Grateful Britain: Thank You Letter Contest Winners Announced
12th February 2021Awards The Jubilee Centre’s Grateful Britain: Thank You Contest for Schools offered pupils the chance to show gratitude to those who have helped us and others during the period since the UK’s lockdown began in March 2020 by asking pupils to write a thank you letter to someone they believe has made a difference during the pandemic. […]
New Project Launch: ‘Character Education Pedagogies’
12th February 2021Project News The Centre is delighted to announce the launch of the ‘Character Education Pedagogies’ project. This project explores the Centre’s extensive range of research projects and practical character education offerings to examine which character education pedagogies work, where they are best located and what contributes to their effectiveness. The research team will consult with practitioners across […]
Call for Papers for 10th Anniversary Conference Now Open
12th February 2021Conference The call for papers for the Centre’s 10th annual conference, ‘Integrating Research on Character and Virtues: 10 Years of Impact’, is now open. In addition to celebrating the first decade of work in the Jubilee Centre and taking stock of the impact that it has had, the main aim of this conference […]
Centre Hosts Expert Police Ethics Webinar
12th February 2021Events As part of the recently launched project on the role of character and virtues in policing, the Centre hosted a police ethics webinar, ‘The Complexities of Police Ethics in the 21st Century: Is There a Role for Moral Character?’, on the 20th January 2021 with experts in the fields of policing, policing […]
New Poll Reveals Challenges to Moral Character in Present-Day Policing in the UK
12th February 2021Polling As part of the ongoing research project, ‘Virtues in Policing’, the Centre commissioned a poll of 406 police officers, conducted by Portland Communications in January 2021. The poll offers a snapshot of the moral challenges that police officers in the UK currently face. A full analysis of the poll is available here.
Centre Publishes ‘Statement on Character and the Pandemic’
26th March 2021Publications Responding to the former Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield’s challenge that we ‘build back better for children’ in the wake of the pandemic, this Statement on Character and the Pandemic offers a reflection on what this could mean from the perspective of character education. The current language used in ministerial exchanges and in […]
Char-egg-ter Matters: Centre Launches new Easter activity set
30th March 2021Parents Resources Ahead of the upcoming school holidays, the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues has created a new Easter activity set. These seven engaging and accessible Easter themed activities, adaptable for children of all ages, offer fun and varied ways to encourage the development of positive virtue traits and reflection as we move into spring, […]
Dr. Tom Harrison Delivers Keynote at ‘Family-Responsive Policies in the Digital Era’ Conference
21st May 2021Events Dr. Tom Harrison recently delivered a keynote address at the 'Family-Responsive Policies in the Digital Era' conference in Poland. The conference, held online and in person on 17th May 2021, explored if and how the state should regulate private use of digital technologies. In his presentation, entitled ‘Sticks, Carrots and/or Character’, Tom […]
‘Character in the Corpus’ blog and resource explore the place of Character in A-Level texts
3rd June 2021Publications This next blog and resource set in the ‘Character in the Corpus’ series considers the notion of ‘character’ in relation to A-Level literary texts. The resource set provides a context for positioning character in relation to a selection of ‘touchstone’ passages, drawn from A-Level set texts. The blog charts the changing nature […]
Character Educator in Focus: Maureen Spelman
8th June 2021Blog This month’s Character Educator in Focus is Maureen Spelman. Maureen currently serves as a Visiting Professor in Educational Leadership and the Coordinator of Character Initiatives at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Supported by the funding of the Kern Family Foundation, Maureen is completing her second year in the Jubilee Centre’s MA Character […]