Presentations

SGR regularly gives presentations at a range of events from international conferences to public meetings. Powerpoints slides and/ or notes from the main ones are listed here.

Shale gas and fracking: Introducing the key issues

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, to local councillors in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK

Published online: 20 April 2015.

 

The case against UK nuclear weapons

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at Lancaster University

1 December 2014
 

Climate science and technology: what about values?

A short presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the seminar on 'Communicating Climate Change and Our Low Carbon Future’, University of Leeds

15 October 2014
 

The case for urgent and radical carbon emission reductions

Presentation by Dr Maria Sharmina, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, at the SGR conference, Living within environmental limits: From science to practice.

4 October 2014
 

How can we live well within natural limits? Case studies of One Planet Living

Presentation by Sue Riddlestone OBE, Chief Executive, BioRegional, at the SGR conference, Living within environmental limits: From science to practice.

4 October 2014
 

What does sustainable living look like?

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the SGR conference, Living within environmental limits: From science to practice.

4 October 2014
 

Militarisation of science and technology: lessons from the UK

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the workshop, ‘Militarization of Science 1914 and Today’, at the Sarajevo Peace Event, Bosnia. Similar presentations were given at the NATO counter-summit, Newport, Wales and the CAAT/STW campaigners day, Manchester, England.

6 June; 31 August; 11 October 2014
 

Climate change: an introduction to the key issues

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at Halton Mill, nr Lancaster, UK

17 July 2014
 

Evidence, uncertainty and values: some key issues

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the 'Circling the Square' conference, Nottingham University.

Based on SGR's research, the presentation summarises how powerful interests - such as large corporations and the military - can and do distort science for their own ends.

22 May 2014
 

Military R&D: Is it helping or hindering our security? (Feb 2014)

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at Dept of Sociology, Lancaster University

25 February 2014