN (see below).
January 2005
CISCHR collaborates with the Welsh e-Science Centre at Cardiff University in its submission of a response to Making the Connections: Delivering Better Services for Wales, a consultative paper issued by the Welsh Assembly Government.
CISCHR also collaborates with BRASS (see below) in responding to the project ‘Inclusion through innovation: Tackling social exclusion through technologies’ currently being undertaken by the Social Exclusion Unit (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).
July 2004
Dr Ian Kenway is invited to be guest speaker at the Annual General Meeting of CADFAN on 17 March 2005. The speaker at the 2004 AGM was Sir John Houghton, meteorologist and expert on global warming.
June 2004
Dr Ian Kenway is appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Ethics and ICT at Cardiff University by the School of Computer Science (COMSC) and the School of Religious and Theological Studies (RELIG), Cardiff University, following the approval of their respective Boards. The appointment will be for a period of three years, commencing 1 August 2004.
May 2004
Dr Ian Kenway is approached by Palgrave Macmillan to assist it with external reviewing in the area of ethics and ICT.
January 2004
Dr Ian Kenway is invited to participate in March in a “Strategy Scoping Meeting on Information Security” organised by the Royal Society as part of its Science in Society Programme. “The meeting seeks to address the demand for cross cutting intellectual leadership in the area and to develop a strategic response to the opportunities and challenges from advances in information and communication technology.”
January 2004
Observatory for a Sustainable Knowledge based Region - OSKaR
CISCHR is currently collaborating with BRASS (The ESCR Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society at Cardiff University) in the completion of the OSKaR Project: Access to the Knowledge Economy: Bridging the Digital Divide in Wales. “OSKaR is part of the TASK programme – Towards a Sustainable Knowledge Based Region, managed by the National Assembly for Wales. It is one of the projects approved under the European Commission’s Innovative Actions Programme, which aims to stimulate innovative approaches to regional development.”
© CISCHR Updated 4 February, 2012