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Cambridge in Davos

20 Jan 2014

A delegation of Cambridge academics, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is attending the World Economic Forum’s Annual...

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A natural industriousness?

13 Jan 2014

To make an impact on policy, you need to get your hands dirty, as Dr Kamal Munir, author of Pakistan’s industrial policy, explains.

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The future of the planet

13 Jan 2014

Dr Chris Hope’s PAGE2002 model has been used worldwide to calculate the true cost of climate change.

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Dr Pete Wothers giving a chemistry demonstration to an audience at the Cambridge Science Festival including David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science.

Twenty top tips for interpreting scientific claims

21 Nov 2013

Aiming to improve policy-makers’ understanding of the imperfect nature of science, academics from the Universities of Cambridge and Melbourne have...

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Westminster

Economic growth and infrastructure resilience are key for Government’s new Chief Scientific Adviser

18 Apr 2013

Sir Mark Walport set out his priorities today at the Centre for Science and Policy’s annual conference

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MYPs debate in House of Commons Chamber

Mastering public policy

29 Nov 2012

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...

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Yoghurt pot under the spotlight.

Nanotechnology and your views

23 Mar 2012

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...

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Trees

Research, policy, practice: conservation in the round

07 Feb 2012

Conservation scientists working in partnership with practitioners and policy makers are building practical tools for real-world conservation.

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Newspapers the day after the coalition.

Politics and the future of the media under the spotlight in policy seminars

27 Oct 2011

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...

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The Foreseer tool is based on Sankey diagrams, where the width of each line is proportional to the quantity of resource

Foreseer of future resources

20 Jul 2011

An online tool will help users predict trade-offs between the global commodities of energy, water and land.

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Irish tenants are evicted and their homes torn down under the supervision of troops

Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland

19 Jul 2011

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...

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Responsible farming

Nature’s value to business

12 Jul 2011

A programme convening business leaders and policy makers is helping to identify the value to business of nature – and the step changes needed to...

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