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Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement - Regional Structures and Opportunities
As part of CSaP’s Annual Conference, Sarah Chaytor, Director of Research and Strategy, UCL, chaired a discussion with Dr Louise Kempton, Director of Insights North East (INE) and Dr Peter O’Brien, Executive Director of Yorkshire Universities, that focussed on processes for academic engagement with regional governmental structures.
23 June 2023
Reframing Climate Policies: Strategies for Public Engagement and Behaviour Change
CSaP's Annual Conference 2023 concluded by unveiling key strategies to bridge the gap between public engagement and policy implementation on climate and resilience. The discussion also focused on how to revolutionise climate action in the UK.
21 June 2023
How do you foster meaningful exchanges between academia and government?
A discussion at our Annual Conference focused on how government and academia could improve the way they frame policy questions or position research to make it more accessible to one another other.
19 June 2023
The geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic
Marie-Anne Coninsx, the first EU Ambassador for the Artic and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, met with the Cambridge Zero Policy Forum, to discuss the geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic.
15 June 2023
Remembering the Dissolution of the Monasteries
CSaP’s Horn Fellows met in Jesus College, Cambridge to listen to Dr Harriet Lyon, Lecturer in History and J. H. Plumb College Lecturer at Christ’s College, Cambridge, gave a talk entitled ‘Remembering the Dissolution of the Monasteries: Memory, History, Nostalgia’.
13 June 2023
Revitalising UK Productivity: The Power of Investment
The opening session at our Annual Conference last month focused on the role of investment in relation to UK productivity.
9 June 2023
Mobilising green investment: challenges and opportunities for the UK economy
This Cambridge Zero Policy forum seminar explored the second Green Finance Strategy published on 30 March 2023, with Ben Fagan-Watson, Head of the Green Finance Team, Net Zero Strategy Directorate.
1 June 2023
Blog: Dr Rebecca Jones Head of Cancer, Ageing and Data, Office for Life Sciences (DSIT/DHSC)
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.
30 May 2023
Transforming organisations and research cultures for mission-led innovation
In a recent roundtable discussion at Jesus College, Professor Jenny Gibson and Professor Mark Girolami shed light on the transformative journey of Nesta and the Alan Turing Institute, as they made the shift towards mission and challenge-led innovation.
22 May 2023
Treading water in the Taiwan Strait: China-Taiwan relations
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.