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Multi-level governance of climate change: CSaP Policy Workshop
The Paris Agreement has been hailed as a major step in global climate change mitigation efforts, but how can different levels of governance work together to make the promises of Paris a reality? CSaP held a Policy Workshop bringing together climate specialists to discuss this question.
19 October 2016
Early career researchers discuss the benefits of building connections between science and policy
CSaP organised a talk for early career researchers to gain a better understanding of the role of research in the policy development process.
14 October 2016
CSaP Annual Reception 2016: building bridges between science and policy
Clare Moriarty, a CSaP Policy Leaders Fellow, described experiences throughout her career which had reinforced the value of strong communication between policy and research, before going on to explain why she had enjoyed the PLF programme as one of its first members.
13 October 2016
Why do farmers and advisers in the UK use decision support tools?
Dr David Rose, a CSaP Visiting Research Fellow, describes recent work investigating use of tools which provide evidence-based decision-making advice to policy makers and practitioners in a useable form.
12 October 2016
Public Service Transformation: What’s Next?
Digital technology has already transformed the private sector, from improving efficiency to fundamentally altering how consumers interact with businesses and producers.Dr Mark Thompson of Cambridge Judge Business School outlined how new technologies will also help deliver better servcies to the public sector.
10 October 2016
The Future of Genomic Medicine Patents in Europe and the US
Decisions relating to the patenting of genomics medicine technology were debated at a recent CSaP Policy workshop on precision medicine and intellectual property.
6 October 2016
CSaP Policy Fellowships: how to challenge thinking
The CSaP Policy Fellowship is a flexible professional development programme which starts with five days spent at the University of Cambridge meeting with researchers from a wide range of disciplines to discuss questions that you identify as important to you.
4 October 2016
Insights for Impact Report: Highlighting Psychology Research for Policy
A new annual report titled Insights for Impact has been compiled and published by the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge to highlight the influence that recent psychological research could have in policy.
27 September 2016
Honest advocacy for nature: presenting a persuasive narrative for conservation
This paper presents the case of the Lawton Review, which was able to seize on an opportunity to communicate a rigorously argued, persuasive and practical conservation message; in other words, it performed ‘honest advocacy’.
20 September 2016
How can research benefit housing policy?
With the prospect of devolution on the horizon and the greater local power that it would entail, attendees at a recent CSaP Policy Workshop on Cambridgeshire housing policy were keen to form stronger links between policy and academia.