Environmental Ethics at Work
Ethics are a set of moral principles fundamental to how individuals, organisations – including Universities – and societies operate. This VIP will explore how Universities approach ethics, particularly related to environmental sustainability. The global climate emergency and the University’s new Environmental Strategy and Board make it timely to explore how ethics and environmental sustainability come together within our organisation.
This VIP will evaluate and develop suggestions for our University to better engage with ‘environmental ethics’ in organisational policies and practices by answering the following research questions:
- What can we learn from other organisations (governmental, corporate, higher education) about their approach to environmental ethics?
- How do the University of St Andrews’ ethical procedures currently work, and to what extent to they involve environmental concerns?
- What is an ethical funder, and how does the University of St Andrews’ identify ethical funders?
- How might we, as a University, integrate environmental concerns into existing ethical procedures and practices?
- What are the best methods to evaluate the implementation of new environmental ethics procedures?
- How can the learning from RQ’s 1-5 be shared and useful for other organisations?
Project Supervisor
Dr Louise Reid
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