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Unpublished journal offers new take on Darwin's daughter

A small, lockable leather diary - kept in the vast archives of Cambridge University Library - has led to a reassessment of one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin's life.

Looking the part

Throughout history, clothes have been a powerful part of our identity. Taking place this Friday, a symposium called Appearances of Gender - open to all and free of charge - will bring together some of the country's leading commentators on dress for a debate about fashion and faith, culture and gender.

Benefiting from history

A Cambridge academic's research into the final days of the Old English Poor Law has thrown up some remarkable parallels to today's welfare state - and casts new light on the 'benefits system' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Narratives of Conversion

A project concluding this weekend examines why women choose to convert to Islam - and what the experience is like.

'Extreme Sleepover #3' - gathering the views of indigenous women in rural Ecuador

In the third of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, geographer Dr Sarah Radcliffe describes her work with women from impoverished indigenous communities in Ecuador.

Men of wonder: gender and American superhero comics

Boys and action comics go together like Batman and Robin - but how are girls represented in comics? Sociologist, Casey Brienza, investigates the male world of the action comic and looks at the depictions of female characters.

Confronting homophobia in South Africa

Cambridge academic Dr Andrew Tucker champions a direct approach to challenging the homophobia that destroys so many lives in South Africa. He has helped to set up a hard-hitting healthcare campaign that encourages a radical change in attitudes within the country's most deprived communities.

Gender's many faces

New funding and a generous bequest are helping researchers in Cambridge to explore the complexities of how gender works in the world.

Closing the gender gap

The total amount of work done by men and women in the UK is roughly equal, but the bulk of unpaid work is still done by women rather than men. Jacqueline Scott's research examines the societal causes and consequences of that problem and how, slowly, the situation may be changing.

Happiness hinges on the lives of others

People’s happiness is significantly bound up with that of their “significant others”, a new study into men and women’s differing attitudes to well-being has found.