The Centre for Science and Policy was very sorry to learn about the death of a great friend and colleague, Dr Finbarr Livesey, who died from cancer on 2 September 2019.

Clare Moriarty, Permanent Secretary of the Department for Exiting the European Union kicked off the 2019 CSaP annual conference with a presentation on how Brexit is shaping the civil service. She categorised the effects that Brexit has had on the civil service over the last three years into five key chapters.

A panel discussion highlighting the challenges for British land management policy post Brexit

Representatives from industry, academia and government discussed ethics in an age of rapid technological advancement.

At the CSaP annual conference on 26 June, a panel of experts from York University, BEIS and the Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl) gave some thought-provoking insights on the opportunities and challenges of quantum technologies in the UK.

The ESRC and the Government Office for Science are looking to appoint two Areas of Research Interest (ARI) Fellowships, for one year (with the potential to extend to two years), starting as soon as feasible from mid October 2019. The deadline for applications is 16.00 on 6 August.

The second plenary session of the conference was given by Dr Stephen Cave, Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Dr Cave presented a review of the ideology of ‘intelligence'

Participants from a CSaP Policy Workshop held earlier this year on 'emerging technologies for social care' reconvened at our Annual Conference on 26 June to discuss the opportunities and challenges of scaling technologies to support and improve social care in the UK.

A workshop on place-based industrial strategy was held in Cambridge on 8 July 2019, which focused on sharing academic, policy and practitioner learning on the development of place-based strategies.

On 25 June 2019 experts in oral histories gathered in Cambridge to share knowledge, experiences and to generate ideas about using oral histories to explore interrelations between science and policy. The workshop was instigated by the MARIPOLDATA project, which uses oral history within the marine conservation field.