All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Seminar: Cycles of Invention and Discovery

Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences .

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

Friday 05 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Seminar: A Strategy for the UK Steel Industry

Professor Julian Allwood, Faculty of Engineering.

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

Friday 17 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Seminar: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze over Time in the UK - Eternal Verities or a Changing Game?

Professor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

Friday 03 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Seminar: Inequality and Education Policy

Professor Anna Vignoles, Faculty of Education.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Friday 03 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Criminal - why people do bad things. Tom Gash, Institute for Government

Tom Gash, Institute for Government.

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Friday 25 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Naked Diplomacy: Power and statecraft in the digital age: book launch and presentation by Tom Fletcher, CMG

Tom Fletcher, CMG and former British Ambassador to Lebanon.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07.

Monday 06 June 2016, 17:00-18:00

Understanding Inequalities: new thinking for public policy

Keynote address from Vince Cable, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Trinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 09:00-17:00

Syria series: Humanitarianism, state sovereignty and authoritarian regime maintenance in the Syria conflict.

Reinoud Leenders, King's College London.

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Monday 09 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Now for the Hard Part: Building State Capability for Implementation as the Frontier Development Issue’

Michael Woolcock, World Bank.

SG2, Alison Richard Building, POLIS.

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Policy, Politics and Morality in the Regulation of Gambling: the UK Experience'

Professor David Runciman, POLIS.

Room 119, ARB.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 12:30-13:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: Doing Development Differently

Mr Andy Ratcliffe, Deputy CEO and Director of Strategy and Development, Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI)..

Room 119, ARB.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Skills and Techniques of an NGO'

Dame Barbara Stocking, President, Murray Edwards College, former CEO Oxfam GB.

Room 119, ARB.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Being a Special Adviser (SPAD)'

Giles Wilkes, Financial Times Former Special Adviser to Vince Cable.

Room 119, ARB.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

How to Overcome Inequality

Robert Wade (London School of Economics).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Monday 01 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

Professor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Using Research to Influence Government Policy'

Jo Casebourne, Programme Director, Institute for Government.

Room 119, ARB.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: ‘What’s Wrong with the British Constitution? Implications of the Scottish and EU Referendum Votes’

Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, Vice-President for Public Policy, British Academy.

Room 119, ARB.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Prof Robert D. Putnam in conversation

Robert D. Putnam Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 7.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 10:00-11:30

Cambridge University User Experience

Digital Government: Not Complicated, Just Hard

Tom Loosemore - Government Digital Service.

Norwich Room, University Information Services, West Cambridge.

Friday 04 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

Public Policy Lecture: Inside the Nudge Unit, how small changes can make a big difference

Registration from 5.30 pm. A drinks reception will follow the lecture. Registration Required at: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inside-the-nudge-unit-how-small-changes-can-make-a-big-difference-tickets-19473894944

Dr David Halpern, Director, Behavioural Insights Team.

LectureTheatre I, Cambridge Judge Business School,Trumpington Street, University of Cambridge CB2 1AG Cambridge.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 18:00-19:00

The Silicon State

sandwiches from 12.30 pm

Adrian Brown, Boston Consulting Group, Centre for Public Impact.

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Climate Change Policy: A Focus on Demand Reduction?

Please register for this event at: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-change-demand-reduction-seminar-tickets-18818616990

Presented by Professor Julian Allwood, Engineering.

Lubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Monday 23 November 2015, 14:00-17:00

Research at Behavioural Insights Team

Dr Michael Sanders, Head of Research, Behavioural Insights Team.

Seminar Room 138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Policy and Politics: synergy or dysergy?

Lord Andrew Lansley, Former Secretary of State for Health and Leader of the House of Commons.

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

The Syria series ‘War, disasters and data: the need for an evidence-based humanitarian response’

Talk by former Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and World Health Organization, Middle East field epidemiologist - Jesse Berns.

S1, Alison Richard Building, POLIS.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Discovering Policy Lab: Design in Policy Making

Dr Lucy Kimbell, University of the Arts, London.

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Syria: where to now?

First in Forthcoming Syria Series

Martin Chulov, The Guardian Middle East Correspondent.

Room S2 (2nd floor), Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

“Leveraging Social Psychological Theory to Understand Engagement with Personalized Genomic Information”

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

William Klein, Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 26 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Migration Research Network

Doing research in conflict & humanitarian settings - lessons from health assessments in the Middle East

Andrew Means Co-Founder and Jesse Berns Director Field Data Collection - Impact Lab.

Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Monday 22 June 2015, 14:00-15:30

Financial History Seminar

The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015

Dr Mike Finn, Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10..

Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 19:00-20:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Paradise Lost? How the Internet has changed

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

John Naughton, Vice-president of Wolfson College.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00