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  • 31 October 2023

    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.
  • 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’.
  • 9 October 2023

    Navigating the poly crisis: a call for strategic governance amidst global challenges

    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.
  • 3 October 2023

    Future of Transport: Decarbonising a complex system

    Professor Sarah Sharples, Chief Scientific Adviser in the Department for Transport, discussed the reasons why the transport sector requires much attention.
  • 5 September 2023

    Learning lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

    Richard Gleave, UK Health Security Agency, and Professor Sharon Peacock, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, discussed the wider implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting on the success of the UK’s COVID-19 Genomics Consortium (COG-UK) in pandemic response and, more broadly, on the evolving role of scientific advice in times of public crises.
  • 17 July 2023

    Unveiling the future of AI

    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.
  • 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

    Innovation policy for societal challenges

    Dr Eoin O'Sullivan, Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Policy chaired a discussion with Dr Molly Morgan Jones, the British Academy, and Dan Shah, UKRI. The session focussed on how societal challenges feature in the UKRI and BA strategies, as well as the importance of working with other countries to tackle global challenges.
  • 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.
  • 27 June 2023

    UK's strategy for decarbonising ground transportation on its path to net zero

    Emily Farnworth, Director of the Centre for Climate Engagement, University of Cambridge chaired a discussion between Richard Bruce, Director of Transport Decarbonisation, Department for Transport; Professor David Cebon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge; and Dr Jane Dennett-Thorpe, Deputy Director Net Zero Strategy, Ofgem. The session focused on the UK's strategy for decarbonising ground transportation on its path to net zero.