Past

• 6 February 2024, 4pm

  Nature recovery networks - 6 Feb 2024

  In partnership with National Highways, CSaP organised a Policy Workshop on Nature recovery networks and habitat connectivity in the UK. You can download the report from our website.

• 18 January 2024, 5:30pm

  2024 Christ's Climate Lecture: On nature, biodiversity and climate - Sir Patrick Vallance

  The 2024 Christ's College Climate lecture was given by Sir Patrick Vallance, Chair of The Natural History Museum, and former Chief Scientific Adviser. His lecture explores the inextricably linked challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change.

• 12 December 2023, 6pm

  Emerging technologies and their implications for industrial innovation policy: a view from China

  Professor Mu (Director General, Centre for Innovation and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences) explores how industrial innovation policy in China is responding to this time of radical and disruptive technologies set against a backdrop of geopolitical instability and growing protectionism.

• 26 September 2023, 5pm

  Future of Transport: Decarbonising a complex system

  The 2023 Annual Cleevely Lecture was delivered by Professor Sarah Sharples, Chief Scientific Adviser in the Department for Transport.

• 19 September 2023, 4pm

  DfT Policy Workshop on Maritime Decarbonisation - 19 Sep 2023

  The Department for Transport (DfT) is developing an ambitious policy programme to accelerate maritime decarbonisation. This report outlines some of the discussions that took place as part of the Policy Workshop.

• 18 July 2023

  Policy Workshop: Public Health Adversity

• 11 July 2023

  Policy Workshop: Robotics, Autonomous Systems and AI in Safety-Critical Applications

  CSaP has been working to support the University of York’s Assuring Autonomy International Programme (AAIP), part of the Institute for Safe Autonomy, through a series of workshops held between mid-May and July 2023.

• 6 July 2023, 5:30pm

  The 2023 Reynolds lecture: 'Wisdom sits in places: the extraordinary power of the sense of place'

  The 2023 Reynolds lecture will be held on Thursday 6 July 2023 at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Madeleine Bunting will be speaking on the power of place and the many ways in which we use it to inspire identity, belonging and deep attachment.

• 29 June 2023, 5pm

  Adolescent brain development: what we know and what it means for policy

  The Centre for Science and Policy is hosting a lecture at Trinity College which will be delivered by Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on “Adolescent brain development: what we know and what it means for policy.”  The workshop will take place on Thursday 29 June at 5pm

• 26 June 2023

  Policy Workshop: Stress and School Environment

  In June 2023, CSaP organised a Policy Workshop in partnership with the Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Research Centre (Cambridge Neuroscience IRC) and the Department for Education (DfE). The workshop addressed the following overarching question: How does stress in the school environment affects development and learning?