The case for capital infrastructure investment is that it will provide jobs in the short term and improve livelihoods and business operations in the long term, although the long term benefits are not guaranteed. Should capital infrastructure investment be a space blind approach which allows people to move to more prosperous areas or a place based approach which seeks to correct existing spatial inequalities and improve prosperity of regions?

In the autumn of 2020, members of the CSaP Policy Leaders Fellowship gathered to hear from experts working at the cutting edge of genome editing research, with the goal of understanding the state of these technologies.

Are you interested in bolstering democratic governance in Europe? Professionals from Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey who are active in public policy fields in government, NGOs, media and law among other sectors are invited to apply for a Policy Fellowship opportunity offered by the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) at the University of Cambridge as part of the POPBACK project.

In the first of the 2021 Bennett Institute 'Levelling up' seminar series we frame the discussion of what levelling up has been historically, and establish what can be done in the future to help increase regional economic equality in the UK.

In the first seminar of the 2021 Christ's College Climate Seminar Series, we explored how to frame action and inaction on issues such as public health and climate change, and examined how to increase the likelihood that effective action will be taken.

CSaP brought together early career researchers and civil servants from the Department of Transportation for a professional development workshop which explored various aspects of the policymaking process including the role of science in policymaking, the role of the learned societies in UK policy processes, and questions arising during policy appraisal processes.

As part of CSaP’s ongoing lunchtime seminar series on resilience, in December 2020 policy fellows heard from Nesta’s Eliza Easton, who led a discussion on how the concept of resilience has been used in policies for the creative economy.

In the autumn of 2020, CSaP convened a workshop which brought together senior government representatives, senior academics, and practitioners from across the British Overseas Territories (BOTs) and the United Kingdom. This workshop was designed as an opportunity for knowledge exchange, and as a chance to examine some of the key policy priorities facing the Overseas Territories.

What steps can we take to improve personal resilience? How can organisations help to improve the personal resilience of their teams during periods of crisis?

Our sixth resilience seminar introduced CSaP Policy Fellow James Cemmell, Vice President of UK space organisation, Inmarsat. Alongside his colleague, Dr. Mark Dickinson – an expert on space, engineering and procurement – James revealed the importance of resilience to space projects, which have always been high cost, high stakes, and logistically complex endeavours. Almira Zejnilagic, Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, spoke later in this session, detailing her work on risk investigations in the Middle East and Africa.