Professor Jennifer Rubin, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Home Office, led a discussion for CSaP's Continuing Policy Fellows on evidence-based policy in a mission-led government.

We are delighted to announce the names of the successful applicants to the Policy Fellowship Programme for Michaelmas Term 2024.

Anthony Painter from the Chartered Management Institute discussed the culture of management in the UK and the role of management in the private and public sectors.

CsaP’s Continuing Policy Fellows met with Professor Michael Kenny, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Pembroke College. Professor Kenny led a roundtable discussion based on his book Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK.

During a recent Policy Leaders Fellowship visit day, Professor Nick Pearce called for governments to adopt a more strategic approach in the face of the multiple interlocking crises of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, and the war in Ukraine.

On 29 June, CSaP invited Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, to give a lecture on adolescent brain development – what we know and what it means for policy. The lecture took place at Trinity College, Cambridge.

CSaP’s Horn Fellows gathered at Jesus College, Cambridge for a day of interdisciplinary discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI), balancing the potential for the application of AI in health and science against its risks.

In this blog piece, Dr Rebecca Jones, CSaP Policy Fellow and Head of Cancer, Ageing and Data at the Office for Life Sciences, tells us about how her CSaP Policy Fellowship informs her work in Government.

Professor William Hurst, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development at the Department of Politics and International Studies and Deputy Director for the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge, delivered the second of CSaP’s online seminars for Policy Fellows on the theme of Geopolitics: Nationhood, conflict, and identity.

The Centre for Science and Policy held the first session of its Lent Term online seminar series for CSaP Policy Fellows on 22 February 2023. The seminar, which explored the misuse of the history of Northern Ireland, was led by Dr Niamh Gallagher, University Associate Professor in Modern British and Irish History and Fellow of St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge.