British Academy elects Cambridge Professors to Fellowship in 2026
17 Jul 2026 Six academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Department of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Department of Modern and Medieval Languages
Procrastination: thief of more than time
10 Jul 2026 Procrastination is on the rise, partly because of digital distractions and modern work, a new book warns. Working out which types of procrastinators...
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Pilkington Prize winners honoured
17 Jun 2026 The winners of this year's Pilkington Prizes have been presented with their awards at a special event hosted by St Catharine's College.
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Cambridge spinout helping to make AI more trustworthy
25 Sep 2025 As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday tools and decisions, ensuring the safety and reliability of large language models (LLMs) is...
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Diaries reveal teenage angst in Stalin’s Russia
21 Jul 2025 Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, pressure to succeed and...
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British Academy elects 12 Cambridge researchers to Fellowship in 2025
18 Jul 2025 Twelve academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social science
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Cambridge scholar helps bring Ukraine’s pain and power to the stage in critically acclaimed creative collaboration
12 Jun 2025 The Reckoning is an intimate work of documentary theatre composed from a verified archive of witness testimonies chronicling Russia’s war of...
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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Martin Ruehl
19 Mar 2025 Dr Martin Reuhl is a Senior Lecturer in German Intellectual History in the Faculty of History and a University Associate Professor in German History...
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Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises
17 Mar 2025 Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian...
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