A team led by CSaP Policy Fellow Nathan Boublil has come out on top in this year’s Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) competition, with a national prize for their ProjectPolicy.org website, an online, intuitive tool to help the world make sense of policy.

Communicate, join networks, develop lasting relationships and build trust: these were just some of the recommendations put forward by a distinguished line up of computer scientists and policy makers at the CSaP Professional Development Policy Workshop for early-career technology researchers on 31 October.

In this discussion piece, John Tesh (Deputy Director, Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat, and CSaP Policy Fellow) explains why Britain needs a National Risk Register.

Dominique Ristori, Director General of the EC's Joint Research Centre sets out his ideas on the key challenges and opportunities for better integrating science and policy as seen from the EU perspective, drawing on recent new orientations in the JRC.

CSaP explores opportunities for early-career researchers to contribute to the policy process

Presentations by graduate students at the Cambridge Biological and Life Sciences Symposium (SymBLS) provided an opportunity for government attendees to hear about research at Cambridge that could have particular relevance to policy in the future.

It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Professor Sir Gabriel Horn. Professor Horn was the moving force behind the Cambridge University Government Policy Programme (CUGPOP), the initiative which preceded the Centre for Science and Policy; his energy, enthusiasm, breadth of vision and attention to detail enabled the Programme to have a deep and lasting influence on government policy.

The Policy Fellowship enters its third year in September 2012 with the arrival of new Fellows with particular interests in cyber security, health and wellbeing, and the environment

On 2 July, CSaP celebrated its third successful year of 'building bridges' between science and policy at a reception hosted at the Royal Academy of Engineering. The reception provided an opportunity for more than 150 policy makers, industry leaders and researchers to meet and share experiences with many of those who had taken part in CSaP activities since its launch in July 2009.

The Centre for Science and Policy today announced the appointment of Dr Robert Doubleday as its new Executive Director.