Item K/PP178/11/10/1 - Background information, 1972-1992, on defence industry funding of university research, some CLOSED

Notes and published articles relating to the defence industry’s funding of research projects in British universities, including: typescript notes on the definition of academic freedom, 1972; article by Stanton Glantz and Norm Albers, ‘Department of Defense R & D in the university’, published in Science, 1974; Zoe Fairbairns, ‘Study war no more: military involvement in British universities and colleges’, pamphlet published by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1974); article by Fairbairns, ‘University liaison, the army for the use of’, published in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1975; brief manuscript notes on research projects at King’s College London linked to defence institutions, 1970-1974, with covering note from Felix Pirani, Professor of Mathematics, to Wilkins, 1975; article by Fairbairns, ‘No official secrets at Southampton?’, published in New Scientist, 1975; copy list of UK university research projects that received Ministry of Defence funding during 1980, with copy covering letter from Geoffrey Pattie, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence Procurement, to MP Frank Allaun, 1982; article, ‘The MRC and the armed services’, published in MRC News, 1988; issue 2 of newsletter Defence Employment Briefing, 1992. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review 2072