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Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture to focus on ways out of permacrisis
This year’s Gates Cambridge Lecture will include a Nobel Laureate, a President of a Cambridge college and, for the first time, a Gates Cambridge Scholar. The Lecture, A global turning […]
Gates Cambridge at the Cambridge Festival
Gates Cambridge Scholars will be speaking at the Cambridge Festival next month on a range of topics, from climate change social entrepreneurs to local currencies and AI. The Cambridge Festival runs […]
First cohort of 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholars announced
Twenty-six of the most academically outstanding and socially committed US citizens have been selected to be part of the 2024 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge. […]
What is education for?
Best-selling author Tara Westover [2009], researcher Aliya Khalid [2015] and Thabo Msibi [2009], Deputy Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal are the guests in the […]
Why technology needs feminism
What is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And how can feminism contribute towards it? Those questions and more are at the heart of a new book co-edited by […]
‘Knowledge alone isn’t enough’
The summer before starting his PhD at the University of Cambridge, Rob Henderson was working up a book proposal with his literary agent. That book, Troubled, is published next month […]
Connecting climate change and mental health
A Gates Cambridge Scholar is organising a webinar to publicise the formal launch of a public, online information hub on the intersection between climate change and mental health. Colleen Rollins […]
Reconnecting through music
When José Izquierdo [2013] was working on his PhD at Cambridge on how Latin American composers united European and local influences in the 19th century, he found a way to make […]
Scholar on winning team for inaugural AI prize
A project on how local authorities in England can use AI ethically to improve the public value they offer has been selected as one of five winners of a new […]
Gates Cambridge Scholar wins Sundance directing award
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has won the US Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival for an investigation into systematic abuse at an Indian residential school in Canada. Emily […]
