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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To celebrate the Commonwealth Games Queens Baton Relay passing through Australia</span>, on 22 March there will be an online panel discussion
on the role of character in sport. All are welcome to join, though it is aimed at a general audience. </p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">The event is hosted by <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">the University of Birmingham, and the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Australia</span>.<br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Please note the 9AM start time listed on the link below - where you can register for free - is for Birmingham; the event will be on at 8PM Sydney time. <br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8lmBCROND2uvM9zm9u9yNpM?domain=birmingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/role-of-character-in-sports.aspx</a><br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Any further questions please don't hesitate to contact either myself or Laura<br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Winning at what cost? The role of character in sports<br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To celebrate the Commonwealth Games Queens Baton Relay passing through Australia, hear from a range of experts as they discuss and explore ethical
and moral questions associated with sport. </span>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">This event is co-hosted by the University of Birmingham and the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
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Sport – watching it, participating in it, discussing it – is an incredibly popular pastime. It is also very valuable – not just physically and mentally, but also socially and in economic terms. Elite athletes earn big bucks and gain international profiles.
Our sports heroes are adored and often labelled as role models. This is a lot of pressure to place on individuals who are good at a particular game or succeed in certain competitions. This virtual panel discussion seeks to interrogate the role of sports and
athletes in ethical and moral terms – asking whether character matters when it comes to sport. Is it right that sports people be held to a high moral standard? That we expect them to exhibit virtuous behaviour? And what should we do when they fall short of
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<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Moderator: Dr Laura D’Olimpio</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dr Laura D’Olimpio is Associ</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK and co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Philosophy
in Schools. Her first book, Media and Moral Education: a philosophy of critical engagement (Routledge, 2018) won the 2018 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia’s annual book prize. Her second book, The Necessity of Aesthetic Education is forthcoming
with Bloomsbury and she is currently co-editing Educating Character Through the Arts, forthcoming with Routledge. Laura regularly contributes to The Conversation, and Radio National’s Philosopher’s Zone and The Minefield. Follow her on Twitter @Lauradol4</span></div>
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Prof Andrew Peterson, School of Education, University of Birmingham</div>
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Andrew Peterson is Professor of Character and Citizenship Education and Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. His research focuses on the relationship between character and citizenship education, particularly the nature of civic virtues.
He has published widely in these areas, and is also interested in the role of sport participation and sport coaching in enabling young people to develop and express various aspects of their character – including moral and civic dimensions</div>
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Dr Adam Piovarchy, University of Notre Dame Australia</div>
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Adam Piovarchy is a Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. His research focuses on moral responsibility, the ethics of blame, and how our environment affects our moral decision-making. He completed
his PhD in Philosophy at The University of Sydney in 2020, and also holds a Masters of Bioethics from Monash University.<br>
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Dr Alexandra Consterdine, School of Sports Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham </div>
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Alexandra is currently a lecturer in sports pedagogy at the University of Birmingham and based within the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences. Originally trained as a PE teacher, she has extensive experience of lecturing in Further and Higher
Education in sport science and sport coaching programmes at a number of levels since 1997. After completing an MSc in Exercise and Sport, she began teaching physiology and coaching disciplines at Manchester Metropolitan University. This led to a duel teaching
and research role at MMU, where Alex completed her PhD on power and high-performance athletics in 2020. Her work draws upon poststructuralist and postmodern theory and sensibilities to take a contemporary and critical perspective in (re)conceptualising high-performance
coach-athlete relationship(s). Alex positions herself as a critical sports coaching sociologist, also interested in community sports coaching and the ethics of qualitative research.<br>
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