An article in the Economist includes CSaP's Visiting Research Fellow, Professor Michael Kenny, and his new book "The Politics of English Nationhood".

The 2014 Annual Reception gathered key members of our network to celebrate CSaP's numerous achievements over our first five years. Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Sue Owen, and David Cleevely all spoke.

After a successful planning meeting in February 2014, this workshop moved the Challenge forward by identifying the insights that modelling can offer national and local policy on ageing.

CSaP's Policy Challenges Co-ordinator, Dr Moira Faul's article on the UN's global Sustainable Development Goals has been published in the International Journal of Educational Development.

The successful applicants to the Policy Fellowship for Michaelmas Term 2014 will make their first visits to Cambridge between September and December.

CSaP's second Visiting Research Fellow Professor Michael Kenny delivered a seminar based on his new book 'The Politics of English Nationhood'. In the talk, Kenny discussed what kind of statecraft was necessary and viable as the UK appears set on the course of evolution to a looser form of Union.

On 24 June, Nick Pearce delivered a lecture on political leadership and public administration in a post-democratic and populist age, co-hosted by CSaP and CRASSH.

CSaP Associate Fellow and Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, David Spiegelhalter, has received a Knight Bachelor for services to Statistics.

Last month, Vince Cable gave a detailed account of the current state of our post-school training system and how we again need to close the gap that Anthony Crosland set out to do over half a century ago.

What role does evidence and networks of expertise play in the policy development process? This was the question that science spokespersons from the three main Westminster parties were asked to address at CSaP's annual conference last month.