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.

As part of the ‘Levelling up’ seminar series, organised in partnership with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Dr Saite Lu (Postdoctoral Affiliate of Trinity College and Research Associate for the Wealth Economy project at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy) discussed how human and social capital can help alleviate the regional disparity, and be better integrated into policy and investment decisions as part of the levelling up agenda.

Prof Jennifer Gabrys from the University of Cambridge gave rise to a vivid conversation on how citizen-led data production can make infrastructures more democratic, just and sustainable.

CSaP co-hosted a workshop with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East of England (ARC EoE) and the Population Health Research Hub East of England (PHResH EoE) on the future of the prevention of poor health by exploring the challenges from a community assets perspective.