Good Neighbours in A Good Neighbourhood?
Project Overview The Good Neighbours in a Good Neighbourhood? project sought to discover and nurture a culture of gratitude within a community on an outer estate in East Birmingham. The project explored what people in the community were grateful for across different domains of gratitude, for example ‘places’. The project employed a variety of creative interventions with […]
Virtuous Character for the Practice of Law
Project Overview The Virtuous Character for the Practice of Law research report was launched by Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, on Tuesday 25th November 2014, at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The project was designed to deepen understanding of the place of virtues and values in initial education, training and subsequent professional practice […]
Soldiers of Character
Project Overview The Soldiers of Character research report was published on 3rd October 2018 and launched at the Royal United Services Institute, London. Complementing work by the Jubilee Centre about virtues in professional practice and public service, this report presents the findings of a rare empirical study of over 240 junior British Army officers from twelve branches […]
Parent-Teacher Partnerships
Project Overview An Evaluation of a Workshop for Parents and Teachers on Character Education The aim of the research presented in An Evaluation of a Workshop for Parents and Teachers on Character Education report was to explore how parents and teachers can effectively collaborate on character education and to give an account of the development, pilot and […]
Virtue, Practical Wisdom & Professional Education
Project Overview The Virtue, Practical Wisdom and Professional Education research report was published on 8th December 2017. The report describes the methods employed in developing, implementing, and piloting a new online intervention, entitled Character in the Professions, which was designed to introduce the concepts of character, virtue, and practical wisdom (phronesis) to student lawyers, doctors, and teachers, to […]
Integrating Practical Wisdom
Project Overview The Integrating Practical Wisdom in the Professions project re-examined the wealth of data collected by previous Jubilee Centre research into the role of character and virtue in pre- and in-service professional practice and sought to make new recommendations which build upon those set out in previous reports, as well as collect new data. Bringing together the existing […]
Religious Education Teachers
Project Overview On the 18th November 2019, the Jubilee Centre published Religious Education Teachers and Character: Personal Beliefs and Professional Approaches. The aim of the research was to explore Religious Education (RE) teacher’s worldviews and their approaches to promoting pupils’ character growth in RE. The first, qualitative phase of the study was inspired by the narrative identity […]
My Character
Project Overview This report presents the findings of the My Character Feasibility Study which ran from May 2011 to April 2014 and involved over 1000 young people from across the UK. The aim of the study was to develop a better understanding of how interventions designed to develop character might enhance moral formation and future-mindedness in young […]
Knightly Virtues
Project Overview The Knightly Virtues programme was inspired by the idea that stories of literary significance might be used in primary schools for teaching and learning about qualities of virtuous character. Devised by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, the programme was designed for 9 to 11 year olds and drew on selected classic stories to […]
Character Education in UK Schools
Project Overview The Character Education in UK Schools report was launched by Professor Sir Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, on Friday 27th February 2015 at the City of Birmingham Council House. The research project described in this report is one of the most extensive studies of character education ever undertaken, including over 10,000 students and 255 […]