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Tales from the edge of modern fertilities

15 Dec 2020

A major research project sees sociologists situated at emerging hot spots of reproductive change, investigating the new ‘haves and have-nots’ in our...

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'Lab in your phone' lets you play the scientific life

25 Feb 2020

A unique, free new game – “part Sims, part Tamagotchi” – lets players inhabit a stem cell researcher as they rise through the ranks: growing cells...

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Yesim Yaprak Yildiz, PhD student

Postgraduate Pioneers 2017 #4

31 Oct 2017

With our Postgraduate Open Day fast-approaching (3 November), we introduce five PhD students who are already making waves at Cambridge.

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Eggs. Plenty of them.

'Precarious scheduling' at work affects over four million people in UK – far more than just zero-hours

16 Aug 2017

Analysis of EU survey data suggests millions in UK may suffer anxiety as a result of unpredictable management-imposed flexible working hours...

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Database protecting UK migrants in EU from Brexit ‘misinformation’ to be built by Cambridge researchers

22 Feb 2017

Urgent requirement for channels of timely and reliable information to be developed targeting UK-born people living on the continent, say researchers...

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Bottlenose dolphins in the Moray Firth. Scotland

Where the river meets the sea: the making of ethical decisions

10 Aug 2016

What is our place in the natural world – and how do we feel about the scientific advances that are changing the way we live? In her book Making a...

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Financial cycles of acquisitions and ‘buybacks’ threaten public access to breakthrough drugs

28 Jul 2016

An analysis of a new drug’s journey to market, published today in the BMJ, shines a light on financial practices that see some major pharmaceutical...

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Russian President Medvedev meets with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund

Study finds little change in the IMF’s policy advice, despite rhetoric of reform

24 May 2016

Researchers describe IMF as having an “escalating commitment to hypocrisy”, as study reveals that strict lending conditions have returned to pre-...

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Tesco Linwood

Flexible hours 'controlled by management' cause stress and damage home lives of low-paid workers

20 Apr 2016

Researcher Alex Wood calls on new DWP Minister Stephen Crabb to acknowledge distinction between flexible scheduling controlled by managers to...

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Gentrification in Progress

Predicting gentrification through social networking data

13 Apr 2016

Data from location-based social networks may be able to predict when a neighbourhood will go through the process of gentrification, by identifying...

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Opinion: Here’s how tweets and check-ins can be used to spot early signs of gentrification

12 Apr 2016

Desislava Hristova (Computer Laboratory) discusses how data from location-based social networks can be used to predict when a neighbourhood will go...

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Young men of Sierra Leone bury Ebola casualties

IMF lending undermined healthcare provision in Ebola-stricken West Africa

22 Dec 2014

Researchers criticise reforms advocated by IMF for chronically under-funded and insufficiently staffed health systems in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra...

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