The Oxford Character Project The Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford has launched a new Ethical Leadership Programme for 400 students from 17 leading global universities. Funded by the Laidlaw Foundation, the programme helps undergraduate students to develop character qualities central to good leadership. This new programme is
Professor James Arthur has spent the past two months working at the Human Flourishing Programme since his appointment as Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University. As part of this appointment, James organised and led, alongside Tom Harrison and Tyler VanderWeele, a prestigious workshop on Character and Flourishing for the leading character
Between 10th and 12th March 2024, the MA Character Education team held a residential in Boston for students based in the United States funded through the Kern Award. More than 70 students and graduates of the MA Character Education joined Jubilee Centre staff in Boston with the generous support of
On 26th – 27th February, the Centre welcomed Dr. Dean Dudley, Director of The King’s School Institute, Australia, and Associate Professor at Macquarie School of Education, Australia. During the visit, Dean met with various colleagues within the Centre to learn more about the Centre’s work, to share his own work
The Jubilee Centre is delighted to have been granted extension funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) to continue the work of the Global Innovations for Character Development (GICD) Platform for an additional 18 months alongside US partners Tufts University and Montclair State University. The GICD Platform has supported
Throughout March 2024, the Jubilee Centre staff presented a series of talks internationally. Below you will find the list of talk titles. Wish to view a complete list of all conferences and events in 2024 so far? Click here March Professor Tom Harrison Professor Kristján Kristjánsson Dr. Liz Gulliford Dr.
The Jubilee Centre team are celebrating the release of the full and executive summary reports for the “NewsWise in Primary Education” project. The project was led by Professor Tom Harrison in collaboration with The National Literacy Trust and The Guardian Foundation and was funded by the Nuffield Foundation. This 40-school
This is issue number 136 of the Jubilee Centres newsletter. We have published a newsletter every month since the Jubilee Centre was founded in 2012. You can see the full list of previous issues here. For the first time this month we have changed the format of the newsletter. The
Professor Kristján Kristjánsson received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH) in Utrecht, Holland, presented on the university’s anniversary on January 29th. A conference on January 30 at the university was related to his work on phronesis in professional contexts. Previous recipients of an Honorary Doctorate from UvH
On the last day of his semester at the Angelicum University in Rome, Professor Arthur was invited by his old friend Sr Raffaella to the Vatican for tea. Sr Raffaela is the Secretary General of the Vatican City State and is the first women ever to hold this important position.