The making of a Boat Race crew
01 September 2007Mark de Rond spent 200 days with the Cambridge University Boat Club as an organisational ethnographer researching the social dynamics of high performance teams.
Taking the long view on climate change
01 September 2007Cambridge Earth Scientists are contributing to our understanding of the climate system by studying the history of climate change recorded in sediments deposited on the...
Diagnosing crime, dispensing justice
01 September 2007Finding the best routes to predicting, preventing and atoning for crime is a thorny issue. Experimental criminologists such as Lawrence Sherman, recently appointed as the...
Defining words
01 September 2007Two very different projects in the University have at their heart the ancient craft of lexicography: the art of compiling and editing dictionaries. But one...
Guiding the light
01 September 2007Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate...
The mathematics of avalanches
01 September 2007Each year more than a million avalanches fall worldwide, killing around a hundred people in the Alps alone. Can mathematical models be used to predict...
Revitalising research in Africa
01 September 2007Following recent funding from the Leverhulme Trust, a new programme of academic exchange kicks off in October in the Centre of African Studies, as the...
Examining the psychosocial effects of molecular genetic diagnosis
01 September 2007What does it mean to be a member of a family that is affected by a genetic disease? What is it like for a woman...
Finding the ‘genetic signposts’ of disease
01 September 2007One of the biggest projects ever undertaken to identify genetic variants that predispose some people to certain diseases was begun in 2005, thanks to £9...
Going feral
01 September 2007Are there any wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Robert Macfarlane has travelled in search of them, reflecting on the meaning of ‘wildness’ and...