The theme of our recent Policy Leaders Fellows day was ‘Reducing serious violence and understanding what it means to feel “safer”’. Professor Manuel Eisner gave a talk on the key challenges and policy priorities for achieving the government’s Safer Streets Mission.

In one of our recent Policy Fellow Seminars, we were joined by Dr Clementine Collett, a BRAID Fellow at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge.

Dr Natalie Morningstar, an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, led a discussion on growth strategies that prioritise housing and how policymaking influences public perception.

The Centre for Science and Policy is recruiting a Policy Fellowships Coodinator to join the CSaP team.

Dr. Laura de Vito, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of the West of England in Bristol, presented findings from the CATAPULT project (2020-2023), a European-funded initiative addressing young people’s disengagement from democratic institutions amid the escalating climate crisis.

At a recent seminar, Dr Caroline Bertram, Carlsberg Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, discussed her research on the utility of climate provisions in preferential trade agreements.

For the first of our Easter term 2025 Policy Fellow Seminars, we are joined by Dr Moritz Mihatsch, Assistant Professor in World History and Bye-Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge.

In collaboration with the Maxwell Centre, CSaP convened a Science and Health Policy Engagement Roundtable to further dialogues on ethical innovation with artificial intelligence in life sciences and healthcare.

Professor Lucy Chappell, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), delivered the 2025 Annual Cleevely Lecture.

We are delighted to announce the names of the successful applicants to the Policy Fellowship Programme for Easter Term 2025.