Professor Bert Gordijn

Chair of Ethics and Director of the Institute of Ethics at Dublin City University
Tel: 700 6140
Room: C147

Bert Gordijn studied Philosophy and History at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), Strasbourg (France) and Freiburg in Breisgau (Germany). In 1995 he was awarded a doctorate in Philosophy; in 2003 he received a doctorate in Bioethics. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Lancaster University (UK), the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University (USA) and the Fondation Brocher (Switzerland). Bert is Editor-in-Chief of a book series, "The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology" (published by Springer), as well as two peer reviewed journals, "Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy" (also published by Springer) and "Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology" (published by Berkeley Electronic Press). Bert has an extensive record of peer reviewed publications and international lectures. He has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Patent Organisation, the External Science Advisory Panel to the Long-Range Research Initiative of the European Chemical Industry Council and has served on the UNESCO expert committee on ethics and nanotechnology.  Professor Gordijn is also Secretary of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Heathcare which was founded in 1987 with a view to the growing need for critical reflection on the role of medicine and health care in our present society. He specialises in Applied Ethics.

Dr. Simone de Colle

Lecturer in Business Ethics
Tel: 700 5145
Room: C145

Simone de Colle has over fifteen years of experience in research, teaching and consultancy in the field of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He has a variety of academic and professional experience, having worked in university based research centers in Europe and in the US as well as a free-lance researcher and teacher and as professional consultant at KPMG in London. His research interests focus on stakeholder theory, bounded rationality and decision-making and on the practice of social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting (SEAAR). He has taught courses of Business Ethics, SEAAR and Corporate Social Responsibility in various universities in Italy (LIUC-Castellanza, Milano, Verona, Trento), France (ISEG-Paris), Switzerland (University of Geneva) and in the United States (University of Virginia). Simone is a co-author of Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art with Ed Freeman et al. (2010, Cambridge University Press), author of several publications in business ethics journals and book chapters, and has presented at various international events, such as the EBEN-European Business Ethics Network and the SBE-Society for Business Ethics annual conferences. He served as Council Member of the Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility, London, and as expert member of the Working Group on Social Responsibility of ISO, the International Standards Organization, contributing to the drafting of ISO 26000. He graduated in Political Science with specialization in Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy, holds a Masters degree in Rational Choice and Business Ethics from Politeia, Milan, and a PhD in Management and Business Ethics from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia (dissertation title: "Bounded Business Ethics: An interdisciplinary enquiry on the sources of Organizational Ethical Failures").

Dr. Fiachra O'Brolchain

Postdoc researcher in Applied Ethics
Tel: 700 6571
Room: C147B

Fiachra obtained a BA in Philosophy and English from University College Dublin. Following this, he completed a Masters in Film Studies in UCD. After working in an academic publishing company, he obtained his doctorate from the school of Politics, International Studies, and Philosophy Queens University Belfast in 2009. He wrote his thesis on the patenting of biotechnological products (GM crops) in order to analyse issues of justice in relation to patenting, technology, international trade, and the environment. He has been lecturing History of Ideas and Philosophy of Science in DCU. He is currently working on various aspects of applied ethics, including the ethical and social implications of virtual reality and social networking in association with the EU's Reverie Project, and the ethical implications of human enhancement technologies.

Dr Patrick Brereton

Senior Lecturer, School of Communications

Dr Patrick Brereton is the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at Dublin City University. His books include Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema (2005); Continuum Guide to Media Education (2001) and the Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema (2007) with Roddy Flynn. He has just completed a book titled ‘Smart Cinema: DVD add-ons and new Audience Pleasures’ for Palgrave, reflecting the need to appreciate cinema within the context of new modes of consumption. He has several other book chapters and publications across a wide range of journals on various aspects of film and media culture and remains committed to developing cross disciplinary links. In particular he has developed Environmental Ethics through teaching a new module on the Masters in Ethics and is working on a research project with colleagues across the Faculty around Teaching Ethics using Film and Literature.

Prof. Steven Knowlton

Professor, School of Communications

Steven Knowlton is an American-born journalist and academic. He spent more than 15 years as a newspaper reporter, photographer and editor before earning an M.A. and then a Ph.D. in history, both studies on 19th century Irish journalism. He has taught journalism practical and theoretical modules at universities in the U.S., Ireland, Romania, Moldova and Estonia and currently has ongoing projects involving six countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He has written or edited six books, mostly on journalism ethics. He has been University Professor of Journalism at DCU since 2007.

Dr. Dónal O'Mathúna

Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing

Dr Dónal O'Mathúna is Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Decision-Making and Evidence in the School of Nursing at Dublin City University. His has post-graduate degrees in pharmacy and in bioethics. He is a Visiting Fellow at the UK Cochrane Centre in Oxford and the Chair of the Academy of Fellows at the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity in Chicago. His research interests focus on issues of personhood, human dignity and moral reasoning. The latter has led to interest in the role of emotions in ethics, and the use of narratives and popular media in teaching ethics. He has examined these issues in the context of healthcare, nanotechnology, stem cell research and diagnostics. He is also interested in the role of Christian faith and spirituality in ethics. He writes a weekly column for the Irish Times examining issues of evidence and ethics with popular herbal remedies.

Dr. Adam McAuley

Lecturer, School of Law and Government
Tel: 7005822
Room: C223 

Dr Adam McAuley is a law lecturer at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City university.  He has a Masters in European Law and is a qualified barrister. His research interests include medical law and has  worked with ethicists from the Nursing School and Institute of Ethics. Dr McAuley was visiting scholar at the Centre for Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at Boston University. Dr McAuley is currently working on the rights of prisoners to health under the European Convention on Human Rights.