In the seventh episode of CSaP's Science and Policy Podcast, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday sat down with the University of Cambridge's chemist Professor Clare Grey and cosmologist Professor Lord Martin Rees to discuss how we can support and foster scientific innovation, and the example of energy storage as a space where innovation is needed and progress is underway.

Can resilience be planned for? In the second seminar of our workshop series on resilience, Dr. Eloise Taysom and Dr. David Cleevely guided a lively debate on the balance between optimization and resilience within a system.

In the sixth episode of our podcast series on science, policy and a green recovery, we explored the role can science play in contributing to the energy transition that will be needed to meet our net zero goals, and discussed the potential role for solar energy in this transition.

In our fourth resilience seminar, Dr Colin Wilson (Communities & Engagement Unit, Home Office), delivered the contradictory maxims that must be followed to reduce organised crime in young people – a phenomenon that is as much about failures in community resilience as it is about individual proclivities.

As part of the launch event for CSaP’s 2019-2020 Annual Report, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday spoke with the Bennett Institute’s Professor Diane Coyle about the productivity puzzle.

In the third seminar of our online workshop series on resilience, we asked: How can resilience be defined in industry and infrastructure?

In the fourth episode of our series on science, policy and a green recovery, Dr Rob Doubleday sat down with Mr Desglise and Cambridge University Department of Politics lecturer Dr Cristina Peñasco to discuss how the finance sector might play a role in a green recovery, and to explore the role of innovation, research and development in the UK's transition to a net zero economy.

The Cambridge Zero Policy Forum has released a report on a Blueprint for a Green Future.

StateUp partnered with CSaP for the October event in their digital translator series, which seeks to improve the quality of conversation at the intersection of government and technology, by seeking out and learning from individuals and organizations that are helping to move the needle in a positive direction at this juncture.

CSaP Policy Fellows gathered online with Professor Frank Kelly and Dr Magda Osman for the first in a series of Resilience Seminars to reflect on the experience of doing public policy during these turbulent times.