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Unsociable networks | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unsociable-networks18 Aug 2011: Writing in the Journal of Economic Geography, Huber reports that, far from developing the informal social networks that are supposed to stimulate knowledge exchange, most people working in the Cambridge cluster ... Often, when they do share knowledge or
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Cambridge Festival of Ideas Launches Today | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-launches-today-011 Oct 2019: Rethinking drug addiction will ask why current approaches to addiction are not working and question if this is a matter of economics, politics, ethics or education. ... The session also includes an interactive game which allows you to play out the lives
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Bringing together the Book of Kings | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bringing-together-the-book-of-kings8 Feb 2008: Dr Charles Melville, from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, was awarded a five-year grant from the AHRB in 1999 to photograph, catalogue and produce an electronic corpus ... Because the AHRC’s definition of KT is broad and flexible in
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Post-Saddam Iraq: The first ten years | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/post-saddam-iraq-the-first-ten-years17 Oct 2013: Importantly, the conference will look beyond the war to Iraq’s future prospects for social, political and economic stability and security. ... The keynote speaker, former Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (2003-2012) Sinan Shabibi, will address
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Looking the part | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/looking-the-part5 Mar 2012: Beneath these four words lies the expectation that women should dress their age – adapting their style of dress appropriately as they enter their middle and older years. ... attitudes to it have been shaped by shifts in culture, politics, religion, art
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Defending crops with maths | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/defending-crops-with-maths18 Mar 2011: Moreover, outbreaks of disease can sometimes reach epidemic proportions, wiping out entire crops, often with substantial social and economic consequences. ... element of uncertainty: ‘Dealing with complicated systems that have a biological, economic
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Portrait of a bloody siege | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/portrait-of-a-bloody-siege9 Mar 2014: At a talk on Tuesday 11 March, Kang Tchou, a PhD candidate in the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Faculty at Cambridge University, will discuss the ways in which the campaign ... Today Anqing is a conurbation of 5.3 million people – a place where
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Homerton College Summer Schools 2013 | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/homerton-college-summer-schools-20132 Sep 2013: I had such a good time, particularly the Shakespeare performance!". Law, Economics, Politics and Geography were covered in the Social Sciences Summer Schools. ... Economics students examined how microfinance (including institutions like the Grameen Bank)
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Tackling COVID-19: Professor James Wood | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tackling-covid-19-professor-james-wood28 May 2020: There is an almost total lack of necessary health infrastructure in low and middle-income countries. ... A new rapid COVID-19 test came from a Cambridge spinout. Colleagues in the Department of Engineering have been working to improve access to
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The palatial language of power | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-palatial-language-of-power1 Apr 2007: It also reminds us that religious invectives and intolerance are not inherent to any faith but are the product of specific political, economic and social contexts.
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Opinion: Being society's critic & conscience | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/opinion-being-societys-critic-conscience6 Jan 2017: But a “critic and conscience” clause would mean that institutions must encourage those working in them to engage in public discussion and embrace the freedom to develop new ideas, test received
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Early toilets reveal dysentery in Old Testament Jerusalem |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/early-toilets-reveal-dysentery-in-old-testament-jerusalem26 May 2023: Ancient medical texts from Mesopotamia during the first and second millennium BCE describe diarrhoea affecting the populations of what is now the Near and Middle East. ... Tests for Entamoeba and Cryptosporidium were negative, but those for Giardia were
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Cambridge heads for Hay | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-heads-for-hay10 Apr 2014: cells. He will talk about his pioneering work on cloning. Other speakers include Dr Ha-Joon Chang on economics, classicist Professor Paul Cartledge on after Thermopylae, Dame Barbara Stocking, former chief ... Professor Richard Evans, president of
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Cambridge's 2017 admissions statistics published | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridges-2017-admissions-statistics-published10 May 2018: Admissions of students identified using other measures of socio-economic disadvantage are also up.
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“Cambridge in Numbers” wins IVCA award | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-in-numbers-wins-ivca-award4 Apr 2013: We’re from all ages and backgrounds.”. Sarah Middle, New Media Project Officer in the Cambridge Admissions Office, who co-ordinated the film’s creation, said: “We were really happy with
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Giving cockroaches the slip | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/giving-cockroaches-the-slip13 Oct 2009: As the video footage of lab tests shows, insects were able to climb with ease a glass rod coated with non-stick PTFE. ... problems and economic loss associated with insect pests.
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Human embryo-like model created from human stem cells
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/human-embryo-like-model-from-human-stem-cells11 Jun 2020: Understanding these processes holds potential to reveal the causes of human birth defects and diseases, and to develop tests for these in pregnant women. ... A growing human gastruloid at 24 hours (left), 48 hours (middle) and 72 hours (right).
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Treasures of the genizah | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/treasures-of-the-genizah1 Sep 2009: books, documents and other writings had continually been placed since the Middle Ages in fulfilment of a rabbinic prohibition against the destruction of sacred texts.
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Amazonia at a crossroads | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/amazonia-at-a-crossroads17 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.”. ... Their approach is to assemble an
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Foresters bring Cambridge 'water curriculum' to Indian…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/foresters-bring-cambridge-water-curriculum-to-indian-himalayas29 Jun 2023: Development (DFID), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). ... Funding was also provided by the University of Cambridge’s Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account.
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Old suspicions remain after the Arab Spring | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/old-suspicions-remain-after-the-arab-spring15 Oct 2012: The idea that the Middle East's democrats will be grateful to the West is misguided; old suspicions remain.". ... Matthiesen, Abdullah al-Mubarak Research Fellow in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Cambridge Enterprise celebrates a year of innovation and economic…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-enterprise-celebrates-a-year-of-innovation-and-economic-growth5 Jul 2023: Cambridge Enterprise’s contribution to the UK economy through innovation is part of the wider financial impact of the University of Cambridge – which, according to a recent London Economics report, contributes ... A new Commercialisation of Research
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Out of the ashes of Empire | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/out-of-the-ashes-of-empire12 Feb 2013: only to that area’s growing economic importance, but also to the increasing significance of its politics.
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Views of the landscape | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/views-of-the-landscape17 May 2013: But even a most thorough perusal of that book, with its selection of farm accounts and experimental observations collated by Young, the economic aspects of farming and the political and social ... So historians who deal with Young have tended to
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Tuning into the melody of speech | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/tuning-into-the-melody-of-speech15 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 ... Native English-speaking participants within
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Fantastic Mr. Dahl | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/fantastic-mr-dahl7 Sep 2011: In our society, children are inescapably disempowered: they lack economic resources, political voice, social status, and must in every situation submit to rules imposed on them by adults.
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Cambridge launches Regulatory Genome Project | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-launches-regulatory-genome-project21 Dec 2020: The Regulatory Genome Project combines the University’s research with its convening influence to deliver societal and economic impact with the potential to be global, transformational and enduring,” said Professor Eilís
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A new educational initiative – Roots – makes music a priority |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/a-new-educational-initiative-roots-makes-music-a-priority25 Mar 2019: Dr Sam Barrett. Cambridgeshire secondary school pupils had the chance to put into practice their new singing talents – from music from the Middle Ages through to the present day – at
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IMF loans “strongly linked” to tuberculosis | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/imf-loans-strongly-linked-to-tuberculosis22 Jul 2008: IMF lending programmes demand that countries meet strict economic targets as a condition of the loans. ... The International Monetary Fund has argued that their goal is to boost economic growth and that 'wealthier is healthier'," added King.
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Seeds to skyscrapers | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/seeds-to-skyscrapers24 Jun 2014: Forensic engineering showed that once our test building reached a certain height the wood at the bottom began to crush. ... This technology could be used to construct polymer-modified wooden beams that are stronger at the ends for better connections, and
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“Trust me, I’m a banker” | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/trust-me-im-a-banker14 Oct 2014: Whether or not banks and their staff deserve this reputation, in the post-crash economic winter there are few, if any, professions and institutions as universally reviled. ... A web-based interactive module will enable prospective clients to test whether
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Challenging crime: Institute of Criminology | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/challenging-crime-institute-of-criminology1 May 2010: But criminology is multifaceted, drawing from disciplines as diverse as law, sociology, psychology, biology, medicine, economics, political science and history. ... Finding out what influences young people to break rules of conduct is a central aim of
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Music in the tree of life | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/music-in-the-tree-of-life18 Mar 2015: In what they believe is the first test case of this type of analysis, Howe, Windram and one of the UK’s leading early keyboard players, Professor Terence Charlston from the ... Even in this test case we found two main families that corresponded to
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You Are What You Listen To | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/you-are-what-you-listen-to21 Aug 2009: All six styles were deemed associable with middle class people. The study suggests that while these stereotypes may not be true, they do mean that people are making very clear statements
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Capital structure used to gauge firms’ foundations | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/capital-structure-used-to-gauge-firms-foundations9 Feb 2015: It promises to provide financial decision-makers with a model for enhancing company value, while also offering potential investors a litmus-test from which they can make sounder judgements about a
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55 new Gates Cambridge Scholars selected | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/55-new-gates-cambridge-scholars-selected7 Apr 2016: He was the highest-scoring student in the Physics Aptitude test for Oxford where he won a first. ... Leor Zmigrod will do a PhD in Psychology. She grew up in the USA, Europe and the Middle East.
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Digital bargain hunters: optimal online searching | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/digital-bargain-hunters-optimal-online-searching6 May 2015: To test the assumption that it is cultural differences that drive Easterners to over-search when ‘sunk costs’ are high, the study checked whether language used in the study may be ... While earlier testing rounds told all participants of their
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‘Wild West’ mentality lingers in US mountain regions | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/wild-west-mentality-lingers-in-us-mountain-regions7 Sep 2020: The research uses the “Big Five” personality model, standard in social psychology, with simple online tests providing high-to-low scores for five fundamental personality traits of millions of Americans. ... Over hundreds of thousands of people, such
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North Korea unveils its nuclear ‘treasured swords’ to the world again …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/north-korea-unveils-its-nuclear-treasured-swords-to-the-world-again21 Sep 2015: North Korea’s nuclear tests ofand 2013 at Pungyye-ri birthed an ideological and developmental theme known as the “Byungjin Line”, best translated as “parallelism”. ... The restart is, the statement says, “pursuant to the line of
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Personality test to explore rules of attraction | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/personality-test-to-explore-rules-of-attraction30 Jul 2010: Search. Search. Personality test to explore rules of attraction. Research. Personality test to explore rules of attraction.. ... One of the reasons for this is that many studies of personality have focused on young, middle class and white people.
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Research on the front line | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/research-on-the-front-line11 Mar 2011: Regional and comparative politics figure strongly, with particular strengths on Europe, Russia, parts of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. ... International and comparative political economy is another active area, and is
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Who wants to be an engineer? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/who-wants-to-be-an-engineer22 Mar 2012: Engineers play a critical role in a balanced economy, applying new ideas to address emerging opportunities which in turn drives economic growth. ... This finding is really worrying. Engineers play a critical role in a balanced economy, applying new ideas
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Choices and Responsibility | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/notices/news/choices-and-responsibility1 Oct 2013: It is a structure, founded on a strong culture of participation, that works: the choices that we collectively make tend to stand the test of time. ... This mutual support is essential for the wellbeing of both the University and the Cambridge Phenomenon,
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Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/swarming-cicadas-stock-traders-and-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd1 Feb 2024: The researchers hope that their conjecture regarding the role of communication will stimulate field research to test the hypothesis.
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The crisis of shareholder primacy | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-crisis-of-shareholder-primacy19 Mar 2012: In addition, managers are not only expected to pursue shareholders’ economic interests, but their political ones as well. ... The skills and temperament that maximize shareholder profits conflict with those that promote economic stability.
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History | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/history9 Jan 2013: Professor James Mirrlees is awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. 1997. ... Cambridge COVID-19 Test Centre processes more than 3 million tests. Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment join together as one organisation, Cambridge University -
Reading the world’s oldest libraries | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/reading-the-worlds-oldest-libraries1 Nov 2010: The tablets were first used to document the economic activities of organisations of the Sumerian civilisation in southern Iraq in the late 4th millennium BC, a few centuries before the development ... However, they often produced low-quality texts. These
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Gardeners and carpenters: the ‘skill’ of parenting | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/gardeners-and-carpenters-the-skill-of-parenting8 Nov 2018: These two things go hand in glove,” explains Hughes, whose research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. ... By following a group of 117 children from toddlerhood to adolescence, and developing a new battery of tests – including an
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Tiger saved by Cambridge Vet School | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tiger-saved-by-cambridge-vet-school4 Nov 2010: Safely within the confines of the vet school buildings, blood tests were performed to assess Amba's condition and to test for a fatal feline disease associated with fluid build-up
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23 things they don't tell you about capitalism | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/23-things-they-dont-tell-you-about-capitalism21 Mar 2011: We are in the middle of a financial crisis the end of which is not yet in sight. ... These interactions help me to take a fresh look at economic theory and how it relates to the real world.’He is also keen to bring economics to a new audience
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