23rd August 2021Podcast As schools across the country prepare for the new academic year, the Centre’s podcast Conversations on Character welcomes Director of Academies at United learning, Patron of the NCS and Chair of the 2016 Coats review of prison education, Dame Sally Coates. A School leader for over twenty

24th August 2021Resources As part of the ‘Character in the Corpus’ project, this month's blog post and teaching resource focuses on empathy. The blog discusses how empathy is identified, defined and generated within both moral education and literary studies. Using four approaches, 'Defining Empathy', 'Feeling', 'Fellow Feeling' and 'Compassion', the teaching resource aims to demonstrate how empathy

6th September 2021Podcast With pupils and teachers heading back to their classrooms for the 2021/2022 academic year Jubilee Centre podcast Conversations on Character welcomes a major figure in teaching over the last 20 years, Founder of TeachFirst, Chair of the NCS trust, and now CEO of tiney an organisation focused on support and training for early

8th September 2021Events Marking the publication of ‘Understanding Character Education: Approaches, Applications, and Issues’ by the Open University Press in August 2021 and authored by the Jubilee Centre’s Paul Watts, Michael Fullard and Professor Andrew Peterson, the Jubilee Centre hosted a Webinar and launch event on Tuesday 7 September with

13th September 2021Conference Events The Jubilee Centre was delighted to welcome back delegates and friends from around the world to its delayed 9th annual conference, ‘Virtues in the Digital World’, which successfully took place from 10th-12th September 2021 at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Keynote presentations, delivered by Professor Shannon Vallor

13th September 2021Blog This month’s Character Educator in Focus is Rebecca Moors, Assistant Headteacher at Woodbrook Vale School in Loughborough. Rebecca, who oversees Personal Development and Character at the school, discusses how Woodbrook Vale practices character education, including an insight into the school’s unique implementation of a mobile app focussed

13th September 2021Publications Dr. Sabena Jameel, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Medical Professionalism at Birmingham Medical School and who completed her doctorate at the Jubilee Centre, together with Professors Andrew Peterson and James Arthur have recently authored Ethics and the Good Doctor: Character in the Professional Domain. The book, published on

14th September 2021Events Civic Virtues Hosted on the 14th September 2021, the third webinar in the Centre's Fostering Personal and Social Virtues series ‘Cultivating Civic Friendship in Education’ featured papers and presentations from: Andrew Peterson, Professor of Character and Citizenship Education and Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham. Nancy E.

22nd November 2021Publications Jinu Varghese, Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Birmingham and registered Adult Nurse, together with Professors Andrew Peterson and James Arthur have recently authored Ethics and the Good Nurse: Character in the Professional Domain. This book, published on 22nd November 2021, represents the third publication in

24th November 2021Academic The Jubilee Centre Affiliate PhD Student Dr. Sabena Jameel has successfully completed her PhD on Enacted Phronesis in General Practitioners (Family Medicine), with supervisors Professor Kristján Kristjánsson, Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre, and Dr. June Jones. Following her PhD viva, her examiners fed back that her