Humanities and Social Sciences

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Cambridge and Sciences Po to enhance collaboration

27 Nov 2017

Agreement will enable closer research ties and funding of joint projects

Bringing the gold standard into the classroom: teaching replication and reproducibility at Cambridge

13 Feb 2014

Quality standards in the sciences have recently been heavily criticised in the academic community and the mass media. Scandals involving fraud...

From pamphlet to pixel: the humanities in transition

14 Mar 2012

The humanities have been quick to embrace the potential of computer technology but universities have been reluctant to accept digital projects as...

Academics to join British Academy Fellowship

23 Jul 2010

The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year&rsquo;s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the...

Science of music exhibition goes on schools roadshow

10 Oct 2008

Hundreds of schoolchildren in South Cambridgeshire will learn about the science of musical sound this week as part of a touring outreach exercise.

Six University scholars elected to British Academy

18 Jul 2008

Six Cambridge academics have been made Fellows of the British Academy in the latest round of elections to the prestigious organisation for scholars...

Deposition taken from a witness to the 1641 Irish rebellion

Rebellion, repression, retribution

01 Feb 2008

John Morrill explores one of the most extraordinary and least understood aspects of Anglo-Irish history - the rebellion of 1641.

Members of the European Legal Development Project

Finding fault

01 Feb 2008

A multicentre project led by the Faculty of Law has reached its conclusion, having studied over a century's worth of European legal changes relating...

UK falling short in cutting carbon emissions

16 Feb 2007

Britain will fail to meet even the minimum target for reduced carbon emissions by 2020 if it does not introduce tougher green policies, a conference...