Releasing the imagination: the University of Cambridge Primary School
02 November 2018More than just an outstanding Ofsted rating sets the University of Cambridge Primary School apart: it places research at its heart, informing education pract
Spotlight on children
01 November 2018Welcome to our new ‘Spotlight on children’, a focus on research taking place at the Univer
Mental health disorders: risks and resilience in adolescence
10 October 2018Deeper understanding of the wiring and rewiring of the adolescent brain is helping scientists pinpoint why young people are especially vulnerable to mental h
Black researchers shaping the future
10 October 2018As the UK marks Black History Month, researchers from across the University talk about their route to Cambridge, their inspiration and their motivation.
Muslims leaving prison talk about the layers of their lives
15 August 2018The Lammy Review in 2017 drew attention to inequalities among black, Asian and minority ethnic people in the criminal justice system.
The ‘brain’ that’s helping reduce carbon emissions
06 August 2018From their base halfway across the globe in Singapore, Cambridge researchers are working with colleagues from around the world to reduce carbon emissions in
Epic issues: epic poetry from the dawn of modernity
02 August 2018Epic poems telling of cultures colliding, deeply conflicted identities and a fast-changing world were written by the Greeks under Roman rule in the first to
Legislating labour in the long run – how worker rights help economies
12 July 2018Researchers have built the single largest dataset of employment laws – spanning more than 100 countries across much of post-war history – to look at how work
Humans need not apply
05 July 2018Will automation, AI and robotics mean a jobless future, or will their productivity free us to innovate and explore?
How 9,000 lists written over 300 years are helping to test theories of economic growth
03 July 2018The handwritten inventories had lain largely untouched for centuries. Sand used to dry the ink still lay between the pages.