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Report - Degrees of Capture
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To encourage and promote independent thought and discussion, and to develop students’ ability to think critically? Or to provide intellectual backup for the economy, researching new products, and training students in the skills they need for future employment?
Should universities take responsibility for their intellectual contribution to important societal issues such as climate change?
Is corporate sponsorship a help or a hindrance to academic freedom?
These are the questions raised by the ground-breaking report, Degrees of Capture, co-published in March 2003 by PLATFORM, Corporate Watch and the New Economics Foundation.
The report examines the relationship between Britain’s universities and the oil industry, and how that relationship has a bearing on climate change.
PLATFORM is grateful for financial support from Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust and Greenpeace
Correspondence:
Letters from PLATFORM, Corporate Watch and New Economics Foundation to government departments, 4th March 2003:
to the Department for Education & Skills
to the Department of Trade & Industry
to the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs
to the Scottish Executive
to the Natural Environment Research Council
Reply from the Office of Science & Technology, 29th April 2003
Reply from the Scottish Executive, Enterprise & Lifelong Learning Department, 3rd April 2003
Reply from the Scottish Executive, Environment Group, 21st March 2003
Reply from the Natural Environment Research Council, 28th April 2003
Letter to the Lambert Review of Business-University collaboration, 26th June 2003
Letter to the Scottish Science Advisory Committee, 29th July 2003
Reply from the Scottish Science Advisory Committee, 5th August 2003
Second letter to Natural Environment Research Council, 29th July 2003
Second reply from Natural Environment Research Council, 16th October 2003
Letters from PLATFORM, Corporate Watch and New Economics Foundation to university principals and vice chancellors, 4th March 2003
Reply from University of Glasgow, 12th March 2003
Reply from University of Strathclyde, 24th April 2003
Related news:
Clarke Lays Into Useless History – article in Times Higher Education Supplement: Education Minister says the public purse should not fund "ornamental" subjects such as medieval history
ExxonMobil Plans $100 Million Investment in Stanford University's Global Climate and Energy Project – ExxonMobil press release
ExxonMobil Donation To Stanford University Is No Answer To Company's "Global Warming" Ills – Campaign ExxonMobil press release
Shell establishes Center For Sustainability at Rice University – Shell press release
Links - Universities, corporations and climate change
See also:
links to external websites (including links on climate change and corporations)
the PLATFORM project Funding for a Change
Corporate influence over academia
Organisations
Oily university departments
Government departments
Other
Corporate influence over academia
Corn study spurs debate over corporate meddling in academia, Associated Press article
Science compromised, letter from Kenneth Worthy et al
Industry and Academy - a Faustian Contract? – paper by David Packham and Mary Tasker
Masters of the Universities, article by George Monbiot in the Guardian
Captive State, book by George Monbiot
Leasing the Ivory Tower: The Corporate Takeover of Academia, book by Lawrence C. Soley
Nature Statement of policy on competing financial interests
Bad company - reporting the business of science, paper by Norfolk Genetic Engineering Network
The "Academic-industrial-military complex" engineering life & mind, article by Jonathan Matthews and Mae-Wan Ho
ASH slams BAT cash for ‘Ethics’ – Tobacco sponsorship of corporate responsibility centre
A tainted university – Professor resigns university post over tobacco funding, Guardian article
Architects & Engineers for Social Responsibility
Center for Science in the Public Interest (USA)
Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards
International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
The Save British Science Society
SBS response to the Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration
Scientists for Global Responsibility
How should UK science be funded?
Union of Concerned Scientists (USA)
Educational Courses of Direct Relevance to the Petroleum Industry – Institute of Petroleum listing
The BP Institute, University of Cambridge
The Centre for Petroleum Studies, Imperial College, London
The Oil and Gas Centre, Aberdeen University
The Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University
The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), Dundee University
School of Engineering, Robert Gordon University
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College, London
Department of Earth Sciences, University College, London
Fossil Fuels and Environmental Geochemistry Postgraduate Institute, University of
Newcastle upon Tyne
Division of Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
Department of Geology, Royal Holloway, University of London
BP Corporate Citizenship Unit, University of Warwick
Centre for CO2 Technology, University College, London
Government departments
Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration
Office of Science and Technology (OST)
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
EPSRC funding by industry sector
EPSRC funding of oil/gas/coal extraction
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
NERC Ocean Margins Programme
NERC programme "Understanding The Micro-To-Macro Behaviour Of Rock-Fluid Systems"
Department for Education & Skills (DfES)
White Paper "The Future of Higher Education"
Department of Trade & Industry (DTI)
DTI Science and Technology section
White Paper ‘Our energy future - creating a low carbon economy’
DTI oil and gas section
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW)
Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC)
LINK – encouraging industry-academia collaboration
PILOT – oil and gas industry taskforce
Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF)
Forward Look – analysis of UK government research spending
UK Science, Engineering & Technology statistics
Higher Education Statistics Agency
CORDIS – European Union research funding database
Other
COGENT – the Sector Skills Council for the Oil & Gas Extraction, Chemicals Manufacturing and Petroleum Industries
‘The Value of Knowledge’, speech by Rodney Chase, Deputy Chief Executive, BP, May 2000
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