Charter

What is its purpose? The broad purpose of the AAPAE is to encourage awareness of applied ethics as a significant area of concern, and to foster discussion of issues in applied ethics. It provides a meeting point for practitioners from various fields together with academics with specialist expertise. It welcomes everyone who wants or needs to think and talk about applied or professional ethics. The AAPAE also attempts to foster connections with special interest groups. The AAPAE does not endorse or support any particular viewpoint, but rather aims to promote a climate in which different and differing views, concerns, and approaches can be expressed and discussed.

The formal aims of the AAPAE, as stated in its constitution, are -

• To facilitate networking between individuals and institutions working or interested in the area of professional and applied ethics.
• To foster community discussion of issues related to professional and applied ethics.
• To encourage a focus on the teaching of professional and applied ethics.
• To facilitate the organisation of conferences, meetings and other events in order to fulfil the above aims.
• To develop and distribute publications, including a newsletter and conference proceedings.

 Rationale

Why an association? Ethics has had a high profile in Australia over the last decade. There is now a growing recognition of applied ethics as a multidisciplinary field, encompassing a wide variety of disparate areas, investigation of which has an important role to play in public, academic and professional life.

 Organisation

How is the AAPAE run? The AAPAE is an incorporated body administered by an executive committee under a constitution. In addition, a Conference Committee is appointed to organise an annual conference. The AAPAE aims to have office bearers from throughout Australia.

 History

The Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) grew out of a conference on Teaching Applied Ethics held in Sydney in 1992.Academics and professionals from many different backgrounds met together, found a great deal of common ground, profited from their interchanges, and were eager to meet again on a regular basis. The next step was to form an association which could bring together people normally separated by traditional discipline boundaries. Hence the formation in 1993 of the AAPAE, a non-partisan, non-profit national umbrella organisation for all those concerned with applied ethics in its many forms.

 Executive Committee

The members of the 2008-2009 Executive Committee of the AAPAE are:

  President:

Michael Schwartz
School of Economics, Finance & Marketing
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
GPO Box 2476 V
Phone: (03) 9925-5515
Fax: (03) 9925-5986
Email: michael.schwartz@rmit.edu.au

Profile: Michael is an associate professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His research in business ethics has appeared in the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Australian Journal of Social Issues, Australian Journal of Professional & Applied Ethics and Business Ethics: A European Review. He is a member of the editorial board of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations.

  Vice-President:

Betty Chaar
Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006
Phone: (02) 9036-7101
Fax: (02) 9036-7097
Email: betty@pharm.usyd.edu.au

Profile: Betty is a lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney with a special interest in professional ethics in pharmacy. Her career before academia was in clinical/geriatric pharmacy at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital; community pharmacy proprietor and the pharmaceutical industry. Betty is an active member of the Pharmacy Board of NSW Peer Review Panel, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Post Graduate Committee (PGTC), the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) and the Pharmacy Law and Ethics Association of UK (PLEA).She has ongoing research in moral reasoning, professional ethics and education of applied ethics in health care in general and pharmacy in particular.

  Secretary:

Peter Bowden

Research Associate
Department of Philosophy
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006
Phone: 0418 166 577
Email: peter_bowden@usyd.edu.au

Profile: Peter's career expertise is in institutional analysis and strengthening. Formerly Professor of Administrative Studies at the University of Manchester, he has worked for and consulted to a number of major organisations, including the World Bank and the United Nations, as well as the governments of several countries, including Australia. His work interests over recent years, in both theory and practice, have been concerned with the institutional implications of moral behaviour in different organisational environments.

  Treasurer:

Kay Plummer
School of Accounting
Charles Sturt University, Bathurst Campus
Phone: (02) 6338-4447
Fax: (02) 6338-4649
Email: kplummer@csu.edu.au

Profile: Kay is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Charles Sturt University. Before joining CSU, Kay lectured in financial accounting and auditing for six years at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has held senior positions in TAFE NSW, worked for the Corporate Affairs Commission and audited for a Big 4 Chartered Accounting firm. Kay has worked in an honorary for a number of charitable organisations and has undertaken two volunteer assignments with the Austrailan Executive Overseas Program.

  Newsletter Editor:

Hugh Breakey
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and the Classics
University of Queensland
Phone: (07) 5427-0420
Email: h.breakey@uq.edu.au

Profile: Hugh has lectured in philosophy, ethics and political justice at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. He is currently completing his PhD in political philosophy on the application of Natural Rights to Intellectual Property. He has forthcoming publications is The Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophy, Politics and Economics; and Utilitas.

  Committee Members:

Stephen Cohen
School of History & Philosophy
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052
Phone: (02) 9385 2320
Email: s.cohen@unsw.edu.au

Profile: Stephen is a Past President of the AAPAE. He is in the School of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, where he directs the University's Graduate Programs in Professional Ethics. Aside from his academic work, Stephen consults to businesses, professional bodies, public sector organisations, and peak bodies in matters of ethics and development and maintenance of ethical systems. His recent work includes The Nature of Moral Reasoning: The Framework and Activities of Ethical Deliberation, Argument and Decision-Making (2004), and Business Ethics: Problems and Cases, 3rd edition (co-authored with Damian Grace) (2005).

Judith Kennedy
Visiting Fellow
School of History & Philosophy
University of New South Wales
Phone: (02) 9977-8265
Fax:: (02) 9977-4426
Email: drmkenn@ozemail.com.au

Profile: Judith holds a PhD in Professional Ethics and MA in Ethics in Health Care. She is a consulting psychologist in Manly, NSW and a Visiting Fellow, School of History & Philosophy, UNSW. Her particular interest is problematic treatment behaviour. She is also a RN

Julian Lamont

Email:

Profile:


Jolyon Sykes
PhD candidate
Faculty of Communication and International Studies
University of Canberra
Phone: (02) 4268-2253
Mobile: 0427 681 434
Email: jolyonsykes@bigpond.com
Mail: PO Box 5, Thirroul, NSW 2515

Profile: After qualifying and practising as an electrical engineer, Jolyon started writing for special interest magazines, leading to his becoming manager of a small magazine publisher, journalist and magazine editor. He has also worked as a freelancer and a volunteer journalist in community radio. He became interested in professional standards of journalism and completed a Master of Journalism, leading to a series of research projects aimed at identifying problems and improving journalism practice. His PhD dissertation, which he hopes to complete in early 2009, is "An investigation of ethical journalism in the context of disaster coverage and the implications for professionalism".

  Conference Convenor 2009:

Dr. Anna Corbo Crehan
Lecturer, Policing Studies (Ethics)
School of Policing Studies
Charles Sturt University
(Correspondence: Locked Bag 2005)
Goulburn, NSW 2580
Phone: (02) 4828-8954
Fax: (02) 4828-8786
Email: acorbocrehan@csu.edu.au

Profile : Anna Corbo Crehan is a lecturer with Charles Sturt University, based in the School of Policing Studies. She teaches professional ethics to police and people studying to become police. She is a philosopher by trade, and researches in the areas of compensatory justice and Aboriginal people, police ethics, professional boundaries and policing vulnerable people. Anna chairs the Policing-Ethics in Human Research Committee and is a member of her University's Ethics in Human Research Committee. She is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and worked in both of the two applied philosophy centres which merged to form CAPPE.

 Recent & Past Presidents

Members who have served as presidents of the AAPAE are --

  Immediate Past President (2006,2007):

Howard Harris
School of Management
University of South Australia
City West Campus
North Terrace
Adelaide, SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8302-9309
Fax: (08) 8302-0512
Email: howard.harris@unisa.edu.au

Profile: Howard had a career in industry before completing a PhD in applied ethics and joining the staff of the University of South Australia, where he now teaches international management ethics and values in Adelaide, Siingapore and Hong Kong. He has an interest in management virtutes, collaboration and the implementation of new management systems in organisations.

  Past Presidents:

 

Chris Provis (2004, 2005)
John Morgan (2002, 2003)
Bruce Langtry (2000, 2001)
Stephen Cohen (1998, 1999)
Noel Preston (1996, 1997)
Simon Longstaff (1994, 1995)