This event will provide an opportunity for interested applicants to ask questions and find out more about the wider changes to ESRC's Centres policy and the introduction of follow-on Transition funding and Institute status; as well as the 2018 Centres Competition application process.

Cambridge Big Data, CamBridgeSense Strategic Research Initiatives and the British Antarctic Survey are holding a networking day to explore the current state-of-the art in the interlinking fields of robotics, sensors and big data, challenges for the future, and to spark potential collaborations by bringing together people with a range of interests and expertise.

Turing Data Study Groups bring together researchers, data practitioners, and industry representatives from leading organisations to work together on data science challenges posed by partner organisations in multi-disciplinary teams, enabling researchers to build collaborations and work with real-world industry datasets.

A one day public conference and book launch featuring some of India’s leading public intellectuals and civil rights activists commenting on the inequalities faced by Dalits and Adivasis and their resistance.

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sustainable development and social justice. Beyond ‘green growth’ (which assumes an unprecedented rise in the emissions efficiency of production) it envisages two further policy stages vital for rich countries: a progressive ‘recomposition’ of consumption, and a post-growth ceiling on demand.

Speakers are invited to present for 10-12 minutes and all attendees are encouraged to participate in the subsequent 15 minute- long discussions.

14.00 – 14.10: Introduction to Global Challenges Initiative (Lara Allen and Sara Serradas Duarte)

What role does science have to play in our ultimate contingency plans?

Given the decades-old decolonial and post-development critiques of the international development project, slating it as ultimately a deeply colonial enterprise. As a field of research, and also very much as a highly popular pedagogical project, how is it that International Development Studies is still a thing? The Institute of Development Studies hosts an evening talk on this challenging topic.

Building on recent comparative and historical research on the institutional, cultural and political-economic factors shaping crime and punishment, this conference aims to advance understanding of whether, and if so how and why, social and economic inequality influences levels and types of crime and punishment, and conversely the impact of different levels and types of crime and punishment on various forms of inequality.

Together with Cambridge Cardiovascular, the Experimental Medicine and Immunotherapeutics group presents a talk on ancestry and biological informative markers in black Africans that can give rise to hypertension and heart failure.