The influence of the arms, fossil fuels and other industries
SGR conference and AGM 2016
The Gallery, Farringdon, London, UK; 19 November
This conference discussed the ways in which controversial industries are involved at UK universities, how government policies encourage this, and the range of detrimental effects - and then discussed proposals for change.
Presentations are available to download/ view.
Presentations:
- Militarising academia: arms corporations and UK universities
Dr Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director, Scientists for Global Responsibility - Investigating fossil fuel industry funding in academia
Maeve McClenaghan, Senior Investigator, Greenpeace UK - He who pays the piper: universities, the oil and gas industry, and fracking
David Smythe, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow - Regulatory 'undersight': policing integrity at the university-industrial interface in medicine
Dr Aubrey Blumsohn, previously Senior Lecturer in Medicine, University of Sheffield - Universities, democracy and science: the challenge of the new neo-liberal knowledge regime
John Holmwood, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham; co-founder, Campaign for the Public University - Do universities betray reason and humanity? The urgent need for an academic revolution
Nicholas Maxwell, Emeritus Reader of Philosophy of Science, University College London
Download speakers' abstracts and biographies
Posters
- Climate change, economy change and universities - Alan Cottey [0.1MB]