Research and Projects

The concept of ‘vocation’ remains an underdeveloped characterological construct within the prevailing literature on character education and professional ethics. While traditionally understood as an individual alignment of moral purpose and professional aspiration, vocation in the modern era is deeply intertwined with the institutional environments in which professionals work.

This interdisciplinary research seeks to advance the discourse by integrating a multiculturally sensitive character education framework with a call for a more nuanced conceptualisation of vocation, drawing on contemporary discussions of organisational culture and Rom Harré’s positioning theory.

Through qualitative interviews with teachers, this project explores how teachers’ self-identification and vocational identity connect with their approaches to character education.

This project, titled 'Well-being and Character Education: Developing a Multiculturally Sensitive Neo-Aristotelian Character Education Framework,' bridges virtue ethics, developmental psychology, social psychology, and educational theories.

This project also draws on empirical data from teachers in the UK, Taiwan, and Slovakia to ground the theoretical framework with rich, localized empirical insights.

This is an extended project originating from my PhD research. In 2025, I was awarded a Slovak Government (SAIA) scholarship to conduct focus group interviews with schoolteachers in Slovakia.

The project is a close collaboration between myself (University of Birmingham, UK), Professor Andrej Rajsky, and Associate Professor Martin Brestovansky (University of Trnava, Slovakia).