Book launch and talk with the author and conservationist M. K. Ranjitsinh.

Dr Caspar Hallmann will present his seminal paper “More than 75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas”.

Visit of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Executive Group to the University of Cambridge with a talk by the Executive Chair, Professor Melanie Welham, about the strategy and future direction of the BBSRC.

A talk by Shaffiq Jaffer, Vice President of Corporate Science and Technology Projects, TOTAL. His talk will focus on the future energy challenges we face and the need for more of a systems engineering approach to tackle them.

Annual garden party of the Cambridge Trustworthy Technologies SRI.

Speakers are invited to present for 10 minutes and all attendees are encouraged to participate in the subsequent 20 minute- long discussions.

14.00 – 14.10: Cambridge Global Challenges (Sara Serradas Duarte and Lara Allen)

A joint workshop between the Centre of Development Studies, Centre of South Asian Studies, Centre of African Studies, Centre of Latin American Studies and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute in order to exchange ideas and define collaborative research agendas regarding one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century: the relationship between humanity and the natural world.

The Consortium for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Global South invites all Cambridge researchers - from PhD students to senior academics- working on the culture/nature interface or on any other theme related to postcolonial ecologies in the Global South to participate in this workshop.

Talk by Dr Robert Trezona, Head of Cleantech at IP Group plc, about innovation needs and the potential for directed research to create new technologies that could be scaled via entrepreneurial companies.

Hosted by the Maxwell Centre – Impulse Programme – NanoDTC Innovation Seminar Series, Robert will detail innovation needs and the potential for directed research to create new technologies that could be scaled via entrepreneurial companies