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13 Jul 2024: He is the Director of Studies for Management Studies and supervises Econometrics papers for the Economics Tripos. ... Fellow. Professor of Economics at the Judge Business School. Director of Studies in Management Studies.

13 Jul 2024: Widening-participation (or WP) is our shorthand for categorising students who either have some form of socio-economic and/or educational disadvantage or who come from non-traditional Oxbridge backgrounds (often

14 Jul 2024: This film, made by and starring some Corpus postgraduates, introduces the science of folding DNA.  Some of it was filmed at Leckhampton.  

13 Jul 2024: The number of historians at Corpus. Today the College has become a centre of teaching in world, economic, and medieval history, along with the history of politics, material culture, science and

14 Jul 2024: A range of exciting innovations in cancer detection give hope for a future of more efficient and less invasive tests. ... The next step for this research will be to further test the accuracy and potential of this technology in clinical trials involving

14 Jul 2024: Search. Pain, sex, and rodents. Dr Ewan St John Smith, Fellow in Pharmacology, discusses biomedical research into pain and why it might not be a good idea to test only male

14 Jul 2024: Corpus undergraduate mathematics student Jack Hodkinson has discovered a 2688-digit prime number that bears more than a passing resemblance to our New Court. Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and the number itself, and play an important role in

13 Jul 2024: All candidates are required to register for the LNAT (Law National Aptitude Test) which is taken before any interviews.

14 Jul 2024: Dr Judy Hirst, Director of Studies in Chemistry, is one of the authors of 'Architecture of mammalian respiratory complex I', published in Nature 515, 80–84 (06 November 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13686

13 Jul 2024: in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1986. His doctoral research was a study of social, economic and political change among Mongolian pastoralists in Inner Mongolia, China, where he ... Economic, social and political change in

14 Jul 2024: Search. Mooting success. On Monday 9 March, Dominic Bielby (second-year law student and President of the JCR) and a teammate from Magdalene College won the prestigious University Law Society’s Brick Court Mooting Competition. The final was

14 Jul 2024: An exhibition at Fen ​Ditton Gallery of artists’ perspectives on trees in celebration of the work of Oliver Rackham OBE (1939-2015) and the Woodland Trust.

14 Jul 2024: Search. Down to(n) the Bar. Hugh Bonneville (m1982) delighted current Corpus students by dropping into the Pelican bar after talking at the Cambridge Union. Zara Overton (m2012) invited Hugh to come to the bar via Twitter, she tweeted "can we hope

13 Jul 2024: At Cambridge we also call courses ‘triposes’. Immerse yourself.

14 Jul 2024: Dr Philippa Hoskin shares fourteenth-century reflections on healing the sick.

12 Jul 2024: Andrew Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Econometrics in the Faculty of Economics and Politics. ... He was Professor of Econometrics at the London School of Economics before coming to Cambridge in 1996.

14 Jul 2024: Our brilliant Domus Bursar since 2021, Gemma Donaldson, has left Corpus to take up the post of Bursar at St Cross College Oxford. Gemma will be very much missed by staff, students and the Fellowship as she packs up her oars and loads up her bike

14 Jul 2024: He went to the London School of Economics for an LLM in Public International Law before returning to Cambridge for a PhD.

14 Jul 2024: In celebration of Pride Month, Corpus was delighted to hold its second annual Pride event on 4 June, featuring a series of LGBTQ+ talks, followed by a Pride Formal.

14 Jul 2024: Writing in The Guardian, Dr Christopher de Hamel argues that he has identified among the manuscripts held in the college's Parker Library, Thomas Becket’s personal book of psalms: an ancient manuscript the martyred saint and so-called “turbulent

14 Jul 2024: Congratulations are in order for our two incoming student Presidents: Sophie Oldroyd, MCR President and Neve Baskar, JCR President. Fittingly, as we enter the 40th anniversary year of female students at Corpus, they are both women. We know they'll

14 Jul 2024: Professor John Carr, Director of Studies in Biology, comments in the Guardian on work producing bioluminescent plants using fungal DNA. Read the Guardian article here.

14 Jul 2024: Search. Out of the Ashes of Empire. Corpus Fellow Dr Barak Kushner is the focus of a fascinating article concerning his research into the formation of post-war east Asian identities and ideologies. Kushner investigates this through a variety of media

13 Jul 2024: Anything that is made will have engineering processes at its heart; engineers test, design, build and understand the artificial word around you.

12 Jul 2024: He is the clinical lead for the Reversible Dementia project (revertproject.org), which aims to improve the care of patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus through the development of new diagnostic tests,

14 Jul 2024: The oldest surviving illustrated Latin Gospel book, known as the Gospels of St. Augustine (MS 286) can be seen by anyone with an internet connection. From the 10th of January 2018, this codex, along with a further 555 medieval and

14 Jul 2024: The small instrument is built in Scottish oak which blends well with the decoration and furniture in the chapel, and is mounted on wheels for ease of movement.

14 Jul 2024: Search. The Corpus ducks 2016. Yesterday saw the annual migration of the Corpus ducks from their nest, across New Court, through the main gate, across the road, and towards the river. This event requires careful coordination by the porters at Corpus

14 Jul 2024: The Leckhampton development for Corpus Christi College has been named the People’s Choice in the Cambridge Design and Construction Awards for 2013.    

14 Jul 2024: Dr Ewan St John Smith, Fellow in Pharmacology, discusses his research on Cambridge TV.  (His interview begins at 12m 30s.)

14 Jul 2024: Those with an interest in rare books and manuscripts can follow the blog about the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. View the blog.  

12 Jul 2024: Its broad interdisciplinary training, which develops the ability to analyse data, construct abstract (grammatical) models, and test alternative hypotheses, means that Linguistics graduates emerge with the kind of transferable intellectual skills

14 Jul 2024: The College is extremely saddened to announce the death on Sunday 17 September of alumna Denise Pinto, Chair of the Corpus Association.

14 Jul 2024: Search. Choir tour to Italy. Graham Walker, our Director of Music writes: For the second time in three years, the College Choir visited northern Italy in July, where the region was experiencing its hottest summer for twenty years. An early flight -

13 Jul 2024: His research focuses on economic and social developments in Anglo-Saxon England.

14 Jul 2024: Abdullah Kattineh, a first year undergraduate student studying Natural Sciences at Corpus Christi, talks about his journey from being an aspiring chemist in Syria to his arrival in Cambridge. Watch his interview with the BBC and hear about his

14 Jul 2024: Search. Admission of new Fellows. We are pleased to announce the admission of an Honorary Fellow, Professor Avinash Dixit, and four new Fellows, Thomas Nelson, Research Fellow in Classics; John Biggins, Fellow in Engineering; Patrick Pietzonka,

14 Jul 2024: A BBC4 TV series on The Beauty of Books begins on Monday 7th February. Part 1 is entitled 'Ancient Bibles', and features the Winchester Bible, the Codex Siniaticus - and Corpus Fellow, Dr Christopher de Hamel.  

12 Jul 2024: Economics. No. Engineering. No. English. Two essays. You should submit essays from your English Literature A Level (or equivalent).

14 Jul 2024: After a pandemic-imposed break, the Parker Library Audit took place last week in the Parker Library.

14 Jul 2024: An exhibition and series of events about Corpus alumnus Christopher Isherwood's (1904-86) time at Corpus is currently being held in the Parker Library.

14 Jul 2024: Our second exhibition case is currently dedicated to the study of English literature, which, unlike Theology, was not part of the university curriculum during Parker’s time (and it would have had to wait for another 350 years at least). I focused

14 Jul 2024: Today we celebrate thirty years that Tim Rhodes has served as the College Boatman. In New Court, surrounded by cheering staff and students, the Domus Bursar, Gemma Donaldson, presented him with a bottle of champagne and letter of congratulations

13 Jul 2024: His research and teaching interests cover Contract, Tort, Human Rights and Constitutional Law—including their historical, theoretical, and economic dimensions.

14 Jul 2024: Today (1 September 2020) Corpus publishes its policy on the wearing of face coverings in the College.  This policy takes immediate effect and applies to students, staff and Fellows, as well as to visitors to the College.  With a few exceptions,

14 Jul 2024: Dr Alicia Smith, Parker Early-Career Research Fellow, tells us about her research into a single manuscript with intriguing details.

14 Jul 2024: The Nomination Board has nominated Lord Sainsbury of Turville for the role of Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

12 Jul 2024: This isn't part of a test or exam – it simply acts as a starting point for discussions in the interviews.

14 Jul 2024: For the first time ever, the Corpus Admissions team has headed up to the North-East to deliver a Teacher Conference to two dozen local teachers from 20 different schools and other organizations at Harton Academy in South Shields, Tyne and Wear.

14 Jul 2024: The College has been nominated for a RIBA Award for the Old House Kitchens project.