Professor Chris Lintott introduces the Zooniverse citizen science platform and its project Planet Hunters, a model which enabled the public to discover new exoplanets whilst showcasing how citizen science might positively steer public policy.

Expenditure on social infrastructure may not provide the capital or jobs that show 'value for money' directly, but may head off social problems and economic costs in the future. Can and should we trust local areas to drive their own policy decisions? Or should we have a more 'joined up' national agenda?

The first Horn Fellows seminar of 2021 looked at how quantum networks of information may bring transformative change to the internet, money and communication.

In the autumn of 2020, members of the CSaP Policy Leaders Fellowship gathered to hear from experts working at the cutting edge of genome editing research, with the goal of understanding the state of these technologies.

The case for capital infrastructure investment is that it will provide jobs in the short term and improve livelihoods and business operations in the long term, although the long term benefits are not guaranteed. Should capital infrastructure investment be a space blind approach which allows people to move to more prosperous areas or a place based approach which seeks to correct existing spatial inequalities and improve prosperity of regions?

Are you interested in bolstering democratic governance in Europe? Professionals from Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey who are active in public policy fields in government, NGOs, media and law among other sectors are invited to apply for a Policy Fellowship opportunity offered by the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) at the University of Cambridge as part of the POPBACK project.

In the first of the 2021 Bennett Institute 'Levelling up' seminar series we frame the discussion of what levelling up has been historically, and establish what can be done in the future to help increase regional economic equality in the UK.

In the first seminar of the 2021 Christ's College Climate Seminar Series, we explored how to frame action and inaction on issues such as public health and climate change, and examined how to increase the likelihood that effective action will be taken.

CSaP brought together early career researchers and civil servants from the Department of Transportation for a professional development workshop which explored various aspects of the policymaking process including the role of science in policymaking, the role of the learned societies in UK policy processes, and questions arising during policy appraisal processes.

As part of CSaP’s ongoing lunchtime seminar series on resilience, in December 2020 policy fellows heard from Nesta’s Eliza Easton, who led a discussion on how the concept of resilience has been used in policies for the creative economy.