STS Seminar Series 2011-12
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University College London
All seminars take place at 5.00pm
Venue: Galton Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place
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Monday 28 November
Thomas Rose
(Fachhochschule Muenster, Germany/ STS Honorary Associate)
The Attitude of Trade Unions towards Science
Trade unions with their still more than 6 million members are an
important part of UK’s society. In the past their support of
organizations as Ruskin college in Oxford or the Workers’ Educational
Association showed their interest in education and science. In the
Nineteen Eighties they discussed the relation of science, new
technologies, employment, and working conditions. But at present the
attitude of trade unions towards science seems to be unknown. The
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences with more than 110,000
publications in the last ten years contains about 150 publications with
keywords gender and science in title and a similar number with keywords
race and science, but only two with trade union and science.
The present work tries to study the present relation between trade
unions and science by analyzing trade union documents, interviewing
union representatives and politicians and surveying union members.
Preliminary results of interviews with three union representatives and
two MPs and of a survey among members of Unite will be presented.
Forthcoming seminars:
Monday 12 December
Bill MacLehose
(STS, UCL)
The Sliding Scale of Sleep in The Middle Ages
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Dr. Chiara Ambrosio
Teaching Fellow in Philosophy of Science
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel. (+44) 02076790166
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