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  • 26 October 2023

    Institutional Memory in the Civil Service

    Professor Heather Lovell, Professor of Energy and Society at the University of Tasmania, presented her current research programme at the first online seminar for CSaP Policy Fellows in the new academic year, as part of our series, ‘Public Policy and Practice: challenges and opportunities’.
  • 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.
  • 15 June 2023

    Remembering the Dissolution of the Monasteries

    CSaP’s Horn Fellows met in Jesus College, Cambridge to listen to Dr Harriet Lyon, Lecturer in History and J. H. Plumb College Lecturer at Christ’s College, Cambridge, gave a talk entitled ‘Remembering the Dissolution of the Monasteries: Memory, History, Nostalgia’.
  • 22 May 2023

    Treading water in the Taiwan Strait: China-Taiwan relations

    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.
  • 3 April 2023

    The uses and abuses of history: misuse of the history of Northern Ireland

    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.
  • 31 March 2023

    A more nuanced understanding of Xi Jinping and Chinese history

    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.
  • 21 March 2023

    Artificial Intelligence systems in brain health

    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.
  • 22 February 2023

    Understanding digital poverty and inequality in the UK

    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.
  • 20 February 2023

    Uncertainty and expertise in geopolitics, health, and infrastructure

    CSaP's Horn Fellowship and members of the Policy Fellowship network met with Cambridge academics to shed light on some the uncertainty witnessed in 2022 and what we might expect to see in 2023.
  • 4 November 2022

    Innovating our way to Net Zero: Insights from a Policy Workshop

    The Centre for Science and Policy and Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge and Director of CEENRG, delivered a policy workshop on strengthening the UK’s innovation ecosystem in the energy space to meet the government’s net zero target.