Professor Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winner and former US Secretary of Energy under President Obama, visited the University of Cambridge to deliver the 2014 Dr S T Lee Public Policy Lecture on energy and climate change.

CSaP is delighted to welcome its third Visiting Research Fellow - Baroness Bryony Worthington, the UK Labour Party's Shadow Minister on Energy & Climate Change.

Following a review after its first five years of operation, RCUK’s Global Uncertainties Programme has become the Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research (PaCCS) and undergone some important changes.

An article in the Economist includes CSaP's Visiting Research Fellow, Professor Michael Kenny, and his new book "The Politics of English Nationhood".

The 2014 Annual Reception gathered key members of our network to celebrate CSaP's numerous achievements over our first five years. Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Sue Owen, and David Cleevely all spoke.

After a successful planning meeting in February 2014, this workshop moved the Challenge forward by identifying the insights that modelling can offer national and local policy on ageing.

CSaP's Policy Challenges Co-ordinator, Dr Moira Faul's article on the UN's global Sustainable Development Goals has been published in the International Journal of Educational Development.

The successful applicants to the Policy Fellowship for Michaelmas Term 2014 will make their first visits to Cambridge between September and December.

CSaP's second Visiting Research Fellow Professor Michael Kenny delivered a seminar based on his new book 'The Politics of English Nationhood'. In the talk, Kenny discussed what kind of statecraft was necessary and viable as the UK appears set on the course of evolution to a looser form of Union.

On 24 June, Nick Pearce delivered a lecture on political leadership and public administration in a post-democratic and populist age, co-hosted by CSaP and CRASSH.