‘Manifest’ is Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year
20 November 2024The controversial global trend of manifesting has driven Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2024.
Cancer isn’t fair – but care should be
04 February 2024Listening to people's lived experiences is helping to improve the awareness and uptake of cancer care. On World Cancer Day, we take a look at some of the ways researchers are working with communities to ‘close the cancer care gap’.
Students who self-identify as multilingual perform better at GCSE
11 November 2021Young people who consider themselves ‘multilingual’ tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new research shows.
Found in translation
03 June 2020How Cambridge researcher Dr Ebele Mogo helped tackle a coronavirus public health language gap across Africa in four weeks and 18 languages with 30 crowdsourced volunteers.
Discovering a world of languages
21 October 2019A Cambridge-led team seeks to revitalise languages in the UK with a series of interactive pop-up exhibitions and an online game designed to set tongues wagging.
Research at the chalk face: connecting academia and schools
25 March 2019Researchers in Cambridge’s Faculty of Education are working with teachers to improve the experience of learning in the East of England – and boost pupils’ life chances.
Toddlers, knights and golden bears
23 March 2019Inside the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Armoury and Renaissance galleries are alive with the sound of chattering children. Eyes wide in amazement, noses pressed against cool glass and little feet padding across polished floors, Cambridgeshire pre-schoolers are excitedly discovering treasures found close to home and further afield.
How could multilingualism benefit India’s poorest schoolchildren?
20 November 2018Multilingualism is the norm in India. But rather than enjoying the cognitive and learning advantages seen in multilingual children in the Global North, Indian children show low levels of learning basic school skills. Professor Ianthi Tsimpli is trying to disentangle the causes of this paradox.
Spotlight on children
01 November 2018Welcome to our new ‘Spotlight on children’, a focus on research taking place at the University of Cambridge relating to children and childhood – from health to education, language to literacy, parents to playtime, risk to resilience.
Underdogs, curses and ‘Neymaresque’ histrionics: Cambridge University Press reveals what’s been getting us talking this World Cup
13 July 2018Cambridge University Press has revealed the results of its global study into the language used around the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
