How to create an innovation hotspot
10 Mar 2026 Embedding entrepreneurship at the heart of a PhD training programme has inspired a succession of early-career researchers to found trail-blazing...
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New long-term collaboration with Suzano begins with a £10 million donation to support conservation and sustainability education and research
15 Nov 2024 Suzano, one the world’s largest producers of bio-based raw materials, based in São Paulo, Brazil, establishes a long-term initiative with Jesus...
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Testing the water
30 May 2024 Industry placements for PhD students can be hugely beneficial for all concerned. We hear from two former students and the companies they worked for.
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The unschooled anthropologist working with Q'eqchi' weavers
24 Sep 2019 Living for ten months with Q’eqchi’ weavers in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala, PhD student Callie Vandewiele watched and listened as the women crafted...
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Cambridge receives new funding to support PhD students in science and engineering
04 Feb 2019 The University of Cambridge has received new government and industrial funding to support at least 350 PhD students over the next eight years, via the...
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Postgraduate Open Day 2017 - meet our postgrads
03 Nov 2017 Nearly 10,000 postgraduate students from more than 250 countries, working in countless different subject areas, contribute to Cambridge’s thriving...
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Step inside the mind of the young Stephen Hawking as his PhD thesis goes online for first time
23 Oct 2017 Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, ‘ Properties of expanding universes’, has been made freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, after being made...
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Astrazeneca and Cambridge announce new joint PhD and clinical research scholarships
30 Jun 2015 AstraZeneca and the University of Cambridge today announced three new joint schemes to support more than 80 PhD scholarships and eight clinical...
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