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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Four members of the Centre have contributed chapters to the new Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development edited by Michael D. Matthews and Richard M. Lerner. Professors Andrew Peterson and Kristján Kristjánsson authored a chapter titled ‘The Philosophical Foundations of Character Virtue Development‘, Emeritus Professor James Arthur