Ethics Lab expands in response to growing demand for ethics education and real world guidance
“Our priority is growing our capacity so that we can keep saying ‘yes’ when the world comes to us.”
The 2021–2022 academic year brings exciting changes for Ethics Lab. In response to growing enthusiasm and appeals from university and external partners alike, the team is expanding its capacity for innovative ethics education and real world guidance through the addition of two new team members—one Assistant Research Professor in Design & Creative Pedagogy and one Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy.
It’s not just the core team that’s growing, either. Following the successful pilot of a multidisciplinary fellowship program, Ethics Lab is doubling the number of Faculty Fellows and introducing several Visiting Fellows to the mix. Together the Fellows will play a critical role in propelling community, curricular development, and pedagogical experimentation. As Assistant Director Jonathan Healey noted, “Ethics Lab does its best work when we're in deep collaboration with partners from other fields and experiences.”
This year also marks the launch of the Lab’s inaugural Student Fellows program, in which eight undergraduate students will participate in monthly “design jams” with Faculty Fellows and the Ethics Lab team. Student Fellows will work together to imagine, prototype, and play with new ideas for creative ethics-centered learning experiences related to the intersection of technology, ethics, and society. In addition, the Student Fellows will help plan and facilitate student events featuring guests working on related issues through industry, research, advocacy, or policy.
“We have gotten clear indications that the world needs the kind of guidance and ethics education that Ethics Lab delivers,” says Ethics Lab Director Maggie Little. “Our priority is growing our capacity so that we can keep saying ‘yes’ when the world comes to us.”