[SGRupdate] Upcoming Events

[Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)]

Dear Friends

Please find below details of four upcoming events that may be of interest.

With best wishes


Kate Maloney
SGR Office Manager.

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Whose Statistics?

Radical Statistics Conference

Friends House, Euston Road, London

Saturday 27 February

Programme includes:

David Miller on Spinwatch
Eileen Magnello on Florence Nightgale
Paul Marchant on Street Lighting
Heather Brooker on "Right to Know"
Harvey Goldstein on Statistical Ethics
Danny Dorling on Statistics of Injustice

For more info and booking, see:
http://www.radstats.org.uk/conf2010/index.htm


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Polling Day Plus One – Where Next for the Peace Movement?

Network for Peace AGM
Friends Meeting House, Church Street, Paddock, Huddersfield HD1 4TR

Saturday 27 February
13.30

Includes a presentation by Professor David Webb, SGR Sponsor.

For more info:
http://www.networkforpeace.org.uk/events.htm

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Nuclear Dangers and the Green Alternative

St Mary's Parish Centre, Darley Lane, DE1 3AU

Tuesday 2 March
19.30

Hosted by Derby Churches Justice and Peace Group

Includes a presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director, SGR,
on "Arms Conversion for a Low Carbon Economy"

For more info, email: nottinghamjp at yahoo.co.uk

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Cambridge Science Festival, University of Cambridge

Includes a presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director, SGR
on "The Detrimental Effects of Corporate Influence on Science and
Technology" as part of the session, "Who Owns Science?"

Friday 19 March
14.00-18.00

For more info:
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/