Community photographic competition opens for all budding snappers
06 Aug 2013̽»¨Ö±²¥Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service and the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge Public Engagement team have launched a photographic competition.
Fun Lab: a big hit at ̽»¨Ö±²¥Big Weekend!
11 Jul 2013On a blisteringly hot Saturday, hundreds of people poured through the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge Fun Lab marquee at ̽»¨Ö±²¥Big Weekend on Parker’s Piece
Baroness Hamwee visits Public Engagement team
28 Jun 2013Baroness Hamwee has just published a report of her experiences visiting a number of cultural organisations including the Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and the Tate as well as the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.
̽»¨Ö±²¥Fun Lab returns
27 Jun 2013̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge's Fun Lab is returning again this year to the Big Weekend on Parker's Piece on Saturday 6 July from 12noon.
New annual award announced for ethnography
20 Jun 2013Are you involved in social science research and completing or will have completed an ethnography this year? ̽»¨Ö±²¥Award is open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution of higher education.
Catch some Hay fever online
04 Jun 2013Eight of the talks from the Cambridge Series from this year’s Hay Festival are now available for users to stream or download online.
Digital records could expose intimate details and personality traits of millions
11 Mar 2013Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital behaviour, in this case Facebook Likes. ̽»¨Ö±²¥study raises important questions about personalised marketing and online privacy.
Are we ready to meet ET?
05 Mar 2013Once only science fiction, astronomers are now finding hundreds of planetary systems beyond our own. Given recent discoveries through space exploration, it is entirely feasible that we may soon discover the existence of extra-terrestrial life forms on other planets.
Are we being sold online?
27 Oct 2012A panel discussion for the Festival of Ideas examines whether social media giants are profiting from our willingness to share the most intimate details of our lives online, and whether we should be worried by this compromise to our privacy.
Old suspicions remain after the Arab Spring
15 Oct 2012A debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas asks What next for the Arab Spring?