A discussion at our Annual Conference focused on how government and academia could improve the way they frame policy questions or position research to make it more accessible to one another other.

Marie-Anne Coninsx, the first EU Ambassador for the Artic and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, met with the Cambridge Zero Policy Forum, to discuss the geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic.

CSaP’s Horn Fellows met in Jesus College, Cambridge to listen to Dr Harriet Lyon, Lecturer in History and J. H. Plumb College Lecturer at Christ’s College, Cambridge, gave a talk entitled ‘Remembering the Dissolution of the Monasteries: Memory, History, Nostalgia’.

The opening session at our Annual Conference last month focused on the role of investment in relation to UK productivity.

This Cambridge Zero Policy forum seminar explored the second Green Finance Strategy published on 30 March 2023, with Ben Fagan-Watson, Head of the Green Finance Team, Net Zero Strategy Directorate.

In this blog piece, Dr Rebecca Jones, CSaP Policy Fellow and Head of Cancer, Ageing and Data at the Office for Life Sciences, tells us about how her CSaP Policy Fellowship informs her work in Government.

In a recent roundtable discussion at Jesus College, Professor Jenny Gibson and Professor Mark Girolami shed light on the transformative journey of Nesta and the Alan Turing Institute, as they made the shift towards mission and challenge-led innovation.

Professor William Hurst, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development at the Department of Politics and International Studies and Deputy Director for the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge, delivered the second of CSaP’s online seminars for Policy Fellows on the theme of Geopolitics: Nationhood, conflict, and identity.

Drawing on his experience as a diplomat, policy maker and a user of science and economics, Simon Sharpe outlined his vision for the major institutional and ideological changes needed to reach net zero global emissions by 2030.

This seminar explored key messages from a series of British Academy-funded projects on sustainability and discussed the implications with contributions from CSaP Policy Fellows.