How should researchers synthesise diverse evidence and construct compelling answers to policy questions? What are the differences between being an honest broker of information and an issue advocate? How can early-career researchers get involved with the world of policy?

Dr. Soutrik Basu and Mr. Anupam Kumar explore the pathways along which India can transition to Agriculture 4.0, a system which delivers efficient, productive and sustainable farming through its heavy use of technology.

How do institutions earn the trust needed to guide personal decision making through the evidence they provide?

Recent advances in science and technology have created new opportunities for us to explore and study Antarctica, the deep ocean, and near-Earth space in a way that until recently, would have been unimaginable. We explored some of these technological advances in the first episode of our six-part podcast mini series on Science & Policy for Space, Deep Oceans, and Antarctica.

Place matters in terms of culture and identity, yet nationally everything is connected. With this in mind, we asked: should levelling up be a central government agenda or a series of local tied-together agendas? Perhaps what really matters is that any interventions need to be ‘done with’, rather than ‘done to’.

Professor Muki Haklay inspects the barriers facing citizen science and asks how we can best overcome them.

On 26 February 2021, the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) hosted the fourth seminar in the ‘Being Heard’ seminar series, a professional development programme for PhD students within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Students were joined by invited guests including doctoral researcher Fleur Nash, Dr Rachel Cooper (Strategy Director, Cabinet Office) and Nicola Buckley (Associate Director of CSaP).

Professor Neil Lawrence, Jessica Montgomery and Professor Sylvie Delacroix explain how data trusts can empower us to retain the rights around our data and how it is used.

We look forward to welcoming a new cohort of Policy Fellows to Cambridge next term.

In the world of international health and human rights, how do we examine and determine what is the “best” policy or set of policies? How do we ensure that interests of all groups are considered, especially when those groups are marginalised?