Stephen Pattison

Dear Professor Foskett,

I am shocked to hear that you are proposing to close the renowned Centre
for Professional Ethics at Keele. This is a very distinctive and
distinguished Centre that focusses on an area of increasing importance in
an age of complexity and change, and I can't help thinking that
this is a short-sighted and ultimately self-wounding move. You have
something in the Centre that few other UK Universities can match and I
very much hope that rather than closing it, you might consider enhancing
it and enabling it to do more work of the kind that it has done in the
past. I know that we are living in hard times with difficult choices to
make, but could I please ask you to think seriously about whether or not
this is a wise move? Nationally, we need this Centre and its academics.

Yours,

Stephen Pattison

Stephen Pattison DLitt
Professor of Religion, Ethics and Practice and HG Wood Professor of Theology
Head
Department of Theology and Religion
University of Birmingham