Past Lectures and Seminars

• 4 June 2020, 11am

  Annual Conference Virtual Seminar Series: Net Zero

  The fourth seminar in the annual conference virtual seminar series will be on the topic of net zero with expert speakers from the University of Cambridge.

• 2 June 2020, 11am

  Annual Conference Virtual Seminar Series: Systems thinking

  The third seminar in the annual conference virtual seminar series will be on the topic of systems thinking with speakers from government, academia and industry.

• 28 May 2020

  Annual Conference Virtual Seminar Series: Citizen Science

  Is citizen science an approach, a way of thinking, or a set of tools? The second seminar in our annual conference seminar series will explore approaches to citizen science and the spaces in which it operates.

• 11 February 2020, 5:30pm

  CSaP Annual Lecture: Professor Dame Sally Davies

  The 2020 CSaP Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and former Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Advisor to the UK Government.

• 6 February 2020, 5:30pm

  2020 Christ’s College Climate Seminars

  The Centre for Science and Policy is working with Professor Charles Kennel, Director Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, to deliver the 2020 series of climate change seminars hosted by Christ’s College.

• 3 October 2019, 5pm

  The makings of Brexit and the road ahead

  On the cusp of the UK's exit from the EU, Philip Rycroft will reflect on his seven years at the centre of the UK Government to ask how we have reached this point in the country's history.

• 23 September 2019, 5:30pm

  Citizen science: reshaping relations between science, government and citizens

  In this lecture, Johannes Vogel will set out his vision for citizen science. This vision underpins ambitious plans to transform the Berlin Natural History Museum and place it at the heart of democratic engagement with the grand challenges of the 21st century.

• 23 May 2019, 5:30pm

  Is the British Civil Service an endangered species?

  Is the British Civil Service an endangered species? A Distinguished Policy Lecture by Lord Wilson of Dinton.

• 25 March 2019, 5pm

  50 years of Innovation Studies – What have we learned? And what are the emerging challenges?

  Professor Ben Martin gives the CSTI seminar of 50 years of Innovation Studies

• 4 March 2019, 5:30pm

  How to stop bad data driving out the good in an age of misuse, misleadingness and misinformation

  The 2019 CSaP Annual Lecture will be given by Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation at the UK Statistics Authority, and a CSaP Policy Leaders' Fellow.