Research and Financial Relationships with the Arms Trade
Dear University of Aberdeen,
I am writing to request information on the research and financial relationships the university holds in the following companies: BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, QinetiQ, Rolls-Royce, GKN, Cobham, Elbit Systems, Leonardo, L3 Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Thales, Boeing, General Dynamics, Airbus, United Technologies, Babcock International, Serco, Meggitt, AirTanker, Chemring and Ultra Electronics and any other arms companies.
Additionally, I am writing to request information on the contracts the university holds with the Ministry of Defence and equivalent bodies and armed forces of other countries.
Please include the following information:
1) For each of the above companies/bodies please list all the projects, industrial consultancy and industrial research that the university has received funding for over the past four academic years, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. Details should be broken down by each university department, showing the company or government body who have provided funding, the start and end date of each contract, title of the project/research, and total funding of each project/research year-by-year for the past four academic years. Lastly, please list all external organisations and bodies that are also participants in the projects/research identified.
2) Does the university have, or is it working towards, an ethical research policy that excludes, or could exclude, the companies listed above?
Please provide the information in a machine readable form and spell out all acronyms.
Yours faithfully,
Jessica Poyner
Dear Mr Poyner
I refer to your email of 19 July 2017 and, on behalf of the University, I acknowledge receipt and confirm that your request is being dealt with in terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. In terms of the Act, a reply will be sent to you within 20 working days.
Yours sincerely,
Christina Muir
Administration Assistant
Library, Administration and Planning
University of Aberdeen
Email: [email address] Tel: 01224 273079
Core working hours: Monday - Friday: 9.00am - 1.00pm
The Sir Duncan Rice Library, LSC&M, Aberdeen University, Bedford Road, Aberdeen AB24 3AA
Dear Ms Poyner
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST FOI 2017-185
I refer to your email of 19 July 2017 requesting information relating to
research and financial relationships between specified organisations and
the University of Aberdeen.
Your request has now been considered under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002, ‘the Act’.
We have searched our research funding database since 2013, and can confirm
that the University has received funding from two organisations, as
follows:
Defence Human Capability Science & Technology Centre
Department Title Project Start End Date Funding Funding
Partners/Collaborators Date Funding
2014/15 2015/16 2016/17
Awareness,
attraction Cranfield University,
and retention Institute for
Management of the Employment Studies, 08-Jul-14 07-Jul-16 £15,855 £16,871 £886
Studies reserve Oxford Brookes
forces University
Support to
the families
of
reservists: Oxford Brookes
Management An University, Kings 12-Jan-16 30-Apr-17 £0 £5,749 £10,424
Studies investigation College London
of needs;
current
provision and
gaps
Integration
of the whole
force: Cranfield University,
Management Understanding Institute for
Studies the barriers Employment Studies, 28-Jan-16 31-Aug-16 £0 £2,360 £6,665
and enablers Oxford Brookes
to maximise University
task and team
performance
BAE Systems (Operations) Limited
Department Title Project Start End Date Funding Funding
Partners/Collaborators Date Funding
2014/15 2015/16 2016/17
Product
Safety
Culture:
Psychology A new ESRC (Collaborative 01-Oct-14 31-Jan-18 £10,200 £12,200 £11,200
variant Studentship)
of
safety
culture
The University has an institutional ethical statement, accessible here:
[1]http://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/documents....
Please accept this message as a notice under section 25 (1) of the Act
that the information you have requested is otherwise accessible to you,
and is therefore exempt from disclosure.
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Yours sincerely,
Christina Muir
Administration Assistant
Library, Administration and Planning
University of Aberdeen
Email: [4][email address] Tel: 01224
273079
Core working hours: Monday - Friday: 9.00am - 1.00pm
The Sir Duncan Rice Library, LSC&M, Aberdeen University, Bedford Road,
Aberdeen AB24 3AA
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