Past Policy Workshops

• 25 June 2019, 12pm

  The role of oral histories in understanding science-policy interrelations

  Dr Alice Vadrot, principal investigator of the ERC funded research project MARIPOLDATA, and the Centre for Science and Policy will be hosting a workshop on the role of oral histories in understanding science-policy interrelations.

• 14 January 2019, 4pm

  Environmental Land Management

  This policy workshop brought together policy makers, academics, and industry experts to explore what is needed to design and implement a new Environmental Land Management system after the UK leaves the European Union.

• 8 November 2018

  How can environmental policy be locally appropriate, empowering and deliverable?

  Policy workshop bringing together policy makers, academics, practitioners and people from civil society organisations to explore what is needed to make national environmental policy locally appropriate, empowering and deliverable.

• 13 March 2018, 4pm

  Goal posts or judging panels?

  A policy workshop to explore the challenges of performance measurement for government in the context of innovation, life sciences and UK plc.

• 7 March 2018, 4pm

  How can behavioural insights research help reduce demand for products of illegal wildlife trade?

  A two-day workshop to explore the opportunities and challenges of delivering campaigns to reduce demand for Illegal Wildlife Trade products.

• 25 October 2017, 4pm

  How can research in the arts and humanities make a greater contribution to the work of government?

• 24 October 2017, 4pm

  Civil Society Futures: Public policy perspectives on civil society

  This policy workshop will address a series of questions on the connections between policy and civil society, including the definition of civil society, and future possibilities for effectively utilising civil society in policy making.

• 13 September 2017, 4pm

  Monitoring the global food system: building trust and resilience for UK citizens and consumers

  A CSaP Policy Workshop organised in partnership with the Cambridge Global Food Security Initiative.

• 15 June 2017, 4pm

  Innovative climate risk assessment

  The purpose of this workshop is to explore the potential for longer term research initiatives at Cambridge to develop data science methods for more useful climate risk assessments.

• 20 April 2017, 4pm

  Towards a British Ecosystems Services Policy

  This roundtable discussion will bring together policy professionals from government with representatives from farming associations and industries, academic experts and other relevant stakeholders to discuss this important issue.