SGR has published two in-depth reports and a series of short follow-up reports on the issue of corporate influence on science and technology, as well as producing numerous other outputs. The main ones are listed here, together with some of the media coverage, while all material is indexed in the Who controls science and technology? section of this website.
Reports
More Irresponsible Science? Further reseach on how fossil fuel and arms corporations finance professional engineering and science organisations (series)
Liz Kalaugher, Stuart Parkinson and Liam Killeen; May 2022
Irresponsible Science? How the fossil fuel and arms corporations finance professional engineering and science organisations
Stuart Parkinson and Philip Wood; October 2019
Science and the Corporate Agenda: The detrimental effects of commercial influence on science and technology
Chris Langley and Stuart Parkinson; October 2009
Main presentations
From corporate science to responsible science: what’s the role of R&D in tackling the polycrisis?
Stuart Parkinson, SGR conference 'Responsible science and the polycrisis', online; October 2023
He who pays the piper: universities, the oil and gas industry, and fracking
David Smythe, SGR conference 'Universities for sale?', London; November 2016
Investigating fossil fuel industry funding in academia
Maeve McClenaghan, SGR conference 'Universities for sale?', London; November 2016
Militarising academia: arms corporations and UK universities
Stuart Parkinson, SGR conference 'Universities for sale?', London; November 2016
Regulatory 'undersight': policing integrity at the university-industrial interface in medicine
Aubrey Blumsohn, SGR conference 'Universities for sale?', London; November 2016
Universities, democracy and science: the challenge of the new neo-liberal knowledge regime
John Holmwood, SGR conference 'Universities for sale?', London; November 2016
From corporate science to science for society
Stuart Parkinson, TEDx event, Lancaster; June 2015
The detrimental effects of corporate influence on science and technology
Stuart Parkinson, Radical Statistics conference on 'Cuts and Corporations', Leeds; February 2011
The detrimental effects of corporate influence on science and technology
Stuart Parkinson, ‘Who owns science?’ panel, Cambridge Science Festival; March 2010
Corporate influence on science and technology
Stuart Parkinson, Green Party Spring Conference, Brighton; March 2004
Main articles
Elsevier is still enabling high-carbon emitters
Responsible Science blog; September 2023
Are the UK’s professional science organisations putting their money where their mouths are?
Liz Kalaugher, Responsible Science Journal; April 2022
Royal Society calls for low-carbon finance but still invests in fossil fuels
Andrew Simms, Responsible Science blog; July 2021
Universities, democracy and science: the UK Government’s neo-liberal knowledge regime
John Holmwood, SGR Newsletter, no.45; December 2016
Science and the corporate university in Britain
Stuart Parkinson, openDemocracy website; December 2011
Stop selling out science to commerce
Stuart Parkinson and Chris Langley, New Scientist, no.2733, pp.26-27 (subscription only); November 2009
Examples of media coverage
Royal Society urged to ditch £16m fossil-fuel investment
Sunday Times; October 2019 (subscription only)
Ivory Tower
BBC Radio 4 documentary; December 2010
Peter Mandelson's assault on science
The Independent; November 2009
Good idea: Think big, not business
New Statesman; October 2009
Commercial focus 'is harming scientific research'
The Guardian; October 2009
Scientists compromised by commercial links
Times Higher Education; October 2009
