About us
Founded in 1967, UKSCS has a rich history and deep roots in the co-op movement and co-op studies both in the UK and internationally
At the inaugural meeting on 2 and 4 April at the Co-operative College, Stanford Hall, the Society for Co-operative Studies was established 'to promote the exchange of information and experience on co-operative studies and research and to help in identifying and developing the studies and research still needed'.
The message received from the Rt.Hon. C.A.R. Crosland published in the first Society for Co-operative Studies Bulletin is no less significant to the aims and purpose of UKSCS today:
[The Society] can bring together representatives from all areas of co-operative interest and many individuals, particularly from universities and colleges, interested in co-operative institutions and policies. The Movement can greatly gain from exposing itself to this kind of sympathetic and salutary study; and universities and colleges too can gain from this engagement with an organisation of considerable economic and social significance in our times.
