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Work to Change the World

Information event organised by Cambridge University Careers Service

Date: Thursday 9 February 2012

Time: 13.00 - 18.00

Venue: Examination Halls, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3RA

SGR will have a stand at this event.
   

Science and technology: when does use become misuse?

Forthcoming presentation by: Dr Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director, SGR

Date: Saturday 25 February 2012

Venue: Catalyst, Widnes, Cheshire WA8 0DF
 

Welcome to Copenhagen

ARC-PEACE General Assembly

Date:  Thursday 12 April 2012

Venue: Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Science, the military and nuclear weapons: the UK situation

Forthcoming presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director, SGR

Date: Monday 30 April 2012

Venue: PrepCom of the non-nuclear proliferation treaty, Vienna

 

Military influence on science and technology: a brief history

Forthcoming presentation by: Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR

Date: Saturday 10 November 2012

Place: Manchester

 

Ethical careers in science and technology

Forthcoming presentation by: Dr Philip Webber, Chair, SGR

Date: Thursday 22 November 2012

Venue: Imperial College, London
 

Emerging technologies: are the risks being neglected?

SGR Conference and AGM 2011

Alan Baxter and Associates’ Gallery, London; 21 May 2011

Main presentations:

  • 'Geo-engineering the Climate' by Professor Joanna Haigh, Imperial College London
  • 'Robots on the Battlefield: Ethical and Humanitarian Implications' by Professor Noel Sharkey, Sheffield University
  • 'Emerging Technologies and Risk: the Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions' Dr Bronislaw Szerszynski, Lancaster University

Eight posters were presented in the afternoon session

A summary, powerpoint presentations, and newsletter articles are available from this event.
 

Building a low carbon economy: the pathway from recession

SGR Conference and AGM 2009

Alan Baxter and Associates’ Gallery, London; 24 October 2009

Main presentations:

  • 'The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan - Where are we going?' by Dr Tim Foxon, Sustainability Research Institute, Leeds University/ SGR
  • 'Arms conversion for a low carbon economy' by Prof David Webb, Praxis Centre, Leeds Metropolitan University
  • 'A trade union programme for the creation of one million climate-change jobs' by Dr Gareth Dale, Brunel University

Eight posters were presented in the afternoon session.

Summary by Kate Macintosh and Stuart Parkinson

 

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