This year’s annual conference marks the start of CSaP’s 10 year anniversary. With a focus on topics that CSaP has worked on during the year, academic experts will offer insights into some of the latest research that has the potential to inform decisions taken by policy makers.
Confirmed speakers and chairs include:
The day will start with a keynote from Leslie Evans, Permanent Secretary in the Scottish Government.
The afternoon keynote will be delivered by Dr Stephen Cave, Executive Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence on 'Intelligence as Ideology: its History and Future'.
- Dr Tina Barsby, National Institute of Agricultural Botany
- Dr Stephen Cave, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
- Christina Cornwell, Nesta
- Henry Dieudonné-Demaria, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Dr Rob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge
- Leslie Evans, Scottish Government
- Professor Robert Marsh, National Oceanography Centre Southampton
- Dr Catherine Rhodes, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
- Dr Tristram Riley-Smith, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge
- Dr Marcus Tomalin, Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge
- Benito Wheatley, British Virgin Islands Government
Conference topics
Parallel sessions will cover topics on:
- Environmental policy
- Emerging technologies for social care
- Extreme risks
- Cybercrime
- Technology & society
- Opportunities and challenges of quantum technologies
- Climate change and marine systems
- Place policy after Brexit
Registration and cost of attending
- Students and postdocs - £45
- CSaP Fellows - £110
- Government, academia. learned societies and voluntary sector - £145
- Industry - £300
Costs include attendance at all sessions, as well as lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
