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Humanities at the heart of government: What does policy making stand to gain?

23 April 2015

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Report By Natalie Miazga, BBSRC-Funded CSaP Policy Intern (February 2015 - May 2015)

Last week the Centre for Science and Policy held its fourth annual conference at Murray Edwards College in Cambridge. This year our conference explored opportunities for improving the way government accesses, assesses and makes use of expertise from the humanities, and offered examples of the significant contribution these disciplines have made to public policy.

Earlier in the conference, it had emerged that the worlds of humanities and government were “poles part”. Reflecting on this, Lord Wilson (chairing the session) highlighted the huge resource in academia from which government could benefit. This session focused on the humanities at the heart of government and what policy making stands to gain.

Read the full story on the Centre for Science and Policy blog.

You can listen to a recording of the session here.


(Banner image from Wagner T. Cassimiro on Flickr)

Professor Catherine Barnard

Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

Graham Pendlebury

Department for Transport (DfT)

Dr Fabrizio Sestini

European Commission

Lord Richard Wilson

Policy Leaders Fellowship

  • 14 April 2015, 10am

    CSaP Annual Conference 2015

    This year our conference will explore opportunities for improving the way government accesses, assesses and makes use of expertise from the humanities, and offer examples of the significant contribution these disciplines have made to public policy.