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Offset markets: new approach could help save tropical forests by…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/offset-markets-new-approach-could-help-save-tropical-forests-by-restoring-faith-in-carbon-credits30 Oct 2023: study. The new method, developed by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Exeter and the London School of Economics, is called ‘Permanent Additional Carbon Tonne' (PACT) accounting, and can be -
Making peace
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/making-peace8 Nov 2023: What exactly is that? Put simply, Rawls imagines that if citizens are able to shed their own characteristics - for example, their gender, age, social and economic status - and talk to each -
Improving outcomes for Crohn's patients
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/crohns-disease-therapy22 Feb 2024: Professor Miles Parkes. The PROFILE team are now actively working on an analysis of the health economics to see whether the benefits of the therapy outweigh its cost. -
Sustained, purposeful investment key to ‘leaving no girl behind’,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/sustained-purposeful-investment-key-to-leaving-no-girl-behind-either-in-education-or-beyond19 Oct 2023: Despite this, the researchers highlight several ongoing challenges. Even after participating in an LNGB programme, many girls still encountered significant economic challenges and deep-rooted gender and social norms, which acted ... There are some -
Witchcraft accusations were an ‘occupational hazard’ for female…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/witchcraft-work-women19 Sep 2023: th. and 17. th. centuries. This bias towards women is often attributed to misogyny as well as economic hard times. -
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. -
From ground-breaking research in Nigeria to using novel tools to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/vice-chancellors-awards-202312 Dec 2023: have the potential to create significant economic, social and cultural impact from, and engagement with and for, research. -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: George the Poet
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/george-the-poet25 Mar 2024: George is currently doing a PhD at UCL'S Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose on the socio-economic potential of black music. -
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. -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Tristan Dot
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/tristan-dot13 Mar 2024: By quantifying what would be normal or abnormal in a specific behaviour, they create new self-fulfilling norms based on opaque processes and economic/political objectives. -
Marking International Women’s Day at the Cambridge Festival
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-international-womens-day8 Mar 2024: In Seeing the mess: Gender, housework and perception (21 March, 3pm) we question why do women continue to shoulder a disproportionate amount of housework and childcare despite economic and cultural gains? -
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.”. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-speaker-spotlight-david-spiegelhalter16 Feb 2024: Ahmed, former BBC economics editor and editor-in-chief of the News Movement, in Misinformation, statistics and lies about the manipulation of statistics in an era of misinformation and how we -
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. -
AI at Cambridge Festival 2024
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-2024-ai-technology5 Mar 2024: Misinformation, statistics and lies (26 March) sees Kamal Ahmed, former BBC Economics editor and editor-in-chief of the News Movement, in conversation with Cambridge's Professor David Spiegelhalter and the -
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. -
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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