Date:
Tuesday, 24 June, 2025 - 10:00 to 18:30
Event location:
The Royal Society, London
Our annual conference is designed for an audience of researchers, policy professionals, and others who have an interest in the role of research evidence to inform policy making.
Conference themes
- Life sciences, healthcare and economic growth
- What can academic evidence and expertise contribute to the UK's housebuilding targets?
- Supporting mental health and neurodiversity in schools
- Critical minerals and net zero
- Engineered pandemics
- Disinformation, security and democracy
Inclusive innovation - experiences from Cambridge and Manchester
Register: https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/csap-annual-conference-2025/
Confirmed speakers and chairs so far include:
- Stephen Aldridge, Director for Analysis and Data, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Duncan Astle, Gnodde Goldman Sachs Professor of Neuroinformatics, Department of Psychiatry, and Programme Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
- Claire Bryant, Professor of Innate Immunity & Wellcome Trust Investigator, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge
- David Cleevely, Chair, Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub
- Tabitha Goldstaub, non-Executive Chair, Innovate Cambridge
- Mary Hockaday, former Controller, BBC World Service English and Master, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Loic Menzies, Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge
- James O'Shaughnessy, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health (2016-2018)
- Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge
- Salma Shah, former Special Adviser to the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, (2018-2019); Director, Kraken Strategy
- Lalitha Sundaram, Senior Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge