7th February, 2014 / 11.00am - 4.00pm
18th June, 2015
This conference is designed for academic staff, postgraduate students, researchers, human resource and legal practitioners, trade unionists and whistle-blowers who are interested in whistleblowing research .
Keynote speakers are internationally renowned for their expertise in this area. Shorter presentations will be made by people from a range of European and non-European countries.
Delegates will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to discuss issues which are important to them.
Day 1
9.15 am Welcome and introduction
9.30 am Marcia Miceli, Janet Near and AJ Brown (US & Australia): “Organizational encouragement of whistleblowing:Learning from the Australian experience”
10.30am Maria Batishcheva & Viacheslav Vorontsov (Russia): “Finding Best Practices of Whistleblowing Worldwide: ‘Matrix of Whistleblowing'”
Andre Oostdijk, Frank Maas, Tanja Verheij, Mariska Peeters (The Netherlands): “Organisational culture as biggest obstruction to whistleblowing”.
Johan Røed Steen (Norway): “Implementing whistleblowing legislation: the contents and effects of whistleblowing procedures in Norway”.
11- 45 am REFRESHMENTS
12. Kate Kenny (Northern Ireland): “Whistleblowing in banking organizations: truth or trend?”
Radu Ionescu (Romania): “Whistleblowing as risk reduction: critical infrastructure managers’ attitudes”
1PM LUNCH
2pm David Lewis and Wim Vandekerckhove (UK): “Whistleblowing in the NHS: lessons from the qualitative and quantitative research for the Francis Review”.
3pm Angie Ash (UK): “Whistleblowing in the wind? An ethical response to contexts of complicity in health and social care”.
Marianna Fotaki (UK): “Whistleblowing and mental health: a new weapon for retaliation?”
4pm REFRESHMENTS/BREAK
4-15PM Richard Hyde & Ashley Savage (UK): “Whistleblowing without borders: the risks and rewards of transnational whistleblowing networks.”
Flutura Kusari (Belgium):”Whistleblower’s rights in international missions: the case of Maria Bamieh and Eulex (Kosovo)”
5-15 pm CLOSE OF DAY ONE
Day 2
9-15am Tom Devine (US): “Whistleblowing and the national security loophole”.
10.15 am Suelette Dreyfuss (Australia): “Whistleblower protection laws in G20 Countries:the methodology of international comparisons of legislative and institutional context”.
Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (Bosnia and Herzegovina): “Whistleblower protection in South East Europe: an overview of laws, practice and recent initiatives”.
Lenka Frankova (Czech Republic): “The protection of whistleblowers in the Czech republic and in comparison with other countries”.
11-30am REFRESHMENTS/BREAK
11-45 AM Panel discussion led by AJ Brown (Australia): Future research agendas and strategies
1 PM END OF CONFERENCE
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