User:Pip Bennett

After 5 years at Dulwich College, London, UK, it turned out I had spent enough time rowing and studying to represent my country in the former and gain a place at Durham University after a GAP Year. I spent my year off working at Citigroup then travelling in Eats Africa where I climbed Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro and South America, where I did a 3000km hitchhike, spending only 50p on the travelling part. Durham started and I was unfit and seemed to have forgotten almost everything I had learnt at school. In the end however I managed to gain a BSc in Natural Science: Maths and Philosophy combined with a great deal of rowing and a job as a bouncer/doorman of my college bar. A couple of shoulder operations, no rowing and a year later I gained my MA in Philosophy. It dawned on me that the real world was about to come into view with its joyless abandon and I had no idea what I was going to do. Luckily two of my best friends from Dulwich were in a similar postion having just finished their MEng degrees at Cambridge. The project we embarked on is at (http://www.unearthtravel.com) which is a travel wiki with itinerary builder and for those who live in London a blog which produces ten things to do which generally are not drinking based! In conjunction with that project we are involved with the One Laptop Per Child project, which can be found at:(http://www.laptop.org/). This aims to make available $100 laptops to the governments of developing nations so that their youth has access to all the information they could possibly need. Last October I was accepted onto the MLitt/PhD programme at Bristol University(http://www.bris.ac.uk/philosophy/current/postgrad/currentpgs.html) where I am studying freedom and privacy in applied ethics.

General areas of contribution

Philosophy

Areas I am working on

Ethics

Applied Ethics