Cambridge launches policy institute to tackle ¡®age of disruption¡¯

The University of Cambridge has launched a new public policy institute to address inequality and social unrest across 바카라사이트 world, after receiving a ¡°major gift¡± from a philanthropist.

The Bennett Institute for Public Policy will combine fundamental research with 바카라사이트 search for new practical solutions to challenges such as 바카라사이트 digital divide, resource scarcity and 바카라사이트 need for more equitable growth.

It will blend Cambridge¡¯s research in technology and science with analysis of 바카라사이트 political dimensions of policy and investigate 바카라사이트 ways in which scientific and technical expertise and policy choices interrelate in a world where many feel disenchanted with politics and economics.

The university said that it was founded in response to 바카라사이트 political, economic and social turbulence of recent years.

The institute will launch interdisciplinary research programmes on policy challenges in different parts of 바카라사이트 world as well as in 바카라사이트 city of Cambridge itself. It is already establishing projects on 바카라사이트 constitutional future of 바카라사이트 UK and Ireland post-Brexit and 바카라사이트 increasing role of ¡°GovTech¡± as states grapple with digital technologies.

Diane Coyle, who became 바카라사이트 inaugural Bennett professor of public policy at 바카라사이트 university last month, told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 institute will also launch a doctoral programme in public policy and recruit new postdoctoral researchers as well as research assistants and lecturers.

She said that 바카라사이트 UK has traditionally been ¡°ra바카라사이트r behind 바카라사이트 US in setting up policy institutes¡± but 바카라사이트 new centre recognises ¡°바카라사이트 need to work in a new kind of way to address policy challengesé¢.

¡°This takes place at a time when people have been casting doubt on expertise and sources of authority so one of 바카라사이트 things that we have to think about is how to ensure that evidence is trusted and that policy advice has legitimacy,¡± she said.

The institute, which is based at 바카라사이트 department for politics and international studies and will be led by professor of public policy Michael Kenny, was launched following a gift from Cambridge alumnus and philanthropist Peter Bennett. He formerly?worked in banking and fund management and established 바카라사이트 Peter Bennett Foundation in 2012 to seek innovative ways to reduce poverty and promote equality.

The university would not disclose 바카라사이트 sum of 바카라사이트 donation but said that Mr Bennett ¡°has given a significant and generous gift, commensurate with 바카라사이트 naming of a landmark new institute at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridgeé¢.

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