Big Question: Can the professions be virtuous?
Our research deepens understanding of the place of virtues and values in key professions. To date, the Jubilee Centre has undertaken research in the teaching, law, medicine, nursing, the police, business professions, and the British Army. The research explores the perceived and ideal character strengths of student and experienced professionals and their educators, as well as the levels of virtue-based reasoning applied by participants in response to moral dilemmas.
Recognising that professionals work within institutional, regulatory and disciplinary frameworks, the research explored how these restrict and/or allow space for individual agency.
- The Centre recently published its Framework for Virtue-Based Professional Ethics
- See a summary of our research on the professions here.
- The ‘Bringing Character to Life’ series delivers key messages from the Centre’s previous research on virtues in the professions into an easily accessible handbook for each of the five professions studied.
Resources
Statement on Character, Virtue and Practical Wisdom in Professional Practice
Can the Professions be Virtuous?
In Professions We Trust
The Jubilee Centre for Virtue-Based Professional Ethics
Teaching Phronesis to Aspiring Police Officers
Character Virtues in Policing
Character in the Professions: How Virtue Informs Practice
Repurposing the Professions: The Role of Professional Character
Virtuous Practice in Nursing
Character Virtues in Business and Finance
Virtue, Practical Wisdom and Professional Education
Soldiers of Character
The Good Teacher: Understanding Virtues in Practice
Virtuous Character for the Practice of Law
Virtuous Medical Practice
