Responsible Science

We currently focus on four main issues: disarmament and security, climate change and energy, questions of who controls science and technology and issues surrounding new and emerging technologies. You will also see that we work on some other issues too. You can explore these with the menu on the left of this page and with the search function. Material in this section includes all SGR's main outputs since 2005, with a selection of the more important material from before then.

Do universities betray reason and humanity?

Presentation by Nicholas Maxwell, University College London, at the SGR conference, Universities for Sale?

Online publication: 5 December 2016

Universities, democracy and science

Presentation by Prof John Holmwood, University of Nottingham/ Campaign for the Public University at SGR conference, Universities for Sale?

Online publication: 30 November 2016

Investigating fossil fuel industry funding in academia

Presentation by Maeve McClenaghan, Greenpeace UK, at the SGR conference, Universities for Sale?

Online publication: 30 November 2016

Fracking and public health: research update

Prof Andrew Watterson, University of Stirling, assesses key academic research published in 2016 on the risks of fracking to public health.

22 November 2016

Regulatory 'undersight': policing integrity at the university-industrial interface in medicine

Summary of a presentation by Dr Aubrey Blumsohn, previously Senior Lecturer in Medicine, University of Sheffield, at the SGR conference, Universities for Sale?

19 November 2016
 

Scientists and War 1916-2016

Presentation by Prof David Webb, Leeds Beckett University/ SGR, at the 2016 Peace history conference, Leeds, UK.

Online publication: 11 November 2016

UK nuclear weapons: an introduction to the risks

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at public meetings in Preston and Lancaster in mid-2016.

Online publication: 18 October 2016

Open letter to Prime Minister on Hinkley Point C

SGR letter calling on the government to end its support for the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant.

6 September 2016

The quest for ‘brain-like machines’

Are computers a biotechnology? One place from which the future of computing and robotics technologies is being thought about is a bit unexpected – the neuroscience lab. Over the past three years, a number of large research initiatives have been announced.

1 September 2016

25 years of science ethics at Cambridge

Dr Richard Jennings, University of Cambridge, reflects on lessons learned from the teaching of science ethics at one of the UK's leading universities.

1 September 2016

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