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Dr S T Lee Public Policy Lecture 2024: Earning public trust in evidence-informed policy
The Dr S T Lee Public Policy Lecture was delivered by Professor Alondra Nelson, the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and a distinguished senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress.
17 July 2023
Adolescent brain development
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.
29 June 2023
Dr S T Lee Public Policy Lecture 2023: Beyond words: more-than-human communication paving the way fo...
This year's Dr Seng Tee Lee Public Policy Lecture was delivered by social anthropologist and geographer Professor Melissa Leach. The lecture brought forth the concept of ‘naturekind’, directly challenging the conventional separation between human and non-human nature.
4 March 2022
Global Pandemic Response, Public Health and Sustainability
The University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor's Lecture was held on 01 March 2022 and was delivered online by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization. The lecture series, which engages partners from CEENRG and CSAP as well as CISDL and others, is driven by the urgency to inspire and innovate the world’s best and brightest minds.
10 March 2019
Strategies for achieving serious international cooperation on climate change
In the final seminar of the series, David Victor, Professor of International Relations and Co-director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, UC San Diego, discusses the current state of international cooperation on climate change and how to make it more effective.
8 March 2019
It’s important not to be a climate change zealot
In the penultimate seminar of the Christ’s Climate Seminar Series, Rebecca Willis, Independent Environmental Researcher, discusses the findings of a collaborative research project to investigate how politicians think and act on climate change.
5 March 2019
Solutions to Climate Change; by the People, for the People
In this seminar, Craig Bennett, CEO at Friends of the Earth, explains the importance of engaging and empowering the public in the fight against climate change.
26 February 2019
How business is learning to cooperate in pursuit of climate action
In the first of this year’s Christ's Climate Seminars, Eliot Whittington, Development Director at Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership, talked about how business is learning to cooperate in pursuit of climate action.
12 December 2018
Dr S T Lee Public Policy Lecture 2018: How can science be the agent of social and economic transform...
Professor K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, speaks on science, the fulcrum for social and economic change in India
17 July 2018
Two cultures: can policy makers and academic institutions ever work together effectively?
Two cultures: can policy makers and academic institutions ever work together effectively? CSaP founders lecture by David Cleevely.