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Disadvantaged children’s school struggles not about character,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/disadvantaged-childrens-school-struggles-not-about-character-attitude-or-lack-of-growth-mindset19 Dec 2023: The authors argue that policies to reduce educational disadvantages should focus on the structural reasons that cause some students from lower socio-economic backgrounds to underperform.
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Black British Voices: the findings
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/black-british-voices-report28 Sep 2023: The report argues that, for some, racial disparities in pay and pensions – combined with class hierarchies – create a “fatalism” about economic fairness.
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Carbon emissions from fertilisers could be reduced by as much as 80%…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/carbon-emissions-from-fertilisers-could-be-reduced-by-as-much-as-80-by-20509 Feb 2023: There are no perfect solutions,” said Serrenho. “We need to rethink how we produce food, and what sorts of economic incentives work best.
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World’s most threatened seabirds visit remote plastic pollution…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/worlds-most-threatened-seabirds-visit-remote-plastic-pollution-hotspots-study-finds-04 Jul 2023: The extensive study assessed the movements of 7,137 individual birds from 77 species of petrel, a group of wide-ranging migratory seabirds including the
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Harsh discipline increases risk of children developing lasting mental …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/harsh-discipline-increases-risk-of-children-developing-lasting-mental-health-problems31 Mar 2023: Children’s mental health is shaped by multiple risk factors, including gender, physical health, and socio-economic status.
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Cambridge innovation in numbersThe University sits at the heart ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/innovation_in_numbers_april2023.pdf27 Apr 2023: The University. This information has been collated from Cambridge Enterprise; Centre for Business Research, Cambridge Judge Business School; Centre for Cities; Department of Computer Science and Technology; Dimensions; Economic Impact of ... University -
Small-scale octopus fisheries can provide sustainable source of vital …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/small-scale-octopus-fisheries-can-provide-sustainable-source-of-vital-nutrients-for-tropical-coastal26 Jan 2023: These small fisheries also provide an income and a livelihood, often to women whose economic status is enhanced as a result. ... food supply and economic stability is spread widely.
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Hospitality and real estate sectors have highest rates of common…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hospitality-and-real-estate-sectors-have-highest-rates-of-common-mental-health-problems14 Feb 2023: It is estimated that economic losses caused by mental health problems account for about 4.1% of UK GDP, and that better mental health support in the workplace can save UK
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Helping adolescents to feel competent and purposeful – not just happy …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/helping-adolescents-to-feel-competent-and-purposeful-not-just-happy-may-improve-grades6 Jul 2023: These results held true even when accounting for potentially confounding factors, such as school attended, gender, socio-economic status, or special educational needs.
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Insulation only provides short-term reduction in household gas…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/insulation-only-provides-short-term-reduction-in-household-gas-consumption-study-of-uk-housing1 Jan 2023: Researchers behind the study, published in the journal Energy Economics, say it is extremely difficult to identify specific causes of the 'rebound effect' they found, but behaviours such as turning up ... The 'rebound effect' is a fundamental concept in
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UK needs AI legislation to create trust so companies can ‘plug AI…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uk-needs-ai-legislation-to-create-trust-so-companies-can-plug-ai-into-british-economy-report16 Oct 2023: The UK will only be able to realise the economic benefits of AI if the technology can be trusted, and that can only be ensured through meaningful legislation and regulation.”.
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Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/black-atlantic21 Sep 2023: Dr Jake Subryan Richards, Lead Curator of Black Atlantic and Assistant Professor of international history at the London School of Economics.
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Insight into engaging with the wider Cambridge community
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/engaging_cambridge_community.pdf2 Oct 2023: It is just arrogant to say we sit in the community without taking responsibility for the economic development of the area. -
Reading for pleasure early in childhood linked to better cognitive…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/reading-for-pleasure-early-in-childhood-linked-to-better-cognitive-performance-and-mental-wellbeing28 Jun 2023: The analyses controlled for many important factors, including socio-economic status. Of the 10,243 participants studied, just under a half (48%) had little experience of reading for pleasure or did
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Give more people with learning disabilities the chance to work,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/give-more-people-with-learning-disabilities-the-chance-to-work-cambridge-historian-argues21 Jul 2023: Delap believes that Britain’s ageing population and struggle to fill unskilled jobs means there is a growing economic as well as a moral case for employing more people with learning
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Weak policies and political ideologies risk jeopardising plans to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/weak-policies-and-political-ideologies-risk-jeopardising-plans-to-tackle-health-and-climate-change20 Jun 2023: Achieving each of these ambitions requires sustained changes in several sets of behaviour across all socio-economic groups including what we eat, drink, whether we smoke, and how we travel.
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Classical Shorts is a series of films created for ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/persuasion_teacher_resources_.pdf20 Jan 2023: He exploited people's feelings of economic insecurity, national pride, and hatred of minority groups in order to gain support for his ideology. • -
Boom and bust? Millennials aren’t all worse off than Baby Boomers,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/boom-and-bust-millennials-arent-all-worse-off-than-baby-boomers-but-the-rich-poor-gap-is-widening16 Nov 2023: Rather, the economic rewards for secure, middle and upper-class lifestyles have increased, while those for less stable, working-class trajectories have either stagnated or declined.
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Richest nations drift further away from 10% aid goal for pre-primary…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pre-primary-education-chronically-underfunded-as-richest-nations-drift-further-away-from-10-aid-goal17 May 2023: The new report was compiled using the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s creditor report system, which gathers information about the aid contributions of both individual countries and international
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Cambridge Festival launches extensive programme for 2023
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-2023-launch10 Feb 2023: In THE BARON DE LANCEY LECTURE 2023 – ASSISTED DYING: SLIPPERY SLOPES AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES (16 March), Professor Emily Jackson (London School of Economics) discusses the practical pitfalls in trying to legislate
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At least 80% of the world’s most important sites for biodiversity on…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/at-least-80-of-the-worlds-most-important-sites-for-biodiversity-on-land-currently-contain-human23 Mar 2023: This study illustrates the crucial importance of ensuring smart infrastructure development that provides social and economic value for all, whilst ensuring positive outcomes for nature.
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Young children who are close to their parents are more likely to grow …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/young-children-who-are-close-to-their-parents-are-more-likely-to-grow-up-kind-helpful-and-prosocial9 Oct 2023: Other potentially confounding factors, like ethnic background and socio-economic status, were also taken into account.
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What can Europe expect of its universities? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/europe-expect31 May 2023: The European Union, and the governments of its member states, foster this because of its economic productivity. ... Governments know what they want: economic growth. But autonomy is not a luxury. -
Knowledge capital and development for all, 24 March 2018 | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/knowledge-capital-development30 May 2023: It is an honour to have been invited to the Economic Summit of the China Development Forum. ... We do it, also, because the application of knowledge can have economic benefits. -
R E S E A R C H HORIZONS ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_4_research_horizons.pdf16 Jan 2023: Following two decades of economic crisisand increased student enrolments,academics working in African Universitiesare suffering from overwhelmingteaching and administrative workloadsand poor resources. ... Energy is essential to every aspect of our -
Deliberate Diversity: Cambridge and the UK Higher Education System |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/deliberate-diversity31 May 2023: Difficult economic times add urgency to the task of formulating and holding to a long-term view. ... Focusing only on what is most easily measured or on immediate economic impact is to miss the deeper point, of course. -
Changing how we talk — and think — about manufacturing
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/future-of-manufacturing17 Jan 2023: Why? Because economic value of manufactured goods increasingly depends on activities — such as R&D, design and testing services — that are officially categorised as belonging to other sectors of the economy.
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Making the case for universities: how do we best tell our story?…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/making-case-universities-how30 May 2023: scholarship are pursued to the highest level, and where intellectual activity can be freely conducted without regard to its immediate economic benefit.'. ... It is right to want to see the world-leading research that fuels discovery and powers economic -
The Scale of our Ambition | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/scale-our-ambition31 May 2023: Creating the headroom for this anticipated growth is unquestionably challenging, especially in the current economic circumstances, but failure to do so will significantly weaken our future competitiveness. ... study worthy of their talents; in our -
Keynote address, Aga Khan Centre, London, 29 September 2018 |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/keynote-address-aga-khan30 May 2023: We need to understand cultural and economic differences so that we may find the words to speak of our objectives and achievements in ways that do not patronise. ... They have often been the springboards for revolutions – whether political, economic, or -
Responsibility | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/address-to-university-201431 May 2023: There is no ‘right background’ for Cambridge, no right school to have attended, no hidden test of social and economic circumstances. ... contribution our freedom allows – and impels us – to make to the economic and social well-being of our region -
The role and responsibilities of universities in Europe's revival …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/role-and-responsibilities31 May 2023: Be in no doubt: the cuts to research and innovation will damage Europe’s economic future. ... We cannot let political short-sightedness stand in the way of our continued economic recovery. -
Inaugural address, 2 October 2017 | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/inaugural-address-201730 May 2023: Cambridge alumni have also turned science and engineering discoveries into widespread economic benefit. ... It requires greater understanding of the regulatory frameworks of land ownership, or the economics of changes in land-use. -
Inaugural address, 5 July 2023 | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/inaugural-address-5-july-20234 Jul 2023: Universities play a significant part in the economic development of their regions and the nation, and this is certainly true of the University of Cambridge. -
Advancement of Science in Africa Through Education | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/advancement-science-africa-through-education31 May 2023: Discoveries result in direct benefits, and these discoveries and innovations fuel economic growth. ... It is such science that disproportionately produces real economic benefit. And it takes real courage of policy makers to invest, because it is a shot -
The New Imperatives | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/new-imperatives31 May 2023: Our contribution to global society goes far beyond the mere economic and far beyond the short term: so, as we make that contribution, we should insist that it is valued appropriately. ... In an economic environment of austerity and cutbacks, autonomy -
Partnership, Annual Address to the University 2015 | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/annual-address-to-university-201531 May 2023: Some may remain in Cambridge; others will return home, becoming not only ambassadors for the University, but also working with us to tackle some of the biggest political, medical and economic ... been at the heart of every transformative discovery in -
The Distant Fen: Cambridge in the World | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/distant-fen31 May 2023: Success in these tables is of particular interest to prospective students, and of course to Government, which funds much of our activity in the reasonable expectation of economic and other returns. ... It is undoubtedly important for the long-term -
Fixing the Fens
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/fens-and-landscape-regeneration14 Apr 2023: Add to these challenges the huge loss of biodiversity caused by changes in land use, and the wider economic and public health challenges of the region: this problem is much bigger
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#CamFest Speaker Spotlight
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/martin-jones14 Mar 2023: world in Edible economics: how much can food tell us about economic change? ... So food and reproduction have been central to the fashioning of economic behaviour and practice.
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The Mastercard class of '23
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Mastercard-Foundation-class-of-20233 Aug 2023: Muhammad Balarabe. Muhammad Balarabe. Muhammad Balarabe is from Nigeria. He's looking at global health care with a particular focus on the social and economic determinants of health.
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Celebrating the women of Cambridge: Part III
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/celebrating-cambridge-women-part-three23 Mar 2023: She heads research under the themes of progress and productivity and her latest book, ‘Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be‘ is on how economics needs to ... Diane was awarded a CBE for her contribution to the public
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