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Date: 3-5 March 2010 (course is fully booked, but you still can registrate for the waitinglist)
The course covers full days, including evenings and lodging on March 3 and 4
Introduction
Background
Researchers in the life sciences generate the knowledge that builds the future of our society and those abroad. Therefore, professional academics should be accountable for their decisions, experimental designs and presentation of results. In this short intensive course, the principles of justification will be illustrated with cases and invited lectures by experts from the fields of ethical committees (DEC) and Developing countries and Food.
Objectives and training forms
The aim is to develop your professional competence to analyze and make accountable decisions on complex ethical issues related to animal sciences.
It is all about your competences (knowledge, skills and attitude), which implies that we work in a small group (max 15 students) during 3 days (including evenings, lodging included) at a remote place. Theoretical and conceptual background is provided and directly applied in group assignments related to your own projects. Discussion and reflection is an important activity during the whole course. Various training forms will be used, for example the way an ethical review committee on animal research works, is simulated by a role play exercise on an actual research protocol.
- To provide a toolbox of ethical instruments to analyze properly moral problems related (to one's own) research in the life sciences.
- To acquire conceptual knowledge of the central concepts in applied philosophy and professional ethics.
- To challenge an ethical reflection on one owns life science specialization and to open it for an impartial and constructive discussion.
- To acquire the necessary skills to handle ethical issues in an accountable manner, as a professional academic beyond one's own inclinations and prejudgments.
General Information
Target Group: PhD students
Group size: 15
Course duration: 3 full days
Language: English
Number of credits: 1.5 ECTS
Teacher: Prof. Tjard de Cocq Buningh, Athena Institute, Faculty of Earth and Life Science, VU, Amsterdam
Location: Stayokay hostel Soest, Bosstratt 16, 3766 AG Soest (10 minuntes walk from the railway station)
Programme
Wednesday March 3: Structures of argument: fallacies, fact&value divide (evening simulation game Animal Experimentation Committee)
Thursday March 4: Structures of ethical argument: consequentialistic & deontological arguments, ethical matrix, reflective equilibrium (evening discussion on science and food problems)
Friday March 5: Ethical assessment of one’s own and one’s other project: ethical evaluation/assessment frames: professional code of conduct, precautionary principle, sustainability, triple P, process & product, virtues, political correctness. Civil society.
Course fee
This course is offered by Wageningen Graduate Schools (WGS)
PhDs of WU* with an approved Education Plan (TSP) of one of the WGS** and postdocs of WU registered at one of the WGS** will pay 225 euro. All others pay 450 euro.
Final cancellation date: 1 February 2010
* or PhDs graduating at WU / participation is possible until one year after the PhD contract has ended
** EPS, CERES, MGS, PE&RC, VLAG, WIAS, WIMEK
The fee includes study and training material and coffee / tea
Registration
To register send an email to Marianne.Bruining@wur.nl specifying:
- Your name:
- Name and address of research group (if applicable internal bode number):
- Name of department:
- Name of your graduate school:
- Working at: Wageningen University // other university or research institute
- Whether you have an approved education plan (TSP) or not:
- Status: PhD student // Post-doc // else
Information
Marianne Bruining (Marianne.Bruining@wur.nl, tel: 0317-483442, Graduate School WIAS)
Kor Oldenbroek (kor.oldenbroek.wur.nl, tel: 0317-480538)