Following a further competitive election process, the Centre has announced the names of the successful applicants to the Fellowship for Michaelmas Term 2020.

How can we move towards cleaner, greener and smarter forms of growth in the aftermath of the current crisis?

Can health technology foster greater resilience in our health care systems? What lessons have we learned from the covid-19 pandemic about the role of technology in healthcare provision?

What can we learn from the way that government decision making has sometime posed economics and public health against each other? How can decision-makers consider economic and health outcomes holistically? What can we learn from the different approaches taken by governments to contain covid-19 while minimizing economic impact?

As part of our 2020 virtual annual conference we asked: How can we accelerate innovation? What can we learn from efforts to accelerate innovation during the covid-19 pandemic?

As part of our podcast series on science, policy and pandemics, we explored the economic, food security, and health systems impacts of covid-19 in India.

In the final episode of our series on Science, Policy & Pandemics, Dr Rob Doubleday asks: What have we learned about the origins and responses to Covid-19, and how can we prepare for the next pandemic?

In the 16th episode of our series on science, policy and pandemics, we explored our how public health understandings of cities, and broader understandings of how people live in cities, are being highlighted and challenged by our current experience of the covid-19 pandemic.

UCL has been awarded almost £4m by Research England to explore ways of improving academic-policy engagement, through the creation of Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE), in partnership with the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester and Nottingham and Northumbria, as well as Parliament, Government and policy organisations.

What societal factors allow organised crime to flourish? What do we know about the roots of organised crime and how people end up at risk of becoming involved in these forms of criminal activity?