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Supporting parents to enhance young people’s mental health

Gordon Harold, Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health, Cambridge

Mental health problems among young people are on the rise, rates of family conflict, discord and breakdown are also on the increase. Supporting parents through ...

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

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

"The El Erian Institute is conducting research on the effectiveness of behavioural policies to nudge food choices accordingly and reduce dependence on grain and fertilisers."

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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....