Past

  • 9 March 2017, 5:30pm

    Climate seminar 5: Climate change - morphing into an existential threat

    Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan will discuss "Climate Change - Morphing into an Existential Threat" as part of the 2017 Climate Change Series.

  • 9 March 2017, 9am

    Professional Development Policy Workshop for researchers in the natural sciences

    A one-day workshop covering topics such as earthquakes, volcanic hazards, climate, ecology, conservation and biodiversity.

  • 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.

  • 2 March 2017, 7:30pm

    Climate lecture 2: 2°C roadmap based on financial analysis

    Anthony Hobley, CEO of Carbon Tracker Initiative, will present "2°C Roadmap Based on Financial Analysis", the sixth event in the 2017 Climate Change Lecture Series.

  • 25 February 2017

    Artificial Intelligence: Disrupting Sustainability

    The Sustainable Development Forum are bringing together experts from academia and industry for a conference on the disruptive potential of AI

  • 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.

  • 8 February 2017, 5:30pm

    CSaP Annual Lecture 2017: Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health

    There will be profound changes in health and disease over the next 20 years. The causes, demography and geography of ill health will shift significantly whilst the trend of demand for healthcare growing more rapidly than GNI is likely to continue. This lecture by Professor Chris Whitty discussed how it can predict, and help respond to, the policy challenges that will follow over the next 2 decades.

  • 26 January 2017, 5:30pm

    2017 Christ's College Climate seminars

    What institutional arrangements, knowledge and politics are required to tackle climate change in the coming decades? Professor Charles Kennel and the Centre for Science and Policy, in conjunction with Christ’s College, will deliver the next climate change seminar series.

  • 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.