Military influence project: Main outputs

SGR has published four reports/ briefings as part of its project work on the military influence on science and technology. We have also published numerous articles and given many presentations. The main outputs are listed here, together with some of the media coverage, while all material is indexed in the Security and disarmament section of this website.
 

Reports and briefings

Behind Closed Doors: Military influence, commercial pressures and the compromised university
Chris Langley, Stuart Parkinson and Philip Webber; June 2008

More Soldiers in the laboratory: the militarisation of science and technology - an update
Chris Langley, Stuart Parkinson and Philip Webber; Aug 2007

Scientists or soldiers? Career choice, ethics and the military
Chris Langley; January 2006

Soldiers in the laboratory: Military involvement in science and technology - and some alternatives
Chris Langley; editors: Stuart Parkinson and Philip Webber; Jan 2005

Main presentations

Soldiers in the laboratory - the militarisation of the university
Chris Langley, Student Pugwash seminar, Cambridge University, March 2009

Military involvement in science and technology - and some alternatives
Chris Langley, European Parliament seminar organised by the Quaker Intergroup for Peace Initiatives, Nov 2007

UK military partnerships: the role of science and engineering in the national security agenda
Chris Langley, 'Science in the service of war and the responsibility of scientists' conference, Paris, France, September 2005

The military dimensions of science and technology
Stuart Parkinson, 'Engineering in Society' course, Lancaster University, May 2005

Soldiers or scientists - the role of science, engineering and technology
Chris Langley - as part of a debate at the Royal Institution, London, May 2005

Main articles

Military R&D 85 times larger than renewable energy R&D
Stuart Parkinson, INES Newsletter (Special Edition), p7-8, April/May 2008

Universities, the military and the means of destruction in the United Kingdom
Chris Langley, The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Vol. 3; No. 1, p.49-55 (subscription only), January 2008

Science, engineering and technology - it's a military affair
Chris Langley, Physics Education, vol. 41, no. 6, p508-513 (subscription only), November 2006

The real cost of military research
Stuart Parkinson, Education for Tomorrow, no.85, summer 2005

The best defence
Chris Langley, New Scientist, no. 2483 (subscription only), 22 January 2005

Examples of media coverage

Soldiers in the Laboratory
Lab Times, no 2, 7 April 2009

Creeping influence of military sector at UK universities revealed
People & Planet news, 25 Jun 2008

UK universities in bed with the military
Nature, vol. 453, no. 7198, 18 June 2008

Military influence on research agenda growing, claims report
The Guardian, 12 June 2008

A call to arms
The Engineer, 22 August 2007

Science lobby urges UK to divert funds from military
Nature, vol. 433 (Subscription only), 20 January 2005

Military science
The Guardian, 20 January 2005