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As the Policy Fellowships Programme for 2012 comes to an end, with final visits by Fellows from GO-Science (Liz Surkovic), the Health Protection Agency (Virgina Murray) and the Child Poverty Unit (Frank Davies), attention turns to the first new Fellows of 2013 who will make their initial visits to Cambridge in Lent Term. These are expected to include the Head of Industrial Energy Efficiency at the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Head of Policy Research in the Cabinet Office Behavioural Insights Team, as well as our first Fellows from the Department for International Development and from the advisory and research teams supporting Shadow Ministers in the UK.
The first confirmed new Fellow will be Howard Covington (Trustee of the Science Museum - pictured), who has been tasked by the Museum to supervise arrangements for a Climate and Sustainability Symposium that it plans to hold in 2013. Howard will visit in early February for a bespoke programme of meetings with researchers addressing the questions which will form the basis of the Symposium – what is happening to the weather? will there be enough to eat? will technology rescue us? and can we change our behaviour? – as well as asking whether the predicament which humanity faces is characteristic of previous cycles, and if so, whether the outcome will be different this time around.
Specific invitations to meet these Fellows will be issued in the coming weeks, 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.
(Banner image from Cheddarcheez via Flickr)