Jan Jans

The project investigates in what way the concern of moral theology with the advancement of human dignity is a stimulus for the challenges of intercultural ethics. The project also looks for applications in the area of care and medicine on the one hand and electronic media practice on the other. In both cases the interest for `open questions' is a reason to bring the intercultural dynamics within these practices to the fore.

 Assistant in medical ethics at the faculties of medicine and theology, Catholic University of Leuven, 1985-1990. Assistant professor for moral theology at Tilburg Faculty of Theology since 1991 and since 2006 at Tilburg University. Promotion to associate professor on January 1, 2009. Director of the Centre for Intercultural Ethics between 2006-2010 and director of education at the Department of Religieus Studies and Theology from 2007 until 2012. Since 2002 visiting professor at St. Augustine College of South Africa (Johannesburg). Due to reorganization, loss of appointment since 1 December 2015, but reappointed to the extend of 0.1 fte in the fucntion of Secretary of the Research Ethics Committee while keeping the status of Associate Professor.

Since 1 December 2015, I am no longer teaching courses at Tilburg University with the exception of modules for HOVO (Hoger Onderwijs voor Ouderen - Higher Education for Elderly).

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