Civil Service and Academia: A Model Partnership

Abstract:

In October, I left the familiarity of the civil service for a secondment into academic life at Oxford’s Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). I was fascinated by MacroCB7’s project proposal of applying cutting-edge Agent Based Modelling techniques to UK decarbonisation policy. Six months later, I have learnt so much from the academic environment and am on a mission to better connect the two organisations.