Public Engagement

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Record-breaking Cambridge Festival 2025 ends on a high, uniting 45,000 visitors in celebration of ideas, discovery and dialogue

10 Apr 2025

̽��ֱ��fifth Cambridge Festival has drawn to a triumphant close, having welcomed a record-breaking 45,000 visitors across 385 events during 17 inspiring...

̽��ֱ��codemakers

24 Jan 2025

̽��ֱ��2025 Darwin Lecture series looks at codes, be they computational, mathematical, biological, linguistic or even musical.

Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics

22 Nov 2024

Professor Hannah Fry, mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, will...

Drop-in activities showcase Cambridge’s hidden treasures

06 Sep 2024

Open Cambridge is underway with a fantastic selection of drop-in events and activities for everyone to enjoy.

Super Saturday Open Cambridge trail

03 Sep 2024

Are you free on Saturday 7 September? If so, why not spend the day walking around our beautiful city and popping along to some Open Cambridge events.

Open Cambridge kicks off on Friday with a programme of free and unique events for all

02 Sep 2024

One of the region's largest heritage festivals begins on Friday 6 September with over 70 events covering walks, talks, open spaces, exhibitions and...

Getting to grips with an extra thumb

29 May 2024

Cambridge researchers have shown that members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable...

AI Hopes and Fears

26 Oct 2023

Ahead of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s AI Safety Summit, members of the public are being invited to ‘hop on a bus’ in Cambridge city centre to discuss...

̽��ֱ��artist who made ink from Newton's Apple Tree

16 Oct 2023

Nabil Ali is discovering the natural colours hidden within the berries, blooms and bark found in the Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Botanic Garden – including...

Visitors are welcomed to Cambridge's Zoology Museum beneath its fin whale skeleton

̽��ֱ�� collections and regional partners secure major AHRC funding to boost PhD research with strong community focus

18 May 2023

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge collections, together with Colchester + Ipswich Museums, Norfolk Museums Service and Peterborough Museum & Art...

Darwin Lectures

18 Jan 2023

Isolation is the theme of the 2023 Lecture Series

Dr Giorgia Longobardi, winner of a Cambridge Enterprise Postdoc Business Plan Competition

Cambridge recognised for its leadership in knowledge exchange

27 Sep 2022

Cambridge’s leadership in knowledge exchange has been recognised in the Knowledge Exchange Framework 2 (KEF2) results, published by Research England...

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