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Exploring Afro-diasporic traditions and storytelling
Chudi Martin [2026]’s research focuses on exploring Afro-diasporic traditions, including steelpan, djembe and Capoeira Angola, and how they serve as tools for joy, storytelling and liberation. By investigating the roots […]
How to lead with courage in lobbying Big Food
D’Arcy Williams is a global child health and food systems expert and CEO of youth-led movement Bite Back which campaigns for better food for young people. A former UNICEF diplomat, […]
Reality design lab: Prototyping new legal worlds
The world has become a live design lab for what used to be unimaginable. We now share it with robots that consume other robots, shape-shifting machines, AI systems designed from […]
Scholar publishes new book on UI/UX design process
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has published a book which aims to mainstream the User Interface (UI)/User Experience (UX) design process by explaining the latest developments in a comprehensible way. Intelligent […]
How current phenomena may cast light on the early universe
Luca Abu El-Haj [2026] was not sure he wanted to study physics when he started his undergraduate degree, but halfway through he discovered cosmology and he hasn’t looked back since. […]
