[SGRupdate] New on the SGR Website

[Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)]

Dear Friends

Some more articles from the latest SGR Newsletter are now available on the
website - details below.

With best wishes

Kate Maloney
Office Manager.


* Emerging technologies and risk: the social, cultural and political dimensions

Bronislaw Szerszynski, Lancaster University, argues that when it comes to new
technologies, technical risk assessment is not enough.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/emerging-technologies-and-risk-social-cultural-and-political-dimensions-dec-2011


* European security research - it is time for change

Martina Weitsch, QCEA, shows how arms companies - including those from Israel
- have obtained public EU research funds, despite military research being
specifically excluded from the formal R&D framework.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/european-security-research-it-time-change


* The impact of university research: public or private good?

Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham, asks whether the practices now
followed by UK research councils are doing little more than enabling the 
government's policy to further commercialise academic research.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/impact-university-research-public-or-private-good


* The Luddite uprisings - lessons for technology politics now

It is 200 years since the Luddite uprisings in northern England. David King,
Human Genetics Alert, argues that the motivations of the
Luddites have been misrepresented, and that we need to look again at their
legacy.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/luddite-uprisings-lessons-technology-politics-now