Join physicist & author Prof Cesar Hidalgo in conversation with @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social about his new book "The Infinite Alphabet"
He'll walk you through the 'three laws' that predict how knowledge grows, moves, & decays.
📅9 March 2026
🕕18:00–19:30
📍Waterstones, Cambridge
🎟️https://bit.ly/406XT1X
Last week @michaelkenny.bsky.social attended a royal audience with King Felipe VI in Madrid aimed at fostering collaboration with heads of some of the World’s leading public policy schools. He also met Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez, to discuss some of Spain’s pressing policy challenges.
bit.ly/3MBiUP8
Q. What makes climate policy stick?
A. Institutions
A new literature review by @terzibus.bsky.social et al. explores a fundamental question in climate policy: What role do institutions play in making climate policies effective and durable?
Read paper: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/publications...
The Bennett School’s new MPhil in Digital Policy prepares early-career professionals to lead on AI & digital governance. The programme includes interdisciplinary study across economics, law, computer science & politics.
Apply now to start in Oct 2026: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
Wrapping up for Christmas with a piece looking back at how the UK government has approached devolved relations since Labour took office, and looking ahead to 2026 and the upcoming elections in Scotland and Wales.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/uk-inte...
My reflections on @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and @michaelkenny.bsky.social 's recent article in Nature about getting science back into policy-making occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...
21.12.2025 11:10 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
We're looking for a Professor of Public Policy to join our senior leadership team.
They'll play a leading role in teaching on the School's postgraduate courses, & make a significant contribution to its research & research leadership.
Apply by 9 February 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...
This looks a v good conference on geopolitical risk and lessons from the past at the @churchillcol.bsky.social Archives Centre archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/geopolitical...
10.12.2025 13:07 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0On the increasingly troubled relationship between science, evidence and policy; some thoughts, and proposals, from @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and me.
08.12.2025 20:29 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Important piece on the challenges facing evidence-informed policy and how researchers and universities should respond (including acknowledging uncertainties and trade-offs, a wider understanding of what counts as evidence, and stronger connections between unis and local communities)
08.12.2025 14:57 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1Come and work with us at the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk ! Brand-new 2 year researcher position - details here www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
08.12.2025 13:50 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Are you an early career professional looking to progress your career in digital policy? Our MPhil in Digital Policy is a multidisciplinary, practice-oriented, evidence-based course that focuses on the knowledge & skills needed to engage with policy issues relating to digital tech & AI
bit.ly/44LGTkl
Really excited to be recruiting to this role at @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk.
We're looking for someone to help broaden our connections between the school and the worlds of academia and policymaking.
Sound interesting? Details below.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...
“I worry that sometimes the world of statistics can become a proxy battleground. Statistical debates about what to measure can be used as a way to transpose a philosophical or political argument about what we actually value in more cloaked and technocratic way.”
Yup
pbe.co.uk/insights/bey...
Really support this. We’ve been banging on about the importance of this community social infrastructure for a while including this recent report with @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk on how it can be measured www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/value-o...
28.07.2025 13:26 — 👍 41 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
📸 A productive & inspiring team away day!
Team Bennett is hard at work planning for the exciting opening of @bennettschool.bsky.social this October 2025 - under the leadership of @michaelkenny.bsky.social & @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
#Research #Teaching #Engagement #Impact
How can democracies think long-term?
The Heywood Fellowship team says the UK is being outpaced – and is building a plan for action:
🧬 Diagnosis
🎯 Objectives
🧭 Big bets
🔀 Trade-offs
Learn more about their call for a long-term national strategy + Spain’s example ➡️
New piece from me and @ojgarling.bsky.social on what kinds of thinking and policy on infrastructure now needed to achieve more equitable growth acss.org.uk/the-role-of-... @acadsocsciences.bsky.social
10.06.2025 07:25 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Starmer is meeting with the devolved heads of government and English regional mayors today for the second instalment of the Council of Nations & Regions
Good time to read our report with @policywise.bsky.social to find out what it is & why it matters!
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications...
Can tomorrow's Council of Nations & Regions meeting navigate the big and small 'P' politics of national and local #devolution?
Watch our webinar with @michaelkenny.bsky.social @alwalker.bsky.social & Dewi Knight www.youtube.com/watch?v=tru3...
Read our report www.policywise.org.uk/about/inter-...
Shrewd overview of the politics surrounding the second Council of Nations and Regions summit happening this Friday - with reference to our brand-new report on this under-the-radar constitutional innovation (with @policywise.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
22.05.2025 09:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Drawing on in-depth research, @alwalker.bsky.social & @michaelkenny.bsky.social set out why the Council of the Nations and Regions matters for devolution in times of political fragmentation.
In a new blog, they discuss what’s needed to make it work.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/why-the...
Our new report is out! @michaelkenny.bsky.social, Dewi Knight and I look at the Council of the Nations and Regions.
This initiative has so far flown pretty under the radar, but we argue it has the scope to be significant.
Some key points below.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications...
Tomorrow! Join Dewi Knight, @alwalker.bsky.social and @michaelkenny.bsky.social to hear why the Council of Nations and Regions matters and the importance of working with all UK leaders no matter the politics....
Sign up www.policywise.org.uk/node/671
#intergovernmentalrelations #ukpolitics #webinar
New @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @britishacademy.bsky.social report today on the need for policymakers to not overlook the importance of investing in social and cultural infrastructure, and how we might go about measuring it
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
Challenging lists of cultural assets, our hidden gem of the week calls for measuring goods like networks that foster relationships.
By Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, @ojgarling.bsky.social, @annaalexandrova.bsky.social, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social at @britishacademy.bsky.social
buff.ly/DtQ009T
🚨 New report from the Bennett Institute warns that social & cultural spaces like libraries, galleries & community hubs risk being overlooked without better ways to measure their impact. They’re vital for economic growth & tackling inequality.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
I participated in the @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk Crossing Channels podcast series with a programme on the food system, diets and health. Interesting conversation with Jonathan Stieglizt, evolutionary anthropologist. Listen or read here: www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/posts/types/...
07.04.2025 13:39 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Great new opportunity, teaching on and researching public policy here, at Assistant Prof level here in Cambridge - please spread the word! @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk
31.03.2025 16:56 — 👍 14 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0