Society
(When) are you going to have children?
01 Dec 2020The decision about if and when to have children can be one of the most significant many people will ever make. But – for those who have the choice –...
Displaced lives: Investigating Europe's handling of the refugee crisis and giving voice to asylum-seeking migrants
30 Nov 2020For the last three years, the RESPOND project has been investigating migration governance in 11 countries by foregrounding the insights of asylum-...
Beyond the pandemic: overhaul back-to-work policies to protect mental health
25 Nov 2020Dr Adam Coutts, an expert in labour market interventions, discusses three policy options for responding to the unemployment crisis caused by the...
"Reproduction matters to us all": latest issue of Horizons magazine
20 Nov 2020Professor Kathy Niakan talks about why it’s vital to take a multidisciplined approach to understanding the urgent challenges posed by reproduction...
‘Spill-over’ effects show hidden value of prioritising education of poorest children and marginalised girls
20 Nov 2020Development projects that target the education of the world’s very poorest girls also significantly improve other young people’s attainment...
Ethnic minorities at much higher risk of homicide in England and Wales
17 Nov 2020Calculations now familiar from coronavirus coverage – cases per 100,000 people – applied to ethnicity and homicide victimisation in the UK for the...
Beyond the pandemic: focus on productivity to make everyone better off
16 Nov 2020There is no way out of the immediate economic hit of a pandemic, says Professor Diane Coyle, but to heal social fractures, we must focus on giving...
The student linguist who started a pro-refugee fashion revolution
09 Nov 2020Tiara Sahar Ataii has just been named Undergraduate of the Year for Impactful Social Action. She shares how her love of languages and exploration of...
Honour among thieves: the study of a cybercrime marketplace in action
06 Nov 2020Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre have revealed what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took...
Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy
06 Nov 2020A short online game in which players are recruited as a 'Chief Disinformation Officer' and use tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a...
The lawyer working towards equality and dignity for all
27 Oct 2020Gates Cambridge Scholar Rumbidzai Dube has long held a passion for international relations and humanitarian issues. After working for ten years as a...
Globalised economy making water, energy and land insecurity worse: study
26 Oct 2020The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy and land resources has found that globalisation may be...