SGR Newsletters

Winter 2018

Feature articles cover: nuclear weapons - current threats and opportunities; melting of Arctic ice cap; cars and climate change; air pollution; protecting the oceans; Brexit and universities; EU military R&D; nuclear weapons accidents in UK; radical science in 1980s

Winter 2017

Feature articles cover: cyber-security threats to nuclear weapons; renewable energy expansion; commercialisation of UK universities; links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons; landmines; fracking and public health; arms and fossil fuels industries in schools; nuclear submarine risks.

Winter 2016

Feature articles cover: failings in UK climate policy; the flaws of nuclear deterrence; climate impacts of space tourism; the risks of another Chernobyl/ Fukushima; ocean acidification; military science and technology; the Paris climate agreement; teaching science ethics

Winter 2015

Feature articles cover: science and engineering for war; shale gas and fracking; risks of nuclear weapons use; chemical weaponry and World War I; controlling global carbon emissions; UK domestic energy efficiency programmes; corporate influence on research on genetically-modified crops

Autumn 2013

Feature articles cover: UK military R&D and alternatives; sustainable communities; Arctic ice cap melting; nuclear weapons proliferation via nuclear power; honesty in medical science; climate change and shale gas
 

Autumn 2012 - 20th anniversary issue

Feature articles cover: UK military R&D; alternatives to Iran's nuclear programme; low carbon transition pathways; offshore wind and marine energy; nuclear disarmament; sustainable building materials; corporate science communication; local sustainable energy; synthetic biology; the Fukushima nuclear disaster; and climate change sceptics

Autumn 2011

Feature articles cover: nuclear power after Fukushima; war in Libya; military robotics and drones; the low energy society; geoengineering; shale gas; science commercialisation; militarisation of EU research; nuclear weapons treaties; low energy buildings; Millennium Consumption Goals; risks of emerging technologies; and the Luddites anniversary

Winter 2011

Feature articles cover: UK defence and security review; arms conversion; new nuclear power; accountability in research investment; climate science; the Atomic Weapons Establishment; data security in the UK census; armed robotic aircraft; transport and land-use; synthetic biology; renewable energy funding in the UK; commercialism at universities; and international energy and climate policy.

Winter 2010

Feature articles cover: arms conversion; international and UK climate change policy; climate science debate; global nuclear disarmament; militarisation of space; sustainability and population; corporate influence on science; ethics and universities; animal farming and sustainability.

Spring 2009

Feature articles cover: sustainability and the global economic crisis, sustainable housing, military involvement in science and technology, social housing, nuclear weapons policy, low carbon energy, and alternatives to animal experiments.