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At the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding

Cambridge and LMU announce plans for strategic partnership

29 May 2018

Two of Europe’s leading research universities have announced the first step towards plans for a unique ‘strategic partnership’ – underlining the...

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Twilight at the Museums, The Fitzwilliam Museum

Cambridge museums recognised with substantial Arts Council England funding

27 Jun 2017

Cambridge’s reputation as a centre of excellence for museums and culture in the UK received a vital boost today when Arts Council England (ACE)...

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Hopetoun Falls, Beech Forest, near Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia.

Opinion: Are universities ready for a new kind of science?

06 Jun 2017

Is the knowledge and scholarship that universities produce relevant to the problems the world faces? In a new essay co-authored with an international...

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Opinion: Autumn Statement 2016: experts respond

24 Nov 2016

The Chancellor's Autumn Statement has met with a mixed response from expert academics at some of the country's leading universities - including...

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Ten thousand reasons to celebrate Open Access at Cambridge

03 Oct 2016

The University of Cambridge has received its 10,000th Open Access submission – highlighting its commitment to making research freely available to...

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Opinion: Only by keeping close ties with Europe can UK research remain globally competitive

08 Aug 2016

Ash Amin (Department of Geography) and John Bell (Faculty of Law) discuss the importance of European research collaborations, and how they might...

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Gone with the wind...

Opinion: What Brexit means for UK science: a view from the coalface

27 Jun 2016

Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses how Brexit may impact EU research opportunities and funding in the UK.

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Dr Ruth Armstrong and Dr Amy Ludlow receive their award from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz

Winners announced in the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Awards and Public Engagement with Research Awards

21 Jun 2016

Researchers from across the University have been recognised for the impact of their work on society, and engagement with research in the inaugural...

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Actin cables in Drosophila nurse cells during late-oogenesis. At this stage, nurse cells die and extrude their cytoplasm into the developing oocyte.

Opinion: How fruit flies can help keep African scientists at home

15 Feb 2016

Timothy Weil (Department of Zoology) and Silvia Muñoz-Descalzo (University of Bath) discuss the project that aims to make the fruit fly a model...

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Reading psychology...

Two-thirds of studies on 'psychosocial' treatments fail to declare conflicts of interest

26 Nov 2015

The creators of commercially sold counselling programmes increasingly profit from public health services across the world. However, a new study into...

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African universities reap fruits of fly research

10 Jul 2015

Fruit flies are proving the unlikely source of a new initiative to help improve postgraduate research opportunities in Africa, with the support of...

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Staff who understood the impacts of prison environments, and attempted to proactively ameliorate those impacts upon prisoners, were more likely to be effective in preventing deaths.

Staff-prisoner relationships are key to managing suicide risk in prison, say researchers

03 Jul 2015

In the wake of a recent increase in prisoner suicide, new research commissioned by the Harris Review on the views and experiences of prison staff...

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