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Leveraging behavioural food policies - for the planet, the people, and peace

Lucia Reisch, El-Erian Professor of Behavioural Economics and Policy, Cambridge

Consumer behaviour matters to save the planet (climate), the people (health), and peace (food security), as highlighted in the recent IPCC reports’ demand-side policy chapter. ...

Integrating scientific research into government: Grey Parrot Model

Dzhordzhio Naldzhiev, Head of Science Strategy, Office for Product Safety & Standards

By finding a way to generate relatively low-cost, high-risk, and high-reward research that benefits the civil service, while offering early career researchers the experience in ...

The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth

Dr Martina Zimmermann, Lecturer in Health Humanities and Health Sciences at King’s College London

Ageing evokes ideas of degeneration, decline and loss. The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth (SAACY) is a research programme funded by a ...

UK research and innovation strategy

Ryan Francis, CSaP Intern

Early into my internship, I attended a UK Research and Innovation Strategy event at the Royal Academy of Engineering, London, organised by the Foundation for ...

Decentralised administration for service delivery

Juthika Patankar, Indian Administrative Service

Juthika Patankar, a TIGR2ESS CSaP Policy Fellow, explores the role of decentralised administration for service delivery in India, and what she has learned from her ...

Why care about decision-making?

Fraser Battye, Principal Consultant, The Strategy Unit (NHS)

I am obsessed with strategic decision-making. Completely obsessed. In many ways and for many reasons: Reason 1: Improving decision making would improve many other things....