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Brits still associate working-class accents with criminal behaviour – study warns of bias in the criminal justice system

17 Jan 2025

People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as...

Changing how we talk — and think — about manufacturing

17 Jan 2023

Professor Tim Minshall, Head of Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing, says it's time for a change in how we talk about manufacturing in the UK -...

“We can’t put our trust in a system that doesn’t hear us”

24 May 2021

Major survey on Black British life launched by Cambridge University and The Voice newspaper.

Whitehall’s failure to adapt to devolution has left the Union on the brink – report

12 Apr 2021

A study by Cambridge political scientists, including a former Permanent Secretary, charts two decades of central government’s inability to get to...

Mend the gap: solving the UK’s productivity puzzle

28 Jun 2018

When it comes to the output, education and wellbeing of the Great British workforce, our towns, cities and regions exist on a dramatically unequal...

One of the three Mesolithic deer skull headdresses from the new exhibition

Mysterious 11,000-year-old skull headdresses go on display in Cambridge

21 Jun 2018

Three 11,500-year-old deer skull headdresses – excavated from a world-renowned archaeological site in Yorkshire – will go on display, one for the...

Thatcher speaking in the White House grounds during her 1987 visit to the USA

‘Don’t put yourself through it again’: Thatcher papers reveal ‘distress’ after bruising election win

10 Oct 2017

Margaret Thatcher’s third and final election victory dominates the 50,000 pages of her personal papers for the year 1987 – opening to the public from...

Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison at prayer in Norwich, 2016

Male converts to Islam: landmark report examines conversion experience of British Muslims

03 Feb 2016

The experiences of British male converts to Islam have been captured in a unique report launched today by the University of Cambridge.

‘Unprecedented’ storms and floods are more common than we think

09 Dec 2015

The recent ‘unprecedented’ flooding in north-west England might be more common than currently believed, a group of scientists has warned.

A quarter of young people in the UK have experienced ‘unsafe’ homelessness, finds study

06 Jul 2015

A new study finds the numbers of young people being accommodated by local authorities or homeless services across the UK to be over three times...

Graphic showing worldwide Internet usage

Click to save the nation’s digital memory

05 Apr 2013

Billions of web pages from millions of websites, as well as public Facebook posts and tweets, will be preserved for time immemorial from tomorrow by...

Quadruplex visualisation and staining in human cell nuclei and chromosomes

Four-stranded ‘quadruple helix’ DNA structure proven to exist in human cells

31 Jan 2013

Discovery opens up possibilities for a new generation of targeted therapies for cancer.

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