Past
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25 February 2017
Artificial Intelligence: Disrupting Sustainability
The Sustainable Development Forum are bringing together experts from academia and industry for a conference on the disruptive potential of AI -
22 February 2017
Future of mobility
The Government Office for Science, is undertaking a Foresight Project on the Future of Mobility. This project will bring together cutting-edge academic research, industry expertise and policy making to consider the future transport landscape. The project will work with policy makers to consider what this evidence base means for policy development in this area. Further to this, by assessing and prioritising key trends in mobility, a set of future scenarios wil be developed and their consequences analysed. Among other themes, the project will examine the social and demographic drivers changing the future transport landscape. -
14 February 2017, 12:45pm
Devolution and inclusive economic growth (Manchester)
Devolution offers new opportunities for inclusive economic growth. This workshop will bring together academics from the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester with policy professionals from local government to explore working together in city areas to enhance economic opportunities across the population. -
8 February 2017, 5:30pm
CSaP Annual Lecture 2017: Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health
There will be profound changes in health and disease over the next 20 years. The causes, demography and geography of ill health will shift significantly whilst the trend of demand for healthcare growing more rapidly than GNI is likely to continue. This lecture by Professor Chris Whitty discussed how it can predict, and help respond to, the policy challenges that will follow over the next 2 decades. -
26 January 2017, 5:30pm
2017 Christ's College Climate seminars
What institutional arrangements, knowledge and politics are required to tackle climate change in the coming decades? Professor Charles Kennel and the Centre for Science and Policy, in conjunction with Christ’s College, will deliver the next climate change seminar series. -
26 January 2017, 4pm
How to measure what can’t easily be measured
The NIHR is working to shorten the time taken to develop drugs and other therapies, with the aim of reducing the length of the average process by 20 months. As part of this Push the Pace programme, NOCRI is aiming to develop a method for measuring the impact of the time reduction. -
17 January 2017
In search of ‘good’ energy policy
This seminar series explores energy policy themes from different disciplinary perspectives - economics, history, philosophy, theology, politics, law, anthropology, psychology, engineering - with the aim of identifying principles and processes for ‘good’ energy policy making. -
6 December 2016, 5:30pm
CCHSR 2016 annual lecture: A brief history of NHS politics 1948-2030
The Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR) 2016 annual lecture will be delivered by Professor Martin Roland CBE, Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge. -
1 December 2016, 3pm
The long road to Paris - how the climate change agreement was made
Former government science advisor David Warrilow will be discussing the scientific background to the Paris Climate Agreement on 1 December 2016. -
29 November 2016, 9am
Personalised healthcare: making the most of genomics
In this conference on genomics medicine organised by the PHG Foundation, recent scientific advances and the influence of societal interaction in genomic medicine will be discussed in the context of real-world policy issues.