Conferences - Mr Brown

Character education and basic psychological needs

30/07/2025 / Conferences / Basic psychological needs, Character education, Flourishing, Internalisation, Self-Determination Theory, Virtue ethics

Below you’ll find one of two abstracts submitted to the Jubilee Centre’s 2026 annual conference. You can find the other abstract here. Neither were accepted. In the abstract, I propose mapping the Jubilee Centre‘s three strategies of character “caught”, “taught”, and “sought” onto Self-Determination Theory’s (SDT) three basic psychologcal needs: relatedness, competence, and autonomy. Specifically, […]

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A method for evaluating character education interventions

30/07/2025 / Conferences, MA work / Character education, Extrinsic rewards, Intrinsic motivation, Research methods, Virtue ethics

Below you’ll find one of two abstracts submitted to the Jubilee Centre’s 2026 annual conference. You can find the other abstract here. Neither were accepted. The abstract reports on my MA dissertation study, which attempted to test the lure hypothesis in a school setting. The lure hypothesis, recall, suggests that rewards can be used to

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The character gap

01/06/2025 / Conferences, PhD work / Character education, Equity, Inequality, Internalisation, Research methods, Self-Determination Theory, Virtue ethics

Below you’ll find an abstract that I submitted for presentation at the Association for Moral Education’s 2025 annual conference. It didn’t really fit with the conference theme, but it was accepted for a poster presentation. I will include the poster below once I have made it. I submitted the same abstract for the European Character

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Phronesis and the gappiness problem

01/06/2025 / Conferences / Phronesis, Psychology

Below you’ll find one of two abstracts submitted for presentation at the Phronesis in Theory and Practice conference at the University of Gdańsk. Both were accepted. I chose to present this one, as it drew explicitly on my proposed PhD research. This abstract essentially offers a critical book review. In Phronesis: Retrieving Practical Wisdom in Psychology, Philosophy, and

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Phronesis and virtue internalisation

01/06/2025 / Conferences, PhD work / Character education, Flourishing, Internalisation, Paradox of moral education, Phronesis, Psychology, Self-Determination Theory, Virtue ethics

Below you’ll find one of two abstracts submitted for presentation at the Phronesis in Theory and Practice conference at the University of Gdańsk. Both were accepted. I chose to present this one, as it drew explicitly on my proposed PhD research. You can find my presentation slides below, too. (You can read the other accepted

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Cultivating radical hope

31/05/2025 / Conferences / Climate change, Hope, Phronesis, Research methods, Stories, Tolkien, Virtue ethics

Below you’ll find one of three abstracts submitted for presentation at the Society for Educational Studies 2024 annual conference in Oxford. All three were accepted. I chose to present this one, as it aligned most closely with my current line of research. You can find the other accepted abstract here. The same abstracts were submitted for the Jubilee Centre’s 2025

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The corruption claim

31/05/2025 / Conferences / Intrinsic motivation, Sex education, Virtue ethics

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Rewards and justice

31/05/2025 / Conferences, MA work / Character education, Dialogue, Extrinsic rewards, Intrinsic motivation, Justice, Psychology, Self-Determination Theory, Virtue ethics

Below you’ll find an abstract based on the sixth essay I wrote for my MA in Character Education (2022-25). The abstract was accepted for presentation at the European Character and Virtue Association’s (ECVA) 2024 annual conference in Rome. Alas, due to teaching commitments, I was unable to attend. However, I later submitted it as one

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Ideal leaders as collective phronimoi

31/05/2025 / Conferences / Leadership, Phronesis, Virtue ethics

Below you’ll find the first abstract that I submitted for presentation at a conference – the Jubilee Centre’s 2024 annual conference on the theme of leadership. The abstract was shortlisted, though ultimately not accepted. Still, I consider that a good result for a first attempt! A phronimos is someone who possesses phronesis or “practical wisdom”

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