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Public Health Network launched | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/public-health-network-launched25 Mar 2013: According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the main challenges facing public health in the twenty-first century include, economic crisis; widening inequalities; ageing population; increasing levels of chronic disease; migration -
Loving beggars: how to avoid the trap of stereotyping | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/loving-beggars-how-to-avoid-the-trap-of-stereotyping8 Aug 2013: As a student of economics, first in Germany and then in the UK, I took part in countless seminars in which poverty was reduced to numbers, statistics, abstract trends. ... The financial crisis confronted me with the impotence of economics and, living in -
Homerton College Summer Schools 2013 | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/homerton-college-summer-schools-20132 Sep 2013: I had such a good time, particularly the Shakespeare performance!". Law, Economics, Politics and Geography were covered in the Social Sciences Summer Schools. ... Economics students examined how microfinance (including institutions like the Grameen Bank) -
University of Cambridge Research magazine Issue 21
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_21_research_horizons.pdf2 May 2013: University of Cambridge research magazine Issue 21 -
Farming the 'long-necked thing’: moving from cows to camels |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/farming-the-long-necked-thing-moving-from-cows-to-camels23 Sep 2013: It’s a long and bone-shaking drive from Nairobi to the Marsabit County of northern Kenya. Marsabit has an arid landscape, prone to drought, with dusty lowlands -
Vice-Chancellor in India with the Prime Minister | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/vice-chancellor-in-india-with-the-prime-minister15 Mar 2013: The importance of the interaction between economic growth and higher education was underlined with Cambridge cited as a prime exemplar. ... The importance of the interaction between economic growth and higher education was underlined with Cambridge cited -
Carbon offsets could help lower emissions without harming the economy …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/carbon-offsets-could-help-lower-emissions-without-harming-the-economy27 Sep 2013: Researchers from Cambridge University, CE Delft, Cambridge Econometrics, TAKS (Transport Analysis and Knowledge Systems) and Climate Strategies quantified the economic impacts of MBMs in shipping and aviation for ten selected countries, ... The team -
University of Cambridge Research magazine issue 22
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_22_research_horizons.pdf26 Sep 2013: to anthropology, architecture, history and economics, who this year have formed the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment. ... focusing on dementia, patient safety, health economics, and how best to involve patients and the public in -
University Sermon on 'The Christian Movement in Africa' |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/university-sermon-on-the-christian-movement-in-africa13 May 2013: David Maxwell has held Visiting Fellowships or Residencies in Australia, Switzerland and Italy, and been an Honorary Fellow at the University of Zimbabwe, at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic -
Letting buildings breathe | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/letting-buildings-breathe3 Jul 2013: People want buildings that are more efficient, but it’s got to make raw economic sense. ... People want buildings that are more efficient, but it’s got to make raw economic sense,” he says. -
£50 million of new funding to support Cambridge companies |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/ps50-million-of-new-funding-to-support-cambridge-companies10 Oct 2013: With the launch of CIC, the University and our co-investors are taking an important step in supporting the continued economic growth of the region and the country. ... With the launch of CIC, the University and our co-investors are taking an important -
Lessons from history: how Europe did (and didn’t) grow rich |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/lessons-from-history-how-europe-did-and-didnt-grow-rich24 Mar 2013: current economic crisis and return to the sustained growth we had begun to take for granted. ... Dr Victoria Bateman is Fellow and College Lecturer in Economics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. -
www.cam.ac.uk/annual-report Reports and Financial Statements for the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/13127annualreport2012pdf.pdf21 Feb 2013: This is a departure from the principles of full economic costing. -
Cost of Arctic methane release could be ‘size of global economy’ warn …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cost-of-arctic-methane-release-could-be-size-of-global-economy-warn-experts24 Jul 2013: The economic impact modelled was only for the methane existing on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, and “the total price of Arctic change will be much higher,” they warn. ... miss the bigger picture” without factoring in Arctic methane projections - -
New Visiting Fellowship will bring Brazilian expertise to Cambridge | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-visiting-fellowship-will-bring-brazilian-expertise-to-cambridge14 Jun 2013: Rarely has Brazil been more conspicuous on the world stage. Whether it is because of the forthcoming World Cup (2014) and Olympics (2016), or its emergence as an economic and scientific -
Sleepwalking into the Euro nightmare | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/sleepwalking-into-the-euro-nightmare9 Nov 2013: Jesper Jespersen. Professor Jesper Jespersen, an economics expert and visiting overseas fellow at Churchill College, will use his lecture ‘A European Nightmare: How could the economists be so wrong on the ... Instead of trusting mathematical models -
1,000 years of history to be digitised following unique appeal |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/1000-years-of-history-to-be-digitised-following-unique-appeal9 Dec 2013: th. –19. th. century and is an invaluable 1,000-year record of the religious, social, economic and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. -
Amazonia at a crossroads | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/amazonia-at-a-crossroads17 Oct 2013: Understanding what management practices can best achieve both economic development and environmental conservation is central to addressing this challenge and shepherding the creation of a more sustainable Amazon.”. ... economic characteristics of -
We need to talk about women | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/we-need-to-talk-about-women28 Feb 2013: policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women around the world. ... s access to health and education, remove barriers to full economic and political participation and promote freedom from violence. -
Her Majesty the Queen opens the new MRC Laboratory of Molecular…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/her-majesty-the-queen-opens-the-new-mrc-laboratory-of-molecular-biology23 May 2013: At the same time they are encouraged to exploit their discoveries – through patents, licensing and business start-ups – helping to advance medical research and improve the UK’s economic competitiveness. -
Post-Saddam Iraq: The first ten years | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/post-saddam-iraq-the-first-ten-years17 Oct 2013: Importantly, the conference will look beyond the war to Iraq’s future prospects for social, political and economic stability and security. ... The keynote speaker, former Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (2003-2012) Sinan Shabibi, will address -
Engineering the Future | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/engineering-the-future18 Jun 2013: Indeed he and colleagues in the Engineering Department, Judge Business School and Department of Politics and International Studies have recently been awarded funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and -
Tuning into the melody of speech | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/tuning-into-the-melody-of-speech15 Oct 2013: With funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, Post and her co-investigator, neuroscientist Dr Emmanuel Stamatakis, conducted a four-year study combining experimental tasks with the latest MRI -
Clickable history | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/clickable-history9 May 2013: as the marriage settlement and dowry in 1022 between Namer son of Elkanah and Eudokia daughter of Caleb, which provide social and economic history; and Hebrew manuscripts that contain the date -
Sustaining flood-prone Venice | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/sustaining-flood-prone-venice9 Oct 2013: Science was not enough,” said Kennel. “It was equally crucial to take into account the social, economic and political considerations bearing upon Venice’s decisions about the Lagoon.”. ... Venice and its Lagoon illustrate the complexity of the -
Views of the landscape | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/views-of-the-landscape17 May 2013: But even a most thorough perusal of that book, with its selection of farm accounts and experimental observations collated by Young, the economic aspects of farming and the political and social ... So historians who deal with Young have tended to -
A portrait of a banking calamity | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/a-portrait-of-a-banking-calamity14 Mar 2013: had enabled a vigorous economic expansion. ... In the end the 1772-3 financial crisis had few lasting economic effects outside Scotland, where the Ayr Bank mess took decades to resolve. -
Sleeping sickness by stealth | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/sleeping-sickness-by-stealth4 Feb 2013: Sleeping sickness threatens millions of lives in sub-Saharan countries and, because it also affects cattle, is a major contributor to economic hardship. -
Down but not out | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/down-but-not-out26 Apr 2013: Given that start-up companies are widely regarded as the engine of economic growth, and that each year a small number of new enterprises prove spectacularly successful, these are important questions. -
Are we ready to meet ET? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/are-we-ready-to-meet-et5 Mar 2013: In addition, the World Economic Forum Global Risks report for 2013 states that, "Given the pace of space exploration, it is increasingly conceivable that we may discover the existence of alien -
Out of the ashes of Empire | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/out-of-the-ashes-of-empire12 Feb 2013: only to that area’s growing economic importance, but also to the increasing significance of its politics. -
Cities and how we live in them | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/cities-and-how-we-live-in-them19 Feb 2013: With a background in a range of overlapping disciplines, he is currently professor of sociology at the London School of Economics. -
Let’s eat cake! Luxury unwrapped | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/lets-eat-cake-luxury-unwrapped29 Jun 2013: I’m not yet sure how possible it is to think about luxury outside economic terms and frameworks. -
Totalitarianism, violence and the silent majority | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/totalitarianism-violence-and-the-silent-majority6 Mar 2013: A small proportion of people protested and small proportion collaborated. But carefully targeted violence, propaganda and state's monopoly on economic and civic institutions persuaded the rest to go along. ... Applebaum, who is currently Philip Roman -
Austerity Britain: it's déjà vu all over again | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/austerity-britain-its-deja-vu-all-over-again16 Jan 2013: But for those who held on to their jobs, it was a relatively good decade as strong economic growth raised living standards. ... His research focuses on UK economic policy from the 1960s to the 1980s. -
Twenty top tips for interpreting scientific claims | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/twenty-top-tips-for-interpreting-scientific-claims21 Nov 2013: No member of the current British cabinet has a scientific degree – the closest is Vince Cable, who initially read Natural Sciences at Cambridge before switching to Economics. ... Six cabinet members read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at -
Putting a price on our future | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/putting-a-price-on-our-future7 Oct 2013: We’re trying to put a real economic value on natural resources.” Production of many mass market consumables, from beer to chocolate, takes advantage of many natural resources that aren’t -
Leading the battle to protect the Amazon | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/leading-the-battle-to-protect-the-amazon9 Jan 2013: A new forest law has just been approved, which combines environmental, economic and social issues,” he said. -
The world is changing: how do we respond? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-world-is-changing-how-do-we-respond1 Oct 2013: economics (see below) came together to form the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment. ... Dr Tiago Cavalcanti (Faculty of Economics). Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown (4CMR and Dept of Land Economy). -
Pirate utopias: a history of digital distribution | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/pirate-utopias-a-history-of-digital-distribution30 Apr 2013: Indeed, the power of anonymity in the networked hive, as displayed by BitTorrent, is being increasingly embraced by political activism in the wake of economic meltdown. ... Dr James Allen-Robertson is currently based at the Cambridge-INET Institute in -
Family bonds: how does surrogacy impact on relationships? |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/family-bonds-how-does-surrogacy-impact-on-relationships8 Jul 2013: When a woman becomes a surrogate to enable others to have a baby, new relationships are formed. Research carried out by the Centre of Family Research, -
We ask the experts: is overseas aid working? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/we-ask-the-experts-is-overseas-aid-working16 Aug 2013: Throughout the world, there is a growing realisation that we cannot achieve economic or environmental sustainability without addressing social inequality, the worst manifestation of which is extreme poverty. ... Whether we're talking about the UK or -
Captain Cook’s Maori paddles: an artefact of encounter | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/captain-cooks-maori-paddles-an-artefact-of-encounter22 May 2013: One aim of the project, which is led by Professor Nicholas Thomas and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is to expose variations in patterns of exchange among different ... Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). -
Reporting from Zimbabwe: why the sanctions must be lifted |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/reporting-from-zimbabwe-why-the-sanctions-must-be-lifted24 Aug 2013: The finger of blame for economic crisis is, therefore, pointed firmly at the West. ... The ultimate problem with sanctions is that they weld economic issues to political ones. -
Mongolian life stories database launched online | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mongolian-life-stories-database-launched-online5 Mar 2013: Because of the digital infrastructure, we can extract social, economic and political histories from this in a matter of minutes, yet the basis is simply people describing their own experiences, in -
Cambridge to develop new Conservation Research Institute | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-to-develop-new-conservation-research-institute20 Sep 2013: for people and nature, but also involves critical reflections on the practice of conservation itself and the socio-economic constraints on conservation action. -
Retribution and restoration: Bosnia on trial | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/retribution-and-restoration-bosnia-on-trial15 Feb 2013: The two-year research project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. • -
China's "leftovers" are rejects in a man's world |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/chinas-leftovers-are-rejects-in-a-mans-world28 Feb 2013: Chinese city, where parents advertise their daughters’ physical and economic attributes on billboards. -
Literacy, not income, key to improving public health in India |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/literacy-not-income-key-to-improving-public-health-in-india13 Jun 2013: Economic policies narrowly focused on growth are insufficient when it comes to public health in less developed countries. ... Economic policies narrowly focused on growth are insufficient when it comes to public health in less developed countries,” -
We ask the experts: are we working too hard? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/we-ask-the-experts-are-we-working-too-hard6 Sep 2013: The distribution of work is – and always will be – an economic and societal challenge. ... JM The distribution of work is – and always will be – an economic and societal challenge.
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