Ethics Untangled

Send us Fan Mail IDEA alumna Georgina speaks to Anna Westin. Anna is a philosopher, artist, and musician. She is a Visiting Lecturer at St Mary’s University Twickenham, and also at LST, Canterbury Christ Church University and Azusa Pacific University.  In this episode, Georgina and Anna discuss Anna’s research into the potential harms of sex work, including physical and psychological harms, and th...

Send us Fan Mail In the fifth and final episode of the third series of the IDEA Pod podcast, IDEA alumna Georgina reflects on the conversations and interviews that have made up the series and considers what she has learned from her exploration into the ethics of sex work in the Covid-19 pandemic.  Released November 2021. Presented by Georgina James. Georgina is a final-year medical student at the...

Send us Fan Mail After a pause in production, our podcast returns to discuss the peculiar moral circumstances that NHS workers have been put through this pandemic. We examine some worries about the role of the media in their portrayal as 'heroes', the 'special type of exploitation' they are subjected to and we expand the discussion to other key workers to raise questions about...

Send us Fan Mail In the first instalment of a two-part episode, we have a special guest, Andrew Dyson, managing partner for DLA Piper's Leeds office. Andrew is also Global Co-Chair of DLA Piper’s Data Protection, Privacy and Security Group, Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Data Protection & Privacy, and Visiting Research Fellow in Applied Ethics at the IDEA Centre. Gabriela and A...

Send us Fan Mail Gabriela continues her discussion with Andrew Dyson, with a particular focus on mobile apps and sensitive data during a pandemic: "These episodes are very interesting because it highlights very clearly how ethical concerns are central to many technological challenges,” explains Gabriela. “We are, more often than not, dealing with ethical decision-making, and this pandemic is...

Send us Fan Mail The discussion of this episode is inspired by the book Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships by Brian D Earp and Julian Savulescu (January 2020), Stanford University Press. As a guest for this episode, we talk to Postgraduate Researcher Sophie Goddard. Her research is focused on the philosophy of love, particularly on the sacrifices we make in loving relationships. Soph...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk to Rebecca Schorsch, lecturer at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Her experience has taken her to teach master classes at different universities around the world, including the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.  Here we explore some of the philosophical insights that can be found in the performing arts, establis...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a discussion with Dr David Molyneux, medical doctor, medical ethics tutor and current postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. In this episode we introduce the thought experiment of the trolley problem and the doctrine of double effect to discuss three cases of 'real trolley problems' we have seen in the Covid-19 pandemic. We explore the issues of...