Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge
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Last night, MPhil in Public Policy students enjoyed listening to Michael Kenny chat to Bennett School affiliated researcher, Michael McNair, about his career, advice & top tips for pursuing a career in policy.
Here are 3 top tips 👇
Here are 3 top tips 👇
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Last night, MPhil in Public Policy students enjoyed listening to Michael Kenny chat to Bennett School affiliated researcher, Michael McNair, about his career, advice & top tips for pursuing a career in policy.
Here are 3 top tips 👇
Here are 3 top tips 👇
Watch this year’s Public Policy lecture with Prof Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard Kennedy School, on public policy in an age of disruption.
He explores whether equitable, sustainable growth is achievable & offers actionable insights for governments, industry, & institutions.
👉https://bit.ly/4rgWDpc
He explores whether equitable, sustainable growth is achievable & offers actionable insights for governments, industry, & institutions.
👉https://bit.ly/4rgWDpc
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Watch this year’s Public Policy lecture with Prof Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard Kennedy School, on public policy in an age of disruption.
He explores whether equitable, sustainable growth is achievable & offers actionable insights for governments, industry, & institutions.
👉https://bit.ly/4rgWDpc
He explores whether equitable, sustainable growth is achievable & offers actionable insights for governments, industry, & institutions.
👉https://bit.ly/4rgWDpc
Our MPhil in Digital Policy is a course for early career researchers with an interest in policy around digital transformation & AI.
Apply by 2 Dec 2025 to be considered for funding, if eligible.
Latest application deadline to start in Oct 2026 is 26 Feb
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
Apply by 2 Dec 2025 to be considered for funding, if eligible.
Latest application deadline to start in Oct 2026 is 26 Feb
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Our MPhil in Digital Policy is a course for early career researchers with an interest in policy around digital transformation & AI.
Apply by 2 Dec 2025 to be considered for funding, if eligible.
Latest application deadline to start in Oct 2026 is 26 Feb
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
Apply by 2 Dec 2025 to be considered for funding, if eligible.
Latest application deadline to start in Oct 2026 is 26 Feb
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
The recent Franco-German summit showed Europe still hasn’t agreed on what digital sovereignty really means.
Tanya Filer & Paolo Turrini argue it must shift from a control-focused vision to one that drives resilience, innovation, & integrated digital–energy–defence growth.
bit.ly/48mrB6G
Tanya Filer & Paolo Turrini argue it must shift from a control-focused vision to one that drives resilience, innovation, & integrated digital–energy–defence growth.
bit.ly/48mrB6G
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The recent Franco-German summit showed Europe still hasn’t agreed on what digital sovereignty really means.
Tanya Filer & Paolo Turrini argue it must shift from a control-focused vision to one that drives resilience, innovation, & integrated digital–energy–defence growth.
bit.ly/48mrB6G
Tanya Filer & Paolo Turrini argue it must shift from a control-focused vision to one that drives resilience, innovation, & integrated digital–energy–defence growth.
bit.ly/48mrB6G
Today, MPhil in Public Policy alumni chatted to current students about how the course has boosted their career & to share potential career pathways.
Thanks to Adam Muhtar, Kate Owen, Tayyaba Iftikhar Butt, & Iris Lang.
Thanks to Adam Muhtar, Kate Owen, Tayyaba Iftikhar Butt, & Iris Lang.
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Today, MPhil in Public Policy alumni chatted to current students about how the course has boosted their career & to share potential career pathways.
Thanks to Adam Muhtar, Kate Owen, Tayyaba Iftikhar Butt, & Iris Lang.
Thanks to Adam Muhtar, Kate Owen, Tayyaba Iftikhar Butt, & Iris Lang.
Today, Halima Jibril—Warwick Business School—presented her research on the UK's challenges in commercialising emerging technologies. She discussed a new framework that analyses innovation infrastructure to identify barriers to commercialisation & opportunities for policy intervention.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today, Halima Jibril—Warwick Business School—presented her research on the UK's challenges in commercialising emerging technologies. She discussed a new framework that analyses innovation infrastructure to identify barriers to commercialisation & opportunities for policy intervention.
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ircaucus.ac.uk
Productivity figures offer little reassurance for the Chancellor ahead of the Budget tmrw, writes @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social
Private-sector productivity has stagnated since Q2 2019, & even with a 1.1% flash rise including the public sector, there’s still no real sign of a pickup.
bit.ly/4p1nzYI
Private-sector productivity has stagnated since Q2 2019, & even with a 1.1% flash rise including the public sector, there’s still no real sign of a pickup.
bit.ly/4p1nzYI
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Productivity figures offer little reassurance for the Chancellor ahead of the Budget tmrw, writes @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social
Private-sector productivity has stagnated since Q2 2019, & even with a 1.1% flash rise including the public sector, there’s still no real sign of a pickup.
bit.ly/4p1nzYI
Private-sector productivity has stagnated since Q2 2019, & even with a 1.1% flash rise including the public sector, there’s still no real sign of a pickup.
bit.ly/4p1nzYI
🧰Two days ahead of the 2025 Autumn Budget, Dimitri Zenghelis calls for a credible, growth-focused strategy—centred on better investment & a coherent, less distortionary tax system—to restore confidence & reduce the premium the UK pays on its debt.
Read his blog: bit.ly/4ije1p7
Read his blog: bit.ly/4ije1p7
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🧰Two days ahead of the 2025 Autumn Budget, Dimitri Zenghelis calls for a credible, growth-focused strategy—centred on better investment & a coherent, less distortionary tax system—to restore confidence & reduce the premium the UK pays on its debt.
Read his blog: bit.ly/4ije1p7
Read his blog: bit.ly/4ije1p7
Hear @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social discuss her latest book, The Measure of Progress, & explain why GDP increasingly fails to capture the reality of modern economies—& how we can measure real progress instead.
🎧Listen: buff.ly/7HrQ3Wi
🎧Listen: buff.ly/7HrQ3Wi
GDP treats cigarette sales & cancer treatments as “good,” but caring for your kids or creating art doesn’t count at all.
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to explain why GDP no longer reflects the real economy—and how we can measure true progress instead.
🎧Listen here: buff.ly/7HrQ3Wi
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to explain why GDP no longer reflects the real economy—and how we can measure true progress instead.
🎧Listen here: buff.ly/7HrQ3Wi
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hear @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social discuss her latest book, The Measure of Progress, & explain why GDP increasingly fails to capture the reality of modern economies—& how we can measure real progress instead.
🎧Listen: buff.ly/7HrQ3Wi
🎧Listen: buff.ly/7HrQ3Wi
Join @michaelkenny.bsky.social for an informal conversation & Q&A with @mikemcnair.bsky.social about his career, his advice & his top tips for creating a great career in policy.
Thu 27 Nov 2025
6-7pm
@fitzwilliamcollege.bsky.social
All welcome—please register: www.tickettailor.com/events/fitzw...
Thu 27 Nov 2025
6-7pm
@fitzwilliamcollege.bsky.social
All welcome—please register: www.tickettailor.com/events/fitzw...
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Join @michaelkenny.bsky.social for an informal conversation & Q&A with @mikemcnair.bsky.social about his career, his advice & his top tips for creating a great career in policy.
Thu 27 Nov 2025
6-7pm
@fitzwilliamcollege.bsky.social
All welcome—please register: www.tickettailor.com/events/fitzw...
Thu 27 Nov 2025
6-7pm
@fitzwilliamcollege.bsky.social
All welcome—please register: www.tickettailor.com/events/fitzw...
Thank you to Prof Ricardo Hausmann for his sell out lecture on Public Policy in an Age of Disruption—including the secret to growth, the scrabble theory of economic development, & the value of knowledge capital, human capital & a school of public policy.
View photos: www.flickr.com/photos/19547...
View photos: www.flickr.com/photos/19547...
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Thank you to Prof Ricardo Hausmann for his sell out lecture on Public Policy in an Age of Disruption—including the secret to growth, the scrabble theory of economic development, & the value of knowledge capital, human capital & a school of public policy.
View photos: www.flickr.com/photos/19547...
View photos: www.flickr.com/photos/19547...
We're delighted to welcome Prof Ricardo Hausmann @harvardkennedy.bsky.social to deliver our annual lecture on Public Policy in an Age of Disruption - chaired by @terzibus.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We're delighted to welcome Prof Ricardo Hausmann @harvardkennedy.bsky.social to deliver our annual lecture on Public Policy in an Age of Disruption - chaired by @terzibus.bsky.social
Nine years of G20 AI policy shows steady cooperation—not an ‘AI arms race’.
In a new blog, @alturobov.bsky.social examines how the G20 has built a cooperative, sector-based AI governance model that avoids great-power tensions but ignores deeper economic power issues.
Read: bit.ly/48pXbl6
In a new blog, @alturobov.bsky.social examines how the G20 has built a cooperative, sector-based AI governance model that avoids great-power tensions but ignores deeper economic power issues.
Read: bit.ly/48pXbl6
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Nine years of G20 AI policy shows steady cooperation—not an ‘AI arms race’.
In a new blog, @alturobov.bsky.social examines how the G20 has built a cooperative, sector-based AI governance model that avoids great-power tensions but ignores deeper economic power issues.
Read: bit.ly/48pXbl6
In a new blog, @alturobov.bsky.social examines how the G20 has built a cooperative, sector-based AI governance model that avoids great-power tensions but ignores deeper economic power issues.
Read: bit.ly/48pXbl6
The UK’s fragmented approach to AI sovereignty creates vulnerabilities, warn @cam.ac.uk experts.
Only a fully integrated strategy—linking research, industrial policy & procurement—can secure the domestic AI capabilities needed to shape the nation’s economy, security & democracy.
bit.ly/3XoJblH
Only a fully integrated strategy—linking research, industrial policy & procurement—can secure the domestic AI capabilities needed to shape the nation’s economy, security & democracy.
bit.ly/3XoJblH
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The UK’s fragmented approach to AI sovereignty creates vulnerabilities, warn @cam.ac.uk experts.
Only a fully integrated strategy—linking research, industrial policy & procurement—can secure the domestic AI capabilities needed to shape the nation’s economy, security & democracy.
bit.ly/3XoJblH
Only a fully integrated strategy—linking research, industrial policy & procurement—can secure the domestic AI capabilities needed to shape the nation’s economy, security & democracy.
bit.ly/3XoJblH
Digitising transport = real productivity gains
New study by Filip Mandys & Diane Coyle shows modest investments in ICT can boost labour & energy productivity in the transport sector—though the benefits aren’t always evenly shared over time.
Read the blog www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/digitis...
New study by Filip Mandys & Diane Coyle shows modest investments in ICT can boost labour & energy productivity in the transport sector—though the benefits aren’t always evenly shared over time.
Read the blog www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/digitis...
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Digitising transport = real productivity gains
New study by Filip Mandys & Diane Coyle shows modest investments in ICT can boost labour & energy productivity in the transport sector—though the benefits aren’t always evenly shared over time.
Read the blog www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/digitis...
New study by Filip Mandys & Diane Coyle shows modest investments in ICT can boost labour & energy productivity in the transport sector—though the benefits aren’t always evenly shared over time.
Read the blog www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/digitis...
New blog: Does investing in ICT boost productivity & energy efficiency in transport?
Yes! Small ICT capital increases yield labour & energy gains; but those modest gains shift over time & aren’t evenly spread, writes Filip Mandys based on new research.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/digitis...
Yes! Small ICT capital increases yield labour & energy gains; but those modest gains shift over time & aren’t evenly spread, writes Filip Mandys based on new research.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/digitis...
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
New blog: Does investing in ICT boost productivity & energy efficiency in transport?
Yes! Small ICT capital increases yield labour & energy gains; but those modest gains shift over time & aren’t evenly spread, writes Filip Mandys based on new research.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/digitis...
Yes! Small ICT capital increases yield labour & energy gains; but those modest gains shift over time & aren’t evenly spread, writes Filip Mandys based on new research.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/digitis...
Today, the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Home-based Working Committee released a report which repeatedly references research by an interdisciplinary team at @cam.ac.uk highlighting the need for better data on productivity & mental health in the workplace to inform policy on home-based working.
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today, the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Home-based Working Committee released a report which repeatedly references research by an interdisciplinary team at @cam.ac.uk highlighting the need for better data on productivity & mental health in the workplace to inform policy on home-based working.
New paper: Digitisation & productivity in the transport sector
by Filip Mandys & @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social explores how greater investment in information & communication technologies (ICTs) can lead to greater productivity & energy efficiency in the transport sector.
Read: bit.ly/4qW42Kt
by Filip Mandys & @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social explores how greater investment in information & communication technologies (ICTs) can lead to greater productivity & energy efficiency in the transport sector.
Read: bit.ly/4qW42Kt
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
New paper: Digitisation & productivity in the transport sector
by Filip Mandys & @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social explores how greater investment in information & communication technologies (ICTs) can lead to greater productivity & energy efficiency in the transport sector.
Read: bit.ly/4qW42Kt
by Filip Mandys & @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social explores how greater investment in information & communication technologies (ICTs) can lead to greater productivity & energy efficiency in the transport sector.
Read: bit.ly/4qW42Kt
Applications are now open for our new MPhil in Digital Policy starting Oct 2026.
The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges.
Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges.
Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Applications are now open for our new MPhil in Digital Policy starting Oct 2026.
The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges.
Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges.
Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
We're delighted to welcome Dr William Warr OBE as an affiliated researcher.
William studied on the MPhil in Public Policy at Cambridge in 2014/15, and is currently Senior Vice President & Global Head of Health Strategy at BioNTech SE.
Read more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/per...
William studied on the MPhil in Public Policy at Cambridge in 2014/15, and is currently Senior Vice President & Global Head of Health Strategy at BioNTech SE.
Read more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/per...
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We're delighted to welcome Dr William Warr OBE as an affiliated researcher.
William studied on the MPhil in Public Policy at Cambridge in 2014/15, and is currently Senior Vice President & Global Head of Health Strategy at BioNTech SE.
Read more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/per...
William studied on the MPhil in Public Policy at Cambridge in 2014/15, and is currently Senior Vice President & Global Head of Health Strategy at BioNTech SE.
Read more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/per...
📝 New blog: Dr Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros argues that community-led, non-clinical initiatives that support men’s mental health should be viewed as vital social infrastructure, with the Bennett School’s framework a useful tool for making them visible.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/from-pi...
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/from-pi...
From pies to policy: Measuring the social infrastructure that supports men’s mental health - Bennett School of Public Policy
In a new blog, Dr Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros argues that men’s mental health benefits from viewing community-led initiatives as vital social infrastructure, using the Bennett School’s framework t...
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📝 New blog: Dr Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros argues that community-led, non-clinical initiatives that support men’s mental health should be viewed as vital social infrastructure, with the Bennett School’s framework a useful tool for making them visible.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/from-pi...
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/from-pi...
Tickets are going fast for this year's Public Policy Lecture w/ Prof Ricardo Hausmann @harvardkennedy.bsky.social discussing "Public Policy in the Age of Disruption", chaired by @terzibus.bsky.social
📅 Thu 20 Nov
🕠 17:30 – 19:00
📍 Jesus College
👉 Book now: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...
📅 Thu 20 Nov
🕠 17:30 – 19:00
📍 Jesus College
👉 Book now: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Tickets are going fast for this year's Public Policy Lecture w/ Prof Ricardo Hausmann @harvardkennedy.bsky.social discussing "Public Policy in the Age of Disruption", chaired by @terzibus.bsky.social
📅 Thu 20 Nov
🕠 17:30 – 19:00
📍 Jesus College
👉 Book now: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...
📅 Thu 20 Nov
🕠 17:30 – 19:00
📍 Jesus College
👉 Book now: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...
🎙️In this month's podcast, @jacknewman.bsky.social, Angélique Acquatella & Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg discuss what really drives inequality — from technology & trade to health & local policy — & how institutions can bridge the gap between national goals & everyday realities.
🎧https://pod.fo/e/3497ac
🎧https://pod.fo/e/3497ac
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🎙️In this month's podcast, @jacknewman.bsky.social, Angélique Acquatella & Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg discuss what really drives inequality — from technology & trade to health & local policy — & how institutions can bridge the gap between national goals & everyday realities.
🎧https://pod.fo/e/3497ac
🎧https://pod.fo/e/3497ac
Join us for the 2025 Public Policy Lecture with Prof Ricardo Hausmann @harvardkennedy.bsky.social on how today’s policymakers can drive growth & prosperity in an age of disruption.
Thu 20 Nov 2025 | 17:30–19:00 | Jesus College, Cambridge
Book your place www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...
Thu 20 Nov 2025 | 17:30–19:00 | Jesus College, Cambridge
Book your place www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Join us for the 2025 Public Policy Lecture with Prof Ricardo Hausmann @harvardkennedy.bsky.social on how today’s policymakers can drive growth & prosperity in an age of disruption.
Thu 20 Nov 2025 | 17:30–19:00 | Jesus College, Cambridge
Book your place www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...
Thu 20 Nov 2025 | 17:30–19:00 | Jesus College, Cambridge
Book your place www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...
Join us at our virtual open day sessions this morning to find out about our two MPhil programmes running in 2026:
9am—MPhil in Public Policy w/ @terzibus.bsky.social
10am—MPhil in Digital Policy w/ @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Register for the joining link: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
9am—MPhil in Public Policy w/ @terzibus.bsky.social
10am—MPhil in Digital Policy w/ @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Register for the joining link: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Join us at our virtual open day sessions this morning to find out about our two MPhil programmes running in 2026:
9am—MPhil in Public Policy w/ @terzibus.bsky.social
10am—MPhil in Digital Policy w/ @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Register for the joining link: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
9am—MPhil in Public Policy w/ @terzibus.bsky.social
10am—MPhil in Digital Policy w/ @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Register for the joining link: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday