[SGRupdate] News from SGR - December 2016

[Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)]

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News from Scientists for Global Responsibility - December 2016

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* Universities for sale?
The influence of the arms, fossil fuels and other industries

SGR conference and AGM

Some presentations from the event are now available to download:


* Militarising academia: arms corporations and UK universities

Dr Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director, Scientists for Global Responsibility

http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/militarising-academia-arms-corporations-and-uk-universities


* Investigating fossil fuel industry funding in academia

Maeve McClenaghan, Senior Investigator, Greenpeace UK

http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/investigating-fossil-fuel-industry-funding-academia


* He who pays the piper:
Universities, the oil and gas industry, and fracking

David Smythe, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow

http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/he-who-pays-piper-universities-oil-and-gas-industry-and-fracking


* Universities, democracy and science:
The challenge of the new neo-liberal knowledge regime

John Holmwood, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham; co-founder,
Campaign for the Public University

http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/universities-democracy-and-science


* Do universities betray reason and humanity?
The urgent need for an academic revolution

Nicholas Maxwell, Emeritus Reader of Philosophy of Science, University College
London

http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/do-universities-betray-reason-and-humanity


For more info about the conference, see:
http://www.sgr.org.uk/events/universities-sale

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* 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.

New article:
http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/fracking-and-public-health-research-update

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* Can you help with SGR's research?

SGR has recently started a new research project, and as part of this it would
be useful to have access to a range of magazines and publications of
professional science or engineering institutions in the UK. Could you help by
letting us have some of your back issues (either in printed or electronic
form)?

If you would like to help - or would like more information on the project -
please contact Philip Wood on <pwood at sgr.org.uk>.


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