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26 Oct 2015: With additional funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, EWF expanded to include social science and policy dimensions.

17 Sep 2015: A paper from Cambridge researchers calls on governments and other policymakers to promote refugee-camp entrepreneurship in order to provide an economic and psychological boost to displaced people. ... The paper – entitled “Entrepreneurship and

8 Oct 2015: His ground-breaking research uncovered the social and intellectual origins of these informants, and showed how networks of ‘go-betweens’ helped the British understand India’s politics, economic activities and culture. ... Every one of his

27 Apr 2015: The images, of embryos of a green alga called Volvox, make an ideal test case to understand how a remarkably similar process works in early animal development. ... Using fluorescence microscopy to observe the Volvox embryos, the researchers were able to

3 Jun 2015: “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding,” Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google famously observed in

27 Aug 2015: diagnosed with ADHD and 23 of the controls undertook a test of working memory inside the scanner. ... Even amongst the adolescent ADHD sample who passed the memory test, the scores were on average 6 percentage points less than controls.

10 Jun 2015: “Shall we take one of the sheep for a walk?” asks Professor Jenny Morton before we head down to the farmyard. This seems a strange question at first: we’re all

23 Jun 2015: His app, myPersonality, allowed users to complete a range of psychometric tests, get feedback on their scores and share it with friends. ... It went viral. By 2012, more than six million people had completed the test, with many users allowing researchers

9 Jun 2015: Everything that happens to you within the hospital – every test result, every diagnosis, every drug prescribed – is captured in an electronic record.

31 Mar 2015: It’s a common occurrence: when faced with a problem which is similar to one which has been faced before, most people will default to what worked in the past.