The final panel session of the Centre for Science and Policy’s (CSaP) annual reception 2021 discussed net zero ambitions. It was chaired by Dr Rob Doubleday, the Centre’s Executive Director with panellists; Dr Christina Peñasco, Lecturer in Public Policy, Cambridge and Dr Matthew Agarwala, Economist at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge.

Levelling up was an amorphous policy pledge in the Conservative Party’s 2019 manifesto. Since then, numerous academics and policy organisations have focused on what ‘levelling up’ means, and how it should be achieved. The upcoming Levelling Up White Paper is expected to specify a precise policy programme for this agenda.

A panel discussion on child development, learning and mental health was chaired by Paul Kett, Director-General for Higher Education and Further Education at the Department of Education, with invited panellists from the University of Cambridge – Sarah Jayne Blackmore, Professor of Psychology and Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Public servant Richard Banks says he hopes to gain “connections and understanding” from researchers and experts in public and private roles, during his first visit to Cambridge as a CSaP Fellow.

The University of Cambridge will offer six days of free climate-themed online panel sessions, pre-recorded talks, stories and games for all ages at its Climate Change Festival in the final days before the start of COP26.

With weeks to go until COP26, CSaP's Executive Director Rob Doubleday talks to two of Cambridge's leading economists Dr Matthew Agarwala and Dr Cristina Peñasco, about what leaders need to know and do, to delivery a clean, green recovery. The event was hosted as part of the University of Cambridge's Alumni Festival 2021.

Healthcare is one of the largest contributors to the UK’s total carbon footprint. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the NHS experienced a rapid change in the delivery of healthcare: can this sense of critical urgency be harnessed and applied to the decarbonisation of the National Health Service?

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is recruiting for an Academic Programme Manager (Fixed Term). This is a Senior Research Associate Role, with part-time or full-time applications considered. The vacancy combines academic, management and administration responsibilities for research on extreme risks.

CSaP are delighted to welcome twelve new Policy Fellows for the Michaelmas Term 2021. Our Fellowship programme is a flexible professional development programme over two years. It aims to connect research with the policy world, providing access to expertise at the University of Cambridge.

CSaP hosted an online event with Dr Sharath Srinivasan who discussed his new book 'When Peace Kills Politics '. In his book, which emerged from his long experience with international politics in Africa and research in Sudan, Dr Srinivasan examines the role of international peace-making in reproducing violence and political authoritarianism in Sudan and South Sudan.