Past
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2 March 2017
What will the internet of the future look like?
Join us for this one-day workshop. The future internet will no longer just be smart phone apps and the Cloud, largely deployed in the richest 20% of the world for knowledge, fun and profit. It will be the Internet of drones, the Internet of AIs, the Internet of the developing world. It will also be the Internet of truth, lies and mixed realities. -
22 February 2017
Future of mobility
The Government Office for Science, is undertaking a Foresight Project on the Future of Mobility. This project will bring together cutting-edge academic research, industry expertise and policy making to consider the future transport landscape. The project will work with policy makers to consider what this evidence base means for policy development in this area. Further to this, by assessing and prioritising key trends in mobility, a set of future scenarios wil be developed and their consequences analysed. Among other themes, the project will examine the social and demographic drivers changing the future transport landscape. -
14 February 2017, 12:45pm
Devolution and inclusive economic growth (Manchester)
Devolution offers new opportunities for inclusive economic growth. This workshop will bring together academics from the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester with policy professionals from local government to explore working together in city areas to enhance economic opportunities across the population. -
26 January 2017, 4pm
How to measure what can’t easily be measured
The NIHR is working to shorten the time taken to develop drugs and other therapies, with the aim of reducing the length of the average process by 20 months. As part of this Push the Pace programme, NOCRI is aiming to develop a method for measuring the impact of the time reduction. -
5 October 2016
Fostering multi-level governance in the climate change regime
CSaP is working with the University of Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance to organise a Policy Workshop which will bring together academic experts with policy makers who are implementing the Paris commitments at local levels. -
6 September 2016
The Future of Genomic Medicine Patents in Europe and the US
This workshop will bring together academic and industry experts with relevant policy makers to discuss and analyse recent legal decisions in the US and Europe, and their implications for the future of precision medicine. -
5 July 2016
Local Government Policy Workshop: facilitating knowledge exchange with the University of Cambridge
The Centre for Science and Policy is organising a workshop to discuss how to strengthen links between the University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire County Council, South Cambs District Council, Cambridge City Council, and the LEP. -
8 June 2016, 4pm
The business of encryption and the encryption of business
A policy workshop, exploring issues of digital privacy and the interlinked roles of encryption and business. -
13 May 2016, 4pm
Innovation in agriculture – supporting and catalysing a translational cat’s cradle
What are the big opportunities to deliver on the aims of the agri-tech strategy? This policy workshop seeks to explore this question in the context of the rapidly developing plans for the new Cambridge Centre for Crop Science (3CS), a collaboration between NIAB and the University of Cambridge that will enhance research in crop sciences, promote knowledge exchange and develop resilience in food security. -
25 February 2016, 4pm
How do research cultures develop and what makes a successful research culture?
This Policy Workshop, in partnership with the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will bring together researchers from the arts, humanities and social sciences with policy professionals from the research councils, learned societies and Whitehall.