Issues: Who controls science and technology?

Who controls science and technology?

SGR produces a range of resources on the issue of 'Who controls science and technology?' This includes the power of vested interests (especially the military and private corporations), openness and democracy in science, and public engagement and participation. Two of our main projects focus on military influence on science and technology, and corporate influence on science and technology.

UK Policy on Science and Innovation: Sustainable development should dictate

Article by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, published in Science and Public Affairs in September 2004
 

UK policy on science and innovation: in need of new priorities?

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, on the NESTA 'Crucible' course on 17 July, 2004
 

The Military Dimensions of Science and Technology (May 2004)

Notes for a lecture given by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at Lancaster University Engineering Dept, 26 May 2004
 

Can science funded by industry be ethical?

Text of an article by Stuart Parkinson, Director, SGR for Water and Environmental Management magazine, April 2004
 

Corporate Influence on Science and Technology (Mar 2004)

Presentation given by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the Green Party Spring Conference, Brighton on 13 March 2004
 

Nanotechnology: SGR concerns

SGR response to Royal Society/ Royal Academy of Engineering consultation on nanotechnology, 10 July 2003
 

Open Knowledge - A proposed adaptation of Open Science

Open Knowledge - A proposed adaptation of Open Science, focusing on guidelines for knowledge claims

(This is a slightly edited reprint of an article published by Alan Cottey in SGR Newsletter, No 26, February 2003, pp 17-18)
 

Towards a Convention on Knowledge

ISIS-SGR-INES-TWN Discussion Paper

Mae-Wan Ho, Eva Novotny, Philip Webber and E E Daniels

Prepared for conference in November 2002, and subsequently modified
 

Democratic Science - A summary

SGR's work includes the promotion of constructive dialogue between scientists and non-scientists. An important condition for a dialogue between equals is that the assessment of science funding applications be democratised.

Article by Alan Cottey, late 2001
 

Open Science

... the case for doing some scientific projects in a radically open manner, supported by an Open Science Protocol

Article by Alan Cottey, late 2001