Stuart Parkinson

<p>Dr Stuart Parkinson is Executive Director of <a href="http://www.sgr.org.uk/">Scientists for Global Responsibility</a> and co-author of the report, <a href="http://www.sgr.org.uk/SciencePolicy/SGR_

Science and the corporate university in Britain

The instrumentalisation of research and successive governments' preoccupation with 'impact' have gradually eroded the independence of British academia. Business and politics alike are narrowing funding and skewing outcomes.

By Stuart Parkinson

/ 16 Dec 2011