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19 Mar 2021: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and

15 Mar 2021: Celebrity speakers, leading conservationists and youth leaders are coming together to deliver stories of hope for our natural world in a free, open-to-all virtual event running from the 26 March to 4 April 2021. Led by the Cambridge Conservation

9 Mar 2023: A new book about gravity, a look at what solar satellites reveal about the sun, and the potential for a new tool to explore the universe are part of a series of events related to space at this year’s Cambridge Festival. An event that promises to

13 Mar 2023: A key event at this year’s Cambridge Festival, which begins on Friday 17th March and runs until Sunday 2nd April, will address the future of the Cambridgeshire Fens. The Fens produce 33% of England’s vegetables and contribute over £3bn to the

19 Feb 2024: The aim of this poetry trail is to showcase student writing, draw connections between literature and botany, and provide an alternative way of navigating the gardens and interacting with the specimens it houses. Drawing on the plant profiles below,

10 Feb 2023: For two days only you can come to the Cambridge Festival and buy all the books featured across our events. Representatives from Waterstones Cambridge will be located in the Babbage Lecture Theatre foyer on Saturday 25 March (12pm-4pm) and Friday 31

9 Mar 2023: On Monday 27th March, a panel of experts asks, HOW CAN WE IMPROVE OUR FOOD SECURITY? The war in Ukraine and climate disasters have focused people’s minds on issues of food security. Can researchers help to address the practical and political

21 Feb 2023: You may have noticed that we've not had a printed programme in a few years and we know some of you missed that. We heard you so this year we've published our first ever Festival newspaper. Matter is your new comprehensive guide to the Festival and

15 Feb 2024: These are just some of the social issues being debated at this year’s Cambridge Festival. The Festival runs from 13th to 28th March and is teeming with hundreds of events, most of them free, which celebrate the rich research being done at the

21 Mar 2023: A world premiere play about Britain’s answer to Galileo and debates about everything from psychopaths and obsessive hoarding to food security will dominate the second week of the Cambridge Festival, culminating in a bumper weekend of events.

6 Mar 2023: The 2023 programme is filled with music performances, theatre shows, poetry recitals, exhibitions and more. We’re more than just science. In THE MAGIC OF CAMBRIDGE the Cambridge Pentacle Magic Club present a magical journey through the people,

8 Mar 2023: Events related to mental wellbeing figure strongly at this year’s Cambridge Festival The launch of Murray Edwards Policy Centre for the Wellbeing of Young Women and Girls heads a host of events covering everything from OCD and excessive hoarding

27 Feb 2024: All of these questions will form part of the political debates at this year’s Cambridge Festival, which runs from 13th to 28th March. Speakers include Professor David Spiegelhalter, Professor Jason Arday, Kamel Ahmed, founder of the News Movement,

26 Mar 2024: The Animal Heartbeat is the only podcast dedicated to veterinary cardiology and has almost 17,000 downloads of the first season to date.

28 Feb 2023: These are just some of the religion-centred debates at this year’s Cambridge Festival, which runs from 17th March to 2nd April and is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the country, featuring over 360 mostly free events. In 'Lady, have

19 Mar 2021: The Festival, which launches next Friday 26th March, hosts an extensive programme of over 350 events, tackling many of the critical global challenges affecting us all. Coordinated by the University of Cambridge, it features hundreds of prominent

17 Mar 2023: How can we make sure food shortages don’t keep happening? Can we stop fake climate news holding up action? Are we ready for a four-day working week? And how do we stop becoming more stupid? The programme features a wide-ranging series of more than

5 Mar 2024: The Cambridge Festival begins on 13th March and runs until the 28th. One of the largest festivals of its kind in the country, the festival is teeming with over 360 events from talks, debates, tours, walks, films, exhibitions, performances, comedy,

14 Feb 2023: Speakers include journalist Emily Maitlis, political sketch writer John Crace, Professor David Runciman, former host of the respected Talking Politics podcast and Dorothy Byrne, president of Murray Edwards College and former Head of News and Current

7 Feb 2022: Political crises, the past, present and future of eastern world orders, the outlook for feminism, new technologies and treatments for a range of diseases, and the state of our natural world top the bill at this year’s Festival, which returns with