Recent Publications (2025)

Please see a below a list of the recent publications from the Jubilee Centre members from 2025. If you are looking for a 2024 publication, please click here. January 2025 Dr Shane McLoughlin has published and article ‘A multi-study paper on the development and validation of the value clarity questionnaire in adults and adolescents’ in […]

The Futures Readiness Careers Programme

The Futures Readiness careers programme, developed by Alex Zarifeh (Arthur Terry Learning Partnership) in collaboration with Shane McLoughlin, is being rolled out to over 11,000 pupils across the multi-academy trust’s 24 schools. Unveiled at Birmingham’s Millennium Point, this ground-breaking initiative equips young people with a preparedness framework of 20 character qualities, skills, attitudes, and values […]

Deputy Director Presents at NECE Festival in Tirana

Andrew Peterson attended and presented at the 2024 Networking European Civic Education Festival in Tirana, Albania. The presentation formed part of a workshop given by the European Civic Education Collaborative Network project, of which the Jubilee Centre is a member. The workshop, titled ‘A deeper vision of community building and democratic engagement’, invited participants to […]

Joint Statement on ‘A Curriculum of for Human Flourishing’ Released

In a joint position statement, the Jubilee Centre, The Human Flourishing Program (Harvard University), and the Association for Character Education (ACE) outline how an explicit focus on flourishing and character education is the key to fulfilling the UK governments ambition of providing all pupils with a broad, rich, and cutting-edge curriculum that fully equips them […]

Integrating Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Character and Wellbeing Education

The Jubilee Centre has commenced a new project, in collaboration with and supported by Wellington College, to integrate philosophical and psychological perspectives on character and wellbeing education. Our vision for the project is to enhance human flourishing by advocating for and informing an integrated approach to character education and wellbeing education. Over the course of […]

Reconsidering the ‘Ten Myths’ about Character Education

Professors Kristján Kristjánsson, Tom Harrison, and Andrew Peterson have co-authored an article, which is available in open access, on reconsidering the ‘Ten Myths about Character’. This is a follow-up and update to an article about the ‘Ten Myths’ by Kristján Kristjánsson first author, which appeared in the same journal in 2013 with almost 23,000 downloads. […]

Jubilee Centre Commences New Project on Forgiveness

The Jubilee Centre has commenced a landscaping review project to identify the means through which findings from the global Discover Forgiveness campaign can best be disseminated to key ‘frontline workers’ of forgiveness. The Campaign, organised and funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF), aims to reach 100 million people by making evidence-based approaches to […]

Michael Fullard Delivers Online Sessions to Two of the UK’s Largest Multi–Academy Trusts

MF Presentation Thumbnail July 2024

During July, Assistant Professor Michael Fullard provided online sessions to school leaders and personal development leads from two of the UK’s largest Multi–Academy Trusts (MATs) – United Learning (90+ schools) and Ark Schools (35+ schools). Within these sessions, Michael introduced character education and provided practical examples of the work of the Jubilee Centre. The Jubilee […]

Jubilee Centre Co-hosts 2nd Annual ECVA Conference

ECVA Conference 2024

The Jubilee Centre helped organise and co-host the second European Character Virtues Association (ECVA) conference on the 26-28th June. The conference was held at the European University of Rome in partnership with the Aretai Centre. Over 100 delegates from across Europe and beyond attended the conference to discuss how character education research and practice might […]

‘Equipping Birmingham to Become a City of Character’ Conference

The Jubilee Centre has been working with Birmingham Education Partnership (BEP) and University College Birmingham (UCB) to curate ‘Equipping Birmingham to Become a City of Character’, a conference for school leaders that seeks to discuss and debate the place of character education in schools in Birmingham and showcase the benefits of developing a rich character […]