At the CSaP annual conference on 26 June, a panel of experts from York University, BEIS and the Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl) gave some thought-provoking insights on the opportunities and challenges of quantum technologies in the UK.

The ESRC and the Government Office for Science are looking to appoint two Areas of Research Interest (ARI) Fellowships, for one year (with the potential to extend to two years), starting as soon as feasible from mid October 2019. The deadline for applications is 16.00 on 6 August.

Participants from a CSaP Policy Workshop held earlier this year on 'emerging technologies for social care' reconvened at our Annual Conference on 26 June to discuss the opportunities and challenges of scaling technologies to support and improve social care in the UK.

The second plenary session of the conference was given by Dr Stephen Cave, Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Dr Cave presented a review of the ideology of ‘intelligence'

A workshop on place-based industrial strategy was held in Cambridge on 8 July 2019, which focused on sharing academic, policy and practitioner learning on the development of place-based strategies.

On 25 June 2019 experts in oral histories gathered in Cambridge to share knowledge, experiences and to generate ideas about using oral histories to explore interrelations between science and policy. The workshop was instigated by the MARIPOLDATA project, which uses oral history within the marine conservation field.

Policy makers working in health policy in the Middle East and North African region are invited to apply for a Policy Fellowship opportunity offered by the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) at the University of Cambridge and the Research for Health in Conflict (R4HC-MENA) project.

How is cybercrime affecting our world and what can be done to counter it?

A policy roundtable was convened by CSaP, bringing together members of the Cabinet Office and assorted academics to discuss the policy challenges and opportunities of emerging technologies.

CSaP's latest professional development workshop brought together Civil Service Science and Engineering Fast Streamers (SEFS) and Early Careers Researchers (ECRs) from the University of Cambridge.