Aiming to improve policy-makers’ understanding of the imperfect nature of science, academics from the Universities of Cambridge and Melbourne have created a list of concepts that they believe should be part of the education of civil servants, politicians, policy advisers and journalists
Sir Mark Walport set out his priorities today at the Centre for Science and Policy’s annual conference
A new Master’s Programme in Public Policy, launching today by the University of Cambridge, will equip policy makers of tomorrow with the tools to make informed and effective decisions.
What are the implications of nanotechnology for the general public? What use is it to them? What are the risks and benefits? These are the types of questions that an online Knowledge Debate hopes to provoke.
Conservation scientists working in partnership with practitioners and policy makers are building practical tools for real-world conservation.
British politics, the media, and the deep distrust with which both are being treated following the phone-hacking scandal will form the subject of the latest in a compelling series of public policy seminars this Friday.
An online tool will help users predict trade-offs between the global commodities of energy, water and land.
A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible consequences: 1 million people died and several million left Ireland. Today the world is watching as millions in Africa face a similar fate: starvation in the midst of plenty. Dr David Nally’s analysis of what happened in his native Ireland less than two centuries ago reveals some shocking parallels with what is happening in Africa.
A programme convening business leaders and policy makers is helping to identify the value to business of nature – and the step changes needed to build food security – as its co-Directors explain.
New research unit to focus on how to change behaviours responsible for the majority of premature deaths worldwide.
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