Dr Meg Groom

Policy Engagement Coordinator (Themes) at Centre for Science and Policy

Meg Groom
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Policy Engagement Themes Coordinator, Centre for Science and Policy

As a Policy Engagement Themes Coordinator, Meg works to identify strategic areas for enhanced policy engagement support, focused on enabling impact and offering CSaP programmes in these targeted areas.

She has a PhD in Experimental Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. She investigated using light to monitor the performance loss of lithium batteries, such as those in electric vehicles. During her PhD, she was affiliated with the Faraday Institution and the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability. Prior to her PhD, Meg studied Natural Sciences at the University of Nottingham.

Meg has previously been recognised for her contributions to sustainability within higher education settings. She worked as a Sustainability Project Manager for Darwin College, Cambridge. During this time, she authored the College's first Sustainability Progress Report, mapping progress towards strategic sustainability goals set by the College for 2032. Meg has been awarded the University of Cambridge's Vice Chancellor's Social Impact Award and is a 2024 UK Green Gown Awards finalist.

Meg completed a CSaP internship from September - December 2022, during which she supported the Cambridge Zero Policy Forum.

Emma Davies

Department for Education
Emily Weighill

The Crown Estate
Sam Massey Ludo Tolu

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)
Sulekha Abdi

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)
Charlotte Bright

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Dr Louise Hazeland

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)
Fraser Battye

The Strategy Unit
Oladipo Okusaga

British Embassy Washington DC
Beatriz Brown

Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Department of Physics, University of Cambridge

PhD Candidate: Winton Scholar for the Physics of Sustainability

Darwin College, Cambridge

Project Manager - Sustainability

Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge

Policy Intern

  • 23 October 2025, 5:30pm

    The Reynolds Lecture 2025

    Professor Mariana Mazzucato will deliver the 2025 Reynolds Lecture on Mission-oriented government: Building state capacity for the 21st century.

  • 24 June 2025, 10am

    CSaP Annual Conference 2025: Resilience in a changing world

    This year our annual conference explored the theme 'Resilience in a changing world'. You can read summaries and listen to audio recordings of sessions held throughout the day.

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  • In news articles

    From permacrisis to possibility: Research and innovation in the NHS and life sciences

    Professor Lucy Chappell, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and Lord James O’Shaughnessy, discussed the life sciences, healthcare and economic growth in the opening address at the 2025 CSaP Annual Conference.

  • In news articles

    Conditions for disruptive and ethical innovation

    “There is a window of opportunity for the UK to take scientific leadership,” asserts Robert Miller, Director of the Whittle Laboratory and University of Cambridge Professor, opening the afternoon of talks between researchers and CSaP’s Dowling Policy Fellows at Peterhouse College.