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This section comprises the following series:

1. Papers, chiefly correspondence, relating to posthumous listing and publication of Patrick Geddes' manuscripts (c 1947-1949)

2. Minutes and notices of the Outlook Tower Association (c 1932-1954)

3. Printed and published material relating to planning and to the 1954 Patrick Geddes' centenary celebrations (1938-1969)

4. Miscellaneous papers

Six series, each of them representing a type of information service provided by SPAID / OEDA. As follows:

• fielding occupational and environmental health enquiries
• publications by the organisation
• display boards and posters generated for use at meetings, conferences and around the office
• responses to requests for information from solicitors
• responses to requests for information from the media

The section concludes with a small series relating to compensation claims against the Johns-Manville Corporation / the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust.

Publications by Rusk.

Further publications can be found in the OEDA collection of printed material; see link below.

This section comprises the following series:

1. Manuscript and typescript lecture notes, papers etc.

2. Correspondence

3. Printed and published material

Rusk's research notes and material. Also, several publications owned by Rusk.

Nancy Tait viewed her organisation as an asbestos action group with a research agenda, rather than simply a victims support group. This perception is very much in line with the charity's trust deed, which lists research into the causes, prevention and treatment of asbestos related disease as its primary objective.

By the mid-1970s, the investigations Nancy Tait had begun following her husband's death in 1968 earned her a fellowship from the Churchill Trust, which allowed her to travel and to seek out international specialists in person. She began to publish her own asbestos literature and to testify as an expert witness, initially on the strength of her intimate knowledge of the impact of a mesothelioma diagnosis, but also of her readings, her exchanges with medical and environmental authorities, and her sheer determination to get to the bottom of how asbestos operated on the human body over time.

As SPAID / OEDA developed, Nancy Tait's investigations drew also on a growing knowledge base of case histories, with detailed medical and legal information. From 1988 onwards that knowledge base was enriched by the evidence provided by the SPAID electron microscope laboratory.

There are four series:

• Research correspondence
• Expert testimony and consulting
• Mesothelioma mortality and death certification
• Criticism of fibre counting

These are followed by smaller aggregations.

Other types of research (e.g. legal, health & safety, industrial injury claims-related, and so forth) can be found throughout the collection, in particular in Sections E (Advocacy) and F (Networking). Research outputs are in OEDA/C/2 (Publications by SPAID / OEDA).

Manuscript volumes containing scientific papers and experiments; blank sheets for recording barometer readings.

This section comprises the following series:

1. Civilisation, Social Science

2. Material relating to Frédéric Le Play

3. Sociology and Health

4. Civics, Occupations

5. Social Evolution

6. Applied Urban and Rural Sociology

7. Miscellaneous Sociological Notes

8. Miscellaneous Sociological Notes (continued)

9. Miscellaneous Sociological Notes

10. Miscellaneous Notes on Sociology and Reconstruction

11. Miscellaneous Notes on (International) Sociology

12. Notes and Papers on Sociology, Life Theory and Women

Student records 1917/1918-1969/1970 incomplete; examination papers 1923/1924-1969; examination results 1913/1914-1969/1970.