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2 December 2014 (10am – 6:15pm)
REGISTRATION HAS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT.
Venue: The Howard Building, Downing College Cambridge
Cambridge Neuroscience and the Centre for Science and Policy are jointly organising a workshop for early career researchers at Cambridge. The workshop will take place on 2 December in Downing College.
Themes covered
The themes of this workshop will align closely with the current ESRC strategic challenges and will cover topics such as understanding behaviour and decision-making, mental health, ageing and well-being.
Seminar Format
Session 1: Presentations from scientists who have been engaged in the policy process
Scientists discuss the role they play in providing evidence to policy makers – how the process works and the challenges they face. Scientists will also provide advice to early career researchers on how to get into the policy advising arena.
Session 2: Working in groups
Early career researchers break into groups to address a ‘policy challenge’, and feed their conclusions back to a panel of policy makers and academics. The policy challenge will be related to the topics “understanding behaviour” and “health & wellbeing”.
Session 3: Response from the policy panel
The policy panel responds to the earlier discussions and feedback from early career researchers, and discuss their roles in the policy making process and how scientific evidence is sought. They will outline the currently important questions on this topic for policy makers. They will also offer advice to early career researchers on how the science community might best engage with policy makers.
Confirmed speakers
See below for a list of confirmed speakers and chairs.
Programme
- 10:00 Arrival and Coffee
- 10:30 Welcome and Introductions (Professor Ed Bullmore, and Dr Robert Doubleday)
- 10:40 What is Policy?
- 11:00 Session 1: Presentations from scientists who have been engaged in the policy process
- 12:00 Q&A and discussion
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 Session 2: A 'policy challenge' - working in groups
- 15:15 Tea
- 15:30 Session 3: Presentations from policy makers
- 16:30 Q&A and discussion
- 17:00 Wrap up
- 17:15 Drinks & networking
- 18:15 Close
Who should attend?
This neuroscience workshop is open to late stage PhD students, post docs and early stage Principal Investigators at the University of Cambridge. Attendees should have a background in the understanding of behaviour and/or in health and wellbeing.
This workshop is only open to members of the University of Cambridge. A number of spaces have been allocated to ESRC funded researchers.
How to register
REGISTRATION HAS NOW CLOSED.
For more information, please contact Jackie Ouchikh.
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This is a Cambridge Neuroscience and ESRC-funded workshop. CSaP workshops for early-career researchers cover a range of themes. To date, CSaP has held workshops for climate scientists, biologists, engineers, technology researchers, health scientists, nanoscientists, and researchers from the chemical sciences. More information on these can be found on our website here: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/?category=2.
Professor Michelle Baddeley
UTS: University of Technology Sydney
Kilian Bourke
Cambridgeshire County Council
Dr Laura Haynes
Behaviour Change People
Professor Dame Theresa Marteau
Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU), University of Cambridge
Professor David Nutt
Imperial College London
Dr Miles Parker
Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge
Professor Barbara Sahakian
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
Harriet Wallace
Imperial College London
Steve Welsh
Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
Dr Rob Doubleday
Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge
Dr Charlotte Sausman
Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge
Dr Dervila Glynn
Cambridge Neuroscience
Jackie Ouchikh
Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge