Margaret Thatcher famously declared that there is no such thing as society. Her successor David Cameron has asserted that the concept of ‘The Big Society’ is a central plank of his administration’s agenda. Universities have found it easy to take a distanced view of the rhetoric of government,...

Communicating the transformative impact on society of eight centuries of brilliant academic thought. Cambridge research together with comment and opinion on national and international current affairs.

Conveners Dr Mike Higton (Academic Co-Director, Cambridge Inter-faith Programme, Faculty of Divinity) Dr Marcella P Sutcliffe (AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of History) Co-conveners Dr Sara Cain (Early-Career Research, CTO, Corpus Christi College) Dr James Golden ...

This collection is of videos taken of the Social and Developmental Psychology Seminar Series. These seminars attract national and international speakers in the areas of social and developmental psychology to present research talks on their specialist topics.

Crisis and Social Change: towards alternative horizons Image courtesy of Justin Brown from Flickr Creative Commons

The Hay Festival brings together writers from around the world to debate and share stories in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. A host of Cambridge academics and alumni will speak about subjects ranging from obesity and smart drugs to US politics and domestic service at this year’s Hay...

Cambridge Pragmatism: a Research Workshop 31 May — 1 June, 2012 :: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge Themes Pragmatists approach philosophical problems by enquiring about the practical role of disputed notions — truth, causation, value, or necessity, for example — in human...

‘Feeding Seven Billion’ Cambridge led Public Debates on Global Food Security: Debate 1: Biotechnology, Intellectual Property and Twenty First Century Crops What is the relative role of private industry and publicly-funded research in promoting agro-biotechnologies? Is technological innovation...

The Centre for Science and Policy and Christ's College have worked with Professor Charles Kennel, Emeritus Director at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to convene a series of seminars on Climate and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions. The series will explore the cultural framings of...

Welcome to Cambridge University's research collection, where you can find out about some of the research, discoveries and innovations that take place here. Whether you are at Cambridge, thinking about applying, or just curious about what happens at this famous University, this collection gives...

Talks recorded at the Limits of Duty workshop at Newnham College Cambridge on 14th June 2013. The purpose of the workshop is primarily to foster engagement with issues of supererogation, (over) demandingness, and the value and foundation of duty, and other issues surrounding the limits of duty...

What happens when history narratives are produced not for library bookshelves but for a mass audience? Does popularisation of history automatically mean dumbing down? Who are the people who make history for the public sphere, and what are their motivations and priorities? The Public & Popular...

The Darwin 2009 Festival, 5-10 July 2009, celebrated the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentenary of the publication of his most famous book, On the Origin of Species. About 1500 people attended the core Festival and at least the same number again attended the related exhibitions,...

In the second term of every academic year since 1986 Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures. Each series has been built around a single theme, approached in a multi-disciplinary way, and with each lecture prepared for a general audience by a leading authority on his or her...

500 million smallholder farmers support over 2 billion people, yet for many, their future looks increasingly uncertain. What is the way forward for smallholders and for the future of food? Image courtesy of http://www.irri.org

Global food security is a major research priority for UK and international science. The University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative in Global Food Security aims to integrate research ongoing across the various university Schools and Departments, to improve our understanding of the...

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This is the media page for the New Directions in the Study of the Mind project based in the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Cambridge. It is supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Here you will be able to find audio recordings of the project's weekly seminar. In the future, you'll...

Welcome to the Cambridge Science Festival, your opportunity to discover, question and take part in scientific activity at the University of Cambridge.

The Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar at Cambridge is a fortnightly seminar which has been running for decades. This year's theme is exile, building upon the current interest in the transformative and dynamic nature of dislocation, dispersion, and mobility.

Podcast series with principal investigators of the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, supported by the institute's Public Engagement Seed Fund, in collaboration with Pint of Science. Mariana Alves (Silva Group) has been interviewing a selection of our SCI Principal Investigators for a series of 11...

These lectures explore the rich tradition of English metrical psalmody in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The first lecture contextualises psalm versions by Wyatt and others into the literary, political and theological context of Renaissance England and focuses in particular on the...

Water waves are a dramatic, potentially dangerous, yet beautiful phenomena that is omnipresent and impacts every aspect of life on the planet. At smaller length scales the ripples driven by surface tension affect remote sensing. At intermediate length scales waves in the mid-ocean affect shipping...

The Cambridge Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML), led by Dr Kathleen Liddell (Director) and Dr Jeffrey Skopek (Deputy Director), advances research and teaching on legal and ethical challenges at the forefront of medicine and the life sciences. Rapid and prolific scientific...

Podcasts of interviews with the presenters of the 'Manufacturing Thursdays' seminar series. Manufacturing Thursdays is a programme of free evening presentations organised by the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing (IfM). It is open to the local business community and all staff and...

Lectures, etc. linked to Professor Brian Josephson of the University's Department of Physics

The Cambridge University European Society is a group for all with an interest in issues surrounding the European Union and the continent of Europe as a whole. We discuss and debate the constantly changing news in a constantly changing Europe and are happy to hear a wide range of opinions whether...

The Centre of Governance and Human Rights draws together experts, practitioners and policymakers from Cambridge University and far beyond to think critically and innovatively about pressing governance and human rights issues throughout the world. CGHR organises a range of research seminars and...

The Cambridge University Law Society (CULS) is one of the oldest and largest student run societies in the University, the country and indeed the world. With a membership base of over a 1000, its aims are manifold and its enterprises diverse. Each year, the Law Society invites eminent speakers...

Holographic duality (also called gauge/gravity duality or the AdS/CFT correspondence) relates a string theory — i.e. a quantum theory of gravity — to a quantum field theory without gravity. Currently it is an area of research located at the confluence of previously seemingly distant fields in...

In the second term of every academic year since 1986 Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures. Each series has been built around a single theme, approached in a multi-disciplinary way, and with each lecture prepared for a general audience by a leading authority on his or her...

Changing the Humanities / The Humanities Changing - The Humanities past and present - July 2009 Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, Changing the Humanities/The Humanities Changing is a major international conference designed to inquire into the current standing and...

Cutting-edge expert commentary, analysis and business insights on the entrepreneurial issues of the day from Cambridge Judge Business School's global faculty, associates and guest speakers.

PEDAL: Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development & Learning Sponsored by the Lego Foundation The guiding focus of the centre’s work is to develop substantial and compelling research concerned with the role of play and playfulness in young children’s learning and development, and...

Cutting-edge expert commentary, analysis and business insights on the social enterprise issues of the day from Cambridge Judge Business School's global faculty, associates and guest speakers.

The Darwin 2009 Festival, 5-10 July 2009, celebrated the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentenary of the publication of his most famous book, On the Origin of Species. About 1500 people attended the core Festival and at least the same number again attended the related exhibitions,...

'The State of the Universe' scientific conference and the public symposium were held in Cambridge UK, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Stephen Hawking. The conference was hosted by the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (DAMTP) at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in the University of...

Find out about the latest research outputs, industrial collaborations and projects from the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) in this series of podcast briefings.

In his seminal paper Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices (1958) Philip W. Anderson discovered one of the most striking quantum interference phenomena: particle localization due to disorder. Cited in 1977 for the Nobel prize in physics, that paper was fundamental for many subsequent...

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Science meets art in this ground-breaking exhibition, which explores the fascinating relationship between the revolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and nineteenth-century art.

Phylogenetics is the reconstruction and analysis of trees and networks to describe and understand the evolution of species, populations and individuals. It is widely used in molecular biology and other areas of classification (such as linguistics), and has both led to and benefited from the...

The seventeenth edition of the annual International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology - COSMO 2013 - will be held at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, Cambridge, UK in the week of September 2-6, 2013. The COSMO series is one of the major venues of interaction between cosmologists...

Kinetic equations occur naturally in the modelling of the collective motion of large individual particle ensembles such as molecules in rarefied gases, beads in granular materials, charged particles in semiconductors and plasmas, dust in the atmosphere, cells in biology, or the behaviour of...

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The seminar series 'Internationalisation and Educational Reform in Eastern European and the Commonwealth of Independent States' is organised by the Kazakhstan programme research team as a platform for analysis, discussion and critique of the recent educational reforms in the Newly Independent...

Our best estimates of future climate are based on the use of complex computer models that do not explicitly resolve the wide variety of spatio-temporal scales making up Earth's climate system. The non-linearity of the governing physical processes allows energy transfer between different scales,...

Cutting-edge expert commentary, analysis and business insights on the management science and operational issues of the day from Cambridge Judge Business School's global faculty, associates and guest speakers.