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  • 19 June 2023

    The geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic

    Marie-Anne Coninsx, the first EU Ambassador for the Artic and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, met with the Cambridge Zero Policy Forum, to discuss the geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic.
  • 15 June 2023

    Remembering the Dissolution of the Monasteries

    CSaP’s Horn Fellows met in Jesus College, Cambridge to listen to Dr Harriet Lyon, Lecturer in History and J. H. Plumb College Lecturer at Christ’s College, Cambridge, gave a talk entitled ‘Remembering the Dissolution of the Monasteries: Memory, History, Nostalgia’.
  • 13 June 2023

    Revitalising UK Productivity: The Power of Investment

    The opening session at our Annual Conference last month focused on the role of investment in relation to UK productivity.
  • 9 June 2023

    Mobilising green investment: challenges and opportunities for the UK economy

    This Cambridge Zero Policy forum seminar explored the second Green Finance Strategy published on 30 March 2023, with Ben Fagan-Watson, Head of the Green Finance Team, Net Zero Strategy Directorate.
  • 1 June 2023

    Blog: Dr Rebecca Jones Head of Cancer, Ageing and Data, Office for Life Sciences (DSIT/DHSC)

    In this blog piece, Dr Rebecca Jones, CSaP Policy Fellow and Head of Cancer, Ageing and Data at the Office for Life Sciences, tells us about how her CSaP Policy Fellowship informs her work in Government.
  • 30 May 2023

    Transforming organisations and research cultures for mission-led innovation

    In a recent roundtable discussion at Jesus College, Professor Jenny Gibson and Professor Mark Girolami shed light on the transformative journey of Nesta and the Alan Turing Institute, as they made the shift towards mission and challenge-led innovation.
  • 22 May 2023

    Treading water in the Taiwan Strait: China-Taiwan relations

    Professor William Hurst, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development at the Department of Politics and International Studies and Deputy Director for the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge, delivered the second of CSaP’s online seminars for Policy Fellows on the theme of Geopolitics: Nationhood, conflict, and identity.
  • 4 May 2023

    Accelerating the pace of climate change policy through science, economics and diplomacy

    Drawing on his experience as a diplomat, policy maker and a user of science and economics, Simon Sharpe outlined his vision for the major institutional and ideological changes needed to reach net zero global emissions by 2030.
  • 3 May 2023

    Understanding the role of place in environmental sustainability

    This seminar explored key messages from a series of British Academy-funded projects on sustainability and discussed the implications with contributions from CSaP Policy Fellows.
  • 3 April 2023

    The uses and abuses of history: misuse of the history of Northern Ireland

    The Centre for Science and Policy held the first session of its Lent Term online seminar series for CSaP Policy Fellows on 22 February 2023. The seminar, which explored the misuse of the history of Northern Ireland, was led by Dr Niamh Gallagher, University Associate Professor in Modern British and Irish History and Fellow of St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge.