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How can engineering methods and thinking be applied to policy problem solving?
Earlier this month, CSaP partnered with the Royal Academy of Engineering to host a meeting on how engineering thinking and methods could be applied to policy problem-solving. The meeting was attended by a number of CSaP Policy Fellows from a broad range of organisations representing government, think tanks, and the private sector.
10 December 2015
Linking transport, health and wellbeing
A Professional Development Policy Workshop looking at the role of evidence and expertise in making transport policy, with a particular focus on how it can influence health and wellbeing.
26 November 2015
Statesmanship in a scientific age
The greatest challenges facing global leaders and the skills needed for effective leadership in the modern world were examined in a series of events as part of the Churchill Statesmanship Programme 2015.
25 November 2015
How do you make Europe a global pro-innovation actor?
On 24 November 2015 CSaP ran a policy workshop on the subject of 'How do you make Europe a global pro-innovation actor?' The workshop came at an important time for the EU and its member states.
22 November 2015
New Policy Fellows announced - Lent Term 2016
CSaP is delighted to announce the names of the successful applicants to the Fellowship for Lent Term 2016
9 November 2015
Europe in the age of digital
This event with TechUK considered technological innovation in Europe in a complex policy landscape.
4 November 2015
Is climate change about to claim its first cities?
Extreme heatwaves could create conditions in several Middle Eastern cities that would exceed the threshold of what human beings can endure.
22 September 2015
How is Big Data research and analysis used to improve public policy and services?
On 18 September 2015, CSaP teamed up with Cambridge Big Data and the Royal Statistical Society to run a workshop exploring how data science and ‘Big Data’ can help inform and improve public policy.
22 September 2015
Knowledge, policy and expertise
Professor Susan Owens' latest book presents a fascinating analysis of expertise and policy formation, based on an in-depth study of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
22 September 2015
The meaning of science
Cambridge professor, Tim Lewens, offers an introduction to the philosophy of science in his recently published book on The meaning of science.