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Joanna Simpson | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/joanna-simpson20 May 2013: Joanna Simpson has been appointed to the new post of Head of Environment and Energy at the University. She provides strategic direction to the University and is responsible for developing and implementing long-term plans to reduce the University’s -
Through the cold | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/through-the-cold17 Jun 2013: The prints and sculpture are the result of the year Coldwell spent researching in the archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute, and explore the extraordinary public reaction to Scott's -
Lending a helping hand | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/lending-a-helping-hand31 Jan 2013: Most of us have an extremely narrow view of disability. Asked what springs immediately to mind when imagining a person with a disability, most people come up with the same answers: someone using a wheel chair or a guide dog. This response neatly -
Joanne Martindale | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/joanne-martindale22 May 2013: academia. She has senior administration and project management experience and joins the Research Operations Office from King’s College London, where she has worked with its clinical departments. ... These include the CRUK Cambridge Research Institute, -
Art for Syria | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/art-for-syria18 Mar 2013: The exhibition will feature exclusive recent works, and will raise money for Syrian mothers and their families. Excavating the Present will run from 22 March to 7 April at the 6/16 Gallery in King Street, Cambridge. It combines X-ray images of the -
Wheel good deal | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/wheel-good-deal31 Jan 2013: In a cycle-savvy place such as Cambridge, many of us who can cycle to work are doing so. The 2007 University Travel Survey showed that 39 per cent of employees use a bike to get work, compared with a national average of 19 per cent of all workers. -
Mr Tim Knox | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/mr-tim-knox20 Feb 2013: Mr Knox is currently Director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London where he has been since 2005. He studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and was appointed Assistant Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects -
Support for postdocs | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/support-for-postdocs14 Mar 2013: Search site. For staff. Support for postdocs. Getting Connected: insights and opportunities for research staff will take place on 20 March in the University Centre. ... After the event, people can explore an exhibition of groups and services that support -
The centre of attraction | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/the-centre-of-attraction31 Jan 2013: 1) Bring a friend - or several Membership to the University Centre is free to all current University employees, students, alumni, CamCard holders and retired staff, which makes it handy to grab lunch or a drink with your co-workers. But members are -
Roger Taylor | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/roger-taylor20 May 2013: Mr Taylor will retain his current position at the North West Cambridge Development, devoting approximately 25 per cent of his time to work there and 75 per cent to the Estate Management Division. He will be supported in both roles by two new posts -
Focus on promotion | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/focus-on-promotion15 May 2013: The University’s Senior Academic Promotions CV Scheme will be launched at the start of July and is looking for participants. The scheme aims to address the under-representation of female academics in senior positions by encouraging and supporting -
Learn while you earn | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/learn-while-you-earn31 Jan 2013: If you have used one of the University’s 280 lifts recently, there is a strong chance that you got to where you were going, quickly and safely, thanks to either Lee Hilsden or Scott Herrington. Lee and Scott work as part of a small team in Estate -
Dr Beverley Glover | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/dr-beverley-glover20 Feb 2013: collections and to ensure they play their full part in botanical research and teaching, both in the University and worldwide.”. ... She came to Cambridge first as a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’, before progressing from Lecturer to Reader in the -
Clinical research in focus | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/clinical-research-in-focus8 May 2013: relationship between patient and doctor, and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects. ... For some patients, getting involved in research can be a way of finding hope and purpose. -
Environmental issues prioritised | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/environmental-issues-prioritised20 May 2013: As a university, we are in a unique position to lead the way through our research, teaching and by reducing our own carbon footprint. -
Professor Ottoline Leyser | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/professor-ottoline-leyser20 Feb 2013: After postdoctoral research at Indiana University and Cambridge, she built an independent research programme at the University of York, where she worked from 1994 until 2010. ... We look forward to her continued work in developing research, recruitment -
Meet the past next week | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/meet-the-past-next-week2 Aug 2013: Cambridge's collections are opening up for a week of family-oriented activities next week as part of Summer at the Museums. Participating University museums include the Fitzwilliam, the Polar, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Sedgwick -
Porters’ blues | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/porters-blues31 Jan 2013: I was asked to donate my body to scientific research.”. “Last weekend I got a call from a lady helping her grand-daughter with her homework who wanted to know the -
Professor Didier Queloz | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/professor-didier-queloz20 Feb 2013: Didier’s appointment will open up a new strand of research in one of the most exciting areas of modern astronomy, and will build on the expertise we already have in -
The cost of success | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/the-cost-of-success2 May 2013: It is an essential tool for the research community, allowing users to manage complex costings and provide accurate pricing for research grants. ... future updates, and its relevance and responsiveness to constantly changing research policies and -
Nothing like a dame | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/nothing-like-a-dame31 Jan 2013: The Female Tatler was in circulation for just nine months after it was started in July 1709 as a rival to its more famous male namesake. It was clearly a trailblazer for the plethora of similar, modern-day glossy publications such as Cosmopolitan -
Women to the fore | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/women-to-the-fore4 Mar 2013: Dr Rachel Holmes is the founder member of Friends of TAC, an advisory and fundraising group for the South Africa Treatment Action Group, an independent AIDS research and policy think-tank. ... Sigrid Fisher, Head of the Equality & Diversity section at -
Homerton welcomes new Principal | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/homerton-welcomes-new-principal4 Oct 2013: Professor Ward was Vice Principal for Students and Staff at Royal Holloway College, where he previously served as Dean of Arts. Prior to that he was Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of Dundee before taking on the role of -
The global university | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/the-global-university25 Sep 2013: These range from student and staff exchange to collaborative research, from capacity-building to business development. ... That means forging research partnerships – supported by exchange programmes for post-grads, post-docs, and established -
Support for returning carers | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/support-for-returning-carers16 Jul 2013: Search site. For staff. Support for returning carers. A new scheme to support the career development of research and academic staff who are going on, or have returned from, caring responsibilities -
Inside the Colleges | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/inside-the-colleges31 Jan 2013: Keeping Jesus green Allan Moore dresses for work in a charcoal fleece with “Jesus College Groundsman” embroidered in two lines over his heart, and clean jeans and mud splattered work boots. On this day in January, the weather is windy and damp, -
New Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) appointed | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/new-pro-vice-chancellor-education-appointed19 Dec 2013: Professor Graham Virgo has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education. He will take up position in October 2014. The Pro-Vice Chancellors support the work of the Vice-Chancellor, providing academic leadership to the University and work in -
Tune in, switch off | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/tune-in-switch-off-01 Feb 2013: The University has world-class research in energy, from fundamental physics and chemistry to applied engineering. ... Departments exist to teach, as well as do research, and Engineering’s energy roof has formed part of fourth-year and PhD student -
Science Festival returns | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/science-festival-returns13 Feb 2013: A quick glance through the programme reveals some exciting highlights: Professor John Gurdon, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, will discuss his research and the future of -
Academy of Medical Sciences Success | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/academy-of-medical-sciences-success24 May 2013: Professor Jane Clarke, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science and Professor of Molecular Biophysics, University of Cambridge. ... Her research is multidisciplinary, combining single molecule and ensemble biophysical techniques -
Development and alumni relations leadership team appointed | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/development-and-alumni-relations-leadership-team-appointed22 Aug 2013: Her experience in development research and analytics spans more than a decade, starting at the University of Bristol as Assistant Development Director in the Alumni Relations & Development Office, where she worked ... The Prospect Information and -
Just the waves for company | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/just-the-waves-for-company1 Feb 2013: Each morning hundreds of undergraduates pour into the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Many exchange a friendly smile with Ivan Waghorn, custodian of the building. None, however, are likely to be aware of the extraordinary series of events that took place -
Profile: ecologist Dr Henry Disney | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/profile-ecologist-dr-henry-disney1 Feb 2013: Disney graduated from the University as an ecologist in 1962. Fifty years later, as a Senior Research Associate at the University Museum of Zoology, his enduring fascination with the Diptera – a ... Back in the 1960s, Disney was a medical entomologist -
Discover: John Speed's maps at the UL | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/discover-john-speeds-maps-at-the-ul31 Jan 2013: Variously described as “charming”, “decorative” and “a supreme achievement in British map-making”, John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is more than a map – it is a slice of Tudor and Jacobean life in miniature. The -
Profile: College boatman Paul Knights | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/profile-college-boatman-paul-knights1 Feb 2013: In the early mornings, during term time, the River Cam experiences its very own rush hour. Scores of rowers in dozens of eights from the more than 30 college boat clubs descend on the narrow ribbon of water that winds its way from Jesus Green to -
Profile: palaeontologist Dr Kenneth McNamara | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/profile-palaeontologist-dr-kenneth-mcnamara1 Feb 2013: The frontispiece of Worthington George Smith's 1894 book The Primaeval Savage is as striking today as it must have appeared over 100 years ago. Lying on her back, knees bent to form a lap, the skeleton's head and torso are turned down and to the -
All aboard the brain train | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/all-aboard-the-brain-train12 Nov 2013: Next stop: Cambridge. So read the placards and banners when a group of transport campaigners gathered in Priory Country Park, Bedford, on a Saturday in June. Their plan was to walk the seven-and-a-half miles to the Market Square in Sandy, -
'On migration and belonging': Dr Jennifer Barnes to deliver…
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/on-migration-and-belonging-dr-jennifer-barnes-to-deliver-university-sermon28 Oct 2013: A leading authority on the cultural history of opera and media, Jennifer Barnes has also contributed to the field of neuroscience through her research on neuroimaging and musicians. -
Blood on the Rex | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/blood-on-the-rex31 Jan 2013: His research interests revolve around two main areas: macro-level historical patterns of violence; and individual development and the causes and prevention of aggressive behaviour. -
Profile: graduate student Samuel Wilberforce | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/profile-graduate-student-samuel-wilberforce31 Jan 2013: Samuel’s research involves up to five stages, each one requiring thousands of hours of meticulous testing and analysis. ... This research, and the skills Samuel has developed in carrying it out, are eminently transferable. -
David Mackay appointed Regius Professor of Engineering | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/david-mackay-appointed-regius-professor-of-engineering8 Apr 2013: The new post is designed to give an outstanding academic the opportunity to build on the Department of Engineering’s world-leading research in fields that address major, global challenges. ... ways. The department has highlighted energy, transport and -
Progressing gender equality | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/progressing-gender-equality17 Jun 2013: The Vice-Chancellor added that the University must do everything to ensure excellence in its research activities, and this included drawing from as wide a talent pool as possible. -
New senior post to support post-doc community | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/new-senior-post-to-support-post-doc-community18 Sep 2013: Post-docs are our biggest group of employees at the University, and make a vital contribution to research and other activities – but they are also the most under-represented. -
From the archives: Interview with the Vice-Chancellor | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/from-the-archives-interview-with-the-vice-chancellor31 Jan 2013: Can you explain your vision for research at Cambridge? There are two important aspects to research. ... Cambridge has got to go for transformative research if it is to stay successful. -
The butler did it | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/the-butler-did-it31 Jan 2013: Perhaps if you’re a butler, having a locked cupboard in your office which opens up to reveal a hidden staircase is par for the course. In the case of Sara Rhodes, that staircase leads into the Trinity Hall Fellows’ wine cellar. Keeping track of -
Innovation’s what they need | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/innovations-what-they-need29 Apr 2013: The University is looking to help international students who want to stay in the UK after finishing their studies by endorsing them as part of the UK Border Agency’s Tier 1 (Graduate entrepreneur) scheme. The Graduate entrepreneur scheme was -
High fliers | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/high-fliers1 Feb 2013: In research that sounds more science fiction than science fact, Dr Damian Crowther in the Department of Genetics has created a fly model of Alzheimer’s disease. -
How would you invest £50,000? | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/how-would-you-invest-ps5000028 Mar 2013: There were many high-calibre proposals, but some would require further investigation and may instead be considered as research projects under the Living Laboratory for Sustainability, where students can get involved ... in research projects focusing on -
Honorary Degree Congregation 2013 | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/honorary-degree-congregation-201324 Apr 2013: The University will confer honorary doctorates at the Congregation at 2.45pm on Tuesday, 18 June 2013, at which the Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, will preside. The distinguished individuals the University is expecting to honour are: Doctor -
They know how to move | For staff
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/they-know-how-to-move31 Jan 2013: Programme at the Scott Polar Research Institute.
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