CSaP’s Horn Fellows gathered at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, for a series of meetings with academics and industry professionals, on the topic of geoengineering. Geoengineering can be described as large-scale interventions to the Earth’s climate system, designed to counteract climate change.

At our annual conference on 26 June, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk led a panel discussion on extreme risks and the challenges that impossible to predict ‘black swan’ events pose for policy makers.

Participants from a CSaP Policy Workshop held earlier this year on 'emerging technologies for social care' reconvened at our Annual Conference on 26 June to discuss the opportunities and challenges of scaling technologies to support and improve social care in the UK.

Professor K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, speaks on science, the fulcrum for social and economic change in India

This event brought together experts on AI from Cambridge and the Rhine-Main universities for a debate on how artificial intelligence will transform public services and business and what role policy makers can play in preparing society for the future impact of artificial intelligence.

Two cultures: can policy makers and academic institutions ever work together effectively? CSaP founders lecture by David Cleevely.

This session highlighted the potential opportunities provided by data science and AI, and how these might influence or aid future policymaking.

In the second of the 2018 Climate Seminar series, Dr Renata Tyszczuk (Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sheffield) took the audience on a voyage through the fascinating history of scenarios, showing how story-telling and the arts and humanities can support climate change research and leave us better prepared for uncertain futures.

A public panel discussion, organised in collaboration with the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in Cambridge last week, approached the theme of communicating risk from the perspective of the distinguished panellists. A major focus in each of their talks was the relationship between the communication of uncertainty and the general public's trust of experts.

CSaP's 2017 annual reception saw Deborah Bronnert from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Professor Jaideep Prabhu from Cambridge Judge Business School, speak about the impact their CSaP connections had had on their work.