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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.