Past

• 29 April 2013, 5:30pm

  MRC Biostatistics Unit Public Lecture Series: Professor Sir Michael Rawlins

  Failings in hierarchies of evidence for controversial health-policy decisions: In this lecture Michael Rawlins will consider the respective places of experimentation and observation in deciding whether therapeutic interventions are fit for purpose.

• 25 April 2013, 6pm

  Behaviour and Health Research Unit Annual Lecture: Peter Kellner, President YouGov

  Behaviour and Health Research Unit Annual Lecture: "Redefining Equality" Peter Kellner, President YouGov

• 25 April 2013, 5:15pm

  Secrets behind the Cambridge Phenomenon: Good fortune or outstanding strategy?

  Professor Sir John Bell, Harriet Fear and Chris Green will discuss the following questions: Which lessons can we learn from the Cambridge Life Science Cluster, has there always been a strong strategy in place? Which role should government, industry and academia play to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and academic excellence in order to maintain a world-leading Life Science Industry?

• 18 April 2013

  Future directions for scientific advice in Whitehall

  A collection of essays based on a recent series of seminars to stimulate fresh thinking and practical recommendations on future directions in scientific advice in Whitehall, will be launched at the CSaP annual conference on 18 April in London.

• 17 April 2013, 5pm

  The Martin Centre Research Seminar Series: Professor Fan Gang

  "Industrialisation, Urbanisation, and China's Sustainable Growth" by Professor Fan Gang. The Martin Centre Research Seminar Series, Department of Architecture. 43rd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures.

• 26 March 2013, 8:45am

  Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences: DCLG

  "Policy Support in Communities and Local Government" The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) would like to engage with academic mathematicians and statisticians to address major policy challenges and to inform its decision-making. Topics under discussion include Homelessness, Optimum Locations of National Resilience Assets, and Business rates income pooling.

• 22 March 2013, 6pm

  Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Cass Sunstein

  Speaker: Professor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

• 7 March 2013, 1pm

  Cambridge Public Policy Seminar: The status of girls’ education as a barometer of social and economi...

  Ann Cotton, Executive Director, CamFed International, and Entrepreneur in Residence, Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, University of Cambridge

• 27 February 2013, 5:30pm

  CSaP Distinguished Lecture: Lord Turner

  Lord Turner of Ecchinswell, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, will deliver his lecture 'Public Policy and the science base: successes and failures' as part of the CSaP Distinguished Lecture Series.

• 25 February 2013, 2pm

  Global Integrated Assessments Symposium

  Making sense of complexity in an interdependent world: A symposium to discuss the promotion of the increased use of systems thinking in UK academia and government and enlarging their international engagement.