Applied ethics

This class comprises research and experimental development in applied ethics.
Parent Category
Sub-Categories
Bioethics (humans and animals)
Business ethics
Ethics in technology (e.g., digital, artificial intelligence)
Human rights, justice, and ethical issues
Legal ethics
Medical ethics
Professional ethics
Research ethics
Animal ethics
Reproductive health ethics
Ethics and management of personal data
Applied ethics, n.e.c.
 
 
 
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Applied ethics

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Ahmed, Rumee

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Islamic studies; Human rights, justice, and ethical issues; Islam; Muslims; Religion; Law; Theology; ethics; Philosophy

Al-Kassim, Dina

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; English language; Gender, sexuality and education; Human rights, justice, and ethical issues; anti-colonial; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; comparative literature: Arabic, English, French; feminist; Gender Relationship; Identity and Transnationality; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; postcolonial; psychoanalysis; queer theory; sexuality; Subjectivity

E

Edell, Celia

Faculty of Arts

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ethics in technology (e.g., digital, artificial intelligence); ethics; Accountability; Internet

H

Harris, Leila

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Institute for Gender, Race, Sex and Social Justice, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Gender, sexuality and education; Human rights, justice, and ethical issues; Africa; Development Policies; Drinking Water; Environmental justice; equity and social justice; Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice; Fresh Water; Gender Relationship; gender and social difference; Ghana; International development; participatory resource management; Resources Management; Social Contract and Social Justice; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; South Africa; Turkey and Middle East; Water; water governance; water politics

I

Ichikawa, Jonathan

Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Epistemology; Feminist philosophy; Human rights, justice, and ethical issues; Philosophy of language; Social philosophy; epistemology; ethics; Philosophy of Language; feminist philosophy; ethics of belief; knowledge; skepticism; context-sensitivity; consent; ethics of sex; rape culture
 

Student & Alumni Stories in Applied ethics

Bri Watson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Expanding the catalog: renaming and redescribing indigenous, Black, Queer, Disabled and communities of color in Galleries, Libraries, Achieves, Museums, and Special Collections (GLAMS)

Michelle Kaczmarek

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Fixing for Change: Stories of Information and Aspiration in Community Repair Initiatives

Erika Gavenus

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Interrogating Crown-imposed governance of First Nations’ fisheries through the lens of food justice

Roshni Mangar

Student

Master of Science in Oceans and Fisheries (MSc)

Understanding the fishers to change the fishery: who is involved in bottom trawl fisheries in Asia, and why?

Rivkah Gardner-Frolick

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)

Quantitative evaluation of local air pollution in collaboration with the Strathcona community to inform environmental injustice concerns.

Addye Susnick

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)

Trans Joy and Trans-Formative Justice: Imagining and Enacting Radical Futures

Jessica Koski

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Implementation of Indigenous rights to lands & resources

Oluwaseun Ajaja

Alumni

LLM - Master of Laws (LLM)

Deliberative democracy and problems of democratic governance in Nigeria

Jennie Pearson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Building "Communities of care" under sex work criminalization and beyond: exploring how digital mutual aid supports the health, safety and wellbeing of sex workers in Vancouver, Canada

Paula Pinzón Hernández

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences (PhD)

Reducing women’s mortality through knowledge translation: closing the gaps between abortion care and public policy.
 
 
 
 
French Name
Éthique appliquée
French Description
Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en éthique appliquée.
 
 

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