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Enabling civilian witnesses to report human rights abuses

Social media now provides a global platform for sharing first-hand ‘evidence’ of human rights violations. For civilian witnesses living in remote or isolated locations, social media may be the only lifeline open to them.

Changing court spaces: policy, architecture and experience

On 15 October 2015, Natalie Ceeney, CEO of HM Courts & Tribunals Service, stated that the ‘physical paradigm’ of courts in the UK had to change.

Chasing the cuckoo

The UK’s cuckoo population has fallen by 70% over the last 25 years. Birds migrate to western Africa for the winter, where they inhabit landscapes that are undergoing rapid economic and environmental transition.

From statistical physics to hair-care innovations

In collaboration with Unilever Research and Development, Professor Raymond Goldstein and colleagues have quantified the curliness of human hair and developed a mathematical theory that can predict the shape of a ponytail.

Improving the efficiency of water treatment

At the same time that regulations are driving towards increased quality and safety of drinking water, the industry is experiencing a decreasing quality of source water.

Using mathematical algorithms to monitor forest health

Addressing the destruction of forests is a global priority for science and policy.

Leveraging insights from a career’s worth of research to help shape primary care

Professor Martin Roland CBE, Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Cambridge, used a career’s worth of research and insight to help shape the future of primary care.

Impacting the national debate on obesity

Professor Theresa Marteau and her team conducted a Cochrane systematic review producing conclusive evidence that people consume more food and drink when offered larger-sized portions, packages or tableware.

Shaping WHO vaccination guidelines

Dr Caroline Trotter and her team at Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine have used mathematical modelling to help ensure that World Health Organisation guidelines provide the most robust and effective approach to meningitis vaccinations.

Healing the ozone hole

Global problems such as the hole in the ozone layer demand global solutions. By providing crucial evidence on ozone depletion and the substances responsible, researchers at the Department of Chemistry have helped tackle a global environmental threat.

Imaging basalt

Much of the world’s remaining oil and gas is locked under basalt, a rock that has baffled those attempting to ‘see’ through it. Now, thanks to new techniques developed at Cambridge, imaging beneath basalt is opening up vital new hydrocarbon reserves.

Conservation in practice

We take for granted the fact that medicine is based on the best scientific evidence. In conservation, however, practice has often been based on anecdote and experience.

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Enabling civilian witnesses to report human rights abuses

Changing court spaces: policy, architecture and experience

Chasing the cuckoo

From statistical physics to hair-care innovations

Improving the efficiency of water treatment

Using mathematical algorithms to monitor forest health

Leveraging insights from a career’s worth of research to help shape primary care

Impacting the national debate on obesity

Shaping WHO vaccination guidelines

Healing the ozone hole

Imaging basalt

Conservation in practice

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