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.

We are delighted to announce the names of the successful applicants to the POPBACK Policy Fellowship Programme.

Ruth Kern from THIS Institute at the University of Cambridge reflects on the lessons for policy from her institute's successful citizen science research projects during the COVID-19 pandemic

As part of the CSaP Policy Fellows’ seminar series on citizen science, Professor Alan Irwin (Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School) discussed citizen science and how it fits into scientific evidence and advice feeding into public policy.

What are some of the conservation challenges facing the most extreme and remote habitats on Earth? How can we protect these environments for future generations?