During a recent Policy Leaders Fellowship visit day, Professor Nick Pearce called for governments to adopt a more strategic approach in the face of the multiple interlocking crises of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, and the war in Ukraine.

On 29 June, CSaP invited Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, to give a lecture on adolescent brain development – what we know and what it means for policy. The lecture took place at Trinity College, Cambridge.

CSaP’s Horn Fellows gathered at Jesus College, Cambridge for a day of interdisciplinary discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI), balancing the potential for the application of AI in health and science against its risks.

In this blog piece, Dr Rebecca Jones, CSaP Policy Fellow and Head of Cancer, Ageing and Data at the Office for Life Sciences, tells us about how her CSaP Policy Fellowship informs her work in Government.

Professor William Hurst, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development at the Department of Politics and International Studies and Deputy Director for the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge, delivered the second of CSaP’s online seminars for Policy Fellows on the theme of Geopolitics: Nationhood, conflict, and identity.

The Centre for Science and Policy held the first session of its Lent Term online seminar series for CSaP Policy Fellows on 22 February 2023. The seminar, which explored the misuse of the history of Northern Ireland, was led by Dr Niamh Gallagher, University Associate Professor in Modern British and Irish History and Fellow of St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge.

A seminar exploring “Xi Jinping and History: Mirror or House of Mirrors?” led by Dr Daniel Knorr, Temporary Assistant Professor in Modern Asian History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

CSaP's Policy Leaders Fellowship met earlier this month to explore the opportunities and challenges of Artificial Intelligence systems in healthcare. Leading the discussion was Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

After a morning of individually tailored meetings with Cambridge academics, senior members of CSaP’s network convened for a talk by Julian Allwood, Professor of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Cambridge, presented around the theme of the day: “innovation in materials”.

In partnership with the British Academy, CSaP held a Policy Fellows Seminar led by Professor Helen Margetts, Director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute, and Dr Alex Mankoo, Senior Policy Adviser, at the British Academy.