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9 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

10 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

17 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

18 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

9 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.

9 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

14 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

15 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

14 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.

5 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

4 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.

23 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.

12 Feb 2013: only to that area’s growing economic importance, but also to the  increasing significance of its politics.

24 Sep 2013: Studies have compared groups of children in New Zealand who started formal literacy lessons at ages 5 and 7.

29 Jun 2013: I’m not yet sure how possible it is to think about luxury outside economic terms and frameworks.

7 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

19 Feb 2013: With a background in a range of overlapping disciplines, he is currently professor of sociology at the London School of Economics.

16 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.

6 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

30 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

9 Jan 2013: A new forest law has just been approved, which combines environmental, economic and social issues,” he said.

25 Jul 2013: As such, the neuroscientists and clinicians who led the study are advocating for a transformation of how funding is allocated, with the focus on distributing funding according to diseases’ economic burden. ... Diseases need to be ranked according to

16 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

1 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).

21 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

6 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.

15 Feb 2013: The two-year research project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. •

15 Feb 2013: A dramatisation taken from one of the greatest stories of all time – Homer’s Iliad – is to be performed next week at St John’s College. The script-in-hand

5 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

8 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,

22 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).

28 Feb 2013: Chinese city, where parents advertise their daughters’ physical and economic attributes on billboards.

24 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.

9 May 2013: Add to this UKIP, the Scottish referendum, a royal marriage, the EU, educational reform pitched as a part of international economic competition, and the ever-present and seemingly ever-intensifying fear

12 Oct 2013: The setting for this poignant image is one of the Bristol Orphan Houses, where girls as young as six began sewing lessons and in their teens produced samplers as examples of

18 Dec 2013: Dicey firmly believed in both the power and economic advantages of a united nation.

31 Oct 2013: Diemberger explained: “In a world in which the conceptual models that inform decision makers are increasingly determined by scientific investigation, politics and economics, we asked is there a space for the

20 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.

28 Mar 2013: Professor MacKay’s work with the Engineering Department will focus, in part, on the study of how we can model and communicate the full economic and societal impact of a shift

13 Nov 2013: The last government’s plan was to replace the NHS Estate with a suite of new hospitals but the 2008 economic collapse put an end to that.

21 Oct 2013: If the global power sector is to decarbonise by 2050 without there being significant economic costs then all countries must make a contribution to the development of renewable technologies,” he added. ... Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Director of

13 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,”

17 Aug 2013: In the market, it’s not so evident that this country faced such acute economic crisis only a few years ago. ... They’re full of the rhetoric of ‘indigenization,’ the process that seeks to make black Zimbabweans the dominant economic stakeholders

18 Oct 2013: Although a portfolio of methods is available, Georgiadou concludes that many “underestimate or even overlook the social and economic aspects of sustainability”, and identifies a need for design strategies that will

25 Sep 2013: This not only had consequences for the economics of printing (by contrast with the rapid proliferation of commercial printers in Western Europe), but also lent the technology itself an aura of

21 Feb 2013: But, beginning during the nineties recession and snowballing with recent economic meltdowns, rigid gender definitions are being subverted by a generation with shifting values and uncertain futures. ... With economic collapse, they don’t see why they

11 Jun 2013: Vivid biological patterns emerge from even subtle interactions. Similar phenomena are seen in the emergence of order in economic, social and political systems. ... Similar phenomena are seen in the emergence of order in economic, social and political

24 Jan 2013: This work might lead to numerous new devices and applications which could then be commercialised by industry and help to boost economic growth.

10 Aug 2013: crises). Political and economic turmoil resulted in the collapse of the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009 after a five-year period of uncontrollable hyperinflation. ... There is hope among young people who lived through economic collapse; few have witnessed

15 Feb 2013: They represent an invaluable record of a thousand years of the religious, social, economic and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. ... He said: “The Cairo Genizah documents are like a searchlight, illuminating dark corners of the history of the