News
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 formalize their future activities as 'ASPARRG'.
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.
August 2007
CISCHR will be moving in early September to The Beast House, Cwmdu, Powys.
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”.
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 and the Board of the School of Religious and Theological Studies 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 23 July, 2008