• Date: Thurdsay 7th March 2019, 19:00 – 21:00
  • Location: Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, CB1 2EW
  • Click here for more information on the 2019 Policy Challenges.

    • Join us for an evening with elected county councillors and senior local government officers from the Cambridgeshire County Council to discuss key policy questions affecting the lives of local residents, and how research can contribute to the council’s work in addressing these issues.

    This event will mark the launch of the 2019 round of the Policy Challenges, a skills-based volunteering programme in which teams of early-career researchers work directly with the county council over a six-month period to formulate evidence-based recommendations on local policy issues. All are welcome to attend the event, whether or not you intend to apply for the Policy Challenges.

    The county council are in the process of identifying policy areas for the 2019 Policy Challenges, which will run from March to September. Topics under consideration include: outcomes measurement in commerce and investment policy, local government services for generation Z, evaluating the impact of a public health programme, and how architecture affects local schools. The final selection of topics will be announced when applications open in early March.

    How to stop bad data driving out the good in an age of misuse, misleadingness and misinformation

    Time: 4 March 2019 17:30-18:45 (followed by networking drinks)
    Location: St John’s College, Cambridge

    Fake news, post truth, mistrust of experts… a familiar roll call of anxieties – or perhaps clichés – about our data rich world. They point to an underlying fear that in this data abundant age the bad data drives out the good and we are left with a broken public discourse.

    The UK Statistics Authority is the champion of statistics and data serving the public good – to allow the good data to shine out and be used, appropriately and with confidence, to inform the public.

    Ed Humpherson will talk about the UKSA’s role in this data rich environment and highlight the central role of trustworthiness – and argue that CSaP can play a key part in the fight back against misleadingness, misuse and misinformation.

    The lecture takes place on 4 March in St John’s College Divinity School. More information can be found on the CSaP website.

  • Wednesday 6th march 2019
  • Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane CB2 1SB
  • Register for this workshop here.

    This workshop aims to share career tips and necessary skills for students and early-career researchers who are considering careers in science and policy. The speakers have diverse backgrounds, from British government departments, think tanks, the European Commission and the University’s careers service. This will be an interactive session, including time for Q&A.

    Speakers:

    David Mair – Head of Science Advice to Policy, European Commission

    Dai Brown – Principal Research Officer, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

    Dai Brown is the Principal Research Officer within the Legislative Strategy, Capability and Better Regulations Unit at DEFRA.

    Dr Simone Cooper-Searle – Senior Policy Advisor Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

    Liz Simmonds – Careers Service, University of Cambridge

  • Date: Thurdsay 7th March 2019, 19:00 – 21:00
  • Location: Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, CB1 2EW
  • Register for this event here.

    Join us for an evening with elected county councillors and senior local government officers from the Cambridgeshire County Council to discuss key policy questions affecting the lives of local residents, and how research can contribute to the council’s work in addressing these issues. Additional details, including speakers and the policy areas to be covered, will be announced in a subsequent newsletter.

    This event will mark the launch of the 2019 round of the Policy Challenges, a skills-based volunteering programme in which teams of early-career researchers work directly with the county council over a six-month period to formulate evidence-based recommendations on local policy issues. All are welcome to attend the event, whether or not you intend to apply for the Policy Challenges.

    The county council are in the process of identifying policy areas for the 2019 Policy Challenges, which will run from March to September. Topics under consideration include: outcomes measurement in commerce and investment policy, local government services for generation Z, evaluating the impact of a public health programme, and how architecture affects local schools. The final selection of topics will be announced when applications open in early March.

    Click here for more information on the 2019 Policy Challenges, and to register your interest in applying.

    • Many of us wonder where to live in the upcoming 10-20 years. There are so many opportunities around the world for us; travelling and moving was never so easy. Today, England may be our home, tomorrow it might be Japan and in 5 years the US. Recently, there have been many innovative ideas in trying to solve these megaproblems. Advanced technologies together with smart policy-making will be the key in solving these issues.

    Speakers:

    Dr. Yin Jin is a the director of the Martin Center at the University of Cambridge. Ying Jin will use his current work for the long term planning of Cambridge city region as an example to discuss how to foresee the growth and change of cities, and why it is particularly important to understand societal and technological trends today in designing cities

    C. J. Lim is a Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University College London. His work addresses what the spatial and phenomenological implications are when sustainable design is applied to a city and the role that citizens play in the production of a relevant social space.