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2018 Bill Gates Sr Award winners announced
Two Gates Cambridge Scholars have won the sixth annual Bill Gates Sr. Award in recognition of their outstanding research and social leadership. The two Scholars – Jerelle Joseph and Arif […]
Day of Research 2018
Twenty-five Gates Cambridge Scholars will take part in this year’s Day of Research and will talk about research subjects ranging from childhood obesity to modern slavery. The Day of Research […]
Measuring well being in India’s urban slums
Over the last 30 years India’s richest city, Mumbai, has seen a rapid expansion, including a programme to rehabilitate slum areas by moving residents to new high-rise buildings, built on […]
Constructing the future
What does the future hold? If you rely on the media, it’s a world ruled by vicious artificial intelligence, of walled communities and wars over diminishing resources. But does this […]
The hidden costs of a poverty alleviation initiative
Conditional cash transfer [CCT] programmes have a host of hidden costs for mothers, according to a new book by a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Tara Cookson’s Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden […]
International law for sustainable development
A Gates Cambridge Scholar is helping to organise a conference on international law, sustainable development and natural resources governance with world-class experts giving their views on recent trends, challenges and […]
Scientific collaboration during the Space Race
The spectre of the Cold War loomed over Rebecca Charbonneau’s childhood. Growing up in a Cuban American family in Miami, it was something she was aware of from an early […]
Democratising global trade and investment
A new book by Gates Cambridge Scholar Todd Tucker describes the complex world of investor-state dispute settlement [ISDS] in an accessible way and looks at how global trade and investment […]
Scholar is UK Alumni Awards regional finalist
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been selected as a regional finalist in the British Council’s Study UK Alumni Awards. Srilakshmi Raj [2007] was chosen as one of 63 regional finalists after winning […]
‘Cognitive flexibility’ linked to EU referendum voting attitudes
A new study, led by a Gates Cambridge Scholar, suggests that the way our brains process everyday information helps to shape our ideological beliefs and political decision-making – including attitudes towards […]
