Military research

Rolls Royce are confirmed to be investing in a planned £400m ‘science and innovation’ university campus. Phase one, costing £200m, is due to be opened in three years time. The university is hopeful to attract other arms trade investors such as Airbus UK and BAE Systems. Accepting funds from the arms trade is not acceptable. […]

A professor at the University of Manchester has written this article outlining exactly how the research taken by PhD students at the university benefit companies such as Rolls Royce and BAE Systems. If you’d like to stop your degree helping out arms dealers and the military, you might like to start a Study War No More […]

The University of Sheffield announced on the 6th of June that it had secured funding for a £43-million Research Factory. Their website boasts that “leading manufacturers including Boeing, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and Spirit AeroSystems are committed to supporting the project”. The project has also received £10 million from the taxpayer through the Higher Education […]

The GAMMA programme is a three-year programme to develop and improve “autonomous systems”. According to the University of Liverpool, (one of the universities involved in the programme) autonomous systems are technology based solutions that replace humans in tasks that are mundane, dangerous and dirty, or detailed and precise, across sectors, including aerospace, nuclear, automotive and […]

After an excellent campaign by Leeds University student group Let’s Disarm Leeds, students voted Yes in a referendum on whether they wanted to end their university’s links with BAE Systems, the world’s third biggest arms manufacturer. This victory mandates the Students’ Union to lobby the University to do three things in particular: to stop inviting BAE to […]

We recently reported that the Huffington Post had collected information, via a series of Freedom of Information requests, about the funding that universities receive from arms companies. Students across the UK have picked up on the story and reported it in their own student newspapers. So far, the story has been reported in: Roar! News – King’s […]

Over the three years 2008-2011 leading British universities received at least £83 million of funding from UK arms companies and government military agencies, for research, courses and other activities. The information was analysed from Freedom of Information (FOIs) requests submitted submitted by Dina Rickman of the Huffington Post to the 24 Russell Group universities, which […]

Hundreds of academics have written to the European Commission to demand it ban Israeli companies involved in the abuse of Palestinian human rights from EU-funded research groups. This includes Israeli arms companies. Israeli companies currently are able to participate in EU funded research programmes. Read the full story.

Abi Haque and Hilary Ekad have written an excellent piece for CAAT in the Huffington Post. Find out about the links between universities and the arms trade and what students are doing about it. Read the article here.