As part of a policy training seminar series for doctoral researchers, Faculty of Education PhD candidate Melanie Greaux and CSaP Policy Fellow Anna Bailey-Bearfield spoke with early career researchers about the challenges facing people with autism, relevant developments in policy and research, and key policy recommendations for supporting those with autism in the UK.

Dr Jan Marco Müller, the first Science & Technology Advisor for the European External Action Service [EEAS] and doctoral researcher Paola Yanguas Parra joined the Centre for Science and Policy and the Berlin Centre for Global Engagement (BCGE) for a Q&A session exploring what it is like to be a science diplomat, how such a role can generate impact, and the challenges faced by those working in science diplomacy.

How can we integrate palliative care into the medical curriculum? What is the best way to inform the public about palliative care service and to deliver palliative care in low-resource contexts such as Palestine?

The Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge convened a workshop with the aim of exploring key lessons and themes which have emerged in the area of drug discovery throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

World Health Organisation Representative Dr Tasnim Atatrah shares how her R4HC-MENA Fellowship has impacted her work in international health emergency.

What can research do to help policymakers from the MENA region approaching health policy questions affected by conflict?

In the last event of the Levelling up seminar series, Professor Michael Kenny (Director, Bennett Institute), Tom Kelsey (Research Assistant, Bennett Institute) and Owen Garling (Knowledge Transfer Facilitator, Bennett Institute) shared their views on the UK Government’s approach to levelling up and on the themes that have emerged from this CSaP seminar series.

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge, co-hosted a webinar in June 2021 as a launch event presented for the report, ‘Pathways to Linking Science and Policy in the Field of Global Risk’. This report has been developed to help guide and enhance the policy engagement efforts of researchers at CSER and other research institutions.

In a workshop convened by CSaP earlier this spring, practitioners and academics gathered to explore the dynamics of alignment and divergence in UK regulatory policy after Brexit.

As part of CSaP’s ongoing seminar series on citizen science, Dr Mark Fabian, welfare economist and Research Associate at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, spoke to CSaP Policy Fellows to share his insights on the benefits of participative approaches in developing and measuring well-being policies. Dr Fabian’s work utilizes a co-production-based model to inform a theory and measures of thriving for the national poverty charity Turn2Us.