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Image taken by UNRWA in a temporary school in Gaza during 2025.

After more than two years of war, Palestinian children are hungry, denied education and 'like the living dead' – report

08 Jan 2026

A University of Cambridge-led analysis of how war has affected education and children’s lives in Gaza calls for an urgent increase in international...

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African universities reap fruits of fly research

10 Jul 2015

Fruit flies are proving the unlikely source of a new initiative to help improve postgraduate research opportunities in Africa, with the support of...

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Agriculture is the backbone of India

New evidence of suicide epidemic among India’s ‘marginalised’ farmers

17 Apr 2014

Latest statistical research finds strong causal links between areas with the most suicides and areas where impoverished farmers are trying to grow...

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Summer school participant

On the fly: African summer school on insect neuroscience

26 Apr 2013

A programme created by Cambridge researchers is teaching African scientists how insects can be powerful yet inexpensive model systems in...

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Ghana

Harnessing the power of research to benefit developing countries

25 Apr 2013

CEO of GAVI Alliance to give Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research inaugural lecture

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Dr Sabina Wachira, a THRiVE postdoctoral fellow from icipe in Kenya, who visited her Cambridge mentor (Dr David Spring of the Department of Chemistry)'s lab in 2012

Cambridge named one of Wellcome Trust’s Centres for Global Health Research

11 Feb 2013

Centre will support researchers working in public health and tropical medicine.

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Chinese frontier guard at the Manzhouli-Zabaikalsk border

The life of borders: where China and Russia meet

06 Nov 2012

A new project based in Cambridge’s Division of Social Anthropology is looking at interactions between China, Mongolia and Russia at the point where...

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Kristen MacAskill at work in Christchurch, New Zealand

Where are they now?

13 Aug 2012

Last month graduates of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESD) came back to the Engineering Department from all...

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Photo-voice image from the AskAIDS project

Breaking sex education taboos in Africa to tackle AIDS

19 Jun 2012

New research focusing on educating young people about sex and HIV/AIDS in Africa is using innovative techniques – such as ‘photo-voice’ and role-play...

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Tomato

Prize tomato

30 May 2012

A group of students on the University of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development has devised a project that will help...

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MRSA

Stopping superbugs in their tracks

01 Nov 2010

Work in resource-restricted healthcare settings in south-east Asia is defining the transmission of hospital ‘superbugs’ using low-tech diagnostics...

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Chars dwellers building plinths as part of the cash-for-work scheme

Out of poverty

01 Nov 2010

Cambridge researchers are contributing to projects in Bangladesh that aim to lift 1 million people out of poverty by 2015.

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