Category: Interviews

  • How South Korea copes and its impact on care

    Hello all, I am Hee-Kang Kim from Korea University. Here is a short piece of information on how the government of South Korea is coping with the Corona virus and its impact on care. So far, Korea has rather successfully dealt with the Corona virus. Childcare facilities and schools are now suspended, but in the…

  • Spreading the Care: The Call for Global Solidarity

    by Merel Visse and Bob Stake In the course of a few weeks, our response to COVID-19 changed the world as we knew it. Suddenly, we became potential ‘vectors’ and ‘victims’ of the virus. We are forced to make small and large-scale decisions that affect our private and public lives. Hard decisions. Most of them…

  • Liz Newnham

    Liz Newnham

    Interview with Elizabeth Newnham, lecturer in Midwifery at Griffith University, Australia. 1. Where are you working at this moment? Since January this year, I have been working as a lecturer in midwifery at Griffith University. I currently teach in the Masters in Primary Maternity Care – a postgraduate programme that implements the ‘Framework for Quality…

  • Elena Cologni

    Elena Cologni

    Elena Cologni is an artist whose research practice has had a sustained in(ter)disciplinary approach. After a BA in Fine Art from Accademia di Belle Arti Brera in Milan, and a MA in Sculpture from Bretton Hall College, Leeds University, Cologni was awarded a scholarship for a PhD in Fine Art and Philosophy from University of…

  • Flávia Biroli

    Flávia Biroli

    Interview with Flávia Biroli, Institute of Political Science, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil 1. Where are you working at this moment? I am a professor at the University of Brasília, Institute of Political Science, since 2005. 2. Can you tell us about your research and its relation to care ethics? My focus is on the…

  • Eleonor Faur

    Eleonor Faur

    Interview with Eleonor Faur, IDAES-National University of San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1. Where are you working at this moment? I am a Professor at the Institute for Higher Studies on Social Sciences, National University of San Martín. Buenos Aires, Argentina.  I teach graduated courses on Gender and Care Policies, and on Gender Relations and…

  • Merel Visse

    Merel Visse

    Interview with Merel Visse, PhD, associate professor, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 1. Where are you working at this moment? Currently I work as an associate professor Care Ethics and Policy at the University of Humanistic Studies in The Netherlands. As a scholar and artist, I combine theoretical and practice-based work to inquire…

  • Elena Pulcini

    Elena Pulcini

    Interview with Elena Pulcini, Department of Political and Social Sciences (DSPS), University of Florence, Italy. 1. Where are you working at this moment? I am a full professor of Social philosophy at the Florence University, DSPS. I teach at the Department of Philosophy in Florence. 2. Can you tell us about your research and its relation…

  • Inge van Nistelrooij

    Inge van Nistelrooij

    Interview with Inge van Nistelrooij PhD, assistant professor Care Ethics, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands 1. Where are you working at this moment? I am an assistant professor of Care Ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands. As far as we know, we have the only Master’s degree in care…

  • Carlo Leget

    Carlo Leget

    Interview with prof.dr. Carlo Leget, Chair Care Ethics, University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands. 1. Where are you working at this moment? Since 2012 I am a full professor in Care Ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands. At the same university I hold an endowed chair in Ethical and spiritual…