J.J. (Jos) Kole - PhD moral philosophy

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At present, I am a research fellow in professional ethics and moral philosophy at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University (in the Netherlands). From 1 February 2012, I will be working as senior lecturer professional ethics at the CHE (Christian University of Applied Sciences). Earlier, I worked as postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Psychology and Education (Department Theory and Research in Education) at the VU University Amsterdam.
Apart from my work in higher education and research, I am also member of the Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles (RSJ).

I studied both philosophy and theology (MA) and wrote a Ph.D. thesis on meta-ethics (Frankena, theory of justification - relation morality-religion). Since August 2005 I concentrate on professionalism & ethics. Most of the time, professional ethics is linked to a specific profession. Yet, my aim is to develop more general, relevant professional-ethical insights by comparative moral philosophical analysis and research.
Interprofessional ethics and professional ethics in youth care are some of my special interests. My current research project focuses on the ethics of interprofessional youth care.

I am Dutch and live in The Netherlands.

Work: publications and activities

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Most recently:

November 2011, publication of Dutch article, co-written with Thijs Jansen and Gabriël van den Brink about professional honour and a new governance-philosophy
October 2011, publication of English article in liber amicorum for Jan Steutel, titled "Teaching moral competence to pre-professionals. A blessing or a curse?" September 30, 2011
paper presentation Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference 2011
invited lecture Brussel on professonal ethics, April 7, 2011
paper and poster presentation 7th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation
recently published: an article concerning professional ethics with respect to detection and report of child abuse (in Dutch)
recently published: argumentation mindmap on obligatory report of child abuse by professionals (in Dutch)

Upcoming:

book with expertinterviews on professional ethics with respect to detection and report of child abuse (December 2011)
article on the relation between professional ethics and disciplinary law (December 2011).

Awards, grants etcera.

2010 ZonMW Research grant € 100.000 for professional ethical research after interprofessional cooperation in youth care

2003 Award Legatum Stolpianum, Leiden University (the Netherlands) - 1st price for best Dutch Ph.D. thesis on moral philosophy of philosophy of religion

2002 PhD. cum laude

1995 Award The Radboud Foundation (nowadays Thomas More foundation) - 1st price in National Dutch contest on Best Ma-thesis on religion-morality-meaning of life (17-11-1995)

1995 MA theology (moral philosophy) cum laude

Short CV

born in 1968, married with Anna Walsma, with three children

study philosophy 1989-1995

study theology, MA 1995

Ph.D. 22 february 2002

extended CV here