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Addressing food security in Africa
A bioscience education-based non-profit organisation founded by a Gates Scholar has opened applications for its second annual international workshop and symposium for African researchers interested in finding practical solutions to […]
Understanding the drivers of political and gender-based violence
Aditi Malik is interested in studying the conditions that give rise to different forms of political violence. Her research on these topics is explicitly comparative in nature and her work so far […]
Sustainability hacking for a better healthcare system
How do you get medicines to the poor in hard-to-reach areas? Paulo Savaget [2015] is interested in sustainability hacking, trying to find ways around the bottlenecks in social and technological systems that achieve immediate […]
The stirrings of a welfare system
How do societies evolve to offer a safety net to their most vulnerable members? Clara Devlieger’s research focuses on informal welfare systems in the Democratic Republic of Congo through studying […]
A Gaza-Cambridge astronaut
Mona Jebril’s PhD thesis is the first study of the impact of the Arab Spring on higher education in Gaza. She hopes it will be a significant contribution to the Arab […]
Transformative education
Laura Marcus has long been interested in how the education system can better prepare young people for democratic citizenship. At high school she was an activist, taking part in protests […]
How conservation organisations are embracing the market
Gates Cambridge Scholar Libby Blanchard’s MPhil research is part of a new book that explores the role and impacts of biodiversity conservation organisations and their conservation policies. The book, The […]
The opportunities and risks of bioengineering
Human genome editing, 3D-printed replacement organs and artificial photosynthesis – the field of bioengineering offers great promise for tackling the major challenges that face our society. But a new article […]
Understanding cancer resistant species
The naked mole-rat has been described as the ugliest animal in the world. It is also one of the few species which is resistant to cancer. Fazal Hadi’s research seeks […]
Double success for Gates Cambridge couple
A Gates Cambridge couple have been doubly successful and have both won the competitive Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in Australia. Husband and wife Douglas Brumley [2009] and Natalia […]
