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Navigating the politics of sex work
Sharmila Parmanand’s research on sex work was already having an impact beyond academia while she was at Cambridge, but she is now writing a book which she hopes will bring […]
Why a one-size-fits-all approach to biodiversity won’t work
Carmen Lacambra Segura is keen to tackle the challenges affecting biodiversity from an interdisciplinary perspective which takes into account all the different factors that affect it. That means taking more […]
Exploring the emotions behind Archaeology
Archaeology is a discipline that excavates the past, piecing together scant and often disparate details to answer questions about how people lived, grew, interacted and died. For Madalyn Grant [2024], […]
Making waste work
Luca Di Mario’s PhD in Engineering focused on sustainable business models for turning solid waste and waste water in developing countries into a useful resource, such as energy. That work […]
A changing man
The world has always been in flux, but the last decades, particularly the recent one, have been ones of rapid, often violent, transformation on many fronts. For Jaya Savige [2008] the […]
Second series of Gates Cambridge podcast coming
It’s a new academic year and Gates Cambridge is working on the second series of its So, now what? podcast taking into account feedback over the summer on our first […]
Upskilling the world in digital skills for the future
A computer science education company founded by a Gates Cambridge Scholar has gone from strength to strength, partnering with universities across the world and earning plaudits from a UK minister […]
Rob Henderson to speak at Gates Cambridge event
Gates Cambridge Scholar Rob Henderson will be speaking about his best-selling memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class at an event at Bill Gates Sr. House […]
Exploring Black intellectual history
Before his PhD Siyabonga Njica [2018] was a respected spoken-word poet and he is passionate about exploring Black intellectual history through exiled South African writers and artists. He believes strongly […]
Sugarcane: a Q & A with Emily Kassie
Gates Cambridge Scholar Emily Kassie spoke about her award-winning documentary film Sugarcane at a screening in Cambridge this week. Sugarcane won the US Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this […]
