CSaP ran a policy workshop on “Making Systems Resilient”, organised in partnership with Dr Nathan Crilly, from the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge.

A renewed focus on innovative research and development spending by major UK departments would create new export-oriented industries and help rebalance the economy, says a new 65-page report entitled Creating Things for Markets that Don’t Exist.

To mark the fifty year anniversary of Solly Zuckerman’s appointment as the first Government Chief Scientific Adviser, CSaP came together with the Royal Society, GO-Science and SPRU to host an event on the past, present and future of scientific advice.

CSaP teamed up with the Cambridge Centre for Housing Planning Research (CCHPR) to run a workshop to discuss policy options for improving the supply of affordable housing.

Professor Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winner and former US Secretary of Energy under President Obama, visited the University of Cambridge to deliver the 2014 Dr S T Lee Public Policy Lecture on energy and climate change.

CSaP is delighted to welcome its third Visiting Research Fellow - Baroness Bryony Worthington, the UK Labour Party's Shadow Minister on Energy & Climate Change.

Following a review after its first five years of operation, RCUK’s Global Uncertainties Programme has become the Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research (PaCCS) and undergone some important changes.

An article in the Economist includes CSaP's Visiting Research Fellow, Professor Michael Kenny, and his new book "The Politics of English Nationhood".

The 2014 Annual Reception gathered key members of our network to celebrate CSaP's numerous achievements over our first five years. Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Sue Owen, and David Cleevely all spoke.

After a successful planning meeting in February 2014, this workshop moved the Challenge forward by identifying the insights that modelling can offer national and local policy on ageing.