CSaP convened an expert panel and a group of early career researchers from the Cambridge Metabolic Network and the Cardiovascular Interdisciplinary Research Centre to explore the role of scientific advice and advocacy in responding to the UK's obesity epidemic.

In the penultimate episode of our series on science, policy and a green recovery, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday sat down with Dame Fiona Reynolds, Emmanuel College Master and former Director-General of the National Trust, and Dr Chris Sandbrook, Director of the MPhil in Conservation Leadership at the University of Cambridge to discuss the role of nature and conservation on the pathway to a green recovery.

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In the eighth episode of our podcast series on science, policy and a green recovery, we explored the role that sustainably managing our built environment can play in reducing carbon emissions.

In the seventh episode of CSaP's Science and Policy Podcast, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday sat down with the University of Cambridge's chemist Professor Clare Grey and cosmologist Professor Lord Martin Rees to discuss how we can support and foster scientific innovation, and the example of energy storage as a space where innovation is needed and progress is underway.

Can resilience be planned for? In the second seminar of our workshop series on resilience, Dr. Eloise Taysom and Dr. David Cleevely guided a lively debate on the balance between optimization and resilience within a system.

In the sixth episode of our podcast series on science, policy and a green recovery, we explored the role can science play in contributing to the energy transition that will be needed to meet our net zero goals, and discussed the potential role for solar energy in this transition.

In our fourth resilience seminar, Dr Colin Wilson (Communities & Engagement Unit, Home Office), delivered the contradictory maxims that must be followed to reduce organised crime in young people – a phenomenon that is as much about failures in community resilience as it is about individual proclivities.

As part of the launch event for CSaP’s 2019-2020 Annual Report, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday spoke with the Bennett Institute’s Professor Diane Coyle about the productivity puzzle.

In the third seminar of our online workshop series on resilience, we asked: How can resilience be defined in industry and infrastructure?