KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Stuart Derbyshire (Psychology, Birmingham): “The difficulty of locating the beginnings of pain”.

David Bain (Philosophy, Glasgow): “Pain and Imperatives”

CALL FOR PAPERS

If you are a postgraduate (taught or research) student working on pain, you are invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the workshop.

Deadline is 30th April. A contribution to travel expenses is available for selected graduate speakers, thanks to the support of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Details here: http://www.ptr.bham.ac.uk/news/events/pain.shtml

The Centre for Professional Ethics & the School of Law at Keele University would like to invite you to attend their postgraduate taught courses open day on the 31^st of March – between 4:30 pm and 7:00 pm at the Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University.

Update: Details of the event can be found here:  http://www.keele.ac.uk/hss/twilight/

And an RSVP form can be found here:  http://www.keele.ac.uk/hss/twilight/invitationform/

Keele’s Centre for Professional Ethics (also known as PEAK – Professional Ethics at Keele) is amongst the largest and most successful providers of postgraduate ethics courses in Europe, with over 200 postgraduate students, eight permanent academic staff, and a portfolio of five distinctive MA / PgDip programmes as well as the UK’s first Professional Doctorate in Medical Ethics

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University of Manchester

The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy at the University of Manchester has places available on its MA and Intercalated MSc in Health Care Ethics & Law programmes for the academic year 2010-11; further details can be found via the link at www.law.manchester.ac.uk/csep.

There will be an open event on the 3rd March; prospective students are invited to come along from 1 o’clock to meet the team, and to attend and participate in our weekly Senior Seminar from 2 o’clock.

For further information about the MSc, or the event, contact the Programme Director, Iain Brassington, via iain.brassington@manchester.ac.uk; for information about the MA, contact Charles Erin, via charles.a.erin@manchester.ac.uk.

More than £300,000 funding is available for postgraduate studentships in the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI) and Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP) at The University of Manchester.

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Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences

Eindhoven, (Noord-Brabant), 40 hours per week

Job description
The PhD student is expected to do both supervised and unsupervised research, write a PhD thesis and research papers on ethical issues regarding modeling and to participate in activities of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. A small part of the studentship may involve teaching in courses offered by the section.

Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate

• Your prior studies and current interests prepare you to do research on and write a thesis on ethical issues related to modelling in the engineering sciences.
• In particular, you have a Master degree in philosophy, with a proven interest in ethics and technology, or a Master degree in engineering science, with a proven interest in ethical issues. Prior knowledge of modelling techniques in engineering sciences is a strong recommendation.
• You aspire to further academic development, you possess excellent analytical skills and you know how to make contact outside your immediate working environment.
• You must have sufficient knowledge of the English language, proved by an IELTS certificate with a minimum score of 7. Knowledge of Dutch is not (initially) required.

More details here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/XE863/PhD_Ethics_and_Technology_Ethical_Aspects_of_Modelling_in_Engineering/