The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG) is hosting a weekly seminar series throughout the 2017-2018 academic year. These are informal and friendly talks allowing discussion of on-going work for PhD students, early career and senior researchers.

An opportunity to hear from a speaker from the United Nations: Eva Marie Jansen, Human Resources Officer in the Outreach Unit of the Office of Human Resources Management.

The world makes the prospect of a global cyber war very real. Based on recent evidence, businesses and governments are far from ready. How can we prepare for the next strike? Are our connections and transactions secure?

The sixth annual Winton Symposium will be held on 9 November at the University’s Cavendish Laboratory on the theme of Energy Storage and Distribution.

Organised by the Evens Foundation, in partnership with the British Academy, this debate brings together philosophers, political scientists and sociologists to discuss the status and place of conflict in contemporary democratic practices and institutions. The speakers will delineate the conflicts that structure our societies, new political identities, and forms of contestation, and reflect on the institutions/spaces/practices needed to deal with these conflicts and struggles.

African governments and donor partners have long regarded investment in education as being central to economic growth in the region – but this investment is yet to achieve rapid economic improvement. Why is that? And what should be done to better realise that goal?

Robots will take our jobs…and possibly our lives. Looking at automation and the fourth industrial revolution, do we benefit from the seismic explosion of data and machine autonomy? Panellists at INNOVATE 2017 debate this point live on Twitter.

Robots will take our jobs…and possibly our lives. Looking at automation and the fourth industrial revolution, do we benefit from the seismic explosion of data and machine autonomy? Panellists at INNOVATE 2017 debate this point live on Twitter.

A presentation by Ivan Collister, a senior civil servant in 10 Downing Street in the past, about his current research project on policymaking will be followed by a discussion with the Cambridge REF Impact Coordinators Charlotte Sausman and Katherine Griffiths.

This established and highly recommended course provides an opportunity for both new and existing researchers to explore and understand aerosol science and improve or refresh their knowledge of some of the fundamental concepts.