Beyond The Dark Clouds Podcast

Hello! My name is Dr Ann-Marie Mealey , Ethicist and Director of Catholic Mission at Leeds Trinity University, it is my great pleasure to launch this online lecture series at our university.

I am thrilled to have such a talented and diverse group of local, national and international experts helping us to share our mission with other universities and with the world.

Please join us as we learn and grow together in the hope of sensitizing everyone to who our neighbour really is and to help to repair the ‘shattered dreams’ of our world.

‘Education for hope’ is what this series has at its heart as it seeks to move our closed world ‘Beyond the Dark Clouds’.

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Episodes

Beyond The Dark Clouds : Episode Three | Professor Phillip Booth

Philip Booth gives his perspectives on how Catholic Social Teaching can help to humanise economic life and provide the much-needed ‘check and balance’ to ensure that businesses remain ethical and just. Dr Ann Marie Mealey gives her thoughts on what an ‘ethical’ business might look like in a competitive job market as well as sharing her thoughts on what her students – over a 16-year career in teaching in Higher Education – thought of the idea that businesses could be ethical.

Jul 14, 2023•46 min

Beyond The Dark Clouds : Episode Two | Professor Tony Blockey

Tony Blockley, Professor of policing at Leeds Trinity University, speaks about his experiences as a detective and as a person who has worked at various levels of the police force. Tony advocates for the need for ethics and values to be part of the training of police officers, and for there to be a greater awareness of the relevance that faith can play in our communities as it can be both unifying as well as being the basis for tensions. Dr Ann Marie Mealey, Ethicist and Director of Catholic Miss...

Jul 14, 2023•41 min

Beyond The Dark Clouds : Episode One | Professor Tobias Winright

Dr Tobias Winright, Professor of Moral Theology at Saint Patrick’s Pontifical University in Maynooth, Ireland, gives a talk on what ‘just policing’ might look like in the contemporary world. He also probes the possibility of using the ‘just war’ tradition as a basis for reconceptualising the police as ‘servants of life’ rather than as merely agents of law enforcement. Reflections from Dr Ann Marie Mealey, Ethicist and Director of Catholic Mission at Leeds Trinity University, are offered in the i...

Jul 11, 2023•1 hr 1 min

Beyond The Dark Clouds Trailer

A preview of the upcoming lecture series 'Beyond The Dark Clouds' curated by Dr Ann Marie Mealey at Leeds Trinity University. Dr Ann-Marie chats with Darren Harper about her role at LTU as Director of Catholic Mission - and what she hopes to achieve through the conversations we'll have on this podcast which runs alongside the lecture series....

Mar 22, 2023•15 min

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