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The Centre extends a warm welcome to the first new Policy Fellows of 2013, who will make their initial visits to Cambridge during the first half of Lent Term for bespoke programmes of one-to-one meetings with researchers:
- Niall Mackenzie (DECC's Head of Industrial Energy Efficiency) will visit in the week of 21 January to explore what Cambridge research can tell him about improving industrial energy efficiency through innovative thinking in technology, operational practices, and the changing of business behaviour.
- Laura Haynes (Head of Policy Research in the Cabinet Office Behavioural Insights Team) will visit on 6-8 February, and on 25-26 April, to discuss questions relating to how the scientific method can be used in policy making, how long-term behaviour change can be achieved, and how government communications can be made more effective.
- Howard Covington (Trustee of the Science Museum) will visit in the week of 11 February to explore questions underlying a Climate and Sustainability Symposium that the Museum is planning to hold in 2013, covering weather, food security, technology, behaviour and the widest issues about the future of the planet and mankind.
- Jasdeep Sandhu (Head of Chief Scientific Adviser's Cabinet in DfID) will visit in the week of 18 February to explore questions to do with global challenges in international development, including the use of science and technology, how to harness the intellectual potential of the emerging economies, and the fight against disease and poverty.
- Ian McDowell (Head of Engagement for NHS North East London and the City, and MD of Both Sides NOW) will also visit in the week of 18 February, discussing how to improve the understanding of patient experience in the NHS through techniques such as sentiment analysis, and the challenges to organisational and statistical approaches posed by such techniques.
- Jeff Masters and Mark Simmonds (respectively, Policy Adviser to the Shadow Business Secretary and Researcher to the Shadow Cabinet Office Minster) will visit on 18-20 February, to explore how scientific knowledge and method can improve policy advice and the policy process, and how science can improve the UK’s economic performance and strengthen society.
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Steve Unger (Group Director – Strategy, International, Technology, Economics at Ofcom) will join us in the week of 25 February to explore questions relating to wireless technology innovation and growth, UK competitiveness, and the conditions and policies which foster the development of technology clusters.
Specific invitations to meet these Fellows will be issued in the usual way, but researchers who would like to put themselves forward to meet any of them are welcome to email and ask to be included in the schedule. We continue to welcome new applications from government and industry for later in 2013.
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