Invited talks and Conference Papers
Paper: Character Education: Cultivating Character in Modern Society. National Symposium for Classical Education 2023, Phoenix, Arizona Feb 22 to 24, 2023.
Keynote: Learning to Own Professional Practice. Conference at Oxford University by Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues, UK, January 2023.
Keynote: Practical Wisdom. Higher Education Convening at Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach, Alabama, on May 12 – 13th, 2022.
Leading a symposium: Sociological Contributions to Moral Education. 48th AME Annual Conference; 17th APNME Conference; Celebrating 50 years of the Journal of Moral Education – Moral Development and Moral Education in Global Transition, Manchester, UK. July 20th – 23rd. Component papers by: Dr Mathew Lee, Harvard University; Dr Daniel Moulin-Stozek and Nomisha Kurian University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 20th – 23rd 2022.
Paper: Movement: A Third Precondition for Human Flourishing? 48th AME Annual Conference; 17th APNME Conference; Celebrating 50 years of the Journal of Moral Education – Moral Development and Moral Education in Global Transition, Manchester, UK. July 20th – 23rd 2022.
Paper: Moral thinking and communication competencies: a comparative study of college students and graduates in Taiwan, the UK and the US. 48th AME Annual Conference; 17th APNME Conference; Celebrating 50 years of the Journal of Moral Education – Moral Development and Moral Education in Global Transition, Manchester, UK. July 20th – 23rd 2022.
Paper: School Superintendents Using Practical Wisdom to Promote Equity in Education. 2022 AERA Annual Meeting, Sand Diego, California and Virtual. April 21-26, 2022
Paper: Developing a measure of friendship based on Aristotle’s tripartite description. 48th AME Annual Conference; 17th APNME Conference; Celebrating 50 years of the Journal of Moral Education – Moral Development and Moral Education in Global Transition, Manchester, UK. July 20th – 23rd 2022.
Poster (accepted): Character Strengths and Sport Participation in Adolescence. Poster session will be presented at the online meeting of American Psychological Association Convention (APA), Aug 2022.
Paper: Putting virtue ethics to work for educational leaders in Alabama – A first year review. Jubilee Center for Character and Virtue Annual Conference at Oxford University, UK, September 2021
Paper: Educational responsibility for developing character – the role of the superintendent American Educational Research Association, online 2021
Poster: A Psychometric Study Regarding the Measure of Sibling Relationships in Childhood and Adulthood. Poster session will be presented at the online meeting of the American Psychological Association Convention, Co-authored, August 2021.
Accepted paper: Putting virtue ethics to work for educational leaders in Alabama – A first year review. Jubilee Center for Character and Virtue Annual Conference at Oxford University, UK, September 2021
Invited Keynote: Scholars in Character with Dr. David Walker Virtual Convening. The Kern Family Foundation, on-line July 28th , 2020
Invited keynote: What Successful Programs Look Like and How They Stay on Track, Why Character Matters, Kern Partners for Character Education and Educational Leadership, Boston, USA 17-19 January, 2020.
Moral Judgement Among Junior British Army Officers, Association of Moral Education Conference, Seattle, USA, 7-10 November 2019.
Assessing Ethical Reasoning Among Junior British Army Officers, APA Annual Convention, Chicago, USA 8-11 August 2019.
Invited talk: A science of Human Morality – Sociological contributions? Moral Science Symposium, University of Miami, USA, 15-16 April 2019.
On my behalf, poster by PhD student Christopher Gill: Assessing Ethical Reasoning Among Junior British Army Officers using the Army Intermediate Concept Measure (AICM), Poster at American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada 5-9 April 2019.
Keynote entitled ‘Soldiers of character’ at launch of the soldiers of character research report, University of Birmingham, UK at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for Defence and Security Issues, London, 3 October 2018.
Invited to moderate: ‘Military/Veteran Think Tank: Emerging Trends in Research’, America’s Warrior Partnership 5th Annual Warrior Community Integration Symposium, 5 – 7 September 2018.
‘Conflicting values and common ground between military professions and wider society – implications for professional moral education’, Asia Pacific Network Moral Education Conference, Taiwan, 26-30 April 2018.
Invited talk: ‘An interdisciplinary approach to the study of moral development: From Army officers to children’s friendships’ at College of Education, University of Alabama, 6 Nov 2017.
‘Developing a measure of ethical reasoning among Junior British Army officers’, Association of Moral Education Conference, St Louis, USA, 2-4 November 2017.
‘Adolescent moral judgement: A study of secondary school students in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland’ at Association of Moral Education Conference, Harvard, USA, 8-11 December 2016.
Invited by Taiwanese government to talk to universities and give keynote conference talk: ‘good friendship as a means of moral development in young children’ at: Educational Innovation in the E Era: From Flipped Classroom to Flipping the Education, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung, Taiwan, 5-14 October 2016.
Visiting Fellow at Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University, Boston, USA, 7- 18 April 2016.
‘Assessing values and standards among junior British Army officers – an inter disciplinary approach’ at the Character in the Professions Interdisciplinary Conference: University of Birmingham, 2-4 June 2016.
‘Cross-cultural responses to the Adolescent Intermediate Concept Measure: An empirical summary of studies in USA, Taiwan, Macedonia and UK’, at American Educational Research Association conference, 8 April 2016.
‘Assessing adolescent’s application of the virtues across multiple cultural contexts: An empirical summary of studies using the Adolescent Intermediate Concepts Measure’ at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, Cultivating Virtues Conference held at the University of Oxford, January 7-10, 2016.
Invited participation at Sodexo quality of life round-table, Brussels, Belgium: ‘Quality of life when autonomy is limited’, April 2015.
Invited as respondent to paper: ‘The Influence of Home & Family in Social Dynamics’, by Dr. Mark Regnerus in the ‘2015 Experts Meeting The Home: A Complex Field’, hosted by Social Trends Institute, London, 2-3 November 2015.
Invited participant workshop at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, USA, ‘Making Caring Count’ on 16 June 2014.
Visiting Fellow, at Alabama University, Educational Psychology, The College of Education 11-25 April 2014.
‘Assessing character strengths among UK school children, aged 14 and 15’ at the conference, Can Virtue Be Measured? at Oriel College, University of Oxford, 9 -11 January 2014.
‘Three perspectives on courage, honesty and self-discipline among UK school students’ at Association of Moral Education, Pasadena, California, USA 6-8 November 2014.
‘Asymmetric warfare: Implications for the character of the British soldier’ at conference, Armed forces and operations in asymmetric warfare environments, Turin, Italy 5-8 February 2015.
Keynote talk titled ‘Good character for life’ to Rainham Mark Grammar school at their sixth form character day 30th June 2014.
Invited attendance: Philosophy of Education Great Britain, Birmingham branch conference on metaethics and moral education, 5- 6 June 2015.
Invited conference talk, ‘Character Education in UK Schools’ at conference, Character Scotland, Glasgow University 15-16 June 2015.
Attended Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Chicago, USA October 2011.
Participant, International Research Symposium on Military Families. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, September 2011.