Society
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Martin Ruehl
19 Mar 2025Dr Martin Reuhl is a Senior Lecturer in German Intellectual History in the Faculty of History and a University Associate Professor in German History...
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Itab Shuayb
19 Mar 2025Dr Itab Shuayb is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge. She is also a professor of inclusive...
Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution
18 Mar 2025Modern humans descended from not one, but at least 2 ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread...
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Katherine Hasegawa
17 Mar 2025Katherine Hasegawa is an emerging and independent Venezuelan ARTivist based in Cambridge. Since 2019, Katherine been using real money as an artistic...
Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises
17 Mar 2025Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian...
Free tech eliminates the fear of public speaking
14 Mar 2025Cambridge scientist launches free AI-enabled virtual reality platform that transforms users into skilled and confident public speakers.
Cambridge Festival celebrates pioneering women for International Women’s Day
07 Mar 2025For International Women’s Day (8 March), the Cambridge Festival (19 March – 4 April) is celebrating some of the remarkable contributions of women...
News article or big oil ad?
06 Mar 2025A sneaky form of advertising favoured by oil giants influences public opinion with climate action misperceptions, but researchers are studying...
Pledge to phase out toxic lead ammunition in UK hunting by 2025 has failed
06 Mar 2025A voluntary pledge made by UK shooting organisations in 2020 to replace lead shot with non-toxic alternatives by 2025 has failed, analysis by...
Major new policy school at Cambridge set to advance ‘good growth’
03 Mar 2025The Bennett School of Public Policy opens this autumn, and is already leading work on two of the most pressing policy problems of our time...
Black Town & Gown: The historical legacy of Black presence in the city of Cambridge
27 Feb 2025The premiere of Black Town & Gown: The historical legacy of Black presence in the city of Cambridge will take place on 28 March from 6.30pm and...
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr James Sunderland
27 Feb 2025Dr James Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute working on the 'How to continue talking' project. His work aims to explore how...