Work with STE(A)M sector

CSES has a mission to advance public knowledge and understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We aim to reveal and promote awareness of STEM in people's everyday lives and to highlight innovation and industry in the region. We work with local government, businesses and the education sector, connecting key stakeholders and providing continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities.

Optimising the new normal: the central enabler of TRUST

Report from CSES Spotlight Event, 15 April 2021

In April 2021, CSES held a 'spotlight' meeting to discuss the role that trust plays in stimulating and enabling new partnerships between users and providers. Specifically, the event explored the role of trust in the context of emerging trends in the four sectors of focus: healthcare, planning, digital economy and education. This follows directly from the Covid recovery roundtable hosted by CSES and Essex County Council in October 2020.

The event concluded that:

There is a clear case for multidisciplinary collaboration, and there is appetite among the group to establish a more formal model for this.
Each sector's issues are connected and cannot be considered in isolation. Any collaborative initiative must adopt a "whole system" approach.
Diversity and inclusion are not simply "nice to haves"; they are essential to getting things right. Whilst the existing stakeholder group is relatively diverse, the model that we adopt to bring about action must be fully inclusive.
To achieve the necessary levels of system integration, inclusion, diversity and participation, trust among the parties is essential.

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CSES hosts Covid recovery roundtable

Has the pandemic accelerated key capabilities, and will some of these capabilities signpost the future means of service delivery?

On 22 October 2020, CSES was pleased to co-chair a roundtable discussion involving local and national stakeholders from across industry, the NHS, local authorities and academia.

The purpose was to explore the future of public service delivery post-Covid, and to find areas where the pandemic had in fact been of benefit by accelerating the development of technologies and collaborations by necessity.

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Could coronavirus make university education fairer?

CSES collaborator Steven Cutts gives his view in the Independent

In the coming months, Covid-19 is going to force us to try out virtual teaching on a mass scale. If down the line it leads to students being taught by the brightest and best, shouldn't we embrace it? Steven Cutts isn't so sure...

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Future City: New Green Festival Begins in Chelmsford

Launch of the Essex 2020 autumn programme

"A month of ideas on growing a sustainable Chelmsford" is how October is being labelled by Chelmsford City Council

The council is bringing together organisations from across Chelmsford to create Future City: a month of ideas on growing a sustainable Chelmsford. The mainly digital festival runs throughout October and tackles the themes of climate change, biodiversity and sustainability. The programme is intended to capture the moment as we think about life post-COVID-19, and it's hoped events and activities will encourage people in the city to make connections and provide fresh thinking about the future.

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Keeping science + creativity alive whilst we are apart

CSES Talk at the Big Education Conversation, October 2020

On 14 October 2020, CSES Vice President Adam Wood gave a talk at the Essex 2020 Big Education Conversation, hosted by always possible.

The subject of the talk was "How do we keep science and creativity experiences practical when we have to be apart?" The links to all the resources presented are published here for delegates' reference.

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Ageing Well: A Smarter Essex

Forum discusses an innovative future for Essex

CSES facilitates event on challenges and opportunities of ageing population

The first in a series of discussions on how to address some of the challenges facing an ageing population within Essex, supported by CSES, has taken place.

Led by the Essex Partnership Board in conjunction with Anglia Ruskin and CSES, the event on 6 December 2016 welcomed public service commissioners, academics, businesspeople, experts and partners to discuss innovative new ideas around Essex's ageing population.

Ageing Well: A Smarter Essex
See photos from the event here

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