Episode Topic: Introducing the Ethics at Work Podcast

In this episode, we introduce our new project, a podcast! We share the story of how each of us came to ask how our relationship with work should look, and what it means to live an excellent working life. Walter and Megan are engineers who think deeply about how technology can and should be used to build better habits and connect with others around us. Since Paul is a philosopher, we aren’t scared to dig deep into the philosophies that shape our assumptions.

We tell you how we met over breakfast on campus in the middle of the pandemic. We were all at different transition points in our careers, Walter had just received tenure, Paul was starting a job as a faculty member, and Megan was finishing her Ph.D. We realized we were approaching similar questions about work and technology from our different points of view. We talk about our research into work, technology, and ethics and how this led us to create a series of courses, a public database of resources, and a YouTube channel that we call the Ethics at Work Project.

Featured Speakers: 

• Paul Blaschko, Ph.D., assistant teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame
• Megan Levis, Ph.D., assistant professor of the practice with Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns and with the College of Engineering
• Walter Scheirer, Ph.D., the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame

The Ethics at Work podcast is edited and produced by Nat Todaro and Megan Levis.

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND:  go.nd.edu/29042e.

This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled  Ethics at Work Podcast.

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