Academia to Industry: How university research benefits Arms Companies

Students from University of Leeds (UoL) Amnesty International Society are building support for their campaign against the arms trade on campus. Their campaign has focused on the UK’s role in arming Saudi Arabia, which has continued despite the brutal attacks on the people of Yemen. The Saudi bombardment has been central to the ever growing humanitarian catastrophe in […]

Students at both University College London (UCL) and Newcastle University have pushed their campaigns for arms trade divestment forwards through motions of support at their students unions. Disarm UCL, which re-formed only recently, managed to get a motion passed unanimously in their student union. The motion calls for UCL to cut research and consultancy ties with […]

Last Monday, students from Demilitarise King’s disrupted King’s College London’s (KCL) high profile launch of their ‘2029 Vision’. They drew attention to the hypocrisy of an event celebrating a strategic plan that aims “to make the world a better place”, while continuing to show support for the arms trade as a prestigious institution through it’s […]