Speaking at CSaP's 2019 annual conference, former DExEu Permanent Secretary, Philip Rycroft, suggested that the UK is facing both practical and existential questions in the face of Brexit.

At our annual conference on 26 June, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk led a panel discussion on extreme risks and the challenges that impossible to predict ‘black swan’ events pose for policy makers.

Following a competitive election process, the Centre has announced the names of the successful applicants to the Policy Fellowship for Michaelmas Term 2019.

Clare Moriarty, Permanent Secretary of the Department for Exiting the European Union kicked off the 2019 CSaP annual conference with a presentation on how Brexit is shaping the civil service. She categorised the effects that Brexit has had on the civil service over the last three years into five key chapters.

The Centre for Science and Policy was very sorry to learn about the death of a great friend and colleague, Dr Finbarr Livesey, who died from cancer on 2 September 2019.

A panel discussion highlighting the challenges for British land management policy post Brexit

Representatives from industry, academia and government discussed ethics in an age of rapid technological advancement.

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.