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Science Policy Research Unit

Address

Jubilee Building, Falmer campus Brighton United Kingdom
Information
Type	Public
Established	1966; 58 years ago (1966)
Founder	Christopher Freeman
Director	Jeremy Kent Hall
Staff	70
Publication	Research Policy
Focus	Policy, Management
Former Name	Science Policy Research Unit
Functions	Research, Teaching, Consultancy
Website	https://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/

The Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) is a research centre based at the University of Sussex in Falmer, near Brighton, United Kingdom. Its research focuses on science policy and innovation. SPRU offers MSc courses and PhD research degrees. In 2018, SPRU ranked 3rd in the world and 1st in the UK for top science and technology think tanks on the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report.^[1]

SPRU has more than 60 faculty members, 150 MScs and 50 doctoral students.

Organization

The Science Policy Research Unit is located within the University of Sussex Business School in Brighton, United Kingdom. SPRU's current^{[as of?]} director is Professor Jeremy Hall, formerly director of the Centre for Social Innovation Management at Surrey Business School and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. He took over as professor from Johan Schot in September 2019.

SPRU's specialist research centres include:

Sussex Energy Group (SEG)
Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)
The STEPS Centre (co-hosted with the Institute of Development Studies)
Harvard Sussex Program (a long-standing partnership with Harvard University in the field of biological and chemical weapons)
Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (in partnership with Nesta)
Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions – Digital Society strand
National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (in partnership with four other research-intensive universities and strategic partner Siemens)
Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC)

History

SPRU was founded in 1966 by Christopher Freeman.^[2] Since its foundation, SPRU has had notable scholars among its faculty, including Daniele Archibugi, Giovanni Dosi, Marie Jahoda, Carlota Perez, Keith Pavitt, Mary Kaldor, Richard R. Nelson, Giorgio Sirilli and Luc Soete.

Current faculty members include Benjamin Sovacool; Andy Stirling; Paul Nightingale, director of strategy and operations for the Economic & Social Research Council; Erik Millstone; and Ben Martin, editor of Research Policy and Associate Fellow of Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy.

Teachings

SPRU currently offers six Master's courses, two of which are available online. Additionally, SPRU offers two PhD degrees in Science and Technology Policy Studies and Technology and Innovation Management.

Harvard Sussex Program

The Harvard Sussex Program (HSP) is a collaborative effort on chemical biological weapons disarmament between Harvard University and SPRU at the University of Sussex. It was formed by Matthew Meselson and Julian Perry Robinson to provide research, training, seminars, and information on chemical biological warfare and its disarmament. In 2010, Sussex faculty member Caitriona McLeish was appointed co-director of the HSP.

The program has an archival collection of CBW-related documents at the Sussex Harvard Information Bank (SHIB).

HSP is an academic non-governmental organization (NGO) that has influenced^[how?] policy creation from within the United States and Great Britain on the formation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and reviews of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

References

^ James G. McGann. "2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report".
^ Johan Schot (24 October 2014). "Transforming innovation policy". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 December 2017.

External links

James Revill and Caitríona McLeish (24 March 2015). "Happy birthday to the bioweapons convention". The Guardian.

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