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📢Don’t miss the first 2026 Christ’s Kennel Climate & Sustainability Lecture on Thursday.
Rebecca Willis (@LancasterUni) will discuss “Democracy and climate in troubled times”
🗓️ Thursday, 5 March 2026, Christ’s College, Cambridge
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/naVc3
📢 Event: Prof Bryan Grenfell will discuss “Epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of pathogens in time and space”.
🗓️5 Feb 2026
🕟17:30 – 18:45
📍St John's College
🔗shorturl.at/1VoiZ
Free event, no booking needed.
Hosted by @CSciPol, @CRASSHlive & @JuniperConsort1
🚨 Event update: Tonight’s S T Lee Lecture is fully booked, but you can still join us online via Zoom - the livestream link is available on our website.
🗓️ Thu 15 Jan 2026
🕠17:30 - 18:45
🔗 shorturl.at/hn7VU
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🚨Big news! New national network ‘Evidence Exchange’ to enable civil and public servants to learn and connect with research organisations.
Funded by the @ESRC, @CSciPol will lead this consortium, working with partners across the UK.
👉Read more: shorturl.at/FPtlE
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Congratulations to the five Cambridge academics and Fellows who have been recognised in the New Year Honours 2026 🎉
Read more about their outstanding achievements and contributions to society below or in our thread 🧵 cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-aca…
Have you read our latest newsletter? A roundup of key updates & events:
📅 News on our 2026 Annual Conference
💡 Women’s health & innovation
🚀 Policy Innovation Fund recipients
🤖 AI in research: robotics, climate & drug discovery
👉 Read now: shorturl.at/RXNz6
How can science and data-driven models tackle under-investment in women’s health?
At @CSciPol's recent Dowling Policy Fellowship meeting, experts from research, policy & industry shared ideas for innovation and equity in women’s healthcare.
🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/nhjTH
📢 Case study: Lisa-Maria Tanase’s collaboration with
@CSciPol shows how academic research can inform climate policy. Through CSaP’s support and network, her work contributed to key policy discussions and amplified its impact.
Read more 👉shorturl.at/RxU2z
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On Friday 9 January 2026 (10:20 to 17:30), Conservation Evidence, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI), and @CSciPol are hosting a conference on Delivering Effective Conservation Practice.
Register to join online! tinyurl.com/mrxkv4fc
Agenda: tinyurl.com/y2nypf9y
Don't miss the 2026 Dr ST Lee Public Policy Lecture with Prof Dani Rodrik (@Kennedy_School) “Shared prosperity in a fractured world – a new economics for the middle class, the global poor & our climate.”
🗓️15 Jan 26 | Jesus College, Cambridge
🔗Book now: shorturl.at/D5Yvy
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Don't miss ‘Why we still need to know about places and cases in the era of big data: The role of (comparative) area studies in the production of usable knowledge’ with guest speaker Dr Rudra Sil and Prof @wjhurst
📅16:00-17:30
🗺️FAMES, CB3 9DA
🖋️bit.ly/4pQhkqp
At a recent @CSciPol Policy Fellow webinar, Dr Holly Smith (@stjohnscam) explored the UK’s ongoing high-rise housing safety crisis and what it reveals about welfare, accountability & citizenship.
Read more on our website 👉 shorturl.at/Vn87l
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Amazing panel w/ Gareth Lomax @UKCivilService, Jakob Mökander @InstituteGC, Tim Flagg @UKAIofficial & Dani Dhiman (Formation Advisory) discussing scaling up the AI ecosystem: is there a frugal way?
Thanks Elizabeth @VenGandikota Nicky Christian @JaideepPrabhu for the invitation.
📢 Applications now open: CSaP Policy Fellowship
A two-year programme for senior policy professionals to explore policy challenges and engage with academic researchers across the University of Cambridge
🗓️Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
📍Start: Jan 2026
🔗Apply: shorturl.at/zjeAk
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"Congratulations to @emilyshuckburgh on being appointed the new @energygovuk Chief Scientific Adviser and welcome to the CSA Network. Looking forward to working with you" – AM.
1/2 Emily Shuckburgh has joined as our new Chief Scientific Adviser.
She joins from @Cambridge_Uni where she is Director of @CambridgeZero, their climate change initiative.
She is also Professor of Environmental Data Science at the Department of Computer Science & Technology.
Join us today for the Reynolds Lecture: 'Mission-oriented government – Building state capacity for the 21st century' delivered by Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in Economics off Innovation and Public Value at UCL. Visit our website for the live-stream link: bit.ly/4oAh8uZ
🚨 In-person registration for the Reynolds Lecture 2025 is now closed, but you can still join us online!
🎙️ Professor Mariana Mazzucato
📅 Thurs 23 Oct
🕠17:30–18:45
🔗 Livestream link will be posted before the event: shorturl.at/h8z7V