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Resilience and Reducing Organised Crime
In our fourth resilience seminar, Dr Colin Wilson (Communities & Engagement Unit, Home Office), delivered the contradictory maxims that must be followed to reduce organised crime in young people – a phenomenon that is as much about failures in community resilience as it is about individual proclivities.
20 November 2020
The Productivity Puzzle
As part of the launch event for CSaP’s 2019-2020 Annual Report, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday spoke with the Bennett Institute’s Professor Diane Coyle about the productivity puzzle.
16 November 2020
Resilience, Industry and Infrastructure
In the third seminar of our online workshop series on resilience, we asked: How can resilience be defined in industry and infrastructure?
11 November 2020
Sustainable Finance and Green Innovation
In the fourth episode of our series on science, policy and a green recovery, Dr Rob Doubleday sat down with Mr Desglise and Cambridge University Department of Politics lecturer Dr Cristina Peñasco to discuss how the finance sector might play a role in a green recovery, and to explore the role of innovation, research and development in the UK's transition to a net zero economy.
10 November 2020
Science, Policy & a Green Recovery: A Blueprint for a Green Future
The Cambridge Zero Policy Forum has released a report on a Blueprint for a Green Future.
6 November 2020
Digital Translators
StateUp partnered with CSaP for the October event in their digital translator series, which seeks to improve the quality of conversation at the intersection of government and technology, by seeking out and learning from individuals and organizations that are helping to move the needle in a positive direction at this juncture.
6 November 2020
Systems Resilience in the Context of Covid-19
CSaP Policy Fellows gathered online with Professor Frank Kelly and Dr Magda Osman for the first in a series of Resilience Seminars to reflect on the experience of doing public policy during these turbulent times.
26 October 2020
Science, policy and a green recovery: economics and energy transitions
In the third episode of our podcast series exploring science, policy, and a green recovery, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday was joined by Cambridge University's Professor Michael Pollitt to discuss economics and energy transitions in the context of the economic shock created by the covid-19 pandemic.
21 October 2020
The Macroeconomics of a Green Recovery
In the second episode of our podcast series exploring science, policy, and a green recovery, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday was joined by Cambridge University economists Dr Kamiar Mohaddes and Dr Nina Seega to explore the macro economic shock from the covid-19 pandemic, and how that shock relates to arguments for investment in a green recovery.
12 October 2020
Science, Policy & a Green Recovery: Understanding the Challenges Ahead
In the first episode of our podcast series exploring science, policy, and a green recovery, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday was joined by Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Professor Rebecca Willis, and Dimitri Zenghelis to explore how the covid-19 pandemic is reshaping the conversation around climate policy.