In the final episode of our series on Science, Policy & Pandemics, Dr Rob Doubleday asks: What have we learned about the origins and responses to Covid-19, and how can we prepare for the next pandemic?

In the 16th episode of our series on science, policy and pandemics, we explored our how public health understandings of cities, and broader understandings of how people live in cities, are being highlighted and challenged by our current experience of the covid-19 pandemic.

UCL has been awarded almost £4m by Research England to explore ways of improving academic-policy engagement, through the creation of Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE), in partnership with the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester and Nottingham and Northumbria, as well as Parliament, Government and policy organisations.

What societal factors allow organised crime to flourish? What do we know about the roots of organised crime and how people end up at risk of becoming involved in these forms of criminal activity?

In the fourteenth episode of our series on Science, Policy and Pandemics, we explored the subject of vaccines and immunology. We heard three different perspectives on our current understanding of the immunology and of vaccines under development; challenges involved in vaccine distribution, and insights we’ve gained about innovation and knowledge exchange throughout the vaccine development process.

What do we know about social cohesion in the context of covid-19? As part of CSaP's 2020 Virtual Annual Conference, we heard from a practitioner and two academics about the role of social cohesion, inequalities in the UK, and challenges posed by covid-19.

Why do we need space policy, and what might space policies for the UK entail? As part of our virtual annual conference seminar on space science, researchers and industry professionals explored how interdependency characterizes space policymaking, and how scientific, commercial policy, and international governance influences our management and understanding of the risks in and from space.

Finding a new "normal" after lockdown is fraught with uncertainty. In the thirteenth episode of our podcast series on science, policy & pandemics, we're sharing the perspectives of an engineer, an economist, and a policy advisor on easing the lockdown.

As part of CSaP's 2020 virtual annual conference, policymakers and academics gathered in early June for a discussion which explored how differential privacy might be applied, the value of governed and secure data, online harms, and where privacy enhancing technologies fit within the aims of the National Data Privacy Strategy.

As part of our annual conference virtual seminar on getting to net zero, we explored the structural changes needed to get to net zero.