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Working on the inside
What role can the Centre for Science and Policy play in cultivating and nurturing scientists with an ability and passion for communication and policy? |
15 Jun 2010 |
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Our Easter Island Moment: is it already too late to save the environment?
Sarah Mukherjee delivered the CSaP's third distinguished lecture having recently left her role as the BBC’s Environmental Correspondent. She promised a commentary unmuffled by institutional constraints, and she delivered handsomely on that promise. |
08 Jun 2010 |
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What will be the Impact of the $100 Genome?
To mark the launch of the Centre Interest Group on Genomic Medicine, the CSaP hosted a dinner discussion on 12 May at Queens' College, Cambridge. Sir Mark Walport led the discussion. |
19 May 2010 |
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Policy Fellows Programme Launched
May saw the launch, in pilot form, of our Policy Fellowship Programme. Cambridge researchers welcomed the opportunity to meet the policy makers, noting the value that they had gained by "getting a window into the policy environment". |
17 May 2010 |
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Innovating in Innovation
The CSaP is working with the UK Innovation Research Centre (UK~IRC) and others to design a consultation, seminar and workshop programme which will bring together the latest research and those who are best placed to apply it. |
28 Apr 2010 |
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CSaP Appoints First Associate Fellows
The CSaP is delighted to announce the appointment of its first Associate Fellows - a title designed to recognise the role of a few members of the Centre's Associate Network who have made a particular contribution to its objectives and development. |
21 Apr 2010 |
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CSaP Appoints New Executive Director
The Centre for Science and Policy is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Chris Tyler as its Executive Director. Chris will be joining us from the House of Commons, where he has been science adviser to the Science and Technology Select Committee for the past three years. |
15 Mar 2010 |
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Building the Whitehall Bridgehead
The Centre completed its series of Whitehall Consultations at the Royal Society in London on 4 March, continuing the process of building the bridgehead in the policy community begun in January and February this year. |
10 Mar 2010 |
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Around the Science Policy World in 50 Minutes
Attendees at the CSaP's second Distinguished Lecture were taken briskly through 50 years of science policy research in 50 minutes as Professor Ben Martin, former Director of SPRU, led them on a whistle-stop tour of the twenty key "steps forward" that have been made in the field. |
05 Mar 2010 |
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The Impact of Impact
Participants in the CSaP's inaugural Associate Seminar on 27 January had a ringside seat as Andy Parker (Professor of High Energy Physics) went head-to-head with Dr David Sweeney (HEFCE's Director of Research, Innovation and Skills). |
01 Feb 2010 |
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100 Days - a long time in policy?
His academic colleagues told him it would be frustrating, but David Mackay is enjoying his new role as Chief Scientific Adviser in the Department of Energy and Climate Change, working alongside civil servants who are passionate about their work and excited by the science of the challenges they face. |
20 Jan 2010 |
