The Institute is being funded by a gift of £5 million by alumnus Humphrey Battcock (1973), a Foundation Fellow at Downing since 2013 and donor of transformational gifts to support the College and its students.
Led by Dr David Halpern as Director, the Institute will primarily focus on supporting and bringing together researchers and policymakers from other institutions, rather than running its own separate primary research. An early priority will be to fund and host ‘policy retreats’ at Downing on key social and economic challenges, with a particular focus on issues early in the policy cycle, before fixed policy positions have emerged.
The Downing Battcock Institute is a new initiative based at Downing College, Cambridge, to strengthen the bridges between academia and policymakers.
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