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The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has appointed Cambridge Zero Director Professor Emily Shuckburgh CBE as the Department’s...

Policymakers around the world are relying on the expertise of scientists to help make decisions around the COVID-19 pandemic. But how do scientists...

Cambridge researchers set out to define a new science for policy communications, with ambitions of finding the “Goldilocks zone” between too much and...

Evidence shows that experts are frequently fallible, say leading risk researchers, and policy makers should not act on expert advice without using...

Dr Finbarr Livesey – University lecturer and Deputy Director of the MPhil in Public Policy – submitted research to Parliament’s recent report on...

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