Many UK universities are increasing their investments in arms companies and acting as their research and development partners. Along with public museums taking sponsorships from arms companies, they risk becoming militarised spaces, losing their public ethos and giving the military industry a humane public face.
ELLIOT MURPHY
Elliot Murphy is a campaigner and author based in Houston, Texas, and author of Arms in Academia: The Political Economy of the Modern UK Defence Industry (Routledge, 2020).