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	Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics, Cambridge, UK
	© 2001-2002

Activities
The primary function of Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics, Cambridge, is quality research. The Centre has developed its own unique lateral methodology across a number of disciplines to research complex ethical, social and environmental issues. By this method, the Centre has created a databank and a unique body of knowledge. One of the Centre's published books (Espionage & Secrecy) won a prize in the USA in 1991 for its outstanding scholarship (see the Centre's publications www.ethicspress.com)

The Centre also disseminates its research knowledge by the following means:

Teaching/E Learning
The Centre has originated 5 courses on the ethics subjects listed on the home page for e-learning by academics, businessmen, professionals and others who wish to gain qualifications in these subjects. The Centre is accrediting these courses by providing a Certificate and Diploma from 2003.

Please apply for further details to the Centre

Courses can also be tailor made for particular organisations and countries if required.

Project Analysis
The Centre has undertaken a number of projects for external bodies including an analysis of pressures facing chartered accountants in business for the London Society of Chartered Accountants and a series of Research Reports for a leading Spanish bank.

Conferences in Cambridge & London
Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics has held 7 international Conferences in Cambridge since 1988 and 1 in London during 2001, attended by academics, government leaders, and top businessmen.

Seminars
The Centre has hosted 2 major Seminars in Cambridge since 1995 for delegations from the People's Republic of China and also sent a representative to Seminars organised by the University of Guelph, Canada; the British Embassy, Madrid; the Institute of Directors, City of London branch; and The British Council.

Advice/Consultancy
The Centre has given specialist advice to the Cadbury Committee on Corporate Governance; The UK Law Commission; The House of Lords; the UK Committee on Standards in Public Life (then the Nolan Committee); and the US President's Ethics Law Reform Commission among others.

Visitors to Cambridge
Leading Universities, distinguished business executives and government officials have visited the Centre in Cambridge, including from the Body Shop; Bovince Ltd.; Caterpillar Inc. USA; HM Treasury; the UK Cabinet Office; the Hon Malcolm Wilkey of USA and Chile, South America; INSEAD; and the University of Tartu, Ulikool, Estonia.

Delegates from the People's
Republic of China visiting
the Cambridge Center, 1995

Two Centre Associates visiting Cambridge from India, 2001

In addition the Centre has given:

Keynote Addresses and Lectures abroad


	United States Of America, Washington DC November 1994 The Centre's Director addressed a 90 nation international Conference on 'Ethics in Government' hosted by the US Federal Government in 1994.
Washington, DC, 1994


	Australia, Brisbane, Queensland, August 1996 Dr Rosamund Thomas gave a keynote address to an international Conference hosted by the State Government of Queensland in 1996.
Brisbane, 1996


	India and Pakistan, November 1997 In association with the British High Commission, New Delhi, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office London, and the British Council, India, the Centre's Director Dr Thomas undertook an extensive Lecture tour of Universities, public sector bodies and chambers of commerce in India and Pakistan. She also gave an address to the International Bar Association international Conference, New Delhi, 1997, on 'Lessons to be learnt from the Bhopal Disaster and other Industrial Accidents'.
Chandigarh, 1997

Lahore, 1997


	European Commission, Brussels, May 1999 Dr Rosamund Thomas was a keynote speaker to the European Commission Conference on the subject of 'Environmental Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives for the Future'.
European Commission, Brussels, 1999


	Canada, International Political Science Association Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, August 2000 The Centre's Director was elected Co-Chair of the IPSA Research Group RC48. In that capacity Rosamund Thomas chaired sessions and acted as Commentator alongside Professor R D Sharma and Professor F W Riggs. She is also on the Board of the ISPA Research group RC4.
IPSA Conference, Quebec City, 2000


	Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, September 2000 Dr Rosamund Thomas was a speaker at the international Conference on 'Ethics in the Public Sector' attended by the Prime Minister of Canada the Hon. Jean Chrétien. Her paper was published later in the US Journal 'Public Integrity' of the American Society for Public Administration, Summer 2001.
Ottawa, 2000

London May 2001 The Centre collaborated with leading conference organisers in London to run a conference on 'Accountability and Ethics in the Public Sector'.


	Madrid, Spain, October & November 2001 The Centre's Director addressed senior executives and students in Madrid, Spain on 'Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics in Europe' in association with BBVA, ZEIA, the Spanish Railways, Renfe, and the University Complutense, Madrid.
Programme for Madrid Conference, 2001

European Conference, Brussels, November 2001
The Centre's Director participated in a Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, 27-28 November 2001, hosted under the Belgian Presidency of the European Union with the European Commission.

Richard Howitt, MEP, 2001

Book Publications
Books carrying the Centre's work are published by Ethics International Press Ltd. and can be purchased securely online at the Ethics International Press Ltd website: www.ethicspress.com
or through leading booksellers.


Government Ethics Do we uphold ethics in Government by law or by example?	Environmental Ethics How can corporate responsibility and environmental ethics be encouraged?	The British Philosophy of Administration: A Comparison of British and American Ideas 1900 - 1939.
Government Ethics provides the world for the first time with a unique and international body of knowledge on ethics in Government and the public sector. This book contains the views of distinguished experts in Government and academia and includes codes of conduct for Government officials, issues of official secrecy, privacy and military and police ethics. It also discusses conceptual values like 'trust'.	Environmental Ethics relates to 'corporate and social responsibility' by Government, industry, the professions and scientists for the community and the environment. The book focuses on standards, quality, environmental audit and 'best practice', as well as ideals towards which countries can aspire to protect the global environment and implement the Rio Treaties. Environmental Ethics integrates, but extends, the subjects of environmental law and sustainable management.	This 'classic' book records the intellectual and practical developments in British public and business administration for the period 1900 - 1939, compared to American developments. The book has a foundation chapter on 'ethics' showing how UK Quaker companies, like Rowntree and Cadbury, set examples in 'corporate responsibility' in that era, many of which are relevant today. Other chapters cover policy-making, organisational theory and bureaucracy.
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Books carrying the Centre's work are published by Ethics International Press Ltd and can be purchased online at the Ethics International Press Ltd website: www.ethicspress.com

Journal Publications
Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics also publishes its research findings in a range of Journals such as:-


The Journal of Brand Management	European Commission Environmental education and training in Europe	Public Integrity