Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 7810
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9780719090981
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research on how science was governed and used in government in Britain between 1914 and 1979, focusing on the management of twentieth-century science in British society. The book stems out of scholarly activities and research collaboration undertaken by the co-editors (C. Sleigh and D. Leggett) with members of the Centre for the History of the Sciences at the University of Kent. This collaboration culminated in the organization of a two-day colloquium at Kent in September 2011 on science and politics, financially supported by the British Society for the History of Science. The book is 323 pages long and includes 15 chapters of 16 international scholars from Singapore, the US and the UK. Two of those chapters are single-authored by the book co-editors, C. Sleigh and D. Leggett. The book has a Forward of Sir John Beddington, Government Scientific Adviser and co-chair of SAGE between 2008 and 2013, topically addressing important questions on the management of science, government, environmental crisis and pandemic. The book is organized in two sections (Section 1: “Governance of Science”, and Section 2: “Governance by Science”) and is the result of a truly collaborative undertaking (50-50) of the two co-editors that equally contributed to the editing of the volume and took the lead each of the two sections (Section 1 / Leggett, Section 2 / Sleigh). Sleigh and Leggett also co-authored the book introduction (26 pages) and Sleigh single-authored ch. 11 “Science as heterotopia: the British Interplanetary Society before the Second World War” (pp. 217-234).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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