Overview

I am a moral psychologist with a background in education and a multidisciplinary specialism on morality. During my MA studies I investigated the implications of evolutionary moral psychology to moral education through a Nietzschean perspective, and in my PhD research I investigated how teachers could foster students' moral development in implicit education through a virtue ethical and pragmatic lens.

My current research interests include understanding morality through a systems theory perspective with a view to enable moral agency in artificial intelligence.

Publications:

Bridge, O., Raper, R., Strong, N., & Nugent, S. E. (2021). Modelling a Socialized Chatbot Using Trust Development in Children: Lessons Learnt from TAY. IET Cognitive Computation and Systems. <https://doi.org/10.1049/ccs2.12019>

Bridge, O. (2019). New perspectives on young children’s moral education: developing character through a virtue ethics approach. Journal of Education for Teaching, DOI: 10.1080/02607476.2019.1579032

Qualifications

2019 - HEA Associate Fellow

2017 - PhD in Education, Oxford Brookes University

2012 - MA in Childhood Studies, Oxford Brookes University

2011 - BA in TEFL, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

2010 - BA in Liberal Studies, State University of New York, US