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High-flying students challenged to tackle the 2014 Peterhouse Essay…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/high-flying-students-challenged-to-tackle-the-2014-peterhouse-essay-competitions10 Feb 2014: James considered whether population growth was the principal cause of economic change in early modern Europe. -
Honour for leading Indian chemist | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/honour-for-leading-indian-chemist9 Jul 2014: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science recipient, Amartya Sen, received an honorary doctorate in 2009. -
Investing from the heart | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/investing-from-the-heart23 May 2014: Clearly, emotional assets have an obvious appeal beyond being simply a refuge from equities, bonds and gilts during difficult economic times – you can hang them on a wall and play, drink -
Thought-provoking debates on contested identities lead Cambridge…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/thought-provoking-debates-on-contested-identities-lead-cambridge-festival-of-ideas-20148 Jul 2014: Highlights of the Festival of Ideas include the following:. Leading economist Ha-Joon Chang discusses the idea that economics is a science and addresses the failures in economics thinking that he -
“Trust me, I’m a banker” | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/trust-me-im-a-banker14 Oct 2014: Whether or not banks and their staff deserve this reputation, in the post-crash economic winter there are few, if any, professions and institutions as universally reviled. -
Understanding the “new migration age” | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/understanding-the-new-migration-age3 Feb 2014: back to their homes in developing countries in the form of remittances, subsidising new educational institutions, healthcare and economic enterprise. ... There are many contemporary questions we want to answer:. How do economic globalisation and -
OpenPlant - major boost for synthetic biology | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/openplant-major-boost-for-synthetic-biology30 Jan 2014: Synthetic biology has the potential to drive economic growth but still remains relatively untapped and these new centres will ensure that the UK is at the forefront when it comes to ... Social scientists on the OpenPlant project will help map feasible -
The lost art of risk management | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-lost-art-of-risk-management16 Dec 2014: External risk relates to those economic, political and environmental shocks which may be difficult to predict but should, with the right mitigation capabilities in place, be possible to withstand. ... External economic slowdown, for example, can trigger -
And now, the volcano forecast | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/and-now-the-volcano-forecast22 Oct 2014: When Eyjafjallajӧkull erupted in 2010 in Iceland, the ash cloud it emitted stranded around half of the world’s air traffic, with an estimated global economic cost of US $5 billion. -
Looking for King Lear in Kashmir | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/looking-for-king-lear-in-kashmir22 Aug 2014: These young people are coming of age in a time of great economic and social change, causing upheaval to traditional family expectations. ... This would allow Hindu property developers and businesses to move in: it might aid economic development, but it -
Unsafe havens? Health risks for refugees | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/unsafe-havens-health-risks-for-refugees5 Feb 2014: Their mental health is also at risk. Forced migrations are often the result of violent events or economic hardship, which can have profound psychological consequences. ... In terms of economic forced migration, we find that both labour-receiving -
Portrait of a bloody siege | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/portrait-of-a-bloody-siege9 Mar 2014: Today Anqing is a conurbation of 5.3 million people – a place where there is comparatively little evidence of either its turbulent history or modern China’s economic boom. -
How can education be truly transformative? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-can-education-be-truly-transformative14 Oct 2014: Arif has been working on issues relating to education and development for several years since finishing an undergraduate and masters programme in economics. ... However, after some time working in development, he soon felt that the problems the poor -
Breastfeeding linked to lower risk of postnatal depression |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/breastfeeding-linked-to-lower-risk-of-postnatal-depression20 Aug 2014: The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, used data drawn from the Avon Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a study of 13,998 births in the -
Home from home: minor moves make major differences | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/home-from-home-minor-moves-make-major-differences26 Feb 2014: Data extrapolated from BHPS (1991–2008) and its successor survey, Understanding Society, which is run from the University of Essex’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and funded primarily by ... the Economic and Social Research Council, can -
Greece: austerity takes a heavy toll on public health | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/greece-austerity-takes-a-heavy-toll-on-public-health21 Feb 2014: The authors of the paper acknowledge that Greece’s healthcare system was in need of reorganisation well before its economic plight came to the world’s attention. -
Migration: Britain’s hospitable past | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/migration-britains-hospitable-past10 Feb 2014: For others, a moral and political principle of freedom of movement accompanied this more expedient economic rationale. -
Why a disaster may not be disastrous | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/why-a-disaster-may-not-be-disastrous3 Oct 2014: The team included controls for the average disaster fatality risk and non-disaster geographic characteristics, such as economic conditions, crime rates and the quality of education. -
What 19th-century women really did | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/what-19th-century-women-really-did8 Mar 2014: This data is seen as crucial for understanding the economic role of the household, and individual household members, within the wider formal economy. -
First atlas of Inuit Arctic trails launched | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-atlas-of-inuit-arctic-trails-launched10 Jun 2014: For centuries, indigenous peoples in the Arctic navigated the land, sea, and ice, using knowledge of trails that was passed down through the generations. Now, -
Obsessive-compulsive disorder - does age matter? | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-does-age-matter10 Oct 2014: Therefore, OCD is not just a personal issue; it is also an economic problem for society. -
A divided Ukraine: Europe’s most dangerous idea | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/a-divided-ukraine-europes-most-dangerous-idea28 Mar 2014: If Russia invades beyond Crimea, Ukrainians will defend themselves. And Europe will be witness to a war between its largest countries, with dire economic and human costs for us all. ... Even despite economic disparity with its powerful neighbour, most -
Where there’s muck there’s aluminium (if not brass) | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/where-theres-muck-theres-aluminium-if-not-brass4 Dec 2014: Founded by Ludlow-Palafox, with Chase as R&D Director, Enval is using the plant to demonstrate the capabilities and economics of the process to investors and waste handlers. ... By demonstrating the societal and economic benefits of green technologies, -
Royal Geographical Society honour Mistress of Girton College |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/royal-geographical-society-honour-mistress-of-girton-college13 Jun 2014: The Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography received the Victoria Medal “for conspicuous merit in human geography”. -
Scientists shortlisted for impact of ozone depletion research |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-shortlisted-for-impact-of-ozone-depletion-research11 Nov 2014: The environmental science community’s response to the awards has been outstanding, with 82 applications of an exceptional standard submitted across four categories of impact: economic, social, early-career and international, -
Q&A: how archives make history | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/qa-how-archives-make-history7 Apr 2014: She continued: “The conference will look at the major surge in record-keeping in the early modern world against the backdrop of wider technological, intellectual, political, religious and economic developments. -
IMF lending undermined healthcare provision in Ebola-stricken West…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/imf-lending-undermined-healthcare-provision-in-ebola-stricken-west-africa22 Dec 2014: The researchers say that economic policy reforms advocated by the IMF have undermined the capacity of health systems in these three nations – systems already fragile from legacies of conflict and state ... Firstly, the IMF required economic reforms -
Crime data research throws new light on British Muslim communities |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/crime-data-research-throws-new-light-on-british-muslim-communities1 Dec 2014: Research undertaken by Hargreaves also examined the relationship between socio-economic disadvantage and household crime such as burglary and car theft. ... The research incorporated data from a ‘Multiple Deprivation Index’, a ten-tier classification -
Naughty money: clippers and coiners in 16th-century England |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/naughty-money-clippers-and-coiners-in-16th-century-england12 Apr 2014: Many contemporary commentators identified the debasement of the coinage as a root cause of England’s economic problems, and they also went much further linking it to widespread social disorder, disruption -
Scientists take step towards drug to treat norovirus stomach bug |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-take-step-towards-drug-to-treat-norovirus-stomach-bug21 Oct 2014: Outbreaks can cause significant economic losses – in UK hospitals alone, the cost of treating outbreaks is estimated at over £100 million a year, and foodborne outbreaks in the US lead to ... economic losses of around $2 billion per year. -
Taste-makers for the nation: Britain’s fine-dining revolution |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/taste-makers-for-the-nation-britains-fine-dining-revolution10 Apr 2014: Lane, who is a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Economic Sociology, said: “Part of the motivation for the study was the need for a better ... In part, the study suggests the evolution has been hindered by a shortage -
Science turns to religion for “mass mobilisation” on environmental…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/science-turns-to-religion-for-mass-mobilisation-on-environmental-change19 Sep 2014: Two eminent scientists have made an impassioned appeal to the world’s religious leaders for help in curbing the potentially catastrophic effects of the ongoing -
Agricultural markets and the Great Depression: lessons from the past…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/agricultural-markets-and-the-great-depression-lessons-from-the-past7 May 2014: It was not until the advent of the Second World War, ten years after the initial stock market crash, that economic output in the US recovered its pre-1929 levels. ... This devastating period of economic meltdown caused untold hardship to millions in the -
‘Intelligent Trust’, ethno-religious relations and the rise of the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/intelligent-trust-ethno-religious-relations-and-the-rise-of-the-food-bank14 Feb 2014: Shana Cohen and Ed Kessler. In December 2011, when economic turmoil was sweeping through Europe, the Woolf Institute and the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies of the Pontifical Gregorian University ... The economic crisis in Europe since 2007 has -
Stability, unity and nonchalance: What does it mean to be English? |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/stability-unity-and-nonchalance-what-does-it-mean-to-be-english6 Nov 2014: Elsewhere, he perhaps surprisingly argues that the widespread view that England is in a state of post-Imperial political and economic decline is a myth. ... Another eye-catching argument within Tombs’ extensive survey is that “declinism” – the -
Another record year for University of Cambridge spin-out investments…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/another-record-year-for-university-of-cambridge-spin-out-investments10 Sep 2014: This was the second year of operation for the Enterprise Fund, which was announced as part of the SEIS programme in the government’s 2012 budget, established to stimulate economic growth. -
Travellers under open skies: writers, artists and gypsies |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/travellers-under-open-skies-writers-artists-and-gypsies30 Oct 2014: The half century covered by Houghton-Walker’s study was a time of rapid social and economic change in both town and country as the growing population put pressure on all -
Wine prices outperformed art, stamps and bonds throughout 20th…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/wine-prices-outperformed-art-stamps-and-bonds-throughout-20th-century21 May 2014: The Price of Wine, by Dimson, Peter L. Rousseau (Vanderbilt University), and Christophe Spaenjers (HEC Paris) makes a unique contribution to the study of the economics of wine, built on a -
Head first: reshaping how traumatic brain injury is treated |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/head-first-reshaping-how-traumatic-brain-injury-is-treated29 Jan 2014: The burden incurred by TBI provides a strong medical, social and economic imperative to motivate this concerted effort. -
Advanced materials: one of the UK's “eight great technologies”…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/advanced-materials-one-of-the-uks-eight-great-technologies-for-future-growth2 Jun 2014: if basic materials research is to have a positive impact on UK economic growth. ... The economic importance of advanced materials was recently highlighted by a key Government statement as one of the “eight great technologies” crucial for the UK’s -
“Without paperwork I am nothing. I do not appear to exist” |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/without-paperwork-i-am-nothing-i-do-not-appear-to-exist11 Mar 2014: The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, culminated in a major report by Gelsthorpe and Hales – The Criminalisation of Migrant Women. -
First national model for bovine TB calls for greater focus on cattle…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-national-model-for-bovine-tb-calls-for-greater-focus-on-cattle2 Jul 2014: The researchers did not consider the practicalities or economics of implementing control measures. -
A tale of 38 teapots: an intimate portrait of 18th-century…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/a-tale-of-38-teapots-an-intimate-portrait-of-18th-century-sociability20 Oct 2014: rare insight into the material culture of the coffeehouse, an institution which was booming as a hub of social, political and economic life. ... Coffeehouses played a central role in social and economic life from the mid-17th century to the late 18th -
New research aims to improve energy efficiency, cut carbon emissions…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-research-aims-to-improve-energy-efficiency-cut-carbon-emissions-and-reduce-costs7 Aug 2014: This research forms the basis for future economic development in the UK and improvements for everyone's health, lifestyle and culture. ... The Energy Programme brings together the work of EPSRC and that of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences -
The war that changed everything and nothing: a series of public talks …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-war-that-changed-everything-and-nothing-a-series-of-public-talks21 Jan 2014: In a series of three public lectures at Cambridge University during the first week of February, the eminent historian and author Margaret MacMillan will look at the political, social and economic -
Understanding the bushmeat market: why do people risk infection from…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/understanding-the-bushmeat-market-why-do-people-risk-infection-from-bat-meat9 Oct 2014: Although many programmes suggest economic opportunity as the major motivation behind livelihood choices and success of alternatives, it may not be enough on its own. ... Working with local communities to help them find effective and sustainable solutions -
Will one be forgotten? Internet Freedom and Data Protection After…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/will-one-be-forgotten-internet-freedom-and-data-protection-after-google-spain19 Jun 2014: Effective implementation will, therefore, depend less on legal technicalities than on how powerful such data protection norms are when placed alongside the vast cultural, political and economic power of “internet freedom”. -
Staying ahead of the game: Pre-empting flu evolution may make for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/staying-ahead-of-the-game-pre-empting-flu-evolution-may-make-for-better-vaccines20 Nov 2014: According to the WHO, seasonal influenza causes between 3 and 5 million cases of severe illness each year worldwide, up to 500,000 deaths, as well as significant economic impact. ... The seasonal flu vaccine has been described as one of the most -
HIP HOP PSYCH initiative aims to tackle mental health issues through…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hip-hop-psych-initiative-aims-to-tackle-mental-health-issues-through-hip-hop11 Nov 2014: Many of the original artists – and even performers still today – came from areas of high social and economic deprivation and this is often reflected in their lyrics, for example The Message -
Bringing the gold standard into the classroom: teaching replication…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/bringing-the-gold-standard-into-the-classroom-teaching-replication-and-reproducibility-at-cambridge13 Feb 2014: In economics, an analysis of nearly 500 webpages of scholars showed that the vast majority does not give access to their data and software code on their site. ... In the economic paper “Growth in a Time of Debt” by Carmen Reinhart and
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