TIGR2ESS, a new research project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, was launched in Delhi at an event attended by academics and policy makers from India and the UK.

In the third of the 2018 Climate Seminar series, Professor Mike Hulme (Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) explored the cultural functions of climate, examining what climate is, how our idea of climate changes over time, and the effects that our idea of climate has on our imaginative worlds.

In the second of the 2018 Climate Seminar series, Dr Renata Tyszczuk (Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sheffield) took the audience on a voyage through the fascinating history of scenarios, showing how story-telling and the arts and humanities can support climate change research and leave us better prepared for uncertain futures.

In the first of the 2018 Climate Change Seminar Series, Professor Charles Kennel (Director Emeritus of the Sripps Institution of Oceanography) explained why California’s climate fate is tied up with the behaviour of the Pacific El Nino and La Nina system, how the loss of Arctic sea ice may be changing that system, and how gaining a greater understanding over its processes might enable us to predict extreme weather in future.

Dr Steven Wooding, CSaP Lead for Research and Analysis, has recently completed a summary of the evidence on the effectiveness of, and burden imposed by, the grant peer review system.

A public panel discussion, organised in collaboration with the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in Cambridge last week, approached the theme of communicating risk from the perspective of the distinguished panellists. A major focus in each of their talks was the relationship between the communication of uncertainty and the general public's trust of experts.

Recent years have seen a shift in the distribution of poverty and wealth, including a growing share of the world’s poor in middle income countries. In addition, the UK government has been under pressure by certain sections of the media to move official development assistance aid away from emerging powers, such as India and China.

A new major study suggests that the UK has one of the best digital economies of any country in the world, which is highly evolved and quickly advancing. Given this context, Matthew Hancock MP, gave his vision of harnessing the creativity and innovation in the UK to create new entrepreneurs.

A CSaP Policy Workshop looked at future possibilities for more effective engagement between civil society and government.

CSaP's 2017 annual reception saw Deborah Bronnert from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Professor Jaideep Prabhu from Cambridge Judge Business School, speak about the impact their CSaP connections had had on their work.