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# Clare Hall

A college for advanced study at the University of Cambridge.

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- [Newsletter: Events at Clare Hall, Winter 2025/26](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/newsletter-events-at-clare-hall/) - Dear Clare Hall members and friends, Please find below a list of events taking place this week and beyond, to which you are warmly invited. ➢ Members' events Clare Hall Through Your Lens: Community Photo Project | Wednesday 1 October - Wednesday 10 December 2025 As Michaelmas begins, we invite all members of the Clare
- [Newsletter: Events at Clare Hall, Upcoming in 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/newsletter-events-at-clare-hall-lent-2024/) - Dear Clare Hall members and friends, Please find below a list of events taking place in the new year, to which you are warmly invited. Dates for your 2024 Diary 5 January 2024 at 2pmFitzwilliam Museum visit with the Art & Architecture SIG There will be a visit to the Black Atlantic exhibition with an
- [Christmas Drinks 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/christmas-drinks-2023/) - Clare-Hall-Christmas-Wine-List-2023-1Download

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- [Home](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/) - A college for advanced study at the University of Cambridge Study at Clare Hall Apply for a Visiting Fellowship Work at Clare Hall Clare Hall is a graduate college renowned for its informal approach to college life and its international diversity, located at the heart of the University of Cambridge. A welcome message from our
- [Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/bookclub/) - Clare Hall Book Club All College members and their partners are invited to join the Clare Hall Book Club. We discuss a book every month, and you can come as regularly or as occasionally as you like. Meetings are on the first Monday of each month at 8pm. You can choose whether to come in-person
- [Collage](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/collage/) - Clare Hall collage We hope you enjoy this collage which goes some way in encapsulating life at Clare Hall. If you would like to submit a photograph for this page, or have any queries about its imagery, please do email communications.manager@clarehall.cam.ac.uk With thanks to all photographers, including Jeremy Peters, Tobias Baldauf, Ian Olsson and several
- [Music](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/music/) - Music at Clare Hall Anyone can donate Students are encouraged to donate whatever they can. Music lovers with more resources are invited to make an annual gift of at least £100 to become Supporters. Those who make a gift of £500 or more will be recognised as Music Angels. If you are moved to make
- [Official documents](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/official/) - Official information Details on Clare Hall's governance, protocols and more. Statutes Ordinances Resolutions May 2024 May 2010 November 2007 Financial Reports Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ending 30 June 2025 Previous years' accounts: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 Financial Regulations Updated November 2025 Investment Policy Council and Committees Code of Practice
- [Life Members](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/lifemembers/) - What is a Life Member? At Clare Hall, former Visiting Fellows, Research Fellows, students and Associates are normally proposed for election to Life Membership at the next available Governing Body meeting following their departure or, for students, once their degree has been conferred. Following election, new Life Members are then contacted by our Alumni Office with confirmation.
- [Global Climate Change Prize Submission Form](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/global-climate-change-prize-submission-form/)
- [Making connections](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/connections/) - Making connections Lectures at Clare Hall Clare Hall hosts the Obert C. Tanner Lectures on Human Values here in Cambridge, along with the Ashby Lecture and King Lecture. The former were established by the American scholar, industrialist and philanthropist, Obert Clark Tanner in 1978. The purpose of the lectures is to advance and reflect upon the
- [Exhibition archive](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/past-exhibitions/) - Art archive - recent exhibitions 2025 Everyday Wonder to Revelation: an exhibition of paintings by Alan Caine Clare Hall is honoured to host an exhibition of paintings by Alan Caine (1936–2022), who was an innovative and quietly charismatic teacher of art in the Adult Education Department of Leicester University. His images invite us to step
- [Art](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/art/) - Art at Clare Hall The College's Art Committee organises exhibitions, talks and tours throughout the year. Art at Clare Hall goes back a long way, almost to the College's beginning, as its original architect, Ralph Erskine, was keen that the buildings he designed should be responsive to a range of activities, including art exhibitions. One
- [Funding](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/funding/) - Funding The following information is intended for prospective students. Studentships Cambridge Trust and Clare Hall Boak Masters Studentship In collaboration with the Cambridge Trust Masters Studentship programme, Clare Hall is pleased to offer three co-funded studentships for entry in 2026 to students from any discipline. The studentships aim to enable the top-scoring applicants for one-year postgraduate study
- [GSB](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/gsb/) - GSB Committee The Graduate Student Body Committee (GSB) is elected to represent student interests throughout the College and the wider University, as well as arranging regular social and sports events. The GSB Committee is a great way to be actively involved in College organisation, meet new people and promote students' wellbeing. All graduate students at Clare Hall are automatically members
- [Staff](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/staff/) - Staff contact details For any urgent issues, please contact the Porters' Lodge: Telephone: +44 (0)1223 332360 Location: Main Site, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge CB3 9AL, United Kingdom Here is a map of Clare Hall. You can also find an interactive map of the University on this page. Post can be sent to any Clare Hall Fellow,
- [Facilities, grounds and gardens](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/facilities/) - This page is dedicated to Clare Hall's range of facilities, spanning an indoor heated swimming pool, gym, allotment and gardens. College members can hire our spaces for internal or private functions. Find details on this page, including an Internal Events Booking Form at the very bottom of the page. Sports facilities Membership Please read our
- [Clubs, societies and social events](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/social/) - Clubs, societies and social events Being part of Clare Hall's community presents a wonderful opportunity to socialise, develop new skills and explore extracurricular activities - whether by joining one of our clubs and societies, or by attending events. Music: Concerts Learn about Clare Hall's highly regarded music programme, including the Intimate Engagements series. Choir Members
- [The Global Climate Research Prize](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/the-global-climate-research-prize/) - The Global Climate Research Prize The global prize for research on climate change for transformative and transboundary research Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and LUT University, Finland are delighted to announce the launch of a new international biennial prize for outstanding contributions to the understanding of phenomena attributed to and arising from a changing climate,
- [Dining](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/dining/) - Dining at Clare Hall Dining is a real highlight in Clare Hall and a focal point of the College community. View today's menu Share feedback Register on Upay We encourage a relaxed approach: the hall operates as a first-come-first-served venue with no high table during mealtimes or at Formal Halls, and many students and Fellows
- [Allotment](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/allotment/) - Clare Hall allotment This student-run club is aimed at anyone with an interest in gardening – no prior experience needed! We welcome all college members as well as their family and friends. Meetings are usually once a week (typically on Saturdays 10am-12pm), and we sometimes organise special activities like foraging or making oil infusions. In
- [The King Lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/king/) - The King Lecture Clare Hall hosts the King Lecture each year, within its wider lecture series. 2025-26Tiny Conspiracies: How Bacteria Talk to Each Other On Friday 17 October, Clare Hall was very pleased to welcome Professor Bonnie Bassler as the speaker for the 2025-26 King Lecture. Professor Bassler, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University
- [60th Anniversary Festival of Events](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/60th-anniversary-festival-of-events/) - Clare Hall 60th Anniversary Festival of Events
- [External events - suites and rooms](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/suites-rooms/) - Spaces for hire Explore the range of suites and rooms we can offer for hire below. The Richard Eden Suite Located at West Court, approximately 400m from Clare Hall's Main Site, the Richard Eden Suite is a versatile venue suitable for lectures, board meetings, or private dinners. The suite has a variety of modular tables
- [Student rooms](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/student-rooms/) - Student rooms at Clare Hall Clare Hall has a variety of student rooms and flats located in our sites on Herschel Road, as well as in three off-site properties. Many of our properties are made up of 10-15 single or double study rooms with shared kitchens, communal living areas and bathrooms, which help to create
- [Residential accommodation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/residential/) - Residential accommodation at Clare Hall View a map of the College here. Find pricing information for all residential accommodation via this document (taking effect 1 October 2025). All accommodation costs are inclusive of heating, lighting, use of the shared access College laundries, sewage, water and internet. Council tax & VAT charges (where applicable) are not
- [Visiting Fellowships](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/vf/) - Visiting Fellowships Clare Hall brings together research scholars of different nationalities and academic disciplines, from graduate students studying for a higher degree to senior professors. Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Researchers (any subject) The standards for Visiting Fellowships are high, with Fellowships only awarded to applicants who have made a substantial contribution to their fields,
- [Contact us](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/contact/) - The Porters are the first contact for information about the College, including details of the mail, keys and cards, and College facilities. The Porters are responsible for college security, the car park and vehicle and bicycle registration. The Porters’ Lodge is staffed 24 hours every day. Here are some useful forms that might help you
- [Directory](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/community/) - Explore our community members' profiles and find details on Clare Hall's GSB Committee, staff and public-facing committees. Academic community chart November 2025 v1 Fellow and academic community Read the profiles of our Fellows, Visiting Fellows, Fellow Commoners and Associates by clicking above. You can also view our chart to explore Clare Hall's academic community by discipline. Tutorial
- [Conferencing and events](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/conferencing-events/) - Clare Hall has a number of rooms that are available for public hire, allowing non-members the chance to experience the unique feel of the College. Conferencing Our versatile range of conference rooms provides an ideal environment to engage with academic lectures, seminar discussions, and other meetings. In the past, we have hosted representatives from the
- [History of Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/history/) - History of Clare Hall Foundation Clare Hall was founded in 1966 on the initiative of Clare College. It was envisaged as a college with three main classes of members: university teaching officers whose principal focus was research; visiting academics who would stay in Cambridge for between six months and a year; and graduate students. It
- [The Bell Collection](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/bellcollection/) - The Bell Collection The Bell Collection of British Studio Pottery, 1920-1980, a generous bequest of Clare Hall Associates Professor G. H. Bell and Mrs K. M. Bell, is available to enjoy year-round in the College’s Main Site, with a rotating display drawing from more than 400 pots. Download Catalogue View the Floor Plan Please contact
- [Why study here?](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/study/) - Postgraduate students often prefer to be in a more mature community with facilities and support tailored specifically to their needs. Clare Hall offers a community that functions all year round, with accommodation available in vacations as well as term time, and catering provision throughout the year. Fellows, Visiting Fellows and postgraduate students regularly mix at
- [Health and welfare](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/health-welfare/) - Health and welfare We take the health and welfare of our students seriously. The following contact information has been compiled for current students, though the NHS details apply to all members of the College. During office hours, help and advice can usually be obtained from a member of the Tutorial Office. The College also has a
- [Cricket](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/cricket/) - Cricket The Cricket Club is a sociable sporting club that is open to all people who work and study at Clare Hall, regardless of experience of the game. If you’ve never picked up a cricket bat before, this is your chance to give it a go. We aim to have a series of indoor nets at
- [Careers at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/careers/) - Careers at Clare Hall We're delighted you're considering joining our friendly, proactive team. About the College Clare Hall was established in 1966 and is now one of the 31 colleges in the University of Cambridge, providing an academic home for around 200 students, some 60 Fellows, a large number of visiting academics and 67 staff.
- [RFs](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rf/) - Research Fellowships We are proud of our diverse community of Research Fellows, who are working in fields ranging from philosophy to oceanography. Explore the profiles of our current Research Fellows on this page. Research Fellowships are primarily intended to provide opportunities for scholars at an early stage of their academic careers, usually with up to
- [Family life at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/chfamilies/) - Family life Clare Hall prides itself on being one of the most family-friendly colleges in Cambridge. We warmly welcome the families of students and Fellows alike to live on-site and to be part of our community. The College not only provides housing for families of students and Visiting Fellows, but also organises activities geared specifically to
- [Tutorial Office](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/tutorialoffice/) - Tutorial Office The Tutorial Office team provides pastoral support to Clare Hall students. Guidance is offered on a range of issues including health and welfare, finance and connections between students and their departments and/or supervisors, particularly with respect to University processes. The Tutorial Office is also responsible for assisting students with special needs in relation
- [The Tanner Lecture on Human Values](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/tanner/) - The Tanner Lecture on Human Values Clare Hall hosts the Obert C. Tanner Lecture on Human Values in Cambridge each year. This page is a repository of recent recordings, and includes a link to a list of all past lectures held at Clare Hall. 2025The Future of Relations between China and the West On Monday
- [CHBC May Bumps 2025 Round Up](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/chbc-may-bumps-2025-round-up/) - CHBC May Bumps 2025 Round Up Clare Hall Boat Club had an exciting May Bumps this year, with wonderful results across all crews. After an incredible getting-on race, our M2 had three decisive bumps over the course of the week. Our W1 took on the challenge of starting close to the top of div 4,
- [Boat Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/chbc/) - Clare Hall Boat Club Clare Hall Boat Club was founded in 1995, making us the youngest college rowing club in Cambridge. We store our boats in the Clare Boat House in Cutter Ferry Lane, and have men's and women's crews that compete in both collegiate and town competitions. CHBC has had a lot of success in the Bumps races; there
- [Postdocs](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/postdocs/) - Affiliated Postdoctoral Membership With over one hundred Postdocs (and growing), Clare Hall has one of the largest and most active Postdoc communities in Cambridge. Inspired by the model of an institute of advanced study, Clare Hall values the contributions of its diverse and international cohort of early career researchers and has made great strides in
- [Library](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/library/) - The Ashby Library History During Michael Stoker’s presidency (1980-1987) and to honour Eric Ashby, a founding and honorary fellow of Clare Hall, a special-purpose library was created in Elmside that overlooked the Fellows’ Garden; funds for this venture were provided by Obert Tanner, a generous benefactor of the College, who had also provided funds for
- [Guest rooms](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/guest-rooms/) - Guest rooms at Clare Hall Book to stay in Clare Hall's modern accommodation, set within the College's tranquil grounds and gardens, just 10-minutes' walk from Cambridge city centre. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms. Guests are notified of connection details to the University of Cambridge guest network at the Porters’ Lodge on arrival. There
- [CHBC history](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/chbc-history/) - History of CHBC 2023-2024 Clare Hall Boat Club had an amazing start to the new season with our annual induction at the boathouse. It was all sun and smiles as we tempted a record breaking 54 novices – a third of all our freshers! This enthusiasm translated into impressive showings in the first novice race
- [Sustainability](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/sustainability/) - Sustainability Environment Committee and Policy The College Environment Committee is chaired by the Domestic Bursar and includes representatives from across the College; it convenes each term to discuss environmental initiatives, improvements, and ambitions. The committee is guided by the College Environmental Policy which is reviewed every five years (next due 2026). Suggestions, comments, and queries
- [Marie Battle Singer, Ph.D. (1910-1985)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/marie-battle-singer-ph-d-1910-1985/) - Marie Battle Singer, Ph.D. (1910-1985) Marie Battle Singer was born in Okolona, Mississippi in the American South in 1910. She grew up in a family of African American educators just one generation removed from slavery. Marie’s maternal grandmother, an emancipated slave, was one of the most influential figures in her childhood. Marie was also devoted
- [The Sir Nicholas Shackleton Fellowship](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/the-sir-nicholas-shackleton-fellowship/) - The Sir Nicholas Shackleton Fellowship Tenable from January 2026 Clare Hall is proposing to appoint a Sir Nicholas Shackleton Visiting Fellow to begin no earlier than January 2026. The fellowship will be of at least 6 months duration, to the maximum of a year, and would be especially suitable for a research-active, established academic seeking
- [Accommodation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/accommodation/) - Accommodation Clare Hall sits in tranquil surroundings on Herschel Road, a leafy residential road to the west of Cambridge. The College is only a 10-minute walk from the historic city centre and has its own indoor swimming pool, gym, dining hall and bar. We offer modern accommodation with a selection of single and double rooms
- [About us](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/about/) - Clare Hall is a college for advanced study at the University of Cambridge. Located close to the University Library, the College offers an intellectually stimulating, interdisciplinary setting for postgraduate students and scholars. A close-knit community When you join Clare Hall you quickly become an important part of our friendly academic community, supported by dedicated Tutors
- [Supporting Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/support/) - Supporting Clare Hall The College cares deeply about its members. We aim to provide a welcoming, supportive and academically stimulating community in the University of Cambridge, one of the top-ranking universities in the world and centre of a world-leading research environment. To deliver this, we need the active support and involvement of our Life Members
- [Graduation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/graduation/) - Graduation Graduation dates Once you have been informed by the University that you have been approved for your degree, you are invited to sign up for any of Clare Hall’s forthcoming graduation dates: The following are the remaining dates for the 2024-5 academic year: Saturday 3 May 2025 Friday 23 May 2025 Saturday 26 July 2025 We
- [The Ashby Lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/ashby/) - The Ashby Lecture - archive Clare Hall hosts the Ashby Lecture each year within the Obert C. Tanner Lecture series. This page houses the College's Ashby Lecture archive. 2024The Ethical Museum: Reflections on Cultural Mission and Civic Responsibility Full archive 2020s 2023: In conversation with Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning novelist 2022: Why the Left is not
- [Lectures at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/lectures/) - Lectures at Clare Hall The Tanner Lecture on Human Values The Tanner Lecture on Human Values is a multi-university lecture series in the humanities, established in 1976 by the American philanthropist and scholar Obert Clark Tanner. The purpose of the Tanner Lectures is to advance and reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human
- [Online Donation Form](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/online-donation-form/) - Online Donation Form
- [Clare Hall merchandise](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/merchandise/)
- [Maintenance request form](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/maintenancerequests/) - Please note: by submitting this maintenance request and if the work requires it, you are giving us permission to enter your room between the hours of 8am and 5pm.
- [Hinsley Lane maintenance request form](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/hinsley-lane-maintenance-request-form/)
- [50 Clare Hall Treasures](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/treasures/) - 50 Clare Hall Treasures to mark our 50th anniversary year What do you treasure about Clare Hall? The wonderful architecture, our people, or the quiet contemplative surroundings perhaps. To celebrate our half century we created a list of our own 50 Clare Hall treasures. Some may be familiar, some a little quirky, but we hope they will all
- [How to donate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/support/giving-to-clare-hall/) - How to donate The variety of ways you can give to Clare Hall are listed below. Wherever you are in the world, thank you for your support. Giving in the UK Make a single gift online Make a regular gift by direct debit Download our donation form Should you wish to donate by cheque, please
- [Supervising Clare Hall students](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/supervising-clare-hall-students/) - Supervising Clare Hall students Processing and payment of supervision claims We aim to pay those supervision claims submitted for approval by the end of a given Full Term within two weeks of the last day of that term. Any queries may be directed to the Tutorial Office. Guidance on supervising and safeguarding Supervisors are reminded
- [Contact us](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/lifemembers/contact/) - Please do get in touch with the Alumni and Donor Relations team; we would love to hear from you. Director of Alumni & Donor Relations: Francé Davies at development.director@clarehall.cam.ac.uk Alumni & Annual Fund Officer: Sarah Garrison at lifemembers@clarehall.cam.ac.uk. Alumni Finance & Data Manager: Louise Jacobs at alumni.data@clarehall.cam.ac.uk
- [Benefits](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/lifemembers/benefits/) - Life Member cards Life Members who live locally or are visiting the College for an extended period are welcome to request our updated Life Member cards. This will provide you with access to Clare Hall buildings and can be aligned with your Upay account. Our Registrar will be able to assist you with obtaining a
- [Clare Hall Carol Service 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/clare-hall-carol-service-2023/)
- [Life Member News](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/lifemembers/news/)
- [Clare Hall Alumni Boat Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/clare-hall-alumni-boat-club/)
- [Clare Hall Alumni Boat Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/clare-hall-alumni-boat/)
- [Community](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/lifemembers/community/)
- [Clare College Choral Evensong sign-up](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/clareevensong23/) - Clare College Choral Evensong sign up Sunday 4 June, 6pmBuilding on the success of last term’s visit, all members of the Clare Hall community are once again warmly invited to a special Choral Evensong in Clare Chapel. Please complete the below form by Thursday 5 May to reserve your place. The Choir will be singing
- [Dining feedback](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/diningfeedback/)
- [Meet our students](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/meetourstudents/) - Meet our students If you want to get a sense of the wide range of subjects studied at Clare Hall, the best way is to ask the College members themselves about their specialisms. Here, our postgraduates share their work, achievements to date and interests outside academia... Emilija Jovanović A Serbian student who grew up in Belgrade, Emilija joined Clare
- [Vacancy: Deputy Director of Alumni and Donor Relations](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/vacancy-adrodeputydirector23/) - Deputy Director of Alumni and Donor Relations Full-time£40,910 - £50,313, dependent on experience Job Description Person Specification Clare Hall is a research-based college within the University of Cambridge, one of two admitting only postgraduate students. Founded as an Institute for Advanced Study, it also maintains the largest programme for visiting academics in either Oxford or
- [Vacancy: Communications and Marketing Manager](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/vacancy-commsmanager23/) - Communications and Marketing Manager Full-time£34,261-£43,399 per annum Job Description Person Specification Clare Hall, one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge, is seeking to appoint a talented and creative Communications and Marketing Manager to support its ambitious plans for the College. The College was established as an institute for advanced study in
- [Remembering Clare Hall in your Will](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/support/remembering-clare-hall-in-your-will/) - How can a legacy gift help? By remembering Clare Hall in your Will, you can demonstrate your appreciation for the role the College has played in your life whilst making a lasting difference for generations to come. Time spent at Clare Hall, studying or as a visiting researcher, has enabled students and academics from across
- [University sports](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/universitysports/) - University sports The University of Cambridge is recognised as much for its illustrious sporting tradition as it is for excellence in education, learning and research. Over the past 150 years, the University has been home to some of the world's greatest sports people - from Michael Atherton, to Emma Pooley, to a host of Olympians
- [President’s welcome message](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/welcome/) - A welcome message from our President, Professor Alan Short Clare Hall was founded specifically for researchers and postgraduate students, who are at the centre of our community along with visiting scholars, Fellows, postdoctoral affiliates, and our staff. The College is in part modelled on the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, envisaged as such from
- [Bell Collection opening reception - RSVP](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/bellcollectionpv23/) - Bell Collection opening reception - RSVP The closing date for RSVPs has passed. Please do visit the inaugural display anytime - details are available on this page.
- [Clare Hall Internal Event Booking Form](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/internaleventbookingform/)
- [External Event Booking Form](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/externaleventbookingform/)
- [Intranet](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/intranet/) - Clare Hall Intranet - login guidance All Fellows, Visiting Fellows, students, staff and members in residence are granted access to Clare Hall's new Intranet, which features our internal calendar, daily communications updates and important files. Logging in to the Intranet Raven login (for all Clare Hall students, Fellows and staff) is via https://intranet.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/ Special non-Raven
- [Clare Hall Colloquium sign up form](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/colloquiumsignup/) - Return to main Colloquium page
- [Event form](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/eventpublicityform/)
- [Exhibition Private View RSVP](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/pvrsvp/)
- [Booker](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/bookerform/) - Booker In order to book meeting rooms, pool and gym slots, College Members are asked to sign up for a Booker account. Once you have registered via the form below, you will have access to an account via Booker's website and be able to view and book rooms and facilities anytime. When using Booker to
- [Profile submissions](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/profilesubmissions/)
- [Global groups and societies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/lifemembers/community/lifemembers-globalgroupsandsocs/) - Clare Hall is a college with a very international outlook. By its nature as a college for graduate students and Visiting Fellows, our Life Membership is spread internationally. We want to encourage our Life Members to keep the spirit of lively social and intellectual engagement alive, whether that be here in the College, where they
- [Update your details](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/lifemembers/community/update-your-details/) - Clare Hall is committed to protecting your privacy, please refer to www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/data-protection-information
- [Student Support](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/support/studentsupport/) - Student support Students are at the heart of Clare Hall, which is one of only two postgraduate colleges in Cambridge. Donations towards Student Support are hugely appreciated by our close-knit community of around 200 postgraduates, who have benefitted from various scholarships, bursaries, well-being initiatives and hardship support (to name a few) as a result of
- [Cultural programme](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/support/cultural-programme/) - Cultural programme Music and art are very well-represented in College, with a number of concerts and exhibitions taking place throughout the year, open to Clare Hall members and the wider community. College committees organise these events with a small internal budget, but your gifts allow us to support these endeavours and expand our creativity. This
- [Archives](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/archives/) - Our archives Clare Hall's Archives chart the foundation of a new graduate College in the 1960s at a time when the University of Cambridge was expanding. Today, they continue to reflect the national and international research interests of its members. The Archives are housed in West Court and research visits are by appointment only. Please direct
- [Concert feedback form](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/concertfeedback/)
- [Infectious Diseases](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/infectiousdiseases/) - Infectious diseases What to expect when visiting Clare Hall Clare Hall retains high standards in preventing transmission of infectious disease, with provision of hand sanitisers throughout the College, regular cleaning of communal spaces, and ventilation of shared areas during periods of high use. In line with national requirements, facial coverings and testing for Covid-19 prior
- [Cookie Policy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/cookie-policy/) - About this cookie policy This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store, and keep your personal data
- [Submit your news](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/lifemembers/news/submit-your-news/) - Clare Hall is committed to protecting your privacy, please refer to www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/data-protection-information
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## Events

- [Clare Hall Colloquia - Lent 2026](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-colloquia-lent-2026/) - Clare Hall’s Colloquia provide members of the College – especially (but not exclusively) Visiting Fellows and Life Members – with an opportunity to present their research, whether in its early stages or already published, in a friendly setting. They are a great way to discuss your ideas, meet fellow members and to contribute to our
- [The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-betty-behrens-seminar-on-classics-of-historiography-6/) - The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography offers a unique opportunity for students and scholars to reflect on some great historical works and engage in discussion with renowned experts. As we know, a classic is recognized as such insofar as it retains its value as an intellectual and cognitive tool, helping us to gain an
- [The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-betty-behrens-seminar-on-classics-of-historiography-5/) - The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography offers a unique opportunity for students and scholars to reflect on some great historical works and engage in discussion with renowned experts. As we know, a classic is recognized as such insofar as it retains its value as an intellectual and cognitive tool, helping us to gain an
- [The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-betty-behrens-seminar-on-classics-of-historiography-4/) - The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography offers a unique opportunity for students and scholars to reflect on some great historical works and engage in discussion with renowned experts. As we know, a classic is recognized as such insofar as it retains its value as an intellectual and cognitive tool, helping us to gain an
- [The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-betty-behrens-seminar-on-classics-of-historiography-3/) - The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography offers a unique opportunity for students and scholars to reflect on some great historical works and engage in discussion with renowned experts. As we know, a classic is recognized as such insofar as it retains its value as an intellectual and cognitive tool, helping us to gain an
- [The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-betty-behrens-seminar-on-classics-of-historiography-2/) - The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography offers a unique opportunity for students and scholars to reflect on some great historical works and engage in discussion with renowned experts. As we know, a classic is recognized as such insofar as it retains its value as an intellectual and cognitive tool, helping us to gain an
- [The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-betty-behrens-seminar-on-classics-of-historiography-lent-2024/) - The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography offers a unique opportunity for students and scholars to reflect on some great historical works and engage in discussion with renowned experts. As we know, a classic is recognized as such insofar as it retains its value as an intellectual and cognitive tool, helping us to gain an
- [Film & Moving Image SIG – Michaelmas 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/film-moving-image-sig/) - All Clare Hall members are welcome to attend the screenings and events of the new Film and Moving Image SIG. If you would like to receive first-hand updates about our events, hear about film screenings in Cambridge, or pitch your own screening, please feel free to join this WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HVYuGXo7EZ6A4KosUs961b Alternatively, you can email
- [Biomedical & Life Sciences SIG - Michaelmas 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/biomedical-and-life-sciences-sig-michaelmas-term/) - All Clare Hall members are welcome to attend the meetings for the Biomedical and Life Sciences SIG this Michaelmas term. The full schedule can be found below. Meetings are held on Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm in the Clare Hall Meeting Room. 1 October: Professor Martin Welch (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) – "You are what you
- [The Bell Collection of British Studio Pottery, 1920-1980](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/bellcollection/) - The Bell Collection of British Studio Pottery, 1920-1980, a generous bequest of Clare Hall Associates Professor G. H. Bell and Mrs K. M. Bell, is available to enjoy year-round in the College’s Main Site, with a rotating display drawing from some 400 pots. Discover more at clarehall.cam.ac.uk/bellcollection For any queries ahead of your visit, please
- [An exhibition of paintings and monoprints by Benita Kevill-Davies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/an-exhibition-of-paintings-and-monoprints-by-benita-kevill-davies/) - Clare Hall is pleased to present an exhibition by Benita Kevill-Davies, from 28th November 2025 to 8th January 2026. The exhibition is open for public viewing, 10am to 3pm, on weekdays. Introduction by Frances Spalding, Chair of the Clare Hall Art Committee On Friday 28th November an exhibition of paintings and prints by Benita Kevill-Davies,
- [Industry & Entrepreneurship SIG](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/industry-entrepreneurship-sig/) - All Clare Hall members are welcome to attend the IE SIG meeting taking place on 2 December at 5.30pm in the Meeting Room, followed by dinner in the Dining Hall. The speaker is Emma Salgard Cunha from Cambridge Enterprise, who will be giving a talk on Enterpreneurship in the AHSS disciplines. Title: Enterprising in the arts, humanities and social sciences:
- [Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 2025-2026](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/special-interest-groups-sigs-2025-2026/) - Clare Hall members are invited to join Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of their choice this academic year. SIGs are subject-focused groups of students and Fellows (and other members of the College including Visiting Fellows) that aim to encourage regular small group social and intellectual interactions among people with shared interests in particular academic areas. Professor
- [Christmas Concert 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/christmas-concert-2025/) - Join us for an informal Christmas concert on Sunday 21st December at 4pm in the Clare Hall Dining Hall ! All are most welcome, children especially. The programme will include a performance of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with a Christmas music interlude, followed by carols and readings. No tickets are required, and admission is
- [Christmas Feast](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/christmas-feast-2/) - Join us for a joyous and festive dinner on 10th December! We are delighted to have the choir, directed by Ben de Souza, performing at the Christmas Feast again this year. Enjoy a new Christmas carol written especially for us by Lucy Walker, along with a selection of other festive music to sing. Bookings are
- [Thanksgiving Formal - 26 November](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/thanksgiving-formal-26-november/) - Celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family with Formal Hall on 26 November 2025. Normal formal prices will apply, and bookings are open on Upay. Bookings will close at 1.45pm the day before the formal.
- [Taiji (Tai Chi) and QiGong Sessions: Michaelmas 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/taiji-tai-chi-and-qigong-sessions-michaelmas-2025/) - We are pleased to introduce new Taiji (Tai Chi) and QiGong sessions at Clare Hall for the Michaelmas term. The sessions will be taking place in the Richard Eden Suite on Wednesdays during lunchtime, starting on 1 October 2025. QiGong is a system of movement and breathing, developed in ancient China as a means of
- [BODIES: Discover Movement Through Contemporary Dance](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/bodies-discover-movement-through-contemporary-dance-2/) - Your body is an orchestra - each limb an instrument, each motion a note. Have you ever explored the melodies you can create with it? In this inclusive classes, movers of all abilities are invited to be curious around body movement and awareness. We will do so through the versatility of contemporary dance: use of
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-30/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's passionate young ward
- [Celebrating Maurice Ravel: The Complete Piano Music](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/celebrating-maurice-ravel-the-complete-piano-music/) - Join us at Clare Hall for two exceptional concerts celebrating the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth, performed by acclaimed pianist Patrick Hemmerlé. Across two evenings, audiences will have a rare opportunity to hear all of Ravel’s major piano works, presented with the artistry and insight that have made Patrick Hemmerlé one of Cambridge’s leading
- [Fitzwilliam String Quartet: Beethoven, Bray, Shostakovich](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/fitzwilliam-string-quartet-beethoven-bray-shostakovich/) - The Fitzwilliam String Quartet open their three-concert series at Clare Hall with a programme that spans centuries of musical expression. The evening begins with Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1, a work of youthful brilliance whose moving Adagio was inspired by the tragic love of Romeo and Juliet. This is followed by Charlotte Bray’s
- [Pilates Sessions: Michaelmas 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/pilates-sessions-michaelmas-2025/) - We are delighted to host pilates classes at Clare Hall throughout Michaelmas Term. The classes will be held on Mondays during lunchtime, with additional bi-weekly Friday evening classes. Pilates is a form of low-impact exercise that aims to strengthen muscles while improving postural alignment and flexibility. Please bring your own mat, and arrive 5-10 minutes early
- [Genealogy SIG – Michaelmas term](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/genealogy-sig/) - All Clare Hall members are welcome to attend the meetings for the new Genealogy SIG this Michaelmas term. Many people who have an interest in their family history have little knowledge beyond perhaps the existence of their grandparents. This SIG would aim to introduce Clare Hallers (and especially Life Members, Visiting Fellows and any accompanying
- [A Journey through the History of Period Instruments](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/a-journey-through-the-history-of-period-instruments/) - Clare Hall launches its 2025/26 Intimate Engagements series with a performance of period instrument specialists Maggie Faultless, Rachel Stroud, and Andrew Skidmore. Join them for a captivating journey through the history of music, exploring the evolution of instruments, the hidden meanings in musical notation, and the evidence that informs our understanding of historical performance practice.
- [Family Supper – 7 November](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/family-supper-7-november/) - Join us for a Family Supper starting in the Meeting Room at 5.30pm where we do a craft activity, before heading for supper at about 6pm. After supper we will return to the Meeting Room to watch a film together if there is enough demand. There is no need to book – this is an
- [Clare Hall and Corpus Christi Joint Evensong](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-and-corpus-christi-joint-evensong/) - The Clare Hall Choir will be performing in a joint Evensong with Corpus Christi College on Sunday 16 November. The service is 6pm and will be in Corpus Christi Chapel. The service will include music by Charles Villiers Stanford and Ola Gjeilo. All are welcome to attend.
- [Clare College Choral Evensong, Michaelmas 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-college-choral-evensong-michaelmas-2025/) - All members of Clare Hall are warmly welcome to a special service of Choral Evensong, sung by the Clare College Choir on Thursday 23th October at 6.15pm in Clare Chapel. The service will last about 40 minutes, and music will include the Second Eb setting of canticles by Charles Wood, former Professor of Music at Cambridge, organ voluntaries
- [Clare Hall Colloquia - Michaelmas 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-colloquia-michaelmas-2025/) - Clare Hall’s Colloquia provide members of the College – especially (but not exclusively) Visiting Fellows and Life Members – with an opportunity to present their research, whether in its early stages or already published, in a friendly setting. They are a great way to discuss your ideas, meet fellow members and to contribute to our
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-29/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood by Eugenie Fraser. The House by the Dvina (346 pages) is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction:
- [Clare Hall Diwali Formal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-diwali-formal/) - Bookings are now open for Clare Hall’s Diwali Formal, taking place on Wednesday 22 October, from 7 pm. Join us as we celebrate the Festival of Lights, transforming the Dining Hall into a glowing sea of candles and colour. All members of the Clare Hall community are warmly invited to experience the cultural richness and
- [Masters to PhD Progression Event](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/masters-to-phd-progression-event-3/) - We will be holding our annual "Masters to PhD Progression Event" in the Richard Eden Suite, on Monday 3rd November from 7.00-8.30pm. The event is for current Masters students at Clare Hall to learn more about the pathway to a PhD through the experience and expertise of current PhD students, the Senior Tutor Holly Hedgeland,
- [Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 2024-2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/special-interest-groups-sigs-2024-2025/) - Clare Hall members are invited to join Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of their choice this academic year. SIGs are subject-focused groups of students and Fellows (and other members of the College including Visiting Fellows) that aim to encourage regular small group social and intellectual interactions among people with shared interests in particular academic areas. Professor
- [An Evening of Piano Quartets with the Rossetti Ensemble](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/an-evening-of-piano-quartets-with-the-rossetti-ensemble/) - We are delighted to present the second concert in Clare Hall’s Herschel Concert Series 2025/26, featuring the acclaimed Rossetti Ensemble in an evening of piano quartets. The programme opens with a rarity - Schubert’s very first work for piano and strings, written three years before the Trout Quintet. The Brahms first piano quartet will be
- [Academic Writing and Digital/AI Research Skills Workshops](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/academic-writing-and-digital-research-skills-mastery-workshops/) - If you are interested in developing your writing skills in academia and honing your essays, dissertation, job applications, proposals, and/or enhancing your research skills with Generative AI, then this is for you! ‘Academic Writing and Digital/AI Research Skills Workshop’ by Dr Anthony Harris and Dr Wai Yi Feng 25 - 26 October 2025, 9.15am-1.15pmOptional individual
- [Thursday and Sunday Yoga Sessions: Michaelmas 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/thursday-and-sunday-yoga-sessions-michaelmas-2025/) - We are delighted to host regular lunchtime yoga sessions, starting on Thursday 2 October 2025. In addition, we offer Sunday afternoon yoga after the allotment sessions, starting on 21 September 2025. Please sign up for both sessions through the spreadsheet here. The schedule of Thursday lunchtime yoga is as follows: 2 October Richard Eden Suite
- [Family Supper - 26 September](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/family-supper-26-september/) - Join us for a Family Supper starting in the Meeting Room at 5.30pm where we do a craft activity, before heading for supper at about 6pm. After supper we will return to the Meeting Room to watch a film together if there is enough demand. There is no need to book – this is an
- [Clare Hall Summer Seminars 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-summer-seminars-2025/) - The Clare Hall Summer Seminar Series will return this year, running from 23 July to 24 September. This series offers Clare Hall Visiting Fellows, Fellows and Life Members an opportunity to share their current research with the wider Clare Hall community. The talks are intended to be accessible to a general yet intellectually engaged audience. Seminars will take place
- [Everyday Wonder to Revelation: an exhibition of paintings by Alan Caine](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/everyday-wonder-to-revelation-an-exhibition-of-paintings-by-alan-caine/) - Clare Hall is honoured to host an exhibition of paintings by Alan Caine (1936–2022), running from 10th October to 20th November 2025. Visitors are welcome daily between 10am and 5pm. Alan Caine was an innovative and quietly charismatic teacher of art in the Adult Education Department of Leicester University. He took a primary role in
- [Clare Hall Through Your Lens: Community Photo Project](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-through-your-lens-community-photo-project/) - A warm welcome to all our new and returning members! As Michaelmas term begins, Clare Hall is buzzing with new faces, renewed energy, and the changing colours of the season. Whether you are a student just finding your way around, a fellow returning from research abroad, or part of our staff and family community, this
- [The King Lecture 2025/26 - Professor Bonnie Bassler](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-king-lecture-2025-26-professor-bonnie-bassler/) - We are delighted to welcome Professor Bonnie Bassler as our speaker for the 2025/26 King Lecture, on Friday, 17 October 2025, from 17:30 in the Robinson Auditorium. About the lecture – ‘Tiny Conspiracies: How Bacteria Talk to Each Other’ Bacteria are tiny ancient organisms. Harmful bacteria have the capacity to kill humans, animals, and plants, while beneficial bacteria
- [Pilates Sessions: Easter 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/pilates-sessions-easter-2025/) - We are delighted to host pilates classes at Clare Hall throughout Easter Term. The classes will be held on Mondays during lunchtime, with additional bi-weekly Friday evening classes. Pilates is a form of low-impact exercise that aims to strengthen muscles while improving postural alignment and flexibility. Please bring your own mat, and arrive 5-10 minutes early
- [Postgraduate Open Day](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/postgraduate-open-day-3/) - Clare Hall warmly welcomes prospective students to explore the College with a meet and greet over tea/coffee in the King Room from 10.30am-12pm. Our Senior Tutor, Dr Holly Hedgeland, and student representatives will be available to answer any questions. Prospective students and their families are also welcome for self-guided tours throughout the day. Register here.
- [Continuum | 500th Anniversary of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/continuum-500th-anniversary-of-giovanni-pierluigi-da-palestrina/) - This year’s special concert season, marking the College’s 60th Anniversary, opens with a choral performance celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Continuum will sing his Missa Papae Marcelli, interspersed with settings of the Song of Songs by William Walton, Edward Bairstow, Maurice Duruflé, Becky McGlade, Ola Gjeilo, and Eleanor Daley. The concert
- [Alumni Festival - talk by Helen Ritchie](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/alumni-festival-talk-by-helen-ritchie/) - As part of the University's Alumni Festival, we are delighted to host a talk by Helen Ritchie, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Title: ‘They combined and made fine pots together’: the partnership of Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie and Norah Braden Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie (1895–1985), granddaughter of 4th Earl of Radnor, grew
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-28/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world by Irene Vallejo. A “masterly” (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world“Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to convey both Vallejo’s passionate narrative presence and her
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-27/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor. In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot—from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the
- [Pilates Sessions: Summer 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/13275/) - We are delighted to host pilates classes at Clare Hall throughout the summer. The classes will be held on Mondays during lunchtime. Pilates is a form of low-impact exercise that aims to strengthen muscles while improving postural alignment and flexibility. Please bring your own mat, and arrive 5-10 minutes early to help prepare the room. Sign
- [Clare Hall Household Item Swap](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-household-item-swap/) - As part of Clare Hall’s active effort to reuse and repurpose household items, we are running an end of the year item Swap for everyone at Clare Hall! If you are moving out and have too many things to transport, or if you just want to de-clutter your room, then the Swap is the place
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-26/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss The Third Temple by Yishai Sarid. In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Shaken but devout, Jonathan, the royal family’s third son, continues to hold services and offer animal sacrifices at the prophesied Third Temple, built
- [Student Fellow Concert](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/student-fellow-concert/) - We are delighted to host a concert featuring Clare Hall students, postdocs, and fellows on 24th August 2025, from 3pm in the Dining Hall. There will be a reception with light refreshments. All are welcome to attend and admission is free. Please RSVP through this link. Programme Piano trio - Nicolas Spiesshofer (piano), James Tanna
- [Summer of Music at Clare Hall: Mélanie Clapiès and Patrick Hemmerlé](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/summer-of-music-at-clare-hall-melanie-clapies-and-patrick-hemmerle/) - We are delighted to present a summer concert featuring works by Schumann, Fauré, and Enescu. These composers represent a lineage of musical influence, with Fauré serving as a key link between the earlier Romantic style of Schumann and the later, more modern style of Enescu. Enescu, while influenced by both, developed his own distinct voice,
- [Joint Concert – the Choirs of Clare Hall and Darwin College](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/joint-concert-the-choirs-of-clare-hall-and-darwin-college/) - The choirs of Clare Hall and Darwin are hosting another a joint concert on Monday 23rd June at 7:30pm in the Clare Hall dining hall. Both choirs will sing individually and together, including music by Goss, Chilcott, Kirby Shaw and Amy Beach. The concert will also feature musical performances from members of both colleges. There
- [Mindful Meditation Sessions](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/mindful-meditation-sessions-2/) - Through mindfulness we cultivate attention to the here and now. We aim to witness our thoughts and feelings with detachment. We develop concentration, peace of mind and enjoyment of life with all its challenges. As a group, we explore different means of developing mindfulness, including relaxation, guided meditation and attention to the breath or to
- [CHBC 30th Anniversary Events](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/chbc-30th-anniversary-events/) - It’s time to celebrate Clare Hall Boat Club’s 30th Anniversary! And what better way to celebrate than over the 2025 May Bumps weekend, Saturday 21-Sunday 22 June 2025. Join us for the three events we’re hosting in honour of CHBC glory on the Cam since 1995. Below you will find information about the events, how to
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-25/) - Join the College's Book Club as they discuss The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind
- [A Painter’s Progress: an exhibition of paintings by Ben Henriques](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/a-painters-progress-an-exhibition-of-paintings-by-ben-henriques/) - Clare Hall is delighted to present an exhibition by Ben Henriques, from 19th June to 31st July 2025. Introduction by Frances Spalding, Chair of the Clare Hall Art Committee One long-standing tradition in the History of Art is the habit of painting ordinary things. Much loved, in the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection, is Henri Fantin-Latour’s small
- [Clare Hall Colloquium Easter 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-colloquium-easter-2025/) - Clare Hall’s Colloquia provide members of the College – especially (but not exclusively) Visiting Fellows and Life Members – with an opportunity to present their research, whether in its early stages or already published, in a friendly setting. They are a great way to discuss your ideas, meet fellow members and to contribute to our
- [Thursday and Sunday Yoga Sessions](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/13003/) - We are delighted to host regular lunchtime yoga sessions, starting on 8 May 2025. Due to new instructor arrangements, the weekday lunchtime sessions will now occur on Thursdays. In addition, we offer Sunday afternoon yoga after the allotment sessions, starting on 4 May 2025. Please sign up for both sessions through the spreadsheet here. The
- [Clare Hall May Event](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-may-event/) - Welcome to 21 Club: After Hours! The college will transform into the famous 1920’s New York speakeasy- 21 Club- where curious hidden rooms, incredible live music and unlimited food and drink await! See both the posters for the event attached in this email. Please join us from 18.30-02.00. Bring guests both from Cambridge and further
- [Annual Cricket Match](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/annual-cricket-match/) - Join us for this year’s annual cricket match! There will be an enjoyable game of cricket, followed by afternoon tea. The event is free and open to all, and if you would like to learn more or get involved, please email cricket@clarehall.cam.ac.uk. Please RSVP for the match and tea through this form.
- [Whitsun Feast 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/whitsun-feast-2025/) - Get ready to indulge in an evening of elegance and delight at the Clare Hall Whitsun Feast on 21st May 2025! 📅 Date: 21st May, 2025 🕖 Time: 19:00 Drinks Reception, 19:30 Dinner 📍 Location: Clare Hall Dining Hall Join us for a night of exquisite dining and delightful company. Booking Details: Bookings are now closed, we look forward to welcoming
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-24/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud. Why an awareness of Earth’s temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of
- [The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography: Special Session](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-betty-behrens-seminar-on-classics-of-historiography-special-session/) - The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography has reached its third year of life, bringing to Clare Hall almost forty outstanding historians from the United Kingdom and the United States of America. To celebrate this achievement, thanks to the Italian Research Project “Exile, Transnational Intellectual Networks, Knowledge Transfer: The Italian Case between 1940s-1960s”, funded by
- [Violin concert by Peihan Francesca He](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/peihan-francesca-he-and-patrick-hemmerle/) - In this concert, Clare Hall is happy to present one of the brightest young talents emerging on the international scene. Peihan Francesca He, 12 years old, is currently studying under Dr Robin Wilson. Francesca started learning violin at age 8 and was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music at age 9. In 2022, Francesca
- [Clare College Choral Evensong, Easter 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-college-choral-evensong-easter-2025/) - All members of Clare Hall are warmly welcome to Clare Choral Evensong, sung by the Clare College Choir on Sunday 11th May at 6pm in Clare Chapel. Clare College's Sunday Evensong services during Easter Term are on the theme of ‘Faith in Music’, and each week a visiting speaker will unpack the meaning of a
- [Family Supper - 16 May](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/family-supper-16-may/) - Join us for a Family Supper starting in the Meeting Room at 5.30pm where we do a craft activity, before heading for supper at about 6pm. After supper we will return to the Meeting Room to watch a film together if there is enough demand. There’s no need to book – this is an informal
- [Fen & Flow: an exhibition of paintings by Fred Ingrams](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/fen-flow-an-exhibition-of-paintings-of-the-fens-and-the-flow-country-by-fred-ingrams/) - Clare Hall is pleased to present an exhibition by Fred Ingrams, an artist inspired by the landscapes of the Fens and the Flow country of Caithness. The artist showed a talent for drawing and painting and began his career with a spell at Camberwell and St Martin’s School of Art. His early career was spent
- [Clare Hall and Emmanuel College Joint Evensong](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-and-emmanuel-college-joint-evensong/) - The Clare Hall choir will be performing in a joint Evensong with Emmanuel College on Sunday 18th May. The service is 6pm and will be in Emmanuel College Chapel. The service will include music by Thomas Attwood Walmisley, John Goss and Amy Beach. All are welcome to attend.
- [Schubert’s Winterreise with Jean-François Rouchon and Billy Eidi](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/schuberts-winterreise-with-jean-francois-rouchon-and-billy-eidi/) - Schubert’s Winterreise hardly needs an introduction. It is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest song cycles in the repertoire, a work of exceptional depth and emotional intensity. Composed 1827, a year before Schubert's premature death from syphilis, it is a reflection of his state of mind at this stage in his life. The dark
- [Cambridge Literary Festival: Frances Spalding Room of One’s Own Lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-literary-festival-frances-spalding-room-of-ones-own-lecture/) - The vibrant Cambridge Literary Festival will end again with a closing lecture on Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. A polemical piece of writing, first published in 1929, it is light and amusing, while also delivering a serious protest against the subjection of women. Woolf famously wrote, after she had been turned away from Trinity College
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-23/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak. This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in
- [BODIES: Discover Movement Through Contemporary Dance](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/bodies-discover-movement-through-contemporary-dance/) - Your body is an orchestra - each limb an instrument, each motion a note. Have you ever explored the melodies you can create with it? In this inclusive class, movers of all abilities are invited to be curious around body movement and awareness. We will do so through the versatility of contemporary dance: use of
- [Clare Hall at the Cambridge Festival](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-at-the-cambridge-festival/) - We are delighted to share the events that our members are involved in for the Cambridge Festival from 19 March to 4 April 2025. Wednesday 19 March, from 7pmBrain Boost, Healthy Habits for a Happier Life Professor Barbara Sahakian (Fellow) and Dr Christelle Langley (Affiliated Postdoc) will be giving a talk on their recently released
- [Suites and Dances for Clarinet Trio](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/suites-and-dances-for-clarinet-trio/) - Clare Hall presents a free, hour-long, early evening concert of music for Clarinet Trio. Featuring music from New Zealand, France and Trinidad. Sunday, March 30: 5:00 - 6:15pm. Doors open at 4:45pm. This short early-evening concert is a relaxed opportunity to come together to enjoy a free hour of entertaining and accessible music for Violin,
- [Lunchtime Talks](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-talks/) - We are continuing the tradition of Clare Hall Thursdays Lunchtime Talks beginning on 23 January at 1pm in a relaxed atmosphere. Every member from the College is invited to speak, including especially PhD students, postdocs, also spouses. Research talks and talks of wider academic interest including for example travel experiences or other are welcome. Each
- [Continuum | Choral Music for Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/continuum-choral-music-for-cambridge/) - Join Continuum and their conductor, Harry Guthrie, as they return to the concert series at Clare Hall after last performing in March 2024. The choir will perform a selection of choral music written for colleges of Cambridge University with music by Arvo Pärt, Charles Villiers Stanford, Judith Weir, Jonathan Dove, and Pawel Łukaszewski. Alongside this,
- [Gildas Quartet](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/gildas-quartet/) - The Gildas Quartet, praised for their ‘energy, verve and refreshing approach’ have performed to critical acclaim at major venues including the Bridgewater Hall, Barbican, Wigmore Hall and live on BBC Radio 3. Their bold and explorative approach to performance has been recognised by the International Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition, Graz, where they won first
- [To the Girl Who Wants to Compose: celebrating women composers of the 19th and 20th centuries](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/women-composers-of-the-19th-and-20th-centuries/) - The Lepetit Ensemble (mezzo-soprano Ute Lepetit-Clare, mezzo-soprano Jessica Lawrence-Hares, and pianist Marie-Noelle Kendall) deliver an engaging programme celebrating women composers. The Lepetit Ensemble, composed of mezzo-soprano Ute Lepetit-Clare, mezzo-soprano Jessica Lawrence-Hares, and pianist Marie-Noelle Kendall, deliver an engaging programme celebrating women composers, who have overcome hardships to make their individual voices heard in musical history.
- [Family Supper - 14 March](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/family-supper-14-march/) - Join us for a Family Supper starting in the Meeting Room at 5.30pm where we do a craft activity, before heading for supper at about 6pm. After supper we will return to the Meeting Room to watch a film together if there is enough demand. There’s no need to book – this is an informal
- [Malcolm Ryan: Swimming Against the Tide](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/malcolm-ryan-swimming-against-the-tide/) - Clare Hall is pleased to present an exhibition titled Malcolm Ryan: Swimming Against the Tide. Its title alludes to a turning point in this artist’s life in the 1960s. After gaining a job in London’s Soho district as a graphic designer, he spent most of his lunch-hours studying pictures in the nearby National Gallery and
- [The Clare Hall Tanner and Tanner Founder's Lecture 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-tanner-lecture-2025/) - We are delighted to welcome Professor David Daokui Li and Professor Rana Mitter as our speakers for the Clare Hall Tanner and Tanner Founder's Lecture 2025, on Monday 17 March from 5pm. The lectures will explore the future of relations between China and the West. About the speakers Professor David Daokui Li Professor David Daokui
- [Choral Evensong with Clare Hall and St Botolph’s Choir](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/choral-evensong-with-clare-hall-and-st-botolphs-choir-2/) - Clare Hall Choir will join the choir of St Botolph’s for a service of Choral Evensong. Music will include O Saviour of the world by John Goss, and the Canticles in D by Herbert Brewer. All are welcome.
- [Clare Hall Colloquium Lent 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-colloquium-lent-2024/) - Clare Hall’s Colloquia provide members of the College – especially (but not exclusively) Visiting Fellows and Life Members – with an opportunity to present their research, whether in its early stages or already published, in a friendly setting. They are a great way to discuss your ideas, meet fellow members and to contribute to our
- [Yoga Sessions: Lent 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/yoga-sessions-lent-2024/) - We are delighted to host regular lunchtime yoga sessions, starting on 5 February 2025. In addition, we offer Sunday afternoon yoga after the allotment sessions, starting on 12 January 2025. Please sign up for both sessions through the spreadsheet here. Please note: sessions in the Doshisha room have limited spots available, due to the capacity
- [Seniors’ Guests Formal Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/seniors-guests-formal-hall/) - We are delighted to invite you to sign up for our special Wednesday Formal Hall for senior members and their guests, scheduled for the 19th March 2025. As this Formal Hall is specially reserved for senior members, it is a wonderful opportunity to bring guests to Clare Hall to enjoy conversation over dinner. Bookings are
- [Family Supper – 21 February](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/family-supper-21-february/) - Join us for a Family Supper starting in the Meeting Room at 5.30pm where we do a craft activity, before heading for supper at about 6pm. After supper we will return to the Meeting Room to watch a film together if there is enough demand. There’s no need to book – this is an informal
- [Book launch: Christian polytheism?](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/book-launch-christian-polytheism/) - Join us for a book launch by one of our Life Members, Paul Hedges. The event will be held in the Clare Hall Meeting Room, as well as on Zoom. About the book Christian polytheism? is a theological and political exploration of how Christianity may be compatible with polytheism, arguing that there is no singular
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-22/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss Orbital by Samantha Harvey. A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-21/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss Djin Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with
- [Foundation Feast](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/foundation-feast/) - Celebrate our wonderful college and join us for the Foundation Feast, taking place on 26 February. Booking is via Upay which will be open on 27 January and close on 19 February. Cost: £51 for seniors and £35 for students (including wine or soft drink) Dress code is Black Tie
- [Literature SIG - talk by visiting fellow Dr Kousuke Kaita](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/literature-sig-talk-by-visiting-fellow-dr-kousuke-kaita/) - Join the Literature Special Interest Group for their first meeting of the Lent Term. There will be a talk by visiting fellow Dr Kousuke Kaita on “The Lord’s Prayer in West Germanic Poems.” This will be followed by an optional lunch in the dining hall. Abstract: The Lord’s Prayer, a fundamental Christian prayer based on Matthew
- [Law Dinner 28th January](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/law-dinner-28th-january/)
- [Instrumental Awards for Chamber Music Scheme showcase at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/instrumental-awards-for-chamber-music-scheme-showcase-at-clare-hall/) - About the Instrumental Awards for Chamber Music scheme. The Instrumental Awards for Chamber Music Scheme (IAS) enables students to participate in high-quality chamber music at the University. It is an intercollegiate scheme open to undergraduates and graduates at all Colleges. Award holders comprise outstanding chamber musicians from across the University, and many follow in the
- [Clare Hall Burns Night 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-burns-night-2025/) - Join us for an unforgettable Burns Supper, an evening steeped in the rich traditions of Scotland, celebrating the life and poetry of Robert Burns. As we gather for this special occasion, we are delighted to announce that the night will be graced with the enchanting melodies of bagpipes and a Ceilidh band adding an extra
- [Pilates Sessions: Lent 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/pilates-sessions-lent-2025/) - We are delighted to host pilates classes at Clare Hall throughout Lent Term. The classes will be held on Mondays during lunchtime, with additional bi-weekly Friday evening classes. Pilates is a form of low-impact exercise that aims to strengthen muscles while improving postural alignment and flexibility. Please bring your own mat, and arrive 5-10 minutes early
- [The King Lecture 2024/25 – Sir Shankar Balasubramanian](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-king-lecture-2024-25-sir-shankar-balasubramanian/) - We are delighted to welcome Sir Shankar Balasubramanian as our speaker for the 2024/25 King Lecture, on Tuesday 18 February, at 5:30pm. About the lecture - 'Reading your DNA' DNA is a linear molecule that comprises four building blocks, often abbreviated to the letters G, C, T and A. The sequence of these four letters constitutes a code that comprises
- [Family Supper - 31 January](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/family-supper-31-january/) - Join us for a Family Supper starting in the meeting room at 5.30pm where we do a craft activity, before heading for supper at about 6pm. After supper we will come back to the meeting room to watch a film together if there is enough demand. There’s no need to book – this is an
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-20/) - Join the College's Book Club as they discuss James by Percival Everett. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile,
- [Chinese Calligraphy Talk - Art and Architecture SIG](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/chinese-calligraphy-talk-art-and-architecture-sig/) - Join the Art and Architecture SIG for a talk on Chinese Calligraphy, featuring Mr Zhe An Woon, an established Chinese calligraphy artist and a PhD candidate at the China Academy of Art.
- [Clare College Choral Evensong, Michaelmas 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-college-choral-evensong-michaelmas-2024/) - All members of Clare Hall are warmly welcome to a special service of Choral Evensong, sung by the College Choir on Thursday 24th October at 6.15pm in Clare Chapel. The service will last about 40 minutes, and music will include an introit by Sir William McKie, after whom the position of Clare College Senior Organ
- [Clare College Choral Evensong, Lent 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-college-choral-evensong-lent-2025/) - All members of Clare Hall are warmly welcome to Clare Choral Evensong, sung by the College Choir on Sunday 9th February 2025, at 6pm in Clare Chapel. The service will last about an hour, and music will include canticles set by Orlando Gibbons, who died 400 years ago. Responses by Cecilia McDowall and an introit
- [Fitzwilliam String Quartet featuring Noémi Győri](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/fitzwilliam-string-quartet-featuring-noemi-gyori/) - The Fitzwilliam String Quartet are joined in this concert by the distinguished Hungarian Flautist, Noémi Győri. The Fitzwilliam String Quartet are joined in this concert by the distinguished Hungarian Flautist, Noémi Győri. The ever popular Mozart flute quartet in D major is accompanied by the rarely heard Amy Beach Variations for Flute and String Quartet,
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-19/) - Join the College's Book Club as they discuss Greek Lessons by Han Kang. In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his
- [Clare Hall Art Collection – A Selection](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-art-collection-a-selection/) - An exhibition of a selection from Clare Hall Art Collection Clare Hall was established in 1966 as a centre for advanced study by fellows from Clare College. From its inception, it was envisioned that postgraduate life should be enriched by visual art and music as integral parts of the college's cultural and academic endeavours. An
- [Christmas Concert 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/christmas-concert-2024/) - Now in its eleventh year, an informal concert will be held on Saturday 21st December in the Clare Hall Dining Hall at 4pm. All are most welcome, children especially. There will be a performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, followed by carols and readings. No tickets are required, and admission is free. Mulled wine
- [Family Supper - 13 December](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/family-supper-13-december/) - Join us for a Family Supper starting in the meeting room at 5.30pm where we do a craft activity, before heading for supper at about 6pm. After supper we will come back to the meeting room to watch a film together if there is enough demand. There's no need to book - this is an
- [Sakuntala Trio](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/sakuntala-trio/) - We are delighted to welcome the Sakuntala Trio, a London based string trio, to Clare Hall. The string trio is a comparatively rare genre in the realm of chamber music, much less tackled than piano trios and string quartets. Nevertheless, the genre boasts many important works. The Schubert String Trio is more than a curiosity.
- [Fitzwilliam String Quartet: 50 years since Shostakovich’s death](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/fitzwilliam-string-quartet-50-years-since-shostakovichs-death/) - The FSQ's historical connection with Shostakovich is featured in this programme to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. The Fitzwilliam String Quartet's historical connection with Shostakovich is featured in this programme to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. They are joined by Clare Hall's Musician-in-Residence, Patrick Hemmerlé. The selected pieces display
- [Raphael Wallfisch & Simon Callaghan](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/raphael-wallfisch-simon-callaghan/) - It is an honour to welcome Raphael Wallfisch & Simon Callaghan, active for many years on the British and international scene, to Clare Hall. Cellist Raphael Wallfisch and pianist Simon Callaghan are familiar names to music lovers. Active for many years on the British and international scene, it is a particular honour to welcome them
- [Trio of voice, flute, and piano](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/trio-of-voice-flute-and-piano/) - A wonderful and rarely-heard French repertoire featuring soprano Jessica Summers, flautist Helen Vidovich, and pianist Fei Ren. Featuring soprano Jessica Summers, flautist Helen Vidovich, and pianist Fei Ren, this wonderful and rarely-heard French repertoire for voice, flute, and piano is paired with instrumental chamber works from a golden era in French composition. Music by well-known
- [Pilates Sessions](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/pilates-sessions/) - We are delighted to host pilates classes at Clare Hall throughout Michaelmas Term. The classes will be held on Mondays during lunchtime, with additional bi-weekly Friday evening classes. Pilates is a form of low-impact exercise that aims to strengthen muscles while improving postural alignment and flexibility. Please bring your own mat, and arrive 5-10 minutes early
- [Business and Sustainability SIG Meetings](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/business-and-sustainability-sig-meetings/) - Join the Business and Sustainability Special Interest Group for their upcoming sessions of the term. Monday, 28th October, 5:30 pm: Introductory session to meet others in CH who are interested in business and sustainability. We will also review the Cambridge business ecosystem so you can find other events of interest. At 6:30 we will head to
- [Christmas Feast](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/christmas-feast/) - Join us for a festive and joyous dinner on the 11th of December. Bookings will be open on Upay on 11th November, and will close on 28th November. The cost will be £51 for seniors and £35 for students, including wine or soft drink. Dress code is Black Tie.
- [Art and Architecture Special Interest Group](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/art-and-architecture-special-interest-group/) - As part of the Art and Architecture Special Interest Group, there will be a screening of Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio de Sica (1948), followed by a Q&A with MPhil Candidate Kemlo Rose. Light refreshments will be provided, and all are welcome to join! Future events: Thursday 28 November, 7:30pm, College Meeting Room Venice in England: a
- [Asian Studies Special Interest Group](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/asian-studies-special-interest-group/) - The Asian Studies SIG will host a talk by Dr David Gosling on Tuesday 19th November. The talk will take place in the Meeting Room at 11.30, to be followed by lunch in the dining hall at around 12.30 for those interested in joining. All Clare Hall members are warmly invited. Violence and hope on Pakistan’s
- [Creativity Special Interest Group](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/creativity-special-interest-group/) - The next session of the Creativity SIG will focus on “Cognitive biases and how to avoid them”. We will have some practical activities to experience firsthand how different types of biases affect our work followed by discussions on what can we do to avoid them. All are welcome to join! The event will be held
- [English Literature Special Interest Group](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/english-literature-special-interest-group/) - Michaelmas Term English Literature Special Interest Group Meeting Friday 29 November 2029 in the Meeting Room: 11:00am – 12:00 followed by optional lunch. The speaker will be Dr Clarissa Chenovick (Visiting Fellow) who will speak on ‘Blood Piety Before and After the Reformation’. Dr Clarissa Chenovick Dr Clarissa Chenovick is Assistant Professor of British Renaissance
- [Thanksgiving Formal - 27 November](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/thanksgiving-formal-27-november/) - Celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family with Formal Hall on 27 November 2024. Normal formal prices will apply, and bookings are open on Upay. Bookings will close at 1:45pm the day before the formal.
- [Clare Hall Choir Evensong with the Church of St Andrew & St Mary](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-choir-evensong-with-the-church-of-st-andrew-st-mary/) - Join the Clare Hall Choir for an Evensong with the Church of St Andrew & St Mary, in Grantchester, on Sunday 17 November. The service will be at 6pm, and all are welcome to attend. Music will include the Canticles in D by Herbert Brewer, and We shall walk through the valley in peace by Undine
- [A selection of work by Sheila Fell](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/a-selection-of-work-by-sheila-fell/) - Clare Hall is proud to present an exhibition of paintings by Sheila Fell. The exhibition is free, and runs from 26 September to 6 November 2024 in Clare Hall’s Main Building. Clare Hall is proud to present a selection of work by Sheila Fell, in advance of a major re-evaluation of her art and career. A
- [Yoga Sessions](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-yoga-sessions-3/) - We are delighted to host regular lunchtime yoga sessions, starting from 11 September, from 12:15-12:45pm. In addition, we offer Sunday afternoon yoga after the allotment sessions. Please sign up for both sessions through the spreadsheet here. You can sign up for all of the lunchtime sessions until the end of the term now, but please
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-18/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales, translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in Penguin Modern Classics.Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is
- [Jâms Coleman & Lesley Hatfield](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/jams-coleman-lesley-hatfield/) - Leader of BBC National Orchestra of Wales Lesley Hatfield and acclaimed pianist Jâms Coleman present a spectacular evening of music. This concert presents three major violin sonatas from Germany, France and England. The Spring Sonata is a work of enduring popularity with musicians and audiences. Elgar wrote very little chamber music, which makes this work
- [Academic Writing Workshops](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/academic-writing-workshops-2/) - If you are interested in developing your writing skills in academia and honing your essays, dissertation, job applications, proposals, and/or research skills, this is the event for you! Details for registration will be available at the start of Michaelmas term. ‘Reclaiming Time in a Busy World’ by Michelle Anjirbag 19 October 2024, 10:00-12:30 This workshop
- [Mindful Meditation Sessions](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/mindful-meditation-sessions/) - Please note: the sessions at the beginning of term have been postponed until 5 November. Through mindfulness we cultivate attention to the here and now. We aim to witness our thoughts and feelings with detachment. We develop concentration, peace of mind and enjoyment of life with all its challenges. As a group, we explore different
- [Masters to PhD Progression Event](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/masters-to-phd-progression-event-2/) - We will be holding our annual "Masters to PhD Progression Event" in the Richard Eden Suite, on Monday 4th November from 7:00-8:30pm. The event is for current Masters students at Clare Hall to learn more about the pathway to a PhD through the experience and expertise of current PhD students, the Senior Tutor Holly Hedgeland,
- [Lunchtime Talks Michaelmas 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-talks-michaelmas-2024/) - We are continuing the tradition of Clare Hall Thursdays Lunchtime Talks beginning on 10 October at 1pm in a relaxed atmosphere. Every member from the College is invited to speak, including especially PhD students, postdocs, also spouses. Research talks and talks of wider academic interest including for example travel experiences or other are welcome. Each
- [Law Dinner 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/law-dinner-2023-2/)
- [Clare Hall Colloquium Michaelmas 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-colloquium-michaelmas-2024/) - Clare Hall’s Colloquia provide members of the College – especially (but not exclusively) Visiting Fellows and Life Members – with an opportunity to present their research, whether in its early stages or already published, in a friendly setting. They are a great way to discuss your ideas, meet fellow members and to contribute to our
- [L’Isola | Roma: Il Palazzo](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/lisola-roma-il-palazzo/) - Join us for the first Music Committee concert of the 2024-2025 season, featuring the Cambridge-based musical group, L'Isola. Download the programme below. 2024-10-05 PROGRAMME Clare Hall - Roma V3Download Secular music from 16th C Rome. Composers including de Macque, Locatelli, Zoilo, Ferrabosco, Marenzio, Anerio. L’Isola always aim to sing directly from original 16th Century partbooks.
- [Welcome Week 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/welcome-week-2024/) - A warm welcome to the new students joining us in Michaelmas 2024. Clare Hall’s Graduate Student Body Committee (GSB) has organised a series of events to help students settle in and get to know Cambridge. View the full schedule below: Welcome Week Schedule 2024Download
- [Reading of <i>Burning Souls </i>by Life Member David Chernushenko](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/reading-of-burning-souls-by-life-member-david-chernushenko/) - Life Member David Chernushenko, who completed an MPhil in International Relations from 1987 to 1988, has published a novel that prominently features Clare Hall. David lived on main site in the Leslie Barnett House and has fond memories of his time in College. His novel, Burning Souls, is a story of friendship and courage in a
- [Clare College Choral Evensong, Easter 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-college-choral-evensong-easter-2024/) - All members of Clare Hall are warmly invited to a special Choral Evensong in Clare College Chapel, on Whit Sunday, Sunday 19th May at 6pm. Our Choir will be celebrating the Feast of Pentecost with two 20th-century works from Estonia and England. Arvo Pärt’s Veni, Sancte Spiritus from his Berliner Messe is paired with Jonathan Harvey’s Come,
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-17/) - Join the College's Book Club as they discuss The Bloomsbury Group by Frances Spalding. The most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the two wars, 'The Bloomsbury Group' was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. The Group began the twentieth century with a
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-16/) - Join the College's Book Club as they discuss The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li. A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End. Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls
- [Postgraduate Open Day](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/postgraduate-open-day-2/) - Clare Hall warmly welcomes prospective students to explore the College, with a tour in the late morning by our students, followed by lunch provided in the Dining Hall. Our Senior Tutor, Dr. Holly Hedgeland, will be around to answer any questions on the day. For further details, please see:https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday Discover more about life at Clare
- [Clare Hall Summer Seminars 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-summer-seminars-2024/) - We are delighted to invite you to the 2024 Clare Hall Summer Seminar Series. This is an opportunity for Clare Hall Fellows, Visiting Fellows and Life Members to share topics of their research with the Clare Hall audience. This event will take place in the Clare Hall Meeting Room from 6 to 7 pm right before
- [Lunchtime Pilates Sessions - Summer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-pilates-sessions-summer/) - We are delighted to host lunchtime Pilates classes during the summer. Pilates is a form of low-impact exercise that aims to strengthen muscles while improving postural alignment and flexibility. The sessions will be from 12:15-13:00 (see below for exact locations and dates). Please bring your own mat, and arrive 5-10 minutes early to help prepare the
- [Piano concert by Tyler Hay](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/piano-concert-by-tyler-hay/) - Tyler Hay is a remarkable pianist, known for his bold approach to programming, refined musicianship, and his formidable technique. Tyler Hay is a remarkable pianist, a truly original personality, known for his bold approach to programming, refined musicianship, and his formidable technique. For this concert, he is presenting two monumental sonatas, both inspired by Goethe’s
- [Fitzwilliam String Quartet](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/fitzwilliam-string-quartet-2/) - The Fitzwilliam String Quartet open their series of four concerts at Clare Hall with a selection of Bach, Mozart, and Schubert. The Fitzwilliam String Quartet open their series of four concerts at Clare Hall with a selection from Bach's Art of Fugue, followed by two great masterpieces of the quartet repertoire - Mozart's Quartet K421
- [Ink's Infinite Inspiration: Chinese brush painting by Lu Zhongjian](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/inks-infinite-inspiration-chinese-brush-painting-by-lu-zhongjian/) - Clare Hall is delighted to present an exhibition of paintings by Lu Zhongjian. The exhibition is free, and runs from 17 July to 6 September 2024 in Clare Hall’s Main Building. About the artist Lu Zhongjian (卢中见) is an artist of critical acclaim who lives in Guangdong Province in southern China. Born in 1961 in
- [Cambridge University Summer Freshers' Events](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-university-summer-freshers-events/) - Around the world in August and September, University Alumni Groups host Freshers’ Events for new undergraduate and postgraduate students starting a course at Cambridge this autumn. These optional events are a great opportunity to speak to current and former students about their experiences of Cambridge and meet other new starters. Events are in-person or online, as stated.
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-15/) - Join the College's Book Club as they discuss Long Island by Colm Tóibín. Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn. A man with an
- [Virginia Woolf and Childhood with Literature Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/virginia-woolf-and-childhood-with-literature-cambridge/) - Clare Hall Fellow Commoner Ann Kennedy Smith will be giving a talk on Virginia Woolf and Julian Bell at Waterstones Cambridge. This talk is in collaboration with Literature Cambridge and their summer course on Virginia Woolf and Childhood. Book your spot on the Waterstones website! Ann Kennedy Smith is a writer, researcher, and literary critic. She
- [Alumni Festival: An AI assistant for football tactics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/alumni-festival-an-ai-assistant-for-football-tactics/) - The Alumni Festival is a weekend of discovery, intellectual adventure and reconnection. Rediscover your connection with this remarkable city as you hear the latest insights from some of Cambridge's leading academics. Explore their current research through a collection of talks, panel discussions and tours, and learn how your fellow alumni are pioneering solutions to global
- [Cambridge Open Studios art exhibition by Fiona Blake](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-open-studios-art-exhibition-by-fiona-blake/) - Clare Hall Fellow Commoner and Art Committee Secretary Fiona Blake will be hosting an exhibition as part of the Cambridge Open Studios event, an opportunity to visit working studios and buy art directly from the artists. All Clare Hall members are warmly invited to attend! The exhibition will run on the 20-21 July and 27-28 July, from 10am
- [King's Lynn Festival 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/kings-lynn-festival-2024/) - The King's Lynn Festival, now in its 73rd year, continues to provide high-quality performances of classical music, recitals, choral performances, jazz, folk, talks, walks, exhibitions and films. The Festival features internationally renowned performers and uses beautiful historic venues around the town, including England's largest surviving Medieval Guildhall. King's Lynn is an ancient 12th century town with connections to the mediaeval
- [Art and Architecture SIG](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/art-and-architecture-sig/) - Join the Art & Architecture Special Interest Group for an introductory talk about the British Museum exhibition 'Michelangelo: the last decades'. The talk will be given by Grant Lewis, curator of the exhibition. Everyone is welcome to join, and drinks will be provided!
- [Songs of Love and Devotion: soprano Grace Davidson and harpsichordist Julian Perkins](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/a-concert-by-soprano-grace-davidson-and-harpsichordist-julian-perkins/) - Programme If Music be the food of Love, Henry Purcell Sweeter Than Roses, Purcell Fairest Isle (from King Arthur), Purcell Suite no 2 in F Major, HWV 427, G.F Handel Never Weather The Beaten Saile, Thomas Campion Author Of Light, Campion A Hymne to God the Father, Pelham Humfrey Evening Hymn, Purcell Interval Come again sweet Love,
- [CHBC May Bumps Riverside Picnic](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/chbc-may-bumps-riverside-picnic/) - On behalf of the Clare Hall Boat Club Committee, we are delighted to welcome College members, family, and friends to the first annual May Bumps Riverside Picnic on Saturday, 15 June 2024. There will be a CHBC Marquee on Ditton Meadows from 11:30am, which will offer limited seating, Pimm's and non-alcoholic drinks, and light refreshments. We
- [Musings on Love and Longing: Art Song Re-imagined](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/musings-on-love-and-longing-art-song-re-imagined/) - About the concert Join us for a concert by the daughter and mother duo of harpist Eleanor Medcalf and soprano Susan Gritton. An alumna of Queens' College, Cambridge, Eleanor attended the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for two years. Since then
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-13/) - Join the College's Book Club as they discuss Vaxxers by Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green. The bestselling inside story of a historic moment for science and for humanity. On 1 January 2020, Professor Sarah Gilbert read an article about four people in China with an illness of unknown cause. Within two weeks, she and her
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-14/) - Join the College's Book Club as they discuss Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, award-winning author of six novels and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick, England. 'Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss's sixth novel, is further proof that she's one of our very best contemporary novelists ... It's an intoxicating concoction; inventive, intelligent, and like no other
- [Eight Stories: Chinese identity in rural Britain](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/eight-stories-chinese-identity-in-rural-britain/) - "When people ask where I am from, I reply ‘I am English’, anticipating the follow up question ‘Where are you really from?" - Jamie Lau Clare Hall is proud to present an exhibition by British-born Chinese photographer Jamie Lau. The display of photographs was originally commissioned by the British Library, as an event to accompany
- [Clare Hall Family Supper](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-family-supper-2/) - The next family supper will take place on 7th June. Family Suppers are a great way for families with children to get to know each other. We start off in the Meeting room (near the Porters lodge) at 5.30pm for a craft activity with a spring theme! We then head to dinner at about 6pm. It is
- [Joint concert with Clare Hall and Darwin College Choirs](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/joint-concert-with-clare-hall-and-darwin-college-choirs/) - The joint choirs of Clare Hall and Darwin are holding a concert at Darwin College on Monday 10th June, 7:30pm. Both choirs will sing separately and together, and there will be solo instrumental performances by members of both choirs. The concert will last around 75 minutes, and will be followed by refreshments. The concert will be at Darwin
- [Clare Hall May Week Event](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-may-week-event/) - Mark your calendars and prepare to indulge in the magic of a Venetian Carnival where elegance meets joy, with an evening of vibrant masks, captivating entertainment, and exquisite cuisine. Enjoy a night of unlimited food, drink, and entertainment at the 2024 Clare Hall May Week Event on Friday 14th June! Don't miss out on an
- [Clare Hall Thursdays Lunchtime Talks ](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-thursdays-lunchtime-talks/) - We are restarting the Clare Hall Thursdays Lunchtime Talks beginning on 14 March. Members from the College are invited to speak, including especially PhD students, postdocs, and also spouses. Research subjects and subjects of wider interest such as travel experiences are all welcome. Talks and discussion will last 60 minutes. There will be no
- [Fitzwilliam String Quartet with Patrick Hemmerlé](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/fitzwilliam-string-quartet-with-patrick-hemmerle/) - The Fitzwilliam String Quartet is Clare Hall’s quartet-in-residence, and is today one of the longest-established string quartets in the world. Programme Shostakovich Quartet No.4, Op.83 Liz Johnson Quartet No.5 Dragon Moon (2024) Dvořák Piano Quintet in A major, Op.81 About this concert In the early days of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Shostakovich approved of the manner in which his
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-12/) - Join the College's Book Club as they discuss Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead is a retelling of Dicken’s David Copperfield set in the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The novel, winner of the of the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction, explores the struggles of poverty and opioid addiction in modern day America. Set
- [Family Supper](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/family-supper-2/) - Family Suppers are a great way for families with children to get to know each other. We start off in the Meeting room (near the Porters lodge) at 5.30pm for a craft activity with a spring theme! We then head to dinner at about 6pm. It is the usual paid dinner service, no need to book ;
- [Ondes Martenot and Theremin concert by Charlie Draper with Patrick Hemmerlé](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/ondes-martenot-and-theremin-concert-by-charlie-draper-with-patrick-hemmerle/) - Programme Pierre Vellones Fantasie George Gershwin - Summertime Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise Nikolai Medtner Suite-Vocalise in F Minor Richard Rodney Bennett Serenade No. 2 Darius Milhaud Suite for Ondes Martenot and Piano Miklos Rozsa (arr. Paul Jackson) Spellbound Concerto for Theremin and Piano About the concert In this unique concert, Charlie Draper presents not only rare music, but also rare electronic instruments. The
- [A concert by Mélanie Clapiès and Patrick Hemmerlé](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/a-concert-by-melanie-clapies-and-patrick-hemmerle/) - Programme Franck Violin sonata Enescu: Violin Sonata 3, opus 25 About the concert Franck’s violin Sonata has achieved immense popularity with both performers and audiences. It is not difficult to see why, for it combines a wealth of unforgettable melodies, a richly chromatic harmony, an expressive sound world of searing intensity, and a formal design of
- [Lunchtime Pilates Sessions - Easter Term](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-pilates-sessions/) - We are delighted to host lunchtime Pilates classes during Easter term. Pilates is a form of low-impact exercise that aims to strengthen muscles while improving postural alignment and flexibility. The sessions will be held every Monday from 12:15-13:00 in the Richard Eden Suite. Please bring your own mat, and arrive 5-10 minutes early to help prepare
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-11/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss The Myth of Wu Tao-Tzu by Sven Lindqvist. 'During the Tang dynasty, the Chinese artist Wu Tao-tzu was one day standing looking at a mural he had just completed. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and the temple gate opened. He went into his work and the gates
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-10/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss The Compatibility Gene by Daniel M. Davis. The Compatibility Gene by Daniel M Davis is an elegantly written, unexpectedly gripping account of how scientists painstakingly unravelled the way in which a small group of genes (known as MHC genes) crucially influence, and unexpectedly interconnect, various aspects of our lives, from how
- [Continuum Choir with conductor Harry Guthrie, performing in Clare Chapel](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/continuum-choir-with-conductor-harry-guthrie-performing-in-clare-chapel/) - Concert Programme Join Continuum in the Chapel of Clare College Cambridge for a programme tracing Lent through music from the Iberian Peninsula. The programme uses the seven liturgical verses of the Latin hymn, Vexilla Regis, as a foundation for traversing the rich textual and compositional connections found in Iberian music. With chant interspersed with polyphonic settings,
- [Ramadan Potluck Iftar at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/ramadan-potluck-iftar-at-clare-hall/) - As we welcome the month of Ramadan, the GSB is excited to invite you and your loved ones to a College Ramadan Potluck Iftar (breaking fast). This cherished gathering brings together our community to share in the spirit of unity, reflection, and delicious food. Date: Friday, 22nd March Time: 6pm-8.30pm (we will break fast at
- [Annual Clare Hall Cricket Match 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/annual-clare-hall-cricket-match-2024/) - You are warmly invited to the Annual Clare Hall cricket match between the President's XI and the Clare Hall Students to be held on Wednesday 19th June at the Leckhampton cricket ground, off Cranmer Road, from 1.30 pm. All College members are welcome to come along and watch, there will also be a traditional afternoon
- [Whitsun Feast 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/whitsun-feast-2024/) - Get ready to indulge in an evening of elegance and delight at the Clare Hall Whitsun Feast on May 15th, 2024! 📅 Date: May 15th, 2024 🕖 Time: 19:00 Drinks Reception, 19:30 Dinner 📍 Location: Clare Hall Dining Hall Join us for a night of exquisite dining and delightful company. Booking Details: Booking is via
- [A concert by Gabriel Cano, flute, and Guillaume Moix, piano](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/a-concert-by-gabriel-cano-flute-and-guillaume-moix-piano/) - Programme Poulenc Flute Sonata Martin Ballade Sancan Sonatine Schumann 3 Romances Reinecke Sonata Undine About the concert This programme, performed by Gabriel Cano, former principal flute in the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, weaves together some of the best works of flute and piano repertoire, which are also some of the best known works of their respective composers. The Poulenc Sonata is
- [On the Chopping Block: cooks and other paintings by William Balthazar Rose](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/on-the-chopping-block-cooks-and-other-paintings-by-william-balthazar-rose/) - Clare Hall is honoured to present an exhibition of paintings by William Balthazar Rose. His cooks series are typically painted on wood panels or stretched canvas, and more recently the artist has used large wooden chopping blocks which he has constructed himself. ‘The chopping block was in part a response to the economic difficulties of
- [The ADHD society talk with Professor Barbara Sahakian](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-adhd-society-talk-with-professor-barbara-sahakian/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry and a Fellow of Clare Hall, will be giving a talk titled, 'Busting Myths about ADHD through Research' as part of the inaugural speaker event of the ADHD society. The event will be held on 27 February at 5:30pm, in the Vivian Stuart
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-9/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss The Sun Walks Down by Fiona MacFarlane. In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for
- [A concert by baritone Morgan Pearse and pianist Amit Yahav](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/a-concert-by-baritone-morgan-pearse-and-pianist-amit-yahav/) - Programme Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin Barber Hermit Songs About the concert Morgan Pearse is considered one of the truly versatile and fearless baritones of his generation, and has appeared on many of the world’s finest opera and concert stages in a career already filled with countless highlights. Morgan’s engagements have included appearances with ensembles including the Academy
- [The Ashby Lecture 2024 - Daniel H. Weiss](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-ashby-lecture-2024-daniel-h-weiss/) - We are delighted to welcome Daniel H. Weiss as our speaker for the 2024 Ashby Lecture, on Wednesday 6th March at 5:00pm. Professor Weiss was the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 2015-2023, and the title of his talk will be The Ethical Museum: Reflections on Cultural Mission and Civic
- [The Tanner Lecture 2024 - Amitav Ghosh](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-tanner-lecture-2024-amitav-ghosh/) - We are delighted to welcome Amitav Ghosh, the novelist and author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, as our speaker for the 2024 Tanner Lecture. The Lecture will be held on 5th of February at the Robinson College Auditorium at 5:00pm. The title of Amitav's talk is Intimations of Apocalypse: Catastrophist and
- [Choral Evensong with Clare Hall and St Botolph's Choir](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/choral-evensong-with-clare-hall-and-st-botolphs-choir/) - Clare Hall Choir will join the choir of St Botolph's for a service of Choral Evensong. This is the first collaboration between Clare Hall Choir and an organisation outside of the University. Music will include pieces by Mozart and Walmisley. Everyone welcome.
- [Clare Hall Choral Evensong in Robinson Chapel](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-choral-evensong-in-robinson-chapel/) - Clare Hall Choir will sing Choral Evensong at Robinson. This will be a particularly significant service, as for the first in the choir's history we will not be joined by another choir for a chapel service. The music will include pieces by Mozart, Rutter and Walmisley. Everyone welcome.
- [Clare College Choral Evensong](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-college-choral-evensong-2/) - All members of Clare Hall are warmly invited to a special Choral Evensong in Clare College Chapel, on Sunday 4th February at 6pm. There will be a feast of musical pieces, with Clare College Choir singing Vaughan Williams’ glorious ‘Valiant-for-Truth’ as the Anthem, as well as soaring canticles set by Giles Swayne and Tomás Luis de
- [Korean Tea Culture Presentation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/korean-tea-culture-introduction/) - Professor Cha Hyeon Ju, Doctoral Research Fellow at Sungkyunkwan University, will present an introduction to Korean tea culture with samples of the highest quality Korean green tea, 'woontjeoncha.' This will be a unique opportunity for members of Clare Hall to experience Korean heritage and engage in cultural exchange. The event will be held in the
- [Clare Hall Mindful Meditation Sessions](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-mindful-meditation-sessions-2/) - Mindfulness sessions this term will be on Tuesdays at 13.00. They will be held in the King Suite on Clare Hall main site. These sessions are drop-in, so no RSVP is required. Mindfulness is in the news for its wellbeing benefits. To be mindful is to be aware and to experience the here and
- [Worlds turned upside down: Quiet Revolutions in Art - lecture by Professor Frances Spalding](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/worlds-turned-upside-down-quiet-revolutions-in-art-lecture-by-professor-frances-spalding/) - Professor Frances Spalding, Art Committee Chair and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, will be giving a talk as part of Revolution, the 2024 Darwin College Lecture Series. The series will explore the idea of Revolution from eight very different angles. The series are open to all and free to attend, and they take place on Fridays
- [Clare Hall Book Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-book-club-8/) - Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss A Wilderness Station, Selected Stories, 1968-1994, Part of Vintage International by Alice Munro. All College members are welcome to attend in-person, meeting in Clare Hall’s Meeting Room, or via Zoom. If you are not on the mailing list and would like to be, please send an email to gloria.carnevali@icloud.com, confirming your
- [Kathleen Hyndman: A Mathematical Artist and Her Lifelong Task](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/kathleen-hyndman-a-mathematical-artist-and-her-lifelong-task/) - Clare Hall is proud to present a memorial exhibition of the work of the Kathleen Hyndman (1928-2022). Her art is made powerful by her adoption of a constructed and sequential approach. ‘My work often originates from natural effects,’ she once said, instancing trees in the mist, shadows, or movements of water. But these visual stimuli
- [Clare Hall Trick-or-Treat](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-trick-or-treat/) - As a family-friendly college, we’re proud of our annual tradition of trick-or-treating, and encourage parents to walk with their children between student houses across Main Site and West Court on 31 October from 17:00-18:30 to collect candy! Main Site: Elmside Brian Pippard Building Michael Stoker Building Leslie Barnett House West Court: 9/9A Herschel Road Salje
- [GSB Halloween Formal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/gsb-halloween-formal/) - The GSB invites you to attend a spooktacular Halloween formal on 31 October! There will be a drinks reception starting from 7:00pm, and the ALB will be open afterwards. Costumes highly encouraged and prizes will be given for the best costume!
- [The King Lecture 2023 - Jennifer Doudna](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/king23/) - We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Doudna as our speaker for the 2023 King Lecture, on Friday 10 November, at 5:00pm. Jennifer Doudna is a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and a Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology. Her research focuses on RNA as it forms a variety of complex globular structures, some of which function
- ['Cycles of influence: art shaping art', an exhibition of paintings by Tess Recordon](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/cycles-of-influence-art-shaping-art-an-exhibition-of-paintings-by-tess-recordon/) - On the 28th of September, we welcome an exhibition of paintings from Tess Recordon. The exhibition remains open for public viewing from 10am-5pm, seven days a week, until the 16th of November 2023. About the artist Tess Recordon is a painter who studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art (now part of the
- ['Entrusting our health to AI?': Alumni Festival 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/entrusting-our-health-to-ai-alumni-festival-2023/) - Join us for a discussion about whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can really transform healthcare in the 21st century, as many doctors and scientists claim, and whether we should trust it. This event is part of the University's 2023 Alumni Festival, which brings together alumni from around the world to discover the latest fascinating research and
- [University of Cambridge Freshers’ Events](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/university-of-cambridge-freshers-events/) - Around the world in August and September, University Alumni Groups will be hosting online and in-person freshers’ events for new undergraduate and postgraduate students starting a course at Cambridge this autumn. These optional events are a great opportunity to hear from current and former students about their experiences of Cambridge and meet other new starters
- [GSB International BBQ](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/gsb-international-bbq/) - All members of Clare Hall are invited to attend an International BBQ this Saturday 29 July at 1pm. Please RSVP by submitting this Google Form by 5pm on Wednesday 26 July so we can plan our grocery purchase accordingly--let us know your dietary requirements and how many friends you're bringing!
- ['Passages of Light': Exhibition of Paintings by Cambridge Artist Oliver Soskice ](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/art-exhibition-of-cambridge-artist-oliver-soskice/) - On the 8th of June 'Passages of Light', a new exhibition of oil paintings by the Cambridge artist Oliver Soskice goes on show. A deep experience of landscape lies behind these paintings as well as a sophisticated understanding of still life, and represents work done over the last ten years. This free exhibition can be found in the internal
- [Jill Swarbrick-Banks: Transcendental Landscapes](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/jillswarbrickbanksexhib23/) - It is a pleasure to present in this exhibition a set of landscapes by Jill Swarbrick-Banks that may be unlike any landscapes you have seen before. Whether classical or romantic, sublime, or picturesque, landscape painting has contributed significantly to the history of British art, in one form or another. After the Spanish American philosopher George
- [Summer Remixer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/summer-remixer/) - Please join us at the Summer (Re)mixer ​on Sunday 25th June, between 4pm-7pm in the Richard Eden Suite (West Court). Students, fellows and families are all welcome to this "unConference"! The goal is to encourage communication (and maybe even collaborations) across topics, disciplines and roles, all in a relaxed and informal environment. We will be offering some food
- [Careers Beyond Academia](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/careersbeyondacademia23/) - Clare Hall is planning a Careers Beyond Academia event for 16 May 2023 An opportunity for students considering Careers Beyond Academia to meet speakers from a range of tech, biotech and start-up firms on Tuesday 16th May.
- [A tasting of fortified wines: Port, Sherry and Madeira](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/tastingmay23/) - Clare Hall’s former Vice-President, Stephen Bourne, served as the College’s Wine Steward for 16 years, during which time he was also a Director of The Wine Society, the UK’s most successful wine club. There he developed his knowledge of the world’s wines, which he now shares gleefully with us. On this occasion, Stephen will be
- [The Ashby Lecture 2023 - In conversation with Orhan Pamuk](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/ashby23/) - Clare Hall is delighted to welcome Nobel Prize‑winning novelist Orhan Pamuk for this year's Ashby Lecture. Pamuk will be on-stage with author and historian Christopher de Bellaigue, with a reading from The Lost Pool followed by a conversation on the novelist's life and work. Tickets Please book your free tickets via Eventbrite: In-person Zoom About
- [Mindfulness at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/mindfulnessprogramme23/) - Mindfulness is the act of bringing one’s full attention to what is happening in the present moment. By directing our minds back to our bodies and our breath, we arrive in the present moment; in the here and now. This programme has developed from a Mindful Wander in summer 2022; a Mindful Meditation Workshop in
- [Three Slide Talks](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/three-slide-talks/) - Clare Hall's Three Slide Talks return in 2023, following their inception by Dr Keri Wong and Dr Roland Alexander several years ago. College members are invited to give 10-15 minute presentations using no more than three slides, followed by an informal discussion on their topic. Speakers are encouraged to be creative with the presentation, whether
- [The Clare Hall Tanner Lecture on Human Values 2023: Paul Krugman and Meg Jacobs](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/tanner23/) - The 2023 Tanner Lecture at Clare Hall will be given by the Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, together with Professor Meg Jacobs, Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. They will explore current and historic inflation. This event is taking place both in-person and via Zoom.
- [A Feast for the Eye - an exhibition of paintings and collages by Jerry Scott](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/jerryscott22/) - Clare Hall is delighted to present an exhibition by Jerry Scott, representative of the artist’s work over the last twenty years. Frances Spalding, Art Committee Chair and Curator of this exhibition, writes: Jerry Scott’s collages have rightly been called a journey through colour and texture, offering an experience of great richness and depth. Their characterful
- [Spanish and Portuguese Wine Tasting](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/spwinetasting23/) - Enjoy the company of your fellow Clare Hall members at a Spanish and Portuguese Wine Tasting... The Iberian Peninsula is best known for Spain’s Rioja and Portugal’s Port wines, but these two countries offer so much more than that: reds, whites, roses, fizzes and fortified wines, at prices to suit all wallets! This tasting should
- [Light. Time. Space. - an exhibition of photographs by Robin Stemp](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/robinstempexhib23/) - Clare Hall Art Committee is delighted to present recent work by Robin Stemp. Robin is a Cambridge-based photographer who captures enigmatic still lifes and unpopulated interiors, as well as unusual aspects of the built environment seen on her travels. Her work is calm and restrained, suggesting narratives which are open and inconclusive. The scenes seem
- [Malt Whisky Tasting](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/whiskytasting23/) - College members are invited to sign up for Emeritus Fellow Stephen Bourne’s annual Malt Whisky Tasting, which is designed to explore a range of Scotch whiskies (and perhaps a few other surprises) in anticipation of Burns Night. Tickets are limited and are priced at £10 per person; uPay will open on 3 January 2023 at
- [The Ashby Lecture 2022](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/ashby22/) - Why the Left is not Woke In April 2022, philosopher and writer Professor Susan Neiman gave the Ashby Lecture at Robinson Auditorium, followed by responses from Dr Christopher Brooke (Senior Lecturer in Political Theory; Fellow and Director of Studies in Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge); Dr Emma Mackinnon (University Lecturer in History; Fellow
- ['After Nature’ by Jonny Church and ‘Rocks from Yon Hills’ by C.N. Liew – an exhibition of landscapes](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/churchliewexhib22/) - Clare Hall Art Committee is proud to present two exhibitions inspired by landscapes, exploring the tension between the environment and the influence of man. Oil paintings by Jonny Church are juxtaposed with ink art by C.N. Liew in Clare Hall's Main Site. After Nature Following a conversation with Jonny Church, Frances Spalding, Chair of Clare
- [Board Games Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/boardgamesclub22-23/) - Join the Clare Hall Board Games Club, which hosts games nights twice a week. Sundays and Mondays from 7pm, Common Room, Clare Hall. All College members are welcome. For further information, contact Esdras Paravizo via ep650@cam.ac.uk
- [The Clare Hall Tanner Lecture on Human Values 2020](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/tanner20/) - Gaining Power, Losing Control Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard University, gave the Clare Hall Tanner Lecture on Human Values in January 2020, followed by responses from Dr Stephen Cave, Professor Martin Rees and Professor Sophia Roosth. Lecture 1 Between Abdication and Suffocation: Three Eras of Governing Digital Platforms Lecture
- [The Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values 2021](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/tannerai21/) - Black Mirror: Race, AI and Inequity in the 21st Century In October 2021, Ruha Benjamin, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, gave the Obert C. Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values at Robinson Auditorium, followed by respondents Dr Shakir Mohamed, Dr Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Professor Sennay Ghebreab. SynopsisFrom everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology
- [The Clare Hall Tanner Lecture on Human Values 2022](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/tanner22/) - Providing for a nation’s health, in a global context The Tanner Foundation graciously enabled Clare Hall to hold a double Tanner event across two interconnected evenings in February 2022. Evening 1The Relationship Between National and Global HealthProfessor Allen Buchanan, Professor Emeritus, Duke University; Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona; Professor of the Philosophy of International
- [almost unthought - experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/cattai22/) - Clare Hall Art Committee presents an exhibition of works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai. Open for public viewing daily from 10am - 6pm. Silvano Cattai lives and works in Seravezza (Lucca, Italy). Since the early 1990s Cattai has devoted himself to sculpture, developing his personal research and showing at several European art galleries. In the meantime he

## News

- [Professor Yoshiyuki Kato publishes acclaimed new book on American Evangelicals](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-yoshiyuki-kato-publishes-acclaimed-new-book-on-american-evangelicals/) - We are pleased to share the news that Professor Yoshiyuki Kato, Life Member and former Visiting Fellow, has recently published a new book Evangelicals: The Eschatological Fracturing of American Society (written in Japanese), which has received wide critical and public acclaim. The book examines the role of American Evangelicals in shaping political life throughout the
- [New exhibition opens: Paintings and monoprints by Benita Kevill-Davies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/new-exhibition-opens-paintings-and-monoprints-by-benita-kevill-davies/) - On 27 November, Clare Hall was pleased to welcome a new exhibition of paintings and monoprints by artist Benita Kevill-Davies. The Common Room was filled with lively conversation as fellows, students, and visitors gathered to enjoy the first look at her striking and contemplative works. The artist was present throughout the evening, generously sharing her
- [Dr Ralitsa Madsen honoured with prestigious Dame Anne McLaren Medal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-ralitsa-madsen-honoured-with-prestigious-dame-anne-mclaren-medal/) - Clare Hall Alumna and Life Member Dr Ralitsa Madsen has been awarded the 2025 Dame Anne McLaren Early Career Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). The honour recognises her outstanding contributions to Life Sciences and her pioneering work in understanding cellular signalling pathways. Dr Madsen’s research, carried out within the MRC Protein Phosphorylation
- [Clare Hall Alumni gather in Tokyo](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-alumni-gather-in-tokyo/) - On 22 November, Clare Hall Alumni met in Tokyo and sent their warm greetings to the College. The gathering was hosted by the Japan-based Clare Hall Alumni Association led by Professor Hiromichi Tateishi, Life Member, who first joined Clare Hall as a Visiting Student in 1975 to 1976. The event brought together members of our
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian’s book named among Cambridge University Press “Books of the Year 2025”](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakians-book-named-cambridge-university-press-book-of-the-year-2025/) - Clare Hall is delighted to celebrate the success of Professor Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of the College, whose recent book Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life, co-authored with Affiliated Postdoctoral Member Dr Christelle Langley, has been selected as one of Cambridge University Press “Books of the Year 2025.” The book offers an accessible and
- [Clare Hall Choir performs in joint Evensong with Corpus Christi College](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-choir-performs-in-joint-evensong-with-corpus-christi-college/) - The Clare Hall Choir, larger and stronger than ever, continues to grow in both popularity and musical confidence. Last night, they joined the Corpus Christi Choir for a beautiful Evensong. The service included music by Charles Villiers Stanford and Ola Gjeilo, filling the chapel with rich harmonies and creating a warm, uplifting atmosphere. The choir’s
- [Dr Jud Newborn wins second Emmy Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-jud-newborn-wins-second-emmy-award/) - We are pleased to share that Dr Jud Newborn, former student of Clare Hall, has received his second Emmy Award for a video portrait featuring George Takei, known both for his role in Star Trek and for his longstanding human rights advocacy. The video portrait highlights Takei’s personal history, including his childhood experience in the
- [Clare Hall appoints inaugural Industry and Enterprise Fellows to strengthen Cambridge’s academic-commercial ecosystem](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-appoints-inaugural-industry-and-enterprise-fellows-to-strengthen-cambridges-academic-commercial-ecosystem/) - Clare Hall is delighted to announce the appointment of its first cohort of nine Industry and Enterprise Fellows, drawn from across industrial, investment, and entrepreneurship ecosystems. The initiative embeds leading practitioners from the commercial world into the life of the College, creating new pathways for exchange between academic research and real-world applications. Clare Hall, as
- [Clare Hall Member contributes to groundbreaking research on early treatment for Crohn's disease](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-member-contributes-to-groundbreaking-research-on-early-treatment-for-crohns-disease/) - Dr Nurulamin Noor, Affiliated Postdoctoral Member of Clare Hall, has contributed to major new research from the University of Cambridge demonstrating that early treatment for Crohn’s disease leads to better patient outcomes and could save millions for healthcare systems worldwide. The findings build on the landmark PROFILE trial, led by researchers at the School of
- [Professor Bonnie Bassler delivers the 2025-26 King Lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-bonnie-bassler-delivers-the-2025-26-king-lecture/) - On Friday 17 October, Clare Hall was very pleased to welcome Professor Bonnie Bassler as the speaker for the 2025-26 King Lecture. Professor Bassler, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, delivered a fascinating talk that drew great interest from members and guests alike. The talk titled
- [Clare Hall strengthens links with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-strengthens-links-with-universidad-carlos-iii-de-madrid/) - Clare Hall representatives recently enjoyed a series of highly productive meetings at la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), further strengthening the College’s international relationships and connections with members of the Clare Hall Spanish Society. Professor Andrew Blake, Dr Fiona Blake, and Helen Pennant visited two of UC3M’s campuses as part of the trip. The
- [Clare Hall hosts the Cambridge-Fudan Meeting on Neurology and Old Age Psychiatry](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-hosts-the-cambridge-fudan-meeting-on-neurology-and-old-age-psychiatry/) - On Wednesday 15 October 2025, Clare Hall was delighted to host the Cambridge–Fudan Meeting on Neurology and Old Age Psychiatry, a landmark event that brought together leading neuroscientists and psychiatrists from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University, Shanghai. The meeting opened with a welcome address from Professor Alan Short, President of Clare Hall, setting
- [Sir Shankar Balasubramanian presents the 2024-25 King Lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sir-shankar-balasubramanian-presents-the-2024-25-king-lecture/) - On Tuesday 18 February, we were honoured to welcome Sir Shankar Balasubramanian as our speaker for the sixth King Lecture at Clare Hall. Sir Shankar Balasubramanian is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and senior group leader at Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Institute. Sir Shankar's lecture, titled 'Reading your
- [Michael Ngai awarded Honorary Professorship by Satbayev University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/michael-ngai-awarded-honorary-professorship-by-satbayev-university/) - Clare Hall Alum and Fellow Commoner Michael Ngai has been awarded an Honorary Professorship by Satbayev University in Kazakhstan, in recognition of his contributions to international education and academic collaboration. Michael, who serves as Chairman of the Council of the City University of Hong Kong, received the honour during a ceremony in Almaty, where Satbayev
- [Tutorial News: College welcomes over 120 new students](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-college-welcomes-over-120-new-students/) - Clare Hall is pleased to have welcomed over 120 new students this year, who participated in their matriculation and book signing ceremonies last week. As always, we are very grateful to Jeremy Peters for the excellent photos!
- [Clare Hall opens exhibition 'Everyday Wonder to Revelation'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-opens-exhibition-everyday-wonder-to-revelation/) - On 9 October, Clare Hall warmly welcomed friends, supporters, and admirers of the late artist Alan Caine to the opening of the exhibition Everyday Wonder to Revelation. Held at the College, the event offered guests a chance to view Caine’s paintings, learn about his life and artistic vision, and celebrate his contribution to art in
- [From Fireworks to Forever: Jonathan Tay and Kimberly Anderson’s story](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/from-fireworks-to-forever-jonathan-tay-and-kimberly-andersons-story/) - Clare Hall is delighted to share the wonderful news that Dr Jonathan Tay and Dr Kimberly Anderson, both Alumni and Life Members of the College, have recently celebrated their wedding. The couple first met in September 2016 at the ALB during a welcome event for new postgraduates. A conversation – and a playful disagreement about
- [Clare Hall Alumnus and Life Member appears in new season of television drama 'Obituary'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-alumnus-and-life-member-appears-in-new-season-of-television-drama-obituary/) - Clare Hall Alumnus and Life Member Richard Neville (MPhil in Education, RSLE, 2024/25) appears in the second season of the acclaimed television series Obituary, which premieres on Hulu in the United States and RTÉ in Ireland on 14 October 2025. The darkly comic drama follows the life of an aspiring writer whose work at a
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian named among World’s Best Scientists 2025](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-named-among-worlds-best-scientists-2025/) - We are pleased to share that Professor Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of the College and Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, has been recognised among the World’s Best Scientists 2025 by Research.com. Professor Sahakian received multiple honours in this year’s rankings, including: Best Female Scientist Award (2025) Best
- [Life Member Professor John Clarke awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-member-professor-john-clarke-awarded-2025-nobel-prize-in-physics/) - Clare Hall is delighted to celebrate Professor John Clarke, Life Member and former Visiting Fellow of the College, who has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Clarke shares the prize with Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for their pioneering experiments demonstrating quantum phenomena in superconducting circuits. Their work revealed how
- [Professor Anna Marie Roos publishes two new scholarly works on early modern science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-anna-marie-roos-publishes-two-new-scholarly-works-on-early-modern-science/) - Clare Hall Visiting Fellow Professor Anna Marie Roos has recently published two major contributions to the study of early modern science and intellectual history. The books, both released in 2025, explore the lives and writings of two influential figures in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century scientific circles. Taking Newton on Tour: The Grand Tour Travel Diary of
- [Lucy Walker’s composition performed at BBC Proms](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/lucy-walkers-composition-performed-at-bbc-proms/) - We are proud to celebrate our Fellow Commoner and Composer-in-Residence, Lucy Walker, who had one of her compositions performed at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 13 September. The piece, "Today" (2021), is an early choral composition and features as the lead track on Lucy's debut CD, released this summer and
- [Clare Hall launches new Ceramics Research Centre with Bell Collection Symposium](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-launches-new-ceramics-research-centre-with-bell-collection-symposium/) - We are delighted to share that Clare Hall officially launched its 20th Century Studio Ceramics Research Centre on Saturday 27 September with the first-ever Bell Collection Symposium. The event, generously supported by the Isaac Newton Trust, drew curators and scholars from across the country. Keynote speaker Helen Ritchie, Clare Hall Associate and Senior Curator at
- [A year in review – Clare Hall’s annual publication released](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/a-year-in-review-clare-halls-annual-publication-released-3/) - The 2025 edition of Clare Hall’s Review is now available to read online. Alongside showcasing the College’s recent achievements and highlights from our vibrant community, this year's issue offers a preview of the 60th Anniversary Festival of Events, marking the beginning of an exciting year ahead. As always, our gratitude goes to Dr Trudi Tate,
- [Professor Lori Passmore receives honorary titles from Cambridge and Aarhus](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-lori-passmore-receives-honorary-titles-from-cambridge-and-aarhus/) - We are thrilled to announce that Professor Lori Passmore, Official Fellow of Clare Hall and a distinguished structural biologist based at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, has recently been recognised with two major honorary awards. Professor Passmore has been appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Cambridge, effective from 1 October 2025.
- [University of Urbino honours Professor Niccolò Guicciardini with Commandino Medal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/university-of-urbino-honors-professor-niccolo-guicciardini-with-commandino-medal/) - On 16 September 2025, Clare Hall Life Member Professor Niccolò Guicciardini was awarded the Commandino Medal by the University of Urbino in recognition of his outstanding research in the history of science. The Commandino Medal is a prestigious honour that has previously been awarded to leading international scholars, including Reviel Netz (Stanford University), William R.
- [Gather, Grill, and Relax: new BBQ area for all members](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/gather-grill-and-relax-new-bbq-area-for-all-members/) - We are delighted to share that Clare Hall has set up a new BBQ area on the beautiful lawns of the West Court. Whether for a casual meal with friends, a family gathering, or a joyful celebration, it provides the perfect spot to relax and spend time together outdoors. We simply ask that everyone leave
- ["Eight Seconds and Dropping?" Professor Barbara Sahakian explores the science behind attention spans](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/eight-seconds-and-dropping-professor-barbara-sahakian-explores-the-science-behind-attention-spans/) - In her newly published article in The Conversation, Professor Barbara Sahakian delves into the increasingly fragmented nature of human attention. Drawing on neuroscience and real-world examples—including football’s new “eight seconds rule”—she challenges the popular narrative that attention spans are universally shrinking. Professor Sahakian explains that attention is multifaceted, encompassing types such as "visual scanning" (a
- [Clare Hall Life Members reunite in Germany](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-life-members-reunite-in-germany/) - Last Saturday, Clare Hall once again brought together its Life Members — this time in the city of Göttingen, Germany — for a delightful reunion filled with lively conversation and cultural exploration. Our Senior Tutor, Dr Holly Hedgeland, kindly hosted the reunion, which began with a walking tour through the city. The attendees discovered Göttingen’s
- [Clare Hall members reconnect at the Travellers Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-members-reconnect-at-the-travellers-club/) - On 17 September 2025, Clare Hall members gathered at the elegant Travellers Club in London for a joyful drinks reception with canapés, kindly sponsored by our Fellow Commoner, Graeme Harrower. It turned out to be a truly special gathering — one of our most successful — with so many alumni joining us. The evening offered
- [Call for Applications: Research Fellowship Competitions at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/call-for-applications-research-fellowship-competitions-at-clare-hall/) - Clare Hall is delighted to announce a call for applications for Research Fellowships in the Sciences and in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, with appointments commencing in October 2026. Founded in 1966, Clare Hall is a graduate College of the University of Cambridge with a vibrant international community of around twenty Official Fellows, twenty
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian awarded CINP Pioneer Award for 2026](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-awarded-cinp-pioneer-award-for-2026/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, Emeritus Fellow, has been named the recipient of the prestigious CINP Pioneer Award for 2026 by the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP). The award honours Professor Sahakian’s pioneering research at the crossroads of psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience, and her exceptional contributions to the field. She will be presented with the award at
- [Professor Moegi Ito’s sculpture on display at V&A](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-moegi-itos-sculpture-on-display-at-va/) - We are delighted to share that the sculpture "A Cloud from Mandalay" (1988) by Professor Moegi Ito, husband of the College member Dr Yoko Tanese-Ito, is now on display in the East Asia Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, East Storehouse. Professor Ito is widely recognised as an important figure in contemporary Japanese metalworking,
- [Call for Applications: Industry and Enterprise Fellowships at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/call-for-applications-industry-and-enterprise-fellowships-at-clare-hall/) - Clare Hall is pleased to announce a call for applications for Industry and Enterprise Fellowships, a new category of senior college membership aimed at individuals with an established research and/or commercialisation track record seeking sustained engagement with the college. Candidates would be expected, particularly but not exclusively, from the research-intensive tech and biotech enterprises concentrated
- [Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson edits a new book illustrated by Life Member Indigo Ayling](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-kelly-fagan-robinson-edits-a-new-book-illustrated-by-life-member-indigo-ayling/) - Clare Hall Official Fellow Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson has edited a new book, Inaccessible Access: Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation (2024), which is illustrated by Clare Hall Life Member and former MPhil student Indigo Ayling. About the book Inaccessible Access addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It takes an ethnographic approach to understand the
- [Meet the Artist: Oliver Soskice](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/meet-the-artist-oliver-soskice/) - On the 8th of June 2023, Clare Hall previewed an exhibition by Cambridge artist Oliver Soskice, titled ‘Passages of Light.' It was a warm and welcoming event enhanced by the late afternoon sun, criss-crossing from the side windows of the Common Room. Among the audience on that occasion was Martin Gayford, a well-known art critic
- [Dr Juan Rodriguez-Molina appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-juan-rodriguez-molina-appointed-assistant-professor-at-the-university-of-cincinnati/) - Warmest congratulations to Dr Juan Rodriguez-Molina, Clare Hall Associate, who has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Juan joined the Clare Hall community in 2018 as a Postdoctoral Affiliated Member, continuing on as a Research Fellow from 2019-2023, and transitioning into
- [Clare Hall Cricket Club wins match against West Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-cricket-club-wins-match-against-west-cambridge/) - Following an exciting annual match, Clare Hall Cricket Club has won a classic, last-ball cricket victory over old rivals, West Cambridge C.C. (formerly Cavendish/Computer Labs) at Churchill on Wednesday, 16th July. Read a full match report below, written by John Drew, the Twelfth Man: "Playing our tenth game of a fixture-filled season, under the one-off
- [Annual Garden Party welcomes back supporters and friends of Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/annual-garden-party-welcomes-back-supporters-and-friends-of-clare-hall/) - We were delighted to host this year’s summer Garden Party on the 12th of July, welcoming back supporters, friends, and Life Members of the College. The day was filled with joyful conversation over a delicious lunch, courtesy of our fantastic kitchen team. The President and Fellows of Clare Hall remain immensely grateful for the continued support
- [Dr Cristina Blanco Sío-López receives 'María Moliner' Spanish National Research Award in Humanities by the King of Spain and the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-cristina-blanco-sio-lopez-receives-maria-moliner-spanish-national-research-award-in-humanities-by-the-king-of-spain-and-the-minister-of-science-innovation-and-universities/) - We are delighted to announce that Dr Cristina Blanco Sío-López, Senior Distinguished Researcher at the University of La Coruña and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall from December 2024 to May 2025, received the ‘María Moliner’ Spanish National Research Award in the Humanities by the King of Spain, the Spanish Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities
- [Celebrating 30 years of Clare Hall Boat Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/celebrating-30-years-of-clare-hall-boat-club/) - From the 21st to 22nd of June, Clare Hall Boat Club celebrated its 30th anniversary with an exciting weekend of events, bringing back alumni from all over the world. The weekend began on the final day of May Bumps, which was eventful for all three racing crews. A full captains' report of the week can
- [PhD student Callum White receives Cambridge Society for the Application of Research award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-student-callum-white-receives-cambridge-society-for-the-application-of-research-award/) - Congratulations to PhD student Callum White, who was recently honoured with the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) student award, presented by Pro Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, Dr Diarmuid O'Brien, in recognition of ‘outstanding research and potential’. The award, which includes £1000 to support Callum’s research and career, is open to students in any
- [Victory for Students at the Annual Cricket Match](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/victory-for-students-at-the-annual-cricket-match/) - On 25 June, Clare Hall hosted its Annual Cricket Match, drawing College members, friends, and family to Leckhampton Field. The Students Team was up against the President’s XI, who were hoping to defend their win from last year. The sunny day was filled with vibrant conversation and excitement for the match, shared over delicious afternoon
- [Clare Hall Football Club makes history in match against Clare College](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-football-club-makes-history-in-inaugural-match/) - On 21 June 2025, Clare Hall Football Club (CHFC) made history with their victory in a 11-a-side match against Clare College Football Club (CCFC). Clare and Clare Hall have long shared a close sporting relationship, with members of Clare Hall playing a key role in the success of CCFC in the 2024/25 season. While Clare
- [MPhil Student Rishul Karia cycles from London to Brighton to raise money for seabird conservation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/mphil-student-rishul-karia-cycles-from-london-to-brighton-to-raise-money-for-seabird-conservation/) - On Sunday 15 June, Rishul Karia, who is pursuing an MPhil in Quantative Climate and Environmental Sciences at Clare Hall, completed a 87 kilometre cycle from Clapham Common to the Brighton Seafront. His team included Gosha Geogdzhayev, a student at Queens College, Louis Watson, a friend from Warwick, and Boinko, their beloved penguin mascot. Throughout
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Christelle Langley share research on innovative technologies for managing anxiety](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-and-dr-christelle-langley-share-research-on-technology-for-managing-anxiety/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of Clare Hall, and Dr Christelle Langley, Clare Hall Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher, have recently published an article in The Conversation on the potential for novel technologies to manage the symptoms of anxiety disorders. Professor Sahakian and Dr Langley write that although anxiety disorders are the world's most common mental health problem,
- [Celebrated magician Michael Ammar visits Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/celebrated-magician-michael-ammar-visits-clare-hall/) - On June 3rd, renowned magician Michael Ammar and his wife Hannah visited Clare Hall, accompanied by Hugh Newsam, the secretary of the Cambridge Pentacle Club. Their visit was centred around the stained glass windows of the Ashby Library, which celebrate the legacy of Professor Walter William Rouse Ball. Ball was a Cambridge mathematician who founded the Pentacle Club, one of the world’s oldest magic societies. The Ashby
- [New edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway edited by Dr Trudi Tate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/new-edition-of-virginia-woolfs-mrs-dalloway-edited-by-dr-trudi-tate/) - May 2025 marked the hundredth anniversary of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, regarded as one of the greatest novels in English of the twentieth century. Emeritus Fellow Dr Trudi Tate was invited by Oxford University Press to prepare a new edition of the novel for the Oxford World's Classics series. Books in this series are used all
- [Sustainability at Clare Hall: How our gardening team is preserving our green spaces](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sustainability-at-clare-hall-how-our-gardening-team-is-preserving-our-green-spaces/) - Clare Hall has a strong commitment to sustainability, and has been making a conscious effort to reduce its environmental impact in all departments. This week, in honour of World Environment Day, we are spotlighting the work of our gardens department. Clare Hall is known for its beautiful gardens: the autumnal colours that welcome new students,
- [Tutorial news: Salje Medals awarded to Dr Kamila Rollan and Dr Simon St-Amant](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-salje-medals-awarded-to-dr-kamila-rollan-and-dr-simon-st-amant/) - Clare Hall graduates, Dr Kamila Rollan and Dr Simon St-Amant, have been awarded the Salje Medal for their PhD theses. Two medals are awarded by the College each year to the most outstanding PhD (1) in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and (2) in the Sciences. Learn more about their research and what they
- [Dr Fu Xiang Quah featured on the cover of Genome Research](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-fu-xiang-quah-featured-on-the-cover-of-genome-research/) - Dr Fu Xiang Quah, who recently completed his PhD at Clare Hall, has published an article in Genome Research that was featured on the cover of the May issue. Dr Fu Xiang Quah’s PhD research is in pangenomics, derived from Greek παν (meaning "all" or "every"), an increasingly popular approach to capture a more comprehensive view
- [Professor Athanassios Fokas awarded 2025 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-athanassios-fokas-awarded-2025-caltech-distinguished-alumni-award/) - Congratulations to Professor Athanassios Fokas, eminent mathematician and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, for receiving the 2025 California Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award. The award is the highest honour for Caltech alumni, and is granted to those who have made remarkable impacts in a field, on the community, or in society more broadly. "The
- [European Academy of Sciences Prize - Blaise Pascal Medal awarded to Professor Athanassios Fokas, who was also this year elected in Academia Europaea](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/european-academy-of-sciences-prize-blaise-pascal-medal-awarded-to-professor-athanasios-fokas/) - The eminent mathematician, Director of the Mathematical Legacy Programme (supported by the Gianna Angelopoulos Programme for Science Technology and Innovation), and Fellow of Clare Hall, Professor Athanassios Fokas, is awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics in recognition of his exceptional contributions. According to the citation of the Academy: Profesoor Fokas "has solved a number
- [Mathematics: Professor Athanassios Fokas awarded the prestigious 2024 Kruskal Award and Lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/mathematics-professor-athanasios-fokas-awarded-the-prestigious-2024-kruskal-award-and-lecture/) - Our warmest congratulations to Professor Athanassios Fokas, eminent mathematician and Fellow of Clare Hall, for receiving the 2024 Kruskal Award/Lecture. The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), announced that Professor Fokas received the 2024 Kruskal Award/Lecture “for his contributions to the development of the inverse scattering transform, for his new method for boundary-value problems
- [Dr Sandi Setiawan publishes PhD research on black holes](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-sandi-setiawan-publishes-phd-research-on-black-holes/) - Life Member Dr Sandi Setiawan has recently published his PhD thesis, which he completed while studying at Clare Hall, as a book on Amazon. His research explores the applications of geometric algebra in the study of black holes and Hawking radiation, offering a fresh perspective on some of the most enigmatic phenomena in the universe.
- [Markku Hokkanen selected as Eudaimonian Clare Hall Fellow for 2026](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/markku-hokkanen-selected-as-eudaimonian-clare-hall-fellow-for-2026/) - As part of an ongoing collaboration with the University of Oulu, Finland, the Eudaimonian Clare Hall Fellowship will welcome Markku Hokkanen as a visiting researcher in 2026. Hokkanen is an Adjunct Professor and University Lecturer in history, with a focus on African history. This year's Eudaimonian Clare Hall Visiting Fellow is Oula Seitsonen, who is researching
- [Inaugural Clare Hall Entrepreneurship Prize winners announced](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/inaugural-clare-hall-entrepreneurship-prize-winners-announced/) - Clare Hall held its inaugural Entrepreneurship Prize competition on 13th May 2025, with three finalist teams pitching for a £5000 award kindly sponsored by our Associate and serial biotech entrepreneur, Dr Mike Trower. The competition saw a strong response from the College community, with applications spanning across the tech, biotech, digital health, wellness, social enterprise
- [MFin student Nita Wakan awarded third place in think-cell Global Case Competition](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/mfin-student-nita-wakan-awarded-third-place-in-think-cell-global-case-competition/) - Congratulations to Clare Hall Master of Finance student Nita Wakan, who was awarded Third Global Winner in the think-cell Global Case Competition 2025. Alongside her teammates from Duke University and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Nita was selected as one of the Top 4 Global Finalists out of 200+ teams from 36 countries, including participants from
- [Dr Anthony Harris keynotes on ‘Entrepreneurship in the Ox-Cam corridor’ at the British Consul General’s residence in Boston](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-anthony-harris-keynotes-on-entrepreneurship-in-the-ox-cam-corridor-at-the-british-consul-generals-residence-in-boston/) - On 5th May, Clare Hall Fellow Dr Anthony Harris was invited to give a ‘fireside chat’ to a joint meeting of CAMENTREPRENEURS and Oxford Entrepreneurs, which was held at the British Consul General’s residence in Boston, Massachusetts. The event brought together around 50 Oxford and Cambridge alumni who have taken on roles as venture capitalists,
- [Dr Srijit Seal leads study to define AI-powered toxicology guidelines](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-srijit-seal-leads-study-to-define-ai-powered-toxicology-guidelines/) - Dr Srijit Seal, who completed his PhD at Clare Hall, has recently led a landmark collaboration between over 30 scientists from pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, academic institutions, and AI innovators to outline the essential pillars for using machine learning (ML) to predict chemical toxicity. Published in ACS Chemical Research in Toxicology, the review, “Machine Learning
- [Sustainability at Clare Hall: How our housekeeping team is championing recycling and waste reduction](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sustainability-at-clare-hall-how-our-housekeeping-team-is-championing-recycling-and-waste-reduction/) - Clare Hall has a strong commitment to sustainability, and has been making a conscious effort to reduce its environmental impact in all departments. This week, we are spotlighting the work of our housekeeping department, and how they are championing initiatives to reduce waste and repurpose household items. Clare Hall has made strides in encouraging members
- [Dr Jaime Craig elected chair of the Association of Clinical Psychologists](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-jaime-craig-elected-chair-of-the-association-of-clinical-psychologists/) - Congratulations to Life Member Dr Jaime Craig, who has been elected chair of the Association of Clinical Psychologists, the professional body for Clinical Psychologists in the UK. His PhD whilst at Clare Hall focused on diagnostic features in childhood autism, and his subsequent DClinPsy research on diagnostic features of autism and psychosis in adults. He
- [Dr Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira awarded for distinguished PhD research](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-luis-fernando-bernardi-junqueira-awarded-for-distinguished-phd-research/) - We are delighted to share that Clare Hall Affiliated Posdoc Dr Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira has recently been recognised for his outstanding PhD research. He has received the 2024 Royal Asiatic Society Bayly Prize, the UK’s most prestigious award for doctoral research in Asian studies, as well as the 8th Dissertation Prize of the Division
- [Lucy Walker joins Clare Hall as Composer-in-Residence](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/lucy-walker-joins-clare-hall-as-composer-in-residence/) - We are delighted to announce that Lucy Walker has been elected Fellow Commoner at Clare Hall and will serve as Composer-in-Residence from 2024 to 2026. Lucy is quickly establishing her place as one of Britain’s foremost emerging compositional voices, and she also works as a music educator, teaching musical analysis, theory and harmony to undergraduate students
- [PhD Student Jade Cuttle presents her writing on BBC Radio 3](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-student-jade-cuttle-presents-her-writing-on-bbc-radio-3/) - Clare Hall PhD student Jade Cuttle has recently turned her English literature research into a BBC Radio 3 Essay titled 'Digging for Words.' Jade presented her writing live on BBC Radio 3, which is also available to listen to online at BBC Sounds. The essay was made as part of her tenure as a BBC
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Christelle Langley meet with His Majesty The King](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-and-dr-christelle-langley-meet-with-his-majesty-the-king/) - An incredible evening for Clare Hall Fellow Professor Barbara Sahakian and Affiliated Postdoc Dr Christelle Langley, who recently met with His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen at Clarence House for a celebration of the The Queen's Reading Room. Earlier this year, Professor Sahakian and Dr Langley launched their book "Brain Boost: Healthy
- [Visiting Fellow Oliver Müller contributes to prominent study on dwarf galaxies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/visiting-fellow-oliver-muller-contributes-to-prominent-study-on-dwarf-galaxies/) - Dr Oliver Müller, Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall and the Institute of Astronomy, has contributed to a new study published in Nature that reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. The detection is significant for the field of astronomy, as it confirms the feasibility of this
- [Life Member Joakim Nivre granted the Chester Carlson Research Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-member-joakim-nivre-granted-the-chester-carlson-research-award/) - We are delighted to share that Professor Joakim Nivre, who was recently a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, has been granted the Chester Carlson Research Award of 100,000 SEK for his innovative contributions to computational linguistics, his leadership in the research community, and his commitment to language technology through collaboration. The award has been granted
- [Clare Hall and University of Macau Joint Forum strengthens interdisciplinary collaboration](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-and-university-of-macau-joint-forum-strengthens-interdisciplinary-collaboration/) - The 1st Clare Hall, University of Cambridge – University of Macau Forum was held from March 31 to April 1, 2025 at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Macau (UM). The forum was a great success, bringing together scholars from both institutions to discuss sustainable development and innovative solutions
- [PhD students Callum White and Esdras Paravizo present innovative research in the Houses of Parliament](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-students-callum-white-and-esdras-paravizo-present-innovative-research-in-the-houses-of-parliament/) - Callum White and Esdras Paravizo, PhD students at Clare Hall, recently presented their research as finalists of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee’s STEM for BRITAIN 2025, a significant poster competition and exhibition that has taken place in the Houses of Parliament since 1997. Chaired by George Freeman MP, STEM for BRITAIN aims to provide members of
- [Professor Li Su co-leads BRIDGES for Dementia Network, recently awarded £2M grant from the UKRI EPSRC](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-li-su-co-leads-bridges-for-dementia-network-recently-awarded-2m-grant-from-the-ukri-epsrc/) - Professor Li Su, Associate of Clare Hall, and his co-investigators have recently been awarded a £2 million grant for dementia research from the UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). His research is part of one of the four new networks funded by the EPSRC to support the development of novel technologies that will
- [Clare Hall Boat Club displays power and determination in the 2025 Lent Bumps](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-boat-club-displays-power-and-determination-in-the-2025-lent-bumps/) - From the 11th to 15th of March, Clare Hall Boat Club raced in the annual Lent Bumps, a thrilling tradition that started in the 1820s and has become a core part of life for Cambridge students. It was a highly eventful week for both our M1 and W1 crews, presenting an opportunity to get used
- [Dr Rina Lai partners with the University of Hong Kong to launch inaugural Psychology Summer Programme ](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-rina-lai-partners-with-the-university-of-hong-kong-to-launch-inaugural-psychology-summer-programme/) - We are delighted to share that Clare Hall Life Member Dr Rina Lai has partnered with the University of Hong Kong to launch their first-ever Psychology Summer Programme at the HKU Summer Institute: Future by Design. Rina will be one of the programme directors, working to help students master the principles of psychology and design thinking, discover their unique
- [Sustainability at Clare Hall: How our kitchen team is fighting food waste](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sustainability-at-clare-hall-how-our-kitchen-team-is-fighting-food-waste/) - Clare Hall has a strong commitment to sustainability, and has been making a conscious effort to reduce its environmental impact in all departments. This week, we are spotlighting the work of our kitchen department, and how they have strengthened their dedication to being zero-waste. Clare Hall has long been dedicated to achieving a zero-waste kitchen,
- [Deck Clare Hall with joyful giving this year](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/deck-clare-hall-with-joyful-giving-this-year/) - Our warmest holiday wishes to our Life Members and supporters all over the world, and a huge thank you for your enduring generosity towards Clare Hall. Clare Hall continues to draw distinguished academics and a vibrant cohort of exceptional postgraduate students eager to make their mark on the world. We are immensely grateful to all
- [Professor Rana Mitter and Professor David Daokui Li present the 2025 Clare Hall Tanner and Tanner Founder's Lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-rana-mitter-and-professor-david-daokui-li-present-the-2025-clare-hall-tanner-and-tanner-founders-lecture/) - On Monday 17 March, we welcomed a full audience to the Robinson College Auditorium for the 2025 Clare Hall Tanner and Tanner Founder's Lecture. Professor Rana Mitter, the ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, opened the evening by speaking about historical trends in China's relationship with the West and beyond,
- [Dr Anthony Harris decodes rare manuscripts in Harvard University's Houghton Library](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-anthony-harris-decodes-rare-manuscripts-in-harvard-universitys-houghton-library/) - Research Fellow Dr Anthony Harris is currently a visiting Fulbright Scholar in medieval studies at Harvard University, and has recently helped to decode several rare manuscripts in the Houghton Library as part of the exhibition "The Crusades Come to Cambridge." The exhibition explores the fascination among Americans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- [Professor Antti Ahlava awarded First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-antti-ahlava/) - Congratulations to Professor Antti Ahlava (Visiting Fellow 2021-22) who has been awarded First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland by President Alexander Stubb. Professor Ahlava was awarded this honour based on his accomplishments as a “front-line Finnish designer” and for his “exceptionally wide-ranging” work in architecture. Professor Ahlava is currently
- [Joint forum between Clare Hall and the University of Macau will explore advancing sustainable development](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/joint-forum-between-clare-hall-and-the-university-of-macau-will-explore-advancing-sustainable-development/) - The 1st Clare Hall, University of Cambridge – University of Macau Forum 2025 will be held from March 31 to April 1, 2025 at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (IAS) of the University of Macau. The theme of the forum is Interdisciplinary Approaches to Advancing Sustainable Development: Innovative Solutions to Global Challenges.
- [Funding secured for the Bell Collection's catalogue raisonné](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/funding-secured-for-the-bell-collections-catalogue-raisonne/) - We are delighted to announce that Clare Hall and publisher Lund Humphries have secured funding from the Isaac Newton Trust and MAAK Foundation towards the catalogue raisonné for the Bell Collection. Read more about the Bell Collection on this page.
- [In Memoriam: Professor Ekhard Salje, former President of Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memoriam-professor-ekhard-salje-former-president-of-clare-hall/) - It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Ekhard Salje, a distinguished member of our community and former President of Clare Hall (2001-2008). Professor Salje's contributions to the field of Earth Sciences and his dedicated service to Clare Hall have left an indelible mark on both the College and the wider
- [Life Member Professor Alessandro Sepe honoured for notable accomplishments in China](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-member-professor-alessandro-sepe-honoured-for-notable-accomplishments-in-china/) - Life Member Professor Alessandro Sepe has recently been honoured in China for his considerable accomplishments to the fields of science and technology. Since relocating to China in 2018, Professor Sepe has led the Scientific Computing Program at one of the National Laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, namely the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF),
- [Clare Hall students selected for rugby Varsity Matches](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-students-selected-for-rugby-varsity-matches/) - We are thrilled to announce that two of our students, Makoto Tosa, Executive MBA, and Karus Robinson, MPhil in Development Studies, have been selected for this year's rugby Varsity Matches. Women’s 2nd & 3rd XV – Sunday 2nd March CURUFC Tigers (women’s 2nd XV) and Jaguars (women’s 3rd XV) will play their Varsity Matches in
- [Professor Karen Ersche appointed to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-karen-ersche-appointed-to-the-advisory-council-on-the-misuse-of-drugs/) - Congratulations to Clare Hall Fellow Professor Karen Ersche on her recent appointment to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). Professor Ersche will be assisting with providing advice and recommendations to the government on the harms cause by drugs. Professor Ersche is Professor of Addiction Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry at the
- [News in the Arts: Clare Hall discovers a further link with Sweden](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/discovering-a-further-link-with-sweden/) - A picture by the internationally renowned Swedish artist Olle Bærtling has recently been rediscovered in the college Art Collection and is now on display in the Meeting Room. Gifted to Clare Hall through the Stockholm office of Ralph Erskine in 1971, shortly after life at the college in buildings designed by Erskine had begun, the
- [Clare Hall launches Entrepreneurship Prize to support budding entrepreneurs](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-launches-entrepreneurship-prize-to-support-budding-entrepreneurs/) - We are delighted to announce that Clare Hall is launching an Entrepreneurship Prize of £5000 to support budding entrepreneurs from within the College community. The prize, kindly sponsored by our Associate and serial biotech entrepreneur Dr Mike Trower, will be open for applications from Clare Hall students, Affiliated Postdocs and Research Fellows. The application deadline
- [Life Member Paul Hedges will launch book on Christian Polytheism at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-member-paul-hedges-will-launch-book-on-christian-polytheism-at-clare-hall/) - Join us on 20 February 2025, from 5pm, for a book launch by Life Members Paul Hedges. The event will be held in the Clare Hall Meeting Room, as well as on Zoom. About the book Christian polytheism? is a theological and political exploration of how Christianity may be compatible with polytheism, arguing that there
- [Brain Boost: Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Christelle Langley launch impactful book on brain health](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/brain-boost-professor-barbara-sahakian-and-dr-christelle-langley-launch-impactful-book-on-brain-health/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of Clare Hall, and Dr Christelle Langley, Clare Hall Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher, have launched their new book titled Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life. The book provides practical tips, backed by scientific evidence, on implementing lifestyle strategies to improve brain health, cognition, and overall wellbeing. A well-attended launch event
- [Clare Hall hosts meeting of Colleges' Committee](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-hosts-meeting-of-colleges-committee/) - The Colleges’ Committee, that is all of the Masters, Presidents, Provosts, Principals of all the Colleges, met at Clare Hall on Saturday with the Vice Chancellor and Pro Vice Chancellors and the Chairs of the Bursars’ and Senior Tutors’ Committees, the first time in living memory. The President is Deputy Chair of the Colleges’ Committee
- [Professor Dame Gillian Beer celebrates 90th birthday](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-dame-gillian-beer-celebrates-90th-birthday/) - Warmest wishes to Professor Dame Gillian Beer, a former President of Clare Hall, who celebrated her 90th birthday in the President's Lodge on Monday, 27 January.
- [Professor Li Su authors key study about dementia prevention and genetic risks](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-li-su-authors-key-study-about-dementia-prevention-and-genetic-risks/) - Professor Li Su, Associate of Clare Hall, is one of the main authors in a new paper about young adulthood (ages 18-39) as a critical yet overlooked stage for dementia prevention. The study brought together an international team of experts from 15 countries, and was led by the Next Generation Brain Health team to explore
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Christelle Langley featured on University of Cambridge website](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-and-dr-christelle-langley-featured-on-university-of-cambridge-website/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of Clare Hall, and Dr Christelle Langley, Clare Hall Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher, were recently interviewed for an article on the University's main website, titled "Boost your life in 2025". Professor Sahakian and Dr Langley provided three key recommendations for boosting brain health and overall happiness, based on findings from their own
- [In Memoriam: Dr Michael Loewe, esteemed Emeritus Fellow and Honorary Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memoriam-dr-michael-loewe-esteemed-emeritus-fellow-and-honorary-fellow/) - It is with great sadness that Clare Hall announces the passing of Dr Michael Loewe, esteemed Emeritus Fellow and Honorary Fellow, who passed away on 1 January 2025 at the age of 102. Michael’s funeral will take place at 12 noon on Sunday January 12th at Hoop Lane Cemetery, London NW11 7NH. Everyone is invited
- [Clare Hall Boat Club participates in international rowing regatta](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-boat-club-participates-in-international-rowing-regatta/) - From the 30th November to 1st December, Clare Hall Boat Club participated in the 2024 AISL Harrow Rowing Regatta in Hengqin, China. CHBC was strongly represented by the club's senior men's crew, who secured a hard-fought 5th rank (out of 11 crews) over two exciting 1000m races. This is the first international racing experience that
- [Dr Haoyang Ye awarded the University of Cambridge Enhancing Research Culture Fund](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-haoyang-ye-awarded-the-university-of-cambridge-enhancing-research-culture-fund/) - Congratulations to our affiliated postdoctoral member Dr Haoyang Ye, who was awarded the University of Cambridge Enhancing Research Culture Fund alongside her team of Dr Charlotte Simmonds and PhD Student Amanda Stoffers. The funding aims to promote diverse career paths for astronomy/astrophysics researchers with diverse backgrounds. The funding will be used for the Monthly Astro
- [Professor Ekhard Salje awarded the Chinese Government Friendship Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-ekhard-salje-awarded-the-chinese-government-friendship-award/) - On 13 December, Clare Hall’s former President, Professor Ekhard Salje, was awarded the Chinese Government Friendship Award by representatives from China’s Embassy in London and Xi'an Jiaotong University at a ceremony in the President’s Lodge. Professor Salje was recognised for his work in the earth sciences, and his close work with China over the years
- [Minja Axelsson awarded inaugural Clare Hall Doctoral Prize Studentship](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/minja-axelsson-awarded-inaugural-clare-hall-doctoral-prize-studentship/) - Warmest congratulations to Minja Axelsson, who has been awarded the first Clare Hall Doctoral Prize Studentship. The studentship was newly established to provide follow-on funding for students who have submitted their PhD thesis to progress in publishing peer-reviewed papers, or the production of a monograph based on their thesis, for a duration of six months.
- [Clare Hall Choir performs in Grantchester](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-choir-performs-in-grantchester/) - We were delighted to have our very own Clare Hall Choir performing with the Church of St Andrew & St Mary in Grantchester on Sunday, 17 November. It was a lovely evening, with music including 'Canticles in D' by Herbert Brewer, and 'We shall walk through the valley in peace' by Undine Smith Moore. Many
- [Professor Andrew Blake contributes to Mathematical Futures Programme report](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-andrew-blake-contributes-to-mathematical-futures-programme-report/) - In September 2024, the Royal Society launched a major new report that makes the case for a new approach to mathematical and data education, offering recommendations for system reform, which will provide a better mathematical education for everyone. Professor Andrew Blake, Vice President of Clare Hall, is a board member of Mathematical Futures, and contributed
- [Supporting students at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/supporting-students-at-clare-hall/) - On 7 November, six years after the launch of the Student Support Initiative, the University of Cambridge announced that they have surpassed a major milestone of raising £500 million to support students. The money raised from the generous gifts of donors has supported a range of efforts in three major areas; postgraduate studentships, undergraduate financial
- [Warmest congratulations to Dr Michael Loewe on his 102nd birthday](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/warm-congratulations-to-dr-michael-loewe-on-his-102nd-birthday/) - Dr Michael Loewe is an Emeritus Fellow (1990 – Present) and Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall. We want to wish him a warm congratulations on his 102nd birthday, on the 2nd November.
- [Professor Kit Thompson inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-kit-thompson-inducted-into-the-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/) - Warmest congratulations to Professor Kevin (Kit) Thompson, Life Member and Associate of Clare Hall, who has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The book-signing ceremony was held in the Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, of Harvard University. Professor Thompson has built a career as a musician, conductor, educator and avid promoter of
- [In Memoriam: Professor Nicholas Lash, Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memoriam-professor-nicholas-lash-emeritus-fellow-of-clare-hall/) - It is with great sorrow that we announce the death of Professor Nicholas Lash on 11 July, 2020. A memorial lecture has been organised on the 46th anniversary of his election to the Norris Hulse Chair of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, delivered by Dr John McDade, former Principal of Heythorp College. The memorial
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Christelle Langley's forthcoming book provides practical tips for mental well-being](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-and-dr-christelle-langleys-forthcoming-book-provides-practical-tips-for-mental-well-being/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of Clare Hall, and Dr Christelle Langley, Clare Hall Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher, have co-authored a book on strategies for improving brain health, cognition, and overall wellbeing. Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life is now available for pre-order on Amazon and CUP, and will be officially released on 31 January
- [Tutorial News: College welcomes over 140 new students](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-college-welcomes-over-140-new-students/) - We are delighted to have welcomed over 140 new students this year, who participated in their matriculation and book signing ceremonies last week. Thank you to Jeremy Peters for the wonderful photos!
- [Professor Emeritus Lindsay Falvey publishes biography on international animal scientist](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-emeritus-lindsay-falvey-publishes-biography-on-international-animal-scientist/) - Life Member Professor Emeritus Lindsay Falvey has recently published a biography of international Thai animal scientist, Charan Chantalakhana. Dr Charan's story parallels Thailand’s development in which he was a product of both his time and the global influences that led to him rising to the highest levels of international agricultural research. For background information and
- [A year in review – Clare Hall’s annual publication released](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/a-year-in-review-clare-halls-annual-publication-released-2/) - The 2024 edition of Clare Hall’s Review is now available. We hope you enjoy reading about the College’s recent progress and our wonderful community of members. With our warmest thanks to the Review‘s Editor, Dr Trudi Tate, Emeritus Fellow, for her brilliant work on this issue. CH REVIEW 2024 MR SPREADSDownload
- [Alumni Festival at Clare Hall explores the use of AI for football tactics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/alumni-festival-at-clare-hall-explores-the-use-of-ai-for-football-tactics/) - We were delighted to host a discussion on the use of artificial intelligence for football tactics as part of the University’s 2024 Alumni Festival, which brings together alumni from around the world to discover the latest fascinating research and reconnect with fellow alumni. On September 28, Clare Hall Associate Dr Petar Veličković gave a talk to
- [Life Member's book republished by Routledge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-members-book-republished-by-routledge/) - Life Member John Chadwick-Jones's book, "Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes," which was originally published in 1998, has been published again by Routledge in 2024. John Chadwick-Jones is a social psychologist and came to Clare Hall as a Visiting Fellow in 1982. While at Clare Hall, he met the eminent zoologist Robert Hinde
- [A successful day for Clare Hall at the Chariots of Fire relay race!](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/11781/) - Congratulations to the Clare Hall members who competed in the Chariots of Fire relay race on 22 September 2024. This was the first time since before the pandemic that Clare Hall has participated, and even more, entered two teams. We are delighted to announce that one of our teams completed the race as the second-fastest
- [Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini awarded Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Neuroscience](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-maria-grazia-spillantini-awarded-mika-salpeter-lifetime-achievement-award-from-the-society-of-neuroscience/) - Many congratulations to Clare Hall Professorial Fellow Maria Grazia Spillantini, who has been awarded the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award for women in neuroscience. The Award, granted by the Society for Neuroscience, recognizes neuroscientists with outstanding achievements in research who have significantly promoted the professional advancement of women in neuroscience. Professor Spillantini's work has greatly
- [Dr Jenny Zhao named Berggruen Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-jenny-zhao-named-berggruen-fellow/) - Congratulations to Needham Research Fellow Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao, who has been named a 2024-25 Berggruen Fellow at the Berggruen Institute China Center in Peking University. The Berggruen China Center is a hub for East-West research and dialogue dedicated to the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study of the transformations affecting humanity. Since its founding in 2018, the
- [Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-sohini-kar-narayan-elected-to-the-royal-academy-of-engineering/) - We are delighted to announce that Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan, Professorial Fellow of Clare Hall, has been elected as one of 71 new Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Fellows have been elected for making exceptional contributions to their own sector, pioneering new innovations, leading progress in business or academia, providing high level advice
- [We are delighted to announce that Professor Andrew Blake has been elected Vice-President of Clare Hall and has taken up office from August 2024, following the end of Helen Pennant’s term as Vice-President](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/we-are-delighted-to-announce-that-professor-andrew-blake-has-been-elected-vice-president-of-clare-hall-and-has-taken-up-office-from-august-2024-following-the-end-of-helen-pennants-term-as-vi/) - Professor Blake is a pioneer in the development of the theory and algorithms that make it possible for computers to behave as seeing machines. His interests are primarily in automating the analysis of images and tracking the movement of objects in 3D scenes. His career has been divided between academia – as junior faculty in
- [Clare Hall Fellows’ invention is making groundbreaking advances in hip replacement surgery](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-fellows-invention-is-making-groundbreaking-advances-in-hip-replacement-surgery/) - Warm congratulations to Prof Sohini Kar-Narayan and Dr Jehangir Cama who, in partnership with the Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust, have secured a £1.4 million Invention for Innovation (i4i) Product Development Award from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to advance work on the team’s “smart” joint “trial liner”. The
- [Visiting Fellow Simon Coleman elected to the Royal Society of Canada](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/visiting-fellow-simon-coleman-elected-to-the-royal-society-of-canada/) - A warm congratulations to recent Clare Hall Visiting Fellow Simon Coleman, who has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. One hundred and four new Fellows have been elected by their peers for their outstanding scholarly achievements. This recognition by the RSC is the highest honour in the Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities,
- [Ink’s Infinite Inspiration: Chinese brush painting by Lu Zhongjian at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/inks-infinite-inspiration-chinese-brush-painting-by-lu-zhongjian-at-clare-hall/) - Our current exhibition, 'Ink's Infinite Inspiration,' features beautiful Chinese brush paintings by Lu Zhongjian, who is widely recognised as one of the finest painters in southern China. The free exhibition remains open until 6 September 2024 in Clare Hall’s Main Building. The theme of the exhibition reflects Lu's artistic journey and philosophy, using ink as
- [Life Member David Chernushenko's novel features Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-member-david-chernushenkos-novel-features-clare-hall/) - Life Member David Chernushenko, who completed an MPhil in International Relations from 1987 to 1988, has published a novel that prominently features Clare Hall. David lived on main site in the Leslie Barnett House and has fond memories of his time in College. His novel, Burning Souls, is a story of friendship and courage in
- [BioTryp Therapeutics, co-founded by Dr Jehangir Cama, secures funding to advance novel biofilm-inhibiting technology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/biotryp-therapeutics-co-founded-by-dr-jehangir-cama-secures-funding-to-advance-novel-biofilm-inhibiting-technology/) - BioTryp Therapeutics, an award-winning drug discovery spin-out from the University of Cambridge, has raised £300k in pre-seed funding to advance the development of its novel anti-biofilm compounds. Following BioTryp’s participation in the inaugural Founders at the University of Cambridge Accelerator, the funding round comprised investment from QUBIS Innovation Fund, as well as Cambridge Enterprise Ventures
- [Tutorial News: 49 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-49-clare-hallers-graduate/) - We were delighted to welcome a cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a ceremony at the Senate House on 20 July, 2024. It was a joyous and memorable day for one of our largest cohorts, followed by a graduation dinner in the evening. Our warmest congratulations to the new graduates and we wish them the best of luck
- [Summer Celebration welcomes back supporters and friends of Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/summer-celebration-welcomes-back-supporters-and-friends-of-clare-hall/) - We were delighted to host this year's Summer Celebration on the 13th of July, welcoming back supporters and friends of the College. The day was filled with joyful conversation over a delicious BBQ lunch, courtesy of our fantastic kitchen team. The President and Fellows of Clare Hall remain immensely grateful for the continued support of
- [Life Member Dr Summer Qassim published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-member-dr-summer-qassim-published-in-journal-of-ethnographic-theory/) - Congratulations to Dr Summer Qassim, who has recently been published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory! Dr Qassim wrote her article while completing her PhD thesis at Clare Hall. In her research article, Dr Qassim expands our understanding of digital life by considering how members of a digital self-help platform translate the online training they
- [Clare Hall May Week Event in Photos](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-may-week-event-in-photos/) - Clare Hall’s May Week Event welcomes members of the College, friends, and guests to celebrate the end of the academic year together. On 14 June, Clare Hall was transformed into a magical Venetian Carnival for the annual May Week event. From exquisite masks and musical entertainment, to tarot card readings and food trucks, there was
- [Sohini Kar-Narayan and Jehangir Cama awarded IOM3 Materials World Medal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sohini-kar-narayan-and-jehangir-cama-awarded-iom3-materials-world-medal/) - Warmest congratulations to Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan and Dr Jehangir Cama, Fellows of Clare Hall, for winning the 2024 IOM3 Materials World Medal. The IOM3 Awards & Prizes are one of the oldest accolades, dating back to at least 1874. These prestigious awards and prizes celebrate individuals and organisations who have made exceptional advancements and contributed
- [Clare Hall Boat Club has most successful May Bumps in recent history](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-boat-club-has-most-successful-may-bumps-in-recent-history/) - From the 12th to 15th of June, Clare Hall Boat Club participated in the annual May Bumps, and had one of the most successful weeks in recent club history. For the first time in over a decade, CHBC had a W2 boat qualify through the Getting-On-Race, none of our three boats were bumped over the
- [Professor Maria Spillantini elected as Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-maria-spillantini-elected-as-member-of-the-european-molecular-biology-organisation/) - Warmest congratulations to Clare Hall Professorial Fellow Maria Spillantini, who has been elected as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation. The EMBO comprises of over 2,100 leading life scientists, who are honoured for their research excellence and outstanding achievements in the field. 92 Nobel laureates are amongst those who have previously been elected
- [President Alan Short elected to the University Council](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/president-alan-short-elected-to-the-university-council/) - President Alan Short has been elected to the University Council as the Head of House recently elected as Deputy Chair of the Colleges’ Committee until October 2026. Thereafter he will be nominated for re-election to Council as the Head of House elected as Chair of the Colleges’ Committee, succeeding the Master of St. John’s. By
- [Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan wins Royal Microscopical Society AFM & SFM Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-sohini-kar-narayan-wins-royal-microscopical-society-afm-sfm-award/) - Congratulations to Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan, Professorial Fellow of Clare Hall, who has been awarded the Royal Microscopical Society Award for outstanding progress made in the field of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM). As shared in the RMS award announcement, Professor Kar-Narayan has made outstanding contributions to the field of scanning probe
- [Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao publishes monograph <i>Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame, Moral Education, and the Good Life</i>](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-jingyi-jenny-zhao-publishes-monograph-aristotle-and-xunzi-on-shame-moral-education-and-the-good-life/) - Needham Research Fellow Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao has recently published her monograph on a cross-cultural, comparative study of the emotions. Dr Zhao has produced the first major work that takes two philosophers from the ancient Greek and early Chinese traditions to stimulate discussion of an interdisciplinary nature on the rich and complex topic of the
- [Victory for President's XI at the Annual Cricket Match](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/victory-for-presidents-xi-at-the-annual-cricket-match/) - On the 19th of June, Clare Hall hosted its Annual Cricket Match, drawing College members, friends, and family to Leckhampton Field. The Students Team was up against the President's XI, who were hoping to defend their win from last year. The sunny day was filled with vibrant conversation and excitement for the match, shared over
- [Dr Elizabeth Barsotti featured on the University of Cambridge homepage](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-elizabeth-barsotti-featured-on-university-of-cambridges-homepage/) - Clare Hall Affiliated Postdoc Dr Elizabeth Barsotti has been featured on the University of Cambridge homepage for her impactful research, as part of one of only three labs across the world using electron microscopes for mapping animal brains. Through using an electron microscrope, Dr Barsotti is able to reveal a highly detailed map of neurons
- [In Memoriam: Professor David Brading, Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memoriam-professor-david-brading-emertius-fellow-of-clare-hall/) - It is with great sorrow that we announce the death of Professor David Brading on April 19, 2024, in Cambridge. Professor Brading was one of the most distinguished historians of Latin America. Author of an extensive and important body of work, David Brading made fundamental contributions to the knowledge of the political, economic, and cultural
- [Business: A Journey through Innovation and Technology – Clare Hall EMBAs lead business delegation in the Greater Bay Area of China ](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/business-a-journey-through-innovation-and-technology-clare-hall-embas-lead-business-delegation-in-the-greater-bay-area-of-china/) - Clare Hall students Dr Anyu Gao and Steven Lu, who received their EMBA degrees in May 2024, have recently led, with the organizing team, a delegation of 24 EMBA students and staff members from the Cambridge Judge Business School to explore the Greater Bay Area of China. The purpose of the trip was to explore business
- [Dr Anthony Harris wins Fulbright Scholar Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-anthony-harris-wins-fulbright-scholar-award/) - Our warmest congratulations to Clare Hall Research Fellow Dr Anthony Harris, who has received a Fulbright All Disciplines Scholar Award to conduct research at Harvard University. Dr Harris joins a cohort of scholars from a variety of disciplines, ready to make a global impact in their fields. Dr Harris co-founded a successful U.K. software business,
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian receives a CBE for services to Research in Human Cognitive Processes](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-receives-a-cbe-for-services-to-research-in-human-cognitive-processes/) - Our warmest congratulations to Professor Barbara Sahakian, fellow of Clare Hall, who has been awarded a CBE in the King's Birthday Honours 2024. Professor Sahakian is a Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry, and is known for her research aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive, emotional and behavioural dysfunction in
- [PhD student Emilija Jovanovic wins Medicine for Generations Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-student-emilija-jovanovic-wins-medicine-for-generations-award/) - Clare Hall PhD student Emilija Jovanovic joined the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute in October 2022, researching how cholangiocytes, the cells that line tubes that drain bile from the liver, respond to injury. Understanding how bile duct cells respond to injury is crucial for developing new therapies for biliary disorders, as they are a leading
- [Life Member Dr Wesam Al Asali receives Global Award for Sustainable Architecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-member-dr-wesam-al-asali-receives-global-award-for-sustainable-architecture/) - Our warmest congratulations to Dr Wesam Al Asali (Clare Hall PhD Architecture 2021; MPhil Architecture and Urban Studies 2016), and Dr Iyas Shahin, who have received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture for their practice IWLab. This prestigious award, held under the patronage of UNESCO, recognizes the contributions of five architects who exemplify principles of
- [Tutorial News: 16 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-16-clare-hallers-graduate/) - We were delighted to welcome a cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a ceremony at Downing College on 17 May, 2024. The day was filled with joyful celebration and reunions of friends and family. Our warmest congratulations to the new graduates and we wish them the best of luck with all their future endeavours. Many thanks to Jinxi Xu
- [Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge and LUT University, Finland, establish joint agreement and annual Global Prize for solutions to climate change threats](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-and-lut-university-finland-establish-joint-agreement-and-annual-global-prize-for-solutions-to-climate-change-threats/) - On 27 May 2024, Clare Hall and LUT University, an international university of technology in Finland, signed an agreement to establish a Visiting Fellowship programme and joint Global Prize for Solutions to Climate Change Threats. This new, long-term partnership will focus on climate change and sustainability, and strengthen collaboration between the two institutions. “I am
- [Life Member collaboration: Noa Leach and Stasa Stankovic on menopause research](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-member-collaboration-noa-leach-and-stasa-stankovic-on-menopause-research/) - Noa Leach was a Clare Hall MPhil student from 2020-21 when she first met Dr Stasa Stankovic, then pursuing her PhD also at Clare Hall. Noa is now a science journalist for BBC Science Focus and recently published an article on Stasa's research--a wonderful example of the ongoing collaboration and community at Clare Hall! Noa's
- [Clare Hall Tanner Lecture by Professor Allen Buchanan  published by the Tanner Board](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-lecture-by-professor-allen-buchanan-published-by-the-tanner-board/) - The Tanner Board has recently published a lecture by Professor Allen Buchanan from the 2022 Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Clare Hall. The publication is particularly notable, as it is the first time the Tanner Board has published a lecture independently from its compilation of annual Tanner lectures across the Ivy League universities. Professor
- [Clare Hall PhD Student Jade Cuttle selected as a 2024 New Generation Thinker by BBC and AHRC](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-phd-student-jade-cuttle-selected-as-a-2024-new-generation-thinker-by-bbc-and-ahrc/) - Jade Cuttle is pursuing her PhD in literature at Clare Hall, focusing on British nature poets of colour under the supervision of Robert Macfarlane. Jade has been selected as one of ten of the UK's most promising arts and humanities early career researchers through the 2024 cohort of New Generation Thinkers, supported by the Arts
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian receives the Sir Paul Curran Award for exceptional contributions to 'The Conversation'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-receives-the-sir-paul-curran-award-for-exceptional-contributions-to-the-conversation/) - Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of Clare Hall and Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, was recently awarded the Sir Paul Curran Award at the City University Bayes Business School. The award is for those who have made exceptional contributions to The Conversation, an independent news source that publishes reliable
- [Pioneering gene therapy trial led by Professor Manohar Bance makes international headlines](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/pioneering-gene-therapy-trial-led-by-professor-manohar-bance-makes-international-headlines/) - In October 2023, the first human trial for gene therapy for genetic hearing loss began. The trial, led by Clare Hall Fellow Professor Manohar Bance, was highlighted for its revolutionary potential in treating hearing loss. Earlier this week, the first results from this trial were announced in the case of 18-month-old Opal Sandy, who was
- [Dr Rina Lai interviewed by Radio Television of Hong Kong on technology in education](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-rina-lai-interviewed-by-radio-television-of-hong-kong-on-technology-in-education/) - Clare Hall Life Member Dr Rina Lai was recently interviewed by the Radio Television of Hong Kong, alongside the former Chief Information Officer of the Hong Kong Government, on issues related to educational technology, the future of education, and Artificial Intelligence. Rina spoke about how AI can assist with teaching and learning, such as providing
- [Professor Andrew Blake elected as Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-andrew-blake-elected-as-honorary-fellow-of-exeter-college-oxford/) - Professor Andrew Blake FRS, FREng, has been elected as one of nine new Honorary Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford. The Honorary Fellows were elected for their extraordinary achievements in their respective fields. We are delighted to share this news with the Clare Hall community and to highlight the wide-reaching impact our fellows have across institutions.
- [In Memoriam: Yorick Blumenfeld, Friend of Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memoriam-yorick-blumenfeld-friend-of-clare-hall/) - It is with great sorrow that we announce the death of Yorick Blumenfeld, friend of Clare Hall and husband of Fellow Commoner Helaine Blumenfeld, on April 8, 2024. Born in Amsterdam in 1933, Blumenfeld grew up in France before moving to New York with his family in 1941. He was the son of renowned photographer
- [Tutorial News: 9 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-9-clare-hallers-graduate/) - We were delighted to welcome a cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a ceremony at the Senate House on 27 April, 2024. The day was filled with joyful celebration and reunions of friends and family. Our warmest congratulations to the new graduates and we wish them the best of luck with all their future endeavours. Many thanks to Jean-Luc
- [Tutorial news: Salje Medals awarded to Dr Emily Goodacre and Dr Sarah Gough](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-salje-medals-awarded-to-dr-emily-goodacre-and-dr-sarah-gough/) - Clare Hall graduates, Dr Emily Goodacre and Dr Sarah Gough, have been awarded the Salje Medal for their PhD theses. Two medals are awarded by the College each year to the most outstanding PhD (1) in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and (2) in the Sciences. Learn more about their research and what they
- [EMBA student Steven Lu raises over £10,000 for diversity and inclusion!](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/emba-student-steven-lu-raises-over-10000-for-diversity-and-inclusion/) - Last Thursday, Clare Hall EMBA student Steven Lu, alongside coursemates David Shan and Bo Kim, cycled from London to Cambridge to raise money for diversity and inclusion initiatives at Clare Hall. They successfully completed the journey and surpassed their goal of raising £10,000! Throughout the journey from King's Cross to Clare Hall, Steven, David, and
- [PhD student Ange La Furcia awarded Honorable Mention in SSSP Student Paper Competition Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-student-ange-la-furcia-awarded-honorable-mention-in-sssp-student-paper-competition-award/) - Our warmest congratulations to PhD student Ange La Furcia, who has been awarded the Honorable Mention in the Society for the Study of Social Problems's Gender Division's Student Paper Competition Award. Ange's paper, "The lived experiences of beauty and grammars of the maricada in the Colombian insular Caribbean," was recognised for making important contributions in
- [Dr Anthony Harris wins British Academy (Neil Ker Memorial Fund) two-year research grant](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-anthony-harris-wins-british-academy-neil-ker-memorial-fund-two-year-research-grant/) - Clare Hall Research Fellow Dr Anthony Harris has been awarded a two-year funded research project from the British Academy Neil Ker Memorial Fund. This prestigious, highly competitive, award is made annually in memory of Neil Ripley Ker CBE FBA (1908–1982) who is well-known for his important catalogues of ancient manuscripts. Working initially with Bodleian Imaging
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian invited to The Queen's reception at Clarence House](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-invited-to-the-queens-reception-at-clarence-house/) - Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of Clare Hall and Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, was recently invited by The Queen to a reception at Clarence House. The reception marked the findings of a neuroscientific research study commissioned by The Queen's Reading Room, highlighting the connection between reading and
- [Tutorial news: 12 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-12-clare-hallers-graduate/) - We were delighted to welcome a cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a ceremony at the Senate House on 23 March, 2024. It was a beautiful spring day filled with joyful celebration and reunions of friends and family. Our warmest congratulations to the new graduates and we wish them the best of luck with all their future endeavours.
- [Philosophy: Dr Mohammad Saleh Zarepour awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/philosophy-dr-mohammad-saleh-zarepour-awarded-philip-leverhulme-prize/) - Dr Mohammad Saleh Zarepour, a Life Member of Clare Hall, has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Philosophy 2023, for researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising – to use for any research purpose. The prize comes with a £100,000 grant.
- [Dr William McMahon discovers the Earth's oldest fossilised forest](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-william-mcmahon-discovers-the-earths-oldest-fossilised-forest/) - Dr William McMahon (Clare Hall Research Fellow) and Professor Neil Davies (Churchill College) have discovered the oldest fossilised forest known on Earth in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England. The fossil forest dates from approximately 390 million years ago during the Devonian Period, and is comprised of
- [Daniel H. Weiss, President Emeritus of the Met, presents the 2024 Ashby Lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/president-emeritus-of-the-met-daniel-h-weiss-gives-the-2024-ashby-lecture/) - We were honored to welcome Daniel H. Weiss as our speaker for the 2024 Ashby Lecture. Professor Weiss, who is the President Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Homewood Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, spoke about the challenges of leading one of the largest museums in the world. Professor
- [Clare Hall Boat Club puts on a stellar performance for Lent Bumps 2024](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-boat-club-puts-on-a-stellar-performance-for-lent-bumps-2024/) - Last week from 27th Feb to 2nd March, Clare Hall Boat Club raced in the annual Lent Bumps, a Cambridge tradition that started in the 1820s. Our W1 and M1 trained hard over the past few months, and put on a record-breaking performance for Clare Hall. Special mention goes to our W2, the first Clare
- [Clare Hall Student Makoto Tosa wins big at Varsity Rugby Match](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-student-makoto-tosa-wins-big-at-varsity-rugby-match/) - On 2nd March 2024, Cambridge University recorded the biggest victory in the history of the Men’s Varsity Match by beating Oxford University 56-11. Makoto Tosa, an MBA student at Clare Hall, was a forward for the Cambridge Blue's team, and put on a stellar performance during the match. Tosa first came into Oxbridge rugby when
- ['On the Chopping Block' featured in Varsity](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/on-the-chopping-block-featured-in-varsity/) - Our current exhibition, 'On the Chopping Block: cooks and other paintings by William Balthazar Rose', has been featured in a review for the latest print edition of Varsity. The exhibition will be open for viewing until this Thursday 7 March in Clare Hall, extended by an extra week owing to student interest. Lucy Ansell writes,
- [Clare Hall concert will feature world premiere of a new composition by Carlos Rodríguez Otero](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-concert-will-feature-world-premiere-of-a-new-composition-by-carlos-rodriguez-otero/) - On 16th March in Clare College Chapel, Continuum will perform the world premiere of a new composition by Carlos Rodríguez Otero in an incredible programme tracing Lent through music from the Iberian Peninsula. Carlos is a Cambridge-based musician with an impressive portfolio and inspiring career, and has written the piece Cruz: A triptych-motet to the
- [Professor Li Su collaborates with national experts on first guidelines for utilising AI in stroke diagnosis](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-li-su-collaborates-with-national-experts-on-first-guidelines-for-utilising-ai-in-stroke-diagnosis/) - Professor Li Su is a Research Fellow and Tutor of Clare Hall. Spanning over two universities, he leads a multi-disciplinary research group with members from Neuroscience, Psychology, Medical, Mathematics and Computer Science backgrounds. His research aims to combine innovative and original computational methods with the state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques (MEG/EEG, 7T MRI and PET) in
- [Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd, founded by Dr Tony Hooley, has secured over $40m of funding for imaging technology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-mechatronics-ltd-founded-by-dr-tony-hooley-has-secured-over-40m-of-funding-for-imaging-technology/) - Dr Tony Hooley is a fellow commoner of Clare Hall, Founder and CEO of Hooley Research, and Founder of Cambridge Mechatronics, a world leader in the design and control of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuators. Its technology has shipped in over 70 million products to date, including several of the world’s top-ranking smartphone cameras, and
- [Tanner Lecture 2024 brings Amitav Ghosh to Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tanner-lecture-2024-brings-amitav-ghosh-to-clare-hall/) - We were delighted to welcome Amitav Ghosh, an award-winning author, global thinker, environmentalist, and climate advocate, as our speaker for the 2024 Tanner Lecture on the 5th of February. Amitav spoke about catastrophist and gradualist imaginings of the future of our planet in the context of increasingly disruptive global crises. Ghosh illuminated the reasons behind
- [President Alan Short featured in research impact study by The British Academy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/president-alan-short-featured-in-research-impact-study-by-the-british-academy/) - President Alan Short was recently featured in The British Academy’s report about the research impact for SHAPE disciplines (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy). The study on President Short’s research was regarding adapting NHS hospitals for climate change—not only reducing emissions, but also looking for improvements in workplace conditions for
- [Clare Hall Student Rosie Harte interviewed by ITV News about Milan Fashion Week](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-student-rosie-harte-interviewed-by-itv-news-about-milan-fashion-week/) - Rosie Harte is an MPhil student in modern British history at Clare Hall with a focus in fashion history. Last week, she was interviewed by ITV News to discuss the latest Fendi menswear collection at Milan Fashion Week, which used Princess Anne as inspiration. Rosie commented on the relationship between the royal family and the
- [Clare Hall PhD Student Jade Cuttle wins the inaugural non-fiction Morley Prize for her book 'Silthood'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-phd-student-jade-cuttle-wins-the-inaugural-non-fiction-morley-prize-for-her-book-silthood/) - Our warmest congratulations to Jade Cuttle, who was recently awarded the inaugural non-fiction Morley Prize for her “stunning, original, genre-bending” nature book ‘Silthood.’ The Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour was founded by Morley College London and Rachel Morley Literary Agency in 2021, and is designed to nurture and provide opportunities for aspiring writers,
- [In Memoriam: Professor David P. Gardner, Honorary Fellow and Life Member of Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memoriam-professor-david-p-gardner-honorary-fellow-and-life-member-of-clare-hall/) - It is with deep sorrow that the College announces the passing of David P. Gardner, former President of the University of California and the University of Utah. A visionary in higher education, Prof. Gardner peacefully departed on January 2, 2024, at the age of 90. Professor David Gardner became the president of the University of Utah
- [Unveiling of watercolour paintings of Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/unveiling-of-watercolour-paintings-of-clare-hall/) - On 10 January, three watercolour paintings of Clare Hall were unveiled in the President's Lodge, followed by Formal Hall in the evening. The paintings are by Rachael Grimm, an award-winning watercolorist from New York and wife of a former Visiting Fellow. They depict scenes of Herschel Road, the Scholars' Garden, and Family Walk. The paintings
- [Clare Hall Graduate Dr Stasa Stankovic recognised for exceptional PhD research](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-graduate-dr-stasa-stankovic-recognised-for-exceptional-phd-research/) - Our warmest congratulations to Dr Stasa Stankovic, who has been awarded the prestigious Milo Keynes Prize for the most exceptional PhD work within the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine for the year 2022-23! Milo Keynes, the great-grandson of Charles Darwin, established the Milo Keynes Fund just before his death to support prizes for outstanding
- [Dr Ems Lord leads the launch of a major new initiative for maths eduation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-ems-lord-leads-the-launch-of-a-major-new-initiative-for-maths-eduation/) - Update: As of 12 December 2023, over 700 schools have registered their interest in the Problem-Solving Schools initiative, and almost 300 of those schools have already completed their RAG rating against the Charter, shared their action points with the NRICH team and been welcomed as Problem-solving Schools! Dr Ems Lord is a Fellow and Tutor
- [President Alan Short Elected Deputy Chair of Colleges’ Committee](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/president-alan-short-elected-deputy-chair-of-colleges-committee/) - The President of Clare Hall, Alan Short, has been duly elected unopposed to the position of Deputy Chair of the Colleges’ Committee from 1 October 2024 for two years and will replace Heather Hancock, the Master of St. John’s, in that role. She becomes Chair for two years from 1 October 2024. Alan will also
- [Two Clare Hall Fellows have been ranked among the top female scientists in the world](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/two-clare-hall-fellows-have-been-ranked-among-the-top-female-scientists-in-the-world/) - Research.com is a leading research portal for academics to progress with their research and ensure that they remain up-to-date with the latest publications in their area. It produces an annual list of top female scientists in the world, based on an analysis of over 166,000 profiles of scientists across the globe. Only the top 1000
- ['Kathleen Hyndman: A Mathematical Artist and Her Lifelong Task' exhibition at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/kathleen-hyndman-a-mathematical-artist-and-her-lifelong-task-exhibition-at-clare-hall/) - Clare Hall is proud to present a memorial exhibition of the work of Kathleen Hyndman (1928-2022), running until 11 January 2024 in Clare Hall’s Main Building. Her art is made powerful by her adoption of a constructed and sequential approach. ‘My work often originates from natural effects,’ she once said, instancing trees in the mist,
- [Giving to Clare Hall this Holiday Season](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/giving-at-clare-hall-this-holiday-season/) - Our warmest holiday wishes to all of our Life Members all over the world, and a huge thank you for your continued generosity and support of Clare Hall. For the 2023-24 academic year, the College has never been larger. We have recruited more postgraduate students than ever before, with many of them having listed Clare
- [Update: Clare Hall Boat Club raises over £7000 for women's blades!](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/update-clare-hall-boat-club-raises-over-7000-for-womens-blades/) - Last weekend, a 24-hour ergathon was held in the Common Room at Clare Hall from 11am on Saturday 2 December until 11am on Sunday 3 December 2023. 38 Boat Club members participated and collectively erged 310km, the distance from Cambridge to Amsterdam! While the Boat Club aimed to raise £5000 to purchase new blades for
- [Clare Hall Boat Club holds fundraiser for women's Blades](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-boat-club-fundraiser-for-womens-blades/) - A 24-hour ergathon will be held in the Common Room at Clare Hall from 11am on Saturday 2 December until 11am on Sunday 3 December 2023 to raise £5,000 for new blades for the Women's crews. The 2023/2024 rowing season has already been marked by significant achievements for the Clare Hall Boat Club: from the
- [Law: Professor Christoph Müller publishes book on Swiss Contract Law in International Commercial Arbitration](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/law-professor-christoph-muller-publishes-book-on-swiss-contract-law-in-international-commercial-arbitration/) - Life Member Professor Müller was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall from 2016-2017 and was inspired to write Swiss Contract Law in International Commercial Arbitration during his time in Cambridge. Despite the existence of soft law instruments specifically created for international commercial contracts, most notably the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2016, national laws
- [Tutorial news: Salje Medals awarded to Dr Hayane Dahmen and Dr Zhaozhi Qian](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-salje-medals-awarded-to-dr-hayane-dahmen-and-dr-zhaozhi-qian/) - Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Salje Medal for outstanding PhD dissertations, Dr Hayane Dahmen and Dr Zhaozhi Qian. Two medals are awarded by the College each year to the most outstanding PhD (1) in the Arts and Humanities and (2) in the Sciences. Learn about their research here: Dr Hayane Dahmen, Department of
- [Professor Barbara Sahakian featured in Netflix documentary 'Paul Merson: Football, Gambling, and Me'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-barbara-sahakian-featured-in-netflix-documentary-paul-merson-football-gambling-and-me/) - Congratulations to Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of Clare Hall and Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, for her feature in the documentary 'Paul Merson: Football, Gambling, and Me.' The documentary explores the challenges of gambling and addiction as seen through the eyes of Paul Merson, a former Arsenal
- [Professor Karen Ersche interviewed in the Irish Independent for research on addiction neuroscience](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-karen-ersche-interviewed-in-the-irish-independent-for-research-on-addiction-neuroscience/) - Karen Ersche is a Fellow of Clare Hall, and a Professor of Addiction Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry. In the field of addiction, she is especially fascinated and encouraged by the way that advances in behavioural and clinical neuroscience have influenced the very concept of addiction, transforming it from what was previously considered a
- [Social and intellectual interaction: Clare Hall students invited to Special Interest Groups 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/social-and-intellectual-interaction-clare-hall-students-invited-to-special-interest-groups-2023/) - Clare Hall members are invited to join Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of their choice this academic year, following on from the success of last year’s programme. SIGs are subject-focused groups of students and Fellows (and other members of the College including Visiting Fellows) that aim to encourage regular small group social and intellectual interactions among people
- [PhD Student Jasmine Mack presents research at the American Society for Human Genetics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-student-jasmine-mack-presents-research-at-the-american-society-for-human-genetics/) - Warmest congratulations to Clare Hall PhD Student Jasmine Mack, who recently gave a presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics 2023 annual meeting in Washington D.C. Jasmine Mack, MPH, MS, is a PhD candidate training between the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the University of Cambridge Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the
- ['Cycles of Influence: Art Shaping Art'-Paintings by Tess Recordon exhibited at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cycles-of-influence-art-shaping-art-paintings-by-tess-recordon-exhibited-at-clare-hall/) - On the 28th of September, the opening of an exhibition by Tess Recordon was held in the Common Room and internal courtyard of the College. Recordon is a painter who studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art (now part of the University of the Arts London) and has been working as a painter since
- [PhD Student Callum White published in leading journal for concrete research](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-student-callum-white-published-in-leading-journal-for-concrete-research/) - Huge congratulations to Clare Hall PhD Student Callum White, whose work was recently accepted in ‘Cement and Concrete Research’, the most prestigious journal in the field of concrete research. Furthermore, the approach his team developed has been highlighted in this month's ‘Concrete’ magazine, a highly regarded outlet for their industry, with a feature on the
- [Sohini Kar-Narayan and Jehangir Cama awarded prestigious Institute of Physics Lee Lucas Business Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sohini-kar-narayan-and-jehangir-cama-awarded-prestigious-institute-of-physics-lee-lucas-business-award/) - Our warmest congratulations to Clare Hall fellows Sohini Kar-Narayan and Jehangir Cama, who won the Institute of Physics Lee Lucas Award for their spinout company ArtioSense. Kar-Narayan and Cama, alongside Vikas Khanduja and Alex Samoshkin, founded ArtioSense to commercialise a novel microfluidics-based force sensing technology that they are developing into a surgical aid to address
- [Dr Alexandru Marcoci awarded UKRI Policy Fellowship](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-alexandru-marcoci-awarded-ukri-policy-fellowship/) - Clare Hall Research Fellow Alexandru Marcoci was selected as one of 44 academic fellows to work in 21 government departments and five 'What Works Centres' across the UK. The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Policy Fellowships programme aims to directly inform the development of government policy to address major challenges through strengthening the relationship between
- [Review 2023: A Conversation with Charlotte Pippard](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/review-2023-a-conversation-with-charlotte-pippard/) - Life Member Kitty Ferguson interviewed Lady Charlotte Pippard, wife of Sir Brian Pippard, the first President of Clare Hall, 1966-1973. Charlotte celebrated her 100th birthday in January 2023. A shorter version of the interview was originally published in the Review 2023. We hope you enjoy reading the full version below. [We met in Charlotte’s sitting
- [Tutorial news: 29 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-29-clare-hallers-graduate/) - We were delighted to welcome a cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a ceremony at the Senate House on 22 July, 2023. Our warmest congratulations to all the graduands and we wish them the best of luck with all their future endeavours. Enjoy some photographs from the day via this Facebook Album, with thanks to Jean-Luc Benazet Photography.
- [Tutorial news: 29 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-29-clare-hallers-graduate-2/) - We were delighted to welcome a cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a ceremony at the Senate House on 20 October, 2023. Despite the rain, it was a joyous and memorable day, followed by a graduation dinner in the evening. Our warmest congratulations to the new graduates and we wish them the best of luck with all
- [Life Member Professor Judith Harford elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Social Sciences, UK](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/life-member-professor-judith-harford-elected-as-fellow-of-the-national-academy-of-social-sciences-uk/) - Our warmest congratulations to Professor Judith Harford, from the University College Dublin School of Education, for being elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. Professor Harford was the only scholar to be elected from Ireland among the Academy’s 47 newest Fellows and was one of only four recognised for their excellence
- [Professor Manohar Bance featured in the Financial Times](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-manohar-bance-featured-in-the-financial-times/) - Our warmest congratulations to Clare Hall Professorial Fellow Manohar Bance, who was featured in the Financial Times for leading the first human trial for gene therapy for genetic hearing loss. Professor Manohar Bance is the inaugural Professor of Otology and Skull Base Surgery at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant at the Cambridge University
- [A year in review – Clare Hall’s annual publication released](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/a-year-in-review-clare-halls-annual-publication-released/) - The 2023 edition of Clare Hall’s Review is out now. We hope you enjoy reading about the College’s recent progress and our fascinating members. With our warmest thanks to the Review‘s Editor, Dr Trudi Tate, Emeritus Fellow, for her brilliant work on this issue. Review-2023-1Download
- [Feature on life member Sohan Dasgupta](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/feature-on-life-member-sohan-dasgupta/) - Clare Hall alumnus Sohan Dasgupta, Ph.D., recently spoke to the British and European Parliaments on international cooperation, security, and trade. Dasgupta is a strategic and experienced problem-solver representing clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, federal and state appellate and trial courts, government agencies, state legislatures, and Congress. His practice includes trial and appellate litigation, public
- [Tutorial News: College welcomes 149 new students](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-college-welcomes-149-new-students/) - Clare Hall is delighted to have welcomed 149 new students, who participated in their matriculation and book signing ceremonies this week. Thank you to our amazing photographers, Jeremy Peters and Jinxi Xu. A welcome message from our President, Professor Alan Short Clare Hall was founded specifically for researchers and postgraduate students who are at the
- [Professor Daniela Rhodes  receives the 2023 World Laureates Association Prize (WLA Prize)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-daniela-rhodes-receives-the-2023-world-laureates-association-prize-wla-prize/) - Congratulations to Professor Daniela Rhodes, an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, who has been announced as one of the recipients of the 2023 World Laureates Association Prize (WLA Prize) in Life Science or Medicine, which she shares with LMB alumnus Timothy J. Richmond, Emeritus Professor of Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and
- [Alumni Festival at Clare Hall explores the implications of AI for healthcare](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/alumni-festival-at-clare-hall-explores-the-implications-of-ai-for-healthcare/) - We were delighted to host a discussion on Artificial Intelligence as part of the University's 2023 Alumni Festival, which brings together alumni from around the world to discover the latest fascinating research and reconnect with fellow alumni. On the 23rd of September, Clare Hall welcomed a full audience in the Richard Eden Suite for a
- [Conferencing and Events: Virginia Woolf at Clare Hall, Literature Cambridge summer course](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/virginia-woolf-at-clare-hall-literature-cambridge-hosts-summer-course/) - We were delighted to host an intensive five-day summer course in July on Virginia Woolf, run by Emeritus Fellow Dr Trudi Tate for Literature Cambridge. The theme was Woolf’s Women, and 36 people came from all over the world: from Japan, China, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Ireland, England, the US, and
- [PhD Student Srijit Seal awarded Clare Hall Boak Student Support Fund to present research](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-candidate-srijit-seal-awarded-clare-hall-boak-student-support-fund-to-present-research/) - Congratulations to Srijit Seal, a third-year PhD student at the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University, who won an award from the Clare Hall Boak Student Support Fund to present his research at the 2023 Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Srijit's research uses machine learning to detect drug safety and toxicity using cell
- [Professor Lord Martin Rees awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-lord-martin-rees-receives-the-royal-societys-copley-medal/) - Lord Rees is the UK’s Astronomer Royal and a renowned astrophysicist and cosmologist. He is a Fellow (and Former Master) of Trinity College, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, and Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall since 2016. The Copley Medal is the Royal Society's oldest and most prestigious award, granted for sustained, outstanding achievements in
- [Clare Hall PhD Candidate wins Harold Blakemore Prize and an honorary mention of the Carlos Monsiváis Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-student-wins-harold-blakemore-prize/) - Clare Hall PhD Candidate Ange La Furcia has won the Harold Blakemore Prize and has received an honorary mention of the Carlos Monsiváis Award by the Sexualities Studies Section in LASA, Vancouver for the second time. Ange La Furcia completed a BA first-class honors with distinction in Sociology at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia (2009-2014)
- [Philosophy: Life Member David Ebrey publishes two books on Plato](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/philosophy-life-member-david-ebrey-publishes-two-books-on-plato/) - David Ebrey is a Serra Húnter Fellow at the University of Barcelona who works on ancient Greek philosophy. He has published Plato's Phaedo: Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life (CUP, 2023) co-edited with Richard Kraut the Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd Edition (CUP, 2022), and edited Theory and Practice in Aristotle’s Natural Science (CUP, 2015). His articles are on Plato's ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and the literary structure of
- ['We are very grateful to Clare Hall, and to Cambridge in general, for the true love and happiness they have given us'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/we-are-very-grateful-to-clare-hall-and-to-cambridge-in-general-for-the-true-love-and-happiness-they-have-given-us/) - On 29 July, Clare Hall students Snezhana Shevchenko and David Luchford celebrated their wedding at the College, where they met while pursuing their MPhil degrees. 'David and I met in the common room on the 30th of September. I came to one of the coffee and cake events organised for new students, and David was
- [Literature: Life Member Professor Marysa Demoor publishes two books](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/literature-life-member-professor-marysa-demoor-publishes-two-books/) - Professor Demoor's books are titled A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815–1918 Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements and the Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals. A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815–1918 Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements highlights the ways in which Britain and Belgium became culturally entangled as a result of their interaction
- [International Law: Life Member Professor Carlos Espósito co-edits book on the International Court of Justice](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/international-law-life-member-professor-carlos-esposito-co-edits-book-on-the-international-court-of-justice/) - Carlos Espósito and Kate Parlett (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the International Court of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2023). As international law has become more present in global policy-making, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has come to occupy an essential and increasingly visible role in international relations. This collection explores substantive developments within the
- [Spy History: Life Member releases book on the history of state surveillance in New Zealand](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/spy-history-life-member-releases-book-on-the-history-of-state-surveillance-in-new-zealand/) - Emeritus Prof. Richard Hill, a Life Member of Clare Hall, has co-written Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900–1956, published in July 2023. In launching the book, New Zealand’s Minister for Security Services noted that the security police had perceived ‘radical left politics and political movements’ as the main threat to the state at
- [Donors' Garden Party welcomes over 60 guests to Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/donors-garden-party-welcomes-over-60-guests-to-clare-hall/) - We were delighted to host this summer’s Donors’ Garden Party on Saturday 15 July, welcoming more than 60 guests back to Clare Hall. (Photos by Jeremy Peters) The afternoon began in the Fellows' Garden, where friends and supporters of the College engaged in lively conversation and caught up with old friends. A plentiful lunch was served
- [PhD Candidate Lundi-Anne Omam publishes systematic review in Conflict and Health journal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-phd-candidate-lundi-anne-omam-publishes-systematic-review-in-conflict-and-health-journal/) - Lundi-Anne Omam is final year PhD candidate at Clare Hall. Her article explores primary healthcare delivery models in conflict settings of Africa. The article is a systematic review that synthesises evidence on current practices by humanitarian organizations and ministries of health, identifies gaps in service delivery at primary health care level in fragile contexts and
- [Law: Professor Monica Garcia-Salmones publishes book on nature and natural law during the 17th century](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-monica-garcia-salamones-publishes-book-on-nature-and-natural-law-during-the-17th-century/) - Life Member Professor Garcia-Salmones was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall from 2017-2018, and began writing The Necessity of Nature: God, Science and Money in 17th Century English Law of Nature while in Cambridge. The book is an attempt to spell out the transformations in the concept of nature and natural law during the 17th
- [Medicine: Professor Anna Huttenlocher publishes book on synaptic pruning](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/from-loss-to-memory-life-member-anna-huttenlocher-publishes-book-on-synaptic-pruning/) - Professor Anna Huttenlocher, Life Member of Clare Hall, has published a book titled From Loss to Memory: Behind the Discovery of Synaptic Pruning (Cambridge University Press, 2023) Physician scientist Anna Huttenlocher is a Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Her laboratory studies cell migration in inflammation
- [GSB hosts annual Spring Event](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/gsb-hosts-annual-spring-event/) - The Spring Event is Clare Hall’s big May Week event, in which the GSB welcomes members of the College, friends and family to celebrate the end of the academic year. On 16 June, Clare Hall members, friends, and family gathered in the Fellows Garden to celebrate the 2023 Spring Event. This year's theme, "Rewind Party,"
- [Dr Rachel Sippy publishes commentary in Lancet Regional Health: The Americas](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-rachel-sippy-publishes-commentary-in-lancet-regional-health-the-americas/) - Dr Sippy's commentary highlights findings on intense outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases in South America Dr Rachel Sippy (Research Fellow of Clare Hall) had a commentary published last week in Lancet Regional Health: The Americas, highlighting the unprecedented rise in mosquito-borne diseases in the Southern Cone region of South America. She and co-authors call for coordinated effort
- [Clare Hall Student Mathew Neville receives Cambridge University Annual Sports Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-student-mathew-neville-receives-cambridge-university-annual-sports-award/) - Clare Hall student Matthew Neville received the award for Outstanding Contribution, for his efforts during his time at Cambridge with the Ice Hockey Club at the annual Sports Awards event at the Sports Centre. Simrat Sodhi, CUIHC President says, Matt has been an exceptional member of our club, serving in various roles and making significant
- [Dr Anthony Harris is giving an invited paper at the bi-annual conference on Computus in Dublin](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-anthony-harris-is-giving-an-invited-paper-at-the-bi-annual-conference-on-computus-in-dublin/) - Clare Hall Fellow Dr Anthony Harris is giving an invited paper at the 9th International Conference on the Science of Computus, this year in Dublin. Dr Harris’ paper discusses aspects of the Easter calculation in manuscripts of the early middle ages. His research considers the early mathematics and astronomy associated with the Easter calculation in
- [ADHD - Inattention and hyperactivity have been the focus of research but emotional problems may be the missing link: College members’ research highlights!](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/adhd-inattention-and-hyperactivity-have-been-the-focus-of-research-but-emotional-problems-may-be-the-missing-link-college-members-research-highlights/) - Work by a team including Professor Barbara Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, and Dr Christelle Langley, an Affiliated Postdoc, has highlighted key research priorities relating to neural link between ADHD and emotions. The research suggests that the more we learn about brain basis of ADHD, the easier it will get to treat. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- [Clare Hall student's co-authored book gets published](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-students-co-authored-book-gets-published/) - Natural Resource Degradation and Human-Nature Wellbeing: Cases of Biodiversity Resources, Water Resources, and Climate Change Tanjila Afrin, a Clare Hall student and an MPhil candidate at the Centre of Development Studies, published her first-ever co-authored book titled “Natural Resource Degradation and Human-Nature Wellbeing: Cases of Biodiversity Resources, Water Resources, and Climate Change” in Springer. The
- [Sarah Gough, GSB Green Officer of Clare Hall, receives the Vice-Chancellor's Social Impact Award!](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sarah-gough-award/) - We are delighted to announce that Sarah Gough, a Clare Hall student and Green Officer of the GSB, has won the Impact in the Local Community Award in the Vice Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards competition. The judges had an extremely difficult time choosing a winner from a highly competitive field, but the judges were immensely
- [Clare Hall Graduate Dr Stasa Stankovic's PhD work published in Nature Medicine](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-graduate-dr-stasa-stankovics-phd-work-published-in-nature-medicine/) - Clare Hall Graduate Stasa Stankovic's research challenges current thinking on the genetic causes of very early menopause. The genetic causes of very early menopause will have to be reconsidered after researchers found that nearly all women who carried variations thought to cause the condition in fact had their menopause at an older age. Until now,
- [It's Finals Day on the River today!](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/its-finals-day-on-the-river-today/) - We welcome all Clare Hall Members and Friends to come to the river to support Clare Hall Boat Club in the final day of the May Bumps today. Our first ever M2 racing at 11:45, W1 at 12:30 and M1 on for blades at 14:45. Good luck to all three crews! Check this link for
- [The Cambridge Bumps are in full swing!](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/the-cambridge-bumps-are-in-full-swing/) - The Cambridge Bumps are in full flow and Clare Hall had a great day on the first day of the Bumps! Our Senior Tutor, Holly, who is leading the team cheering squad, has informed that yesterday had not been as successful but the teams are determined to keep going! Saturday 17th is the final day and
- [Final Day turns out to be the most successful for Clare Hall Boat Club!](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/final-day-turns-out-to-be-the-most-successful-for-clare-hall-boat-club/) - The final day turned out to be the most successful of them all: First up, M2 set the tone by earning themselves before the motorway bridge, then W1 (technically) rowed over and finally M1 earned themselves their final bump, perfectly timed in front of a cheering crowd at the plough! We proudly look back on
- [Art Exhibition of Cambridge Artist Oliver Soskice inaugurated at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/art-exhibition-of-cambridge-artist-oliver-soskice-inaugurated-at-clare-hall/) - On the 8th of June a new exhibition of paintings by the Cambridge artist Oliver Soskice went on show. A deep experience of landscape lies behind these paintings as well as a sophisticated understanding of abstraction. All the works on show were produced over the last ten years. The exhibition can be found in the internal courtyard
- [Prof Barbara Sahakian's research made the front page of The Times today](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/prof-barbara-sahakians-research-made-the-front-page-of-the-times-today/) - Prof Barbara Sahakian's (Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall) study which led to the finding that reading a lot along between the ages of two and nine was linked linked to better academic performance at Secondary school, greater happiness and reduced
- [Prof Barbara Sahakian ranked by Research.com in the field of Psychology & Neuroscience](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/prof-barbara-sahakian-ranked-by-research-com-in-the-field-of-psychology-neuroscience/) - Prof Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall has been ranked by Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers in the 2023 Edition of their Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Psychology and Neuroscience. She is ranked no.
- [First Off-Grid Solar Panel arrived at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/first-off-grid-solar-panel-arrived-at-clare-hall/) - We are beyond excited to have our first off-grid solar panel at the Clare Hall allotment. This solar energy will power a hot plate to cook our veggies on site and electric tools. This is a great initiative by the college to support its students and also extend a hand in everything the students do
- [The President’s XI win the day!](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/the-presidents-xi-win-the-day/) - The President’s XI (or XIII) scored 113 for 4 wickets from 20 overs. The Students reply was 81 for 10 so the President’s XI won by 32 runs which was a near exact reversal of 2022 when the Students won by 30 runs. A wonderful time was had by all at the Annual President’s XI
- [Philosophy at Clare Hall - Student Fellow Conversations](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/philosophy-at-clare-hall-student-fellow-conversations/) - A new video on the topic ‘Philosophy at Clare Hall’ from the Student-Fellow conversations series has been published on the Clare Hall Official YouTube Channel (The video can be accessed by clicking on the link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvkqLCAMFA -15min) In this video, PhD student and former GSB president Adham El-Shazly and research fellow Helene Scott-Fordsmand discuss their
- [Former GSB President Srijit Seal wins Best College Officer Award at Student Union 2022-23](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/former-gsb-president-srijit-seal-wins-best-college-officer-award-at-student-union-2022-23/) - Srijit Seal, former President of the Graduate Student Body at Clare Hall, has won the prestigious Student Union's Student Award for Best College Officer 2022-23 (PG). Srijit is the first Clare Hall student to receive this award. The Best College Officer Award recognises his contributions and commitment to serving the Clare Hall community. The award
- [Another Congratulations for Professor Sohini](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/yet-another-congratulation-for-professor-sohini/) - We are delighted to announce that Clare Hall Fellow Sohini Kar-Narayan has been promoted to Grade 12 Professor, which was announced in the Reporter yesterday. This is a most well-deserved promotion and we are very proud of Sohini’s achievements. It is pertinent to note that this week it was also announced that Sohini has been awarded
- [Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan wins Royal Society of Chemistry Peter Day Prize](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-sohini-kar-narayan-wins-royal-society-of-chemistry-peter-day-prize/) - Congratulations to Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan, a Fellow of Clare Hall, who has been awarded the the Royal Society of Chemistry Peter Day Prize this year. The Peter Day Prize is for the most meritorious contributions made by a mid-career scientist in any area of materials chemistry. Sohini Kar-Narayan is Professor of Device & Energy Materials
- [Annual Clare Hall Cricket Match](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/annual-clare-hall-cricket-match/) - You are warmly invited to the Annual Clare Hall cricket match between the President's XI and the Clare Hall Students to be held on Wednesday 21st June at the Leckhampton cricket ground, off Cranmer Road, from 1.30 pm. All College members are welcome to come along and watch, there will also be a traditional afternoon
- [Tutorial news: 8 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-8-clare-hallers-graduate/) - We are very happy to share that 8 Clare Hall Students were invited to a graduation dinner and attended the congregation at the Senate Hall to graduate from their respective courses. The Clare Hall congregation was led by College President Prof Alan Short and Vice President Helen Pennant. We extend our whole-hearted congratulations to all
- [Tutorial news: 19 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tutorial-news-19-clare-hallers-graduate/) - We were delighted to welcome a cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a graduation dinner and ceremony at the Senate House over the last weekend. Our warmest congratulations to all the graduands and we wish them the best of luck for all their future endeavors. Enjoy some photographs from the day via this Facebook Album, with thanks
- [Clare Hall welcomes a new Gates Cambridge Scholar](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-welcomes-a-new-gates-cambridge-scholar/) - Clare Hall is delighted to welcome Cory Aitchison, a Gates Cambridge Scholar to join the community of Scholars in 2023. The Gates Cambridge scholarship programme is the University of Cambridge’s flagship international postgraduate scholarship programme established in the year 2000. Cory will be pursuing his PhD in Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. He says, “I
- [Dr Lori Passmore, a Clare Hall Fellow is elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-hall-fellow-dr-lori-passmore-is-elected-as-a-fellow-of-the-royal-society/) - We are delighted to share the wonderful news of Clare Hall Fellow Dr Lori Passmore being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Lori is a Group Leader in the Structural Studies Division of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. A cryo-electron microscopist and structural biologist, Lori is known
- [<strong>Cognitive flexibility: the science of how to be successful in business and at work</strong>](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cognitive-flexibility-the-science-of-how-to-be-successful-in-business-and-at-work/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian (Fellow of Clare Hall) and Georgios Christopoulos(Nanyang Technological University) discuss the power of cognitive flexibility in their latest article. The word “permacrisis” was selected as the word of the year for 2022, referring to a feeling of being permanently in crisis. The business world has certainly faced continuous and increasingly frequent disruptions over
- [Literature: Orhan Pamuk to give reading and discuss novels during Ashby Lecture 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/ashby23/) - Clare Hall - a college for advanced study at the University of Cambridge - is delighted to be presenting an 'in conversation' with Nobel Prize‑winning novelist Orhan Pamuk during this year's Ashby Lecture. On Tuesday 2 May 2023, Pamuk will be on-stage with author and historian Christopher de Bellaigue, sharing a reading from The Lost
- [Architecture: Doctor of Letters degree conferred on Clare Hall President](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/littd23/) - The Higher Doctorate, the Doctor of Letters degree, Litt.D. was conferred on Clare Hall's President, Professor Alan Short, by the Deputy Vice Chancellor at Saturday’s Congregation of the Regent House. Professor Short read Architecture at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Senior Scholarship, winning a postgraduate Exchange Fellowship at the Graduate School of
- [Archaeology: Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen named New Generation Thinker](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/newgenerationthinker23/) - Congratulations to Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, a Life Member of Clare Hall, who is one of ten early career researchers to have been announced as this year’s New Generation Thinkers, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and BBC Radio 3. Each New Generation Thinker is considered a highly promising early career researcher
- [Cambridge Festival: several events to feature Clare Hall members](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridgefestival23/) - The Cambridge Festival (17 March – 2 April) will feature a mixture of online, on-demand and in-person events covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge. Here's a summary of sessions featuring Clare Hall members this springtime... Susannah Salter, PhD student at Clare Hall, is co-organising a family-friendly activity on 18 March. Based
- [Women’s History Month: Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson profiled in University article series](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/womenshistorymonth23-2/) - Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson, a Fellow and Tutor at Clare Hall, features in the final instalment of an article series published by the University of Cambridge to mark Women's History Month. A Postdoctoral Researcher at the Early Cancer Research Institute and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology, Kelly's research focuses
- [Genobiography: Tristan Begg’s pioneering research uncovers clues to Beethoven's health and family secrets](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/beethovengenome23/) - Tristan Begg, a PhD student in Biological Anthropology and member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, is the lead author of a ground-breaking study deciphering Ludwig van Beethoven’s genome from five genetically matching locks of the composer’s hair. Conducted by an international team of scientists, the study demonstrates that Beethoven was predisposed to liver disease
- [Women's History Month: University article series highlights Sarah Gough's impactful allotment projects](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/womenshistorymonth23/) - Sarah Gough, a PhD candidate at Clare Hall reading Cancer Immunology, and a final-year PhD researcher at Cancer Research UK (Cambridge Institute), features in an article series published by the University of Cambridge to mark Women's History Month. Sarah's research investigates the interaction between senescence, early-stage liver cancer and the immune system. She is also
- [Wellbeing at Clare Hall: team raise over £400 for Mental Health Foundation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/12ksteps22-result/) - Thank you to all who supported 25 Clare Hall members as they completed a 12,000 Steps a Day Challenge last month. The College is pleased to report that together we raised over £400 for the Mental Health Foundation. It's not too late to support the team and this vital cause: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/clarehallcamteam Find details on future
- [Cricket: Player of the Match, Nadiah Thanthawi-Jauhari, recounts experience](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cricketessay23/) - Nadiah Thanthawi-Jauhari, a PhD student at Clare Hall, has reflected on being a cricket newcomer here at the College, in a personal essay in India's Scroll.in, co-written with John Drew. I wanted my children to learn that being a woman, a Malay Muslim who wears a headscarf, should not stop you from doing whatever you
- [Inflation: Paul Krugman and Meg Jacobs to give Clare Hall Tanner Lecture 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/tanner23/) - The 2023 Clare Hall Tanner Lecture will be given by the Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, together with Professor Meg Jacobs, Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. They will explore current and historic inflation during the Lecture, which is taking place on Tuesday 14 March from 5pm
- [In pictures: members and friends explore 'luminous' paintings by Jill Swarbrick-Banks](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/jillswarbrickbanksexhib23-inpictures/) - Thank you to all who joined us for the private view of Jill Swarbrick-Banks: Transcendental Landscapes on an especially torrential evening last week. Ahead of the night, the artist shared, 'These works are inspired by the landscape and sounds of the Dyfi Valley in Snowdonia National Park, Wales – a wild, beautiful, untouched and "thin"
- [Ceramics: experts celebrate Bell Collection launch](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/bellcollection-launch23-inpictures/) - We are thrilled to have officially launched the Bell Collection of British Studio Pottery here at Clare Hall this week. A range of ceramic experts – including Tanya Harrod, one of the most highly regarded craft historians working today – joined us for a drinks reception and dinner on Monday evening. Professor Alan Short, President
- [The Korean Wave: Kim Dae-jung’s legacy commemorated at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/koreanwave23/) - This week we commemorated Kim Dae-jung’s legacy and residence at Clare Hall, through a symposium which brought together practitioners and scholars of the Korean Wave. The symposium, co-hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Baikbong Research Institute, included commemoration presentations in the Richard Eden Suite followed by dinner in Clare Hall's
- [Save the date - events to look forward to in 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/savethedate23/) - A very happy new year to all our members and friends. Looking ahead, we hope the below proves a useful summary of upcoming events taking place at Clare Hall, to which you are warmly invited. 20 January – 2 MarchLight. Time. Space. – an exhibition of photographs by Robin Stemp Clare Hall Art Committee is
- [<strong>Literature: Dr Trudi Tate presents course on Women in Tragedy</strong>](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/womenintragedy23/) - Dr Trudi Tate, an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, is hosting a course on Women in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy this autumn, through Literature Cambridge. Women are frequently at the heart of tragic drama – whether as figures of threat, objects of fascination, sources of desire, or sites of conflict and anxiety. They represent destabilising
- [Fat tissue and Anatomy: Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand giving Cambridge Festival talk](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/anatomy-cambridgefestival23/) - Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand, a Research Fellow of Clare Hall, will share a talk for the Cambridge Festival on 24 March, addressing anatomical selectiveness and the inverse relationship between making and undoing ‘the anatomical body’ and the real human body. Juxtaposing a variety of anatomical presentations with insights from anthropological fieldwork in a university dissection hall,
- [Clare Hall talks: what's on this season?](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/whatsonfebmar23/) - An array of talks and seminars are taking place here at Clare Hall in the coming weeks, open to all College members to enjoy. Dates for your diary include... Digital Humanities talk by Dr Anthony Harris Monday 13 February, 5pm, Richard Eden Suite These days the term ‘Digital Humanities’ is used in various academic settings,
- [Music at Clare Hall: concert to include 'defining' chamber work of 20th century](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/messiaenthurlowie23/) - The second Intimate Engagements concert of this academic year will be given by musicians Jeremy Thurlow, Poppy Beddoe, Henry Chandler and Tim Lowe on 4 March 2023. Here's a glimpse of what we can look forward to... Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is one of the defining chamber works of the 20th century. Composed and
- [Sustainability: Loïc Lannelongue highlights carbon footprint of computational work](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/computationalsustainability23/) - Clare Hall member Dr Loïc Lannelongue, who recently completed a PhD in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, is part of a group of scientists demonstrating the hidden environmental cost behind some of our major research breakthroughs. As a University of Cambridge article explains, at the start of 2020, computational biologist Dr Lannelongue
- [Behind the lens: GSB film screening to mark LGBT+ History Month 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/lgbthistorymonth23/) - Clare Hall’s GSB Committee will present a screening of A Fantastic Woman (2017) to mark LGBT+ History Month 2023. This year’s theme celebrates LGBTQ+ peoples’ contribution to cinema and film from behind the lens. Javier Pérez-Osorio, a PhD student at Clare Hall and co-organiser of this event, shares: LGBTQ+ History Month is an annual celebration of lesbian,
- [Festival of Wellbeing: College staff to present mindfulness sessions](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/wellbeingfest22-mindfulwander/) - Members of Clare Hall staff are delighted to be presenting a Mindful Wander within the University of Cambridge's Festival of Wellbeing, which is running from 27 June to 8 July this year. The Festival of Wellbeing is open to all staff in both the academic University and the colleges, and to students. The in-person Mindful Wander will be
- [Wellbeing at Clare Hall: Mindful Meditation Workshop series to launch this autumn](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/mindfulmeditationworkshops22/) - All Clare Hall members are warmly invited to a series of Mindful Meditation Workshops this autumn. Through the series, participants will be introduced to the basic principles of meditation and mindfulness. The sessions are free of charge, and no prior knowledge of mindfulness, Buddhism or meditation is required. About the workshops Mindfulness is the act
- [Rowing: Clare Hall Boat Club strikes gold in Newnham Head](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/newnhamhead23/) - Congratulations to Clare Hall Boat Club's M1 rowers, who placed joint first in the annual Newnham Head race over the weekend. Peter Kirwan, CHBC President 2022/23, shares this report: On Saturday 4 February, rowers from CHBC took part in the annual Newnham Head race, organised by Newnham College. The timed 2K course runs from the A14 bridge
- [Heartbreak: Professor Barbara Sahakian to discuss neuroscience perspective at Norwich Science Festival](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/norwichsciencefestival23/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of Clare Hall, will share neuroscientific research insights in a Norwich Science Festival talk on heartbreak next week. Taking place on Valentine's Day, the talk also features psychologist Viren Swami (Professor of Social Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University), and Rosie Wilby, comedian and author of The Breakup Monologues, who will cover
- [Call for Life Member news - the Review 2023](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/reviewcall23/) - A message from Dr Trudi Tate: Dear Life Members and Friends, I am compiling information for the News of Members page in the 2023 Clare Hall Review. Please send me your news of books, medals, awards, weddings, babies, or any other relevant items of news which the Clare Hall community would enjoy reading. In your
- ['I specialised in medieval death cultures and the ways professional executioners were viewed'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-routledgemedieval23/) - We catch up with Hannele Klemettilä-McHale, a Life Member of Clare Hall who now works as General Editor of the Routledge Medieval Encyclopaedia I am currently based in Sonning-on-Thames, UK, having lived in Dubai and New York for the past seven years.I was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall in 2009–10, studying medieval hunting —
- [Brain androgyny: College members win Diversity in Research Paper Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/humanbrainprojectaward22/) - Congratulations to Yi Zhang (pictured), a Life Member of Clare Hall and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge, whose co-authored paper has won a Diversity in Research Paper Award (DIRPA) from the Human Brain Project. The paper is titled The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity
- [Materials Science: Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan awarded €2 million ERC Consolidator Grant](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/ercconsolidatorgrant23/) - Congratulations to Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan, a Fellow of Clare Hall, who has been awarded a €2 million five-year European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to develop new tools for remote health monitoring and personalised medicine. Professor Kar-Narayan is one of 321 researchers to have won 2022 ERC Consolidator Grants. The funding – worth €657 million
- [Sustainability: Life Members named Breakthrough Energy Innovator Fellows](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/breakthroughenergyinnovatorfellows23/) - Kevin Kung and Ian Hu, Life Members of Clare Hall and founders of Takachar and Phycobloom respectively, have been selected as Innovator Fellows by Breakthrough Energy - an organisation encompassing Bill Gates’ climate and energy work. Kevin Kung combines his background in combustion engineering and physics with his professional expertise in engineering design to make bioproduct
- [Earthshot 2021: prize-winning Takachar Project co-founded by Kevin Kung](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/earthshotrprize21/) - The Takachar Project, led by Kevin Kung (a Life Member of Clare Hall) and Vidyut Mohan (pictured below), has been awarded the Earthshot Prize and £1 million in recognition of its innovative effort to tackle northern India’s smog crisis. $120 billion of agricultural waste is generated globally every year, with catastrophic consequences for human health
- [Education: Professor Judith Harford wins Irish Research Council Impact Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/irishresearchcouncilaward23/) - Congratulations to Clare Hall Life Member, Professor Judith Harford, who has been awarded the Irish Research Council Impact Researcher of the Year Award 2022 for her work in the areas of gender and social class inequalities. Professor Harford completed a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall last year, and is Professor of Education and Deputy Head
- [Neuroscience: Clare Hall members explain emotional ‘blunting’ caused by common antidepressants](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/emotionalbluntingcantidepressants23/) - A team of scientists including Professor Barbara Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, have worked out why common antidepressants cause around half of users to feel emotionally ‘blunted’. In a Neuropsychopharmacology study published today, they show that the drugs affect reinforcement learning, an important behavioural process that allows us to learn from our environment. Professor
- [In pictures: private view attendees enjoy Robin Stemp exhibition](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/robinstempexhib23-inpictures/) - A new exhibition of still life photography by Robin Stemp launched at Clare Hall yesterday, featuring enigmatic still lifes and unpopulated interiors, together with unusual aspects of the built environment from Stemp's travels. As with all our exhibitions, admission is free and everyone is welcome to explore the show daily from 10am – 5pm, until
- [Anthropology by children: Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson leads pioneering pilot](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/anthropologybychildren22/) - Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson, a Research Fellow and Tutor at Clare Hall, has developed an innovative pilot, Anthropology By Children (ABC), as part of her Leverhulme ECR Fellowship. Her work tests the limits of communication of need in the UK. During ABC, Dr Robinson taught Year 6 students (aged 11), many from deprived backgrounds, to use ethnographic methods to tell their stories.
- ['I deeply appreciated the brilliant social atmosphere and intellectual energy of Clare Hall'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-lithits23/) - In our first blog of 2023, we meet Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, a Life Member of Clare Hall and Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford, who is the Founder of LitHits – a digital reading project that connects the world to brilliant literature Literature and scienceI guess my academic career began in
- [Accelerate-C2D3: Clare Hall students win prestigious £14K grant](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/accelerategrant22/) - A team featuring four Clare Hall students has won a £14,000 grant from Accelerate-C2D3: AI for research and innovation - a University of Cambridge funding call - to investigate theoretical, scientific, and philosophical perspectives on biological understanding in the age of artificial intelligence. As new grant-holders, the team will organise a conference in early 2023
- [Music at Clare Hall: violinist Eleanor Ryan to give concert exploring work of female composers past and present](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/ryanthurlow23/) - Something to look forward to in the new year: a Clare Hall concert will explore music for violin and piano by female composers past and present. On 22 January 2023, Eleanor Ryan (Violin, PhD student at Clare Hall) and Jeremy Thurlow (Piano, Fellow and Associate Professor in Music at Robinson College) will present a rich
- [Archaeology: Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/philipleverhulmeprize22/) - Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, a Life Member of Clare Hall, has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Archaeology 2022, for researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising - to use for any research purpose. The prize comes with a
- [Clare Hall at Christmas: cards available at Porters' Lodge | can you identify the myth depicted...?](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/christmascard22/) - We are delighted to reveal the cover of this year's Clare Hall Christmas card, which features a Flemish landscape painting from the President's Lodge. This striking artwork is likely to have been painted by Abraham Govaerts (1589–1626), and titled Landscape with Herdsman, c.1610–20, oil on canvas, 114 × 198 cm. It is also attributed to
- ['The many discussions I've had with Fellows and students have greatly motivated me to bring this game to wider audiences'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-phdgames22/) - Meet Esdras Paravizo - a second-year PhD student at Clare Hall who is exploring how using games in engineering research and education may unlock new opportunities for fostering creativity and developing professional skills. Based in the Department of Engineering, I am focusing on computer games for design creativity.I recently led the design of the Industry
- [In pictures: snow at Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/snowdec22/) - Thank you to those who sent us the following shots of a snow-covered Clare Hall today... Plus, a snowy allotment update...⛄🌿 Congratulations to Sarah Gough, GSB Green Officer and founder of Clare Hall's allotment, who recently secured a Cambridge Zero grant for the initiative, which was established in 2020. She shares: The fund will be
- [Clare Hall Boat Club: new eights launched](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/boatlaunch22/) - Clare Hall Boat Club was delighted to officially launch two brand new Janousek eights on Saturday 3 December, named the Richard Eden and Patricia & Kit Thompson of Glenelg. A celebratory gathering of College members enjoyed fizz and nibbles as the eights were named, before being christened in the Christmas Head. College members enjoy the
- [Middle English Studies: Professor David Lawton awarded Sir Israel Gollancz Prize](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sirisraelgollanczprize22/) - Congratulations to Professor David Lawton, a Life Member of Clare Hall, who has been awarded the 2022 Sir Israel Gollancz Prize for his lifetime contributions to Middle English Studies and field-defining research. The Sir Israel Gollancz Prize is awarded annually for work connected with Anglo-Saxon, early English language and literature, English philology, or the history of
- [Brain androgyny: research by Clare Hall members to feature in BBC documentary 'Planet Sex'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/planetsex22/) - Research on psychological androgyny by a number of Clare Hall members, together with colleagues from Fudan University, will be discussed within a BBC Three documentary titled Planet Sex, airing in December 2022. A novel study examining the androgynous brain in cerebral cortex led to a paper which won a Diversity in Research Paper Award (DIRPA) from
- [In pictures: exhibition of landscapes by Jonny Church and C.N. Liew enjoyed at private view](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/churchliewexhib22-inpictures/) - A new exhibition of landscapes launched at Clare Hall last week, featuring oil paintings by local artist Jonny Church juxtaposed with ink art by Malaysian artist C.N. Liew. As with all our exhibitions, admission is free and everyone is welcome to explore the show daily from 10am - 5pm, until 5 January 2023. We hope
- [History of Science: Dr Jenny Bangham receives Suzanne J. Levinson Prize](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/suzannejlevinsonprize22/)
- [Archaeological phenomenon uncovered - Nicholas Skopal co-authors paper on giant stone jars found in India](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/giantstonejars22/) - A paper titled An archaeological survey of the Assam stone jar sites, co-authored by Nicholas Skopal, a Visiting Student of Clare Hall, has just been published. It investigates the stone jar sites in Assam, India, presenting the results of a 2020 survey across the heavily forested mountains of Dima Hasao Province, which led to the documentation
- [Saving lives in the pandemic - Peter Kirwan receives SPI-M-O Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/pandemicmodelling22/) - Congratulations to fourth-year Clare Hall PhD student, Peter Kirwan, who has received a Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M-O) Award for Modelling and Data Support (SAMDS). This award acknowledges those who have made an exceptional contribution to the work of SPI-M-O outside of their usual work activity, contributing advice which has directly led to policies
- [Tutorial news: 17 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/graduationnov22/) - Over the weekend we were delighted to welcome a cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a graduation dinner and ceremony at Senate House. Our warmest congratulations to the thirteen Clare Hallers who graduated in person, and four in absentia. The graduands' research specialisms ranged from a Master's in Population Health Science and Astrophysics, to PhDs in Medical
- [Ancient Philosophy: new paper published by Professor Georgia Mouroutsou](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/ancientphilosophy21/) - A paper by Professor Georgia Mouroutsou, a Clare Hall Visiting Fellow, has been published in peer-reviewed journal Ancient Philosophy. Titled 'Choosing a Life and Rejecting a Thoughtless Life in Philebus 20-22', Professor Mouroutsou comments on the paper: 'Rather than offering an overwhelming argument against hedonism (sensu G.E. Moore), the paper shows that Socrates discusses three fundamental
- [AI and Mathematics: paper by Dr Petar Veličković features on cover of Nature’s latest issue](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/natureai21/) - A paper co-authored by Dr Petar Veličković, an Associate of Clare Hall, has been published by Nature. The paper, which appears on the cover of Nature's latest issue, demonstrates how AI can successfully guide the intuition of mathematicians, and be a mathematician’s 'pocket calculator of the twenty-first century'. Dr Veličković is a Staff Research Scientist
- [LGBTQ+ rights in Tanzania: Professor Stephen Brown to give lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/lgbtqrightstanzania21/) - Professor Stephen Brown, a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, will give the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies' Leverhulme Visiting Professorship Lecture on Global frictions on homosexuality: International relations and the case of LGBTQ+ rights in Tanzania this week. Professor Brown is Professor of Political Science, University of Ottawa, and the UCCGS Leverhulme Visiting Professor
- [Human Sciences: Professor Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen confirmed as Director of Eudaimonia Institute, Finland](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/eudaimoniainstitute22/) - Professor Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, has been appointed as the new Director of the Eudaimonia Institute in the field of Human Sciences research. Professor Kuukkanen’s recent research has focused on philosophy of science and philosophy of history, having been the Chief Editor of the Journal of the Philosophy of History (2017-2022). The Eudaimonia Institute's
- [Slavery in the Late Antique World: book co-edited by Dr Maijastina Kahlos](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/slaverylateantiqueworld22/) - A book titled Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE, co-edited by Dr Maijastina Kahlos, a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, has just been published. It investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well as the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean world in Antiquity. Late ancient slavery was
- ['In October 2022, a group of Life Members from the Clare Hall Spanish Society gathered in Madrid for our twelfth meeting'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-spanishsoc22/) - Luisa Sancho-Arroyo, a Life Member of Clare Hall and Chair of our Spanish Society, recounts a recent - and long-awaited - meeting in Madrid In October 2022, a group of Life Members from the Clare Hall Spanish Society gathered in Madrid for our twelfth meeting. It was a long-awaited event given we intended to convene
- [In pictures: pianist Thomas Kelly delights audience at first Intimate Engagements concert of 2022/23](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/thomaskellyie22-inpictures/) - Around 80 people including Fellows, Life Members and Friends of Clare Hall joined us for a concert by pianist Thomas Kelly on Saturday 5 November, as he put into perspective three works belonging to the genre of themes and variations. The concert was the first in a series of four Intimate Engagements recitals planned for
- [Fellow news: Dr Michael Loewe celebrates 100th birthday](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/loewe100-22/) - Our warmest wishes to Dr Michael Loewe, a Clare Hall Official Fellow 1968-90, and Emeritus Fellow since 1990, who is celebrating his 100th birthday. Dr Loewe has concentrated his research on the history of China’s early empires, which date from 221 BCE to 220 CE. From the 1960s onwards Dr Loewe has made a point
- [University sports: Loïc Lannelongue receives Outstanding Achievement Award for role in Modern Pentathlon Club](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sportsawards22/) - Congratulations to Loïc Lannelongue, who this week received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the University Sports Service. Loïc is a PhD student in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and has represented the University in Modern Pentathlon, this year acting as Men’s Captain. The award is for individuals who have made contributions over an extended period of time, in all areas
- [Conflicting norms about LGBTQI+ rights: Professor Stephen Brown to give Leverhulme Visiting Professorship Lecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/leverhulmelecture22/) - Stephen Brown, Professor of Political Science, University of Ottawa and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, will be giving a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship Lecture next month. The lecture is titled Leaving No One Behind vs. Respecting Local Ownership in Development Cooperation: Conflicting Norms about LGBTQI+ Rights in Hostile Environments, with a synopsis as follows: 'Sexual
- ['I got the bug, and the accordion was the path I followed'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-bendesouza21/) - Ben de Souza shares how he got into music professionally, and reveals what our all-welcome, come-and-sing Choir is up to in 2021 I was born and brought up in Reading.My parents are both professional musicians and my childhood was more or less wall to wall music, so it was no surprise that my brother and
- ['Nothing can make your day more positive than a bit of rock and roll or Motown'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-ameliashaw21/) - Meet Amelia Shaw, an MPhil in Modern British History who is researching 1960s popular music while setting up a baking business I’m from just outside of Manchester originally — a little village by the Pennines.I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield, and spent a year of that at Humboldt University of Berlin.
- ['Queer people are still struggling to have equal rights and, in many cases, simply to exist'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-javierperezosorio21/) - Javier Pérez-Osorio, a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Film and Screen Studies, shares details of his research into the representation of queerness in recent Latin American fiction films I was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia.I have been a member of Clare Hall since last September, when I came to Cambridge to start my
- ['I remain viscerally committed to the pursuit of knowledge through research beyond my discipline'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-marcellasutcliffe21/) - Dr Marcella Sutcliffe, historian and Life Member of Clare Hall, discusses her career and shares takeaways from CRASSH’s recent roundtable on the past, present and future of humanities research I am a historian specialising in the long nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the transnational connections between Britain and Italy.My research interests include Victorian
- ['Emerging studies show that the pandemic has pushed many women into more traditional roles, negatively impacting gender equity in the workplace'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-invisibleberlin-iwd21/) - Meet Rea Eldem and Francesca Root — two Life Members who are working together to build more equitable organisational cultures Founded by Rea Eldem, IN-VISIBLE BERLIN supports organisations in their transformation process towards a more equitable organisational culture.'Part of this means recognising employees’ needs and building upon the experiences of minority groups, fostering a working
- ['It is vital to understand the gendered aspects of the Covid crisis'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-melanneverveer-iwd21/) - An Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Melanne Verveer’s career has intensively focused on women’s equality. Here she reflects on her work, highlighting the impact Covid-19 is having on women globally I served as Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton in the White House when she was First Lady.During that time the UN’s 4th World Conference
- ['In the next few years we will see how far portable intelligence can migrate from our pockets to our heads'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-andrewblake21/) - Professor Andrew Blake, Fellow of Clare Hall, has been working in Artificial Intelligence since 1978. Here he reveals some of his career highlights and latest projects My PhD thesis from 1984 still lurks in the archives of the University of Edinburgh, in which I explored the possibility of building machines that could see.Later, what had seemed like
- ['To me, Clare Hall can be described in one simple word: home'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-daniellasalazarherrera21/) - Daniella Salazar Herrera, a recent MPhil graduate in Development Studies, offers a glimpse into her role at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, and shares how the pandemic has impacted her work I was born and raised in Lima, Peru — a city that is characterised by its huge inequalities, where the divide of wealthy and underprivileged
- ['Our Clare Hall memories are vivid and rich'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-dougkelbaugh21/) - Doug Kelbaugh is a Life Member of Clare Hall and Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. In this story, Professor Kelbaugh discusses his latest book — which centres around environmental resilience in cities — and reveals his hopes for the future I’m doing
- ['As a psychologist who studied all the tips and tricks to cope with stress and understood what people might be feeling during a pandemic, I, too, struggled'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-keriwong21/) - Dr Keri Wong updates us on her experiences working at UCL, and shares what she’s learned during the pandemic so far I’m an Assistant Professor in Psychology based at the UCL Department of Psychology and Human Development.As an international scholar I’ve enjoyed meeting all the international students and colleagues on campus here at UCL. I
- ['I try to understand what type of person in what type of situation is likely to commit a crime'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-williampmcclanahan21/) - Dr William Patrick McClanahan, a recent graduate from Clare Hall specialising in Psychology and Criminal Justice, describes his research, experiences at the College, and goals for the future I’m from a small town in the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, USA.It’s the kind of town where you cannot go to the store without seeing someone you
- ['I examine how Black college students make meaning of the stories shared within their college personal statements to predominately white institutions'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-ayawallerbey21/) - Meet Aya M. Waller-Bey, an MPhil in Education graduate who was a recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. We catch up with Aya as she completes her PhD in Sociology, focusing on race and college admissions I am a proud first-generation college student born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.I graduated from Georgetown University in 2014
- ['Planning ahead for climate change impacts is not easy, but it is essential'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-carolyncobbold21/) - Research Fellow Dr Carolyn Cobbold’s specialism is food science of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries — but in her spare time, her work as co-founder of the Manhood Peninsula Partnership has made a huge impact Dr Carolyn Cobbold’s work on environmental and climate change mitigation, which she has been doing voluntarily for the past 20
- ['My time at Clare Hall led to my first ever piece of published fiction'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-tesslittle21/) - Tess Little, a Life Member of Clare Hall, reveals details of her journey to publishing a debut novel I studied for my MPhil in Modern European History at Clare Hall in 2013–14.After that, I sat the Fellowship Examinations at All Souls College, Oxford, and was elected as a Fellow. It’s a seven-year Fellowship, so I’m
- ['Wasafiri is a seriously phenomenal journal of which to be a part, and I feel privileged to be one of its editors'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-thomasglave21/) - Thomas Glave was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall from 2012–13. Having recently been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Nottingham and become Associate Editor of Wasafiri, he offers a glimpse into his life and career to date I was born in the Bronx, New York, and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica.I
- ['The Lady of Clare would surely be thrilled to see that this community has expanded, diversified, and achieved so much'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-ladyofclare21/) - We’re pleased to share these reflections by Claire Barnes, who edited the book For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, by Professor Frances Underhill (2020) The precious pearl of learningIn 2026 we’ll be celebrating the 60th anniversary of Clare Hall, and the 700th anniversary of Clare College. The decision
- ['It is surprise — or in more technical terms prediction error — that boosts our memory'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-alexquent21/) - Jörn Alexander Quent is a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist completing a PhD here at Clare Hall. The Gates Cambridge Scholar shares insights into his research into vivid memory, based at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit For me Clare Hall was the perfect fit, as I love its egalitarian and cosmopolitan vibe.I could not
- ['Yoga has helped me to celebrate the successes of the past half-year, and to get through some difficult times in lockdown away from family and home'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-yoga21/) - To mark International Day of Yoga, Ruta Marcinkeviciute, an MPhil student in Engineering here at Clare Hall, shares the ways yoga has had a positive impact on her time at the College during this unusual academic year At the beginning of the year I joined the Graduate Student Body (GSB) as an External Officer.While hoping
- ['Children have come to be seen as members of society with the greatest plasticity and potential, and the question of how they should be nurtured and educated is still hotly debated'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-jennyzhao21/) - Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao, a Research Fellow at Clare Hall based at the Needham Research Institute, discusses her focus on philosophy in ancient Greece and early China. I was born in China and moved to Cambridge at the age of eleven.Little did I know then that I would go on to study and to have
- ['Clare Hall saved me from the idea that the more you repudiate, the more successful you are'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-christoskalli21/) - Christos Kalli is a Life Member of Clare Hall. In this blog we learn what he’s been up to since graduating from Cambridge — including a glimpse of recent poetry based on Cypriot mythology, trauma, and history I have recently joined the Department of English at the University of Texas as a PhD student.Here I attempt
- ['I’m fortunate to witness novel and incredible AI models being created every day'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-andytseng21/) - Andy Tseng, a PhD student in Engineering from Clare Hall, shares details on his areas of specialism in AI My research focuses on Spoken Dialogue Systems — a subfield of Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (AI).The goal is to develop a specific type of machines, known as dialogue systems, that are capable of communicating
- ['It’s amazing to realise that there are opportunities for everyone'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-aiorazabala21/) - Meet Aiora Zabala, a Life Member of Clare Hall, as she discusses her role as Senior Editor of Nature Sustainability and the impact of creativity on her work I joined Clare Hall in 2010 to pursue a PhD in Land Economy, and I’m now Senior Department Fellow.I chose the College mainly because of the swimming pool
- ['Being part of Clare Hall was, and still is, an altogether enriching experience'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-wasifaruqi22/) - Dr Wasi Faruqi received an MBE last year, for work completed over many years at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Here Wasi shares a little about his career, and what he most values about being a Life Member of Clare Hall. I was introduced to Clare Hall in 1986 by Murray Stewart, a colleague
- ['The principles of good craft apply as much to poems as to porches'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-benjaminmorris22/) - Meet Benjamin Morris — a Life Member of Clare Hall who today works as a poet, writer, researcher, and carpenter Currently I have several manuscripts underway.One is a full-length poetry collection called The Singing River, which has come perilously close to being published several times in the past few years, so I’m hoping that means I’m on
- ['We were next-door neighbours in the Brian Pippard Building'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-mattevianne22/) - We’re delighted to share this career and life update from Dr Matthew Grosvenor and Dr Evianne Grosvenor, Life Members who met here at the College and made a significant impact as GSB officers We have fond memories of the lively student community at Clare Hall.It was fascinating meeting so many students from different parts of
- ['Every day I enjoy laughing with my new colleagues, collaborating between departments to support our students, and reconnecting with my friends in the common room or dining hall'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-tutorialadmin22/) - Olivia Gaughran completed an MPhil in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 2021-22, and has since been supporting our Tutorial Office as a temporary Tutorial Administrator. In this blog, Olivia shares some highlights from the past few weeks As a new Tutorial Administrator at Clare Hall, my experience working in the Tutorial Office
- [Academic community: new Research Fellowships at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/rfs23/) - Clare Hall, a graduate college at the University of Cambridge founded in 1966, has released details of three Research Fellowship opportunities this week, tenable from October 2023. Applications close on 21 November 2022 for each fellowship. Find outline information below, and full details via https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rf/ The Cambridge Philosophical Society Henslow Fellowship at Clare Hall Clare
- [Understanding how plant diseases spread - new paper co-authored by Rachel Murray-Watson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/plantdiseases22/) - Rachel Murray-Watson, a PhD student in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and postgraduate member of Clare Hall, has co-authored a Royal Society paper which explores how the epidemiology of disease-resistant and disease-tolerant varieties of plants affects grower behaviour. Rachel shares: 'It's intuitive that outcomes of an epidemic rely heavily on the behaviours
- [Wellbeing: Clare Hall members invited to join and support 12,000 steps challenge for Mental Health Foundation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/12ksteps22/) - A team of Clare Hall Members is raising funds for the Mental Health Foundation this autumn, as they complete a 12,000 Steps a Day in November Challenge. Support the team of (so far) 24 College Members who've signed up to the challenge, via their JustGiving page. It's not too late to join the team... As
- [Music at Clare Hall: 'extremely gifted' young musician to give concert next weekend](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/thomaskellyie22/) - Clare Hall is delighted to be presenting a concert by pianist Thomas Kelly next weekend, within our much-loved Intimate Engagements series. During his concert on Saturday 5 November, Thomas Kelly will play Brahms – Variations on a Theme by Schumann, opus 9; Beethoven – Eroica Variations, opus 35; and Schumann – Symphonic Etudes in Variation form, opus 13,
- [Tutorial news: 31 Clare Hallers graduate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/graduationoct22/) - Last week we were delighted to welcome a cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a graduation dinner and ceremony at Senate House. Our warmest congratulations to the 27 Clare Hallers who graduated in person, and four in absentia. Enjoy some photographs from Senate House via this Facebook album, with thanks to Jinxi Xu. New graduates can find
- [A year in review - Clare Hall's annual publication released](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/review22/) - The 2022 edition of Clare Hall's Review is out now. We hope you enjoy reading about the College's recent progress and our fascinating members. With our warmest thanks to the Review's Editor, Dr Trudi Tate, Emeritus Fellow, for her brilliant work on this issue. She comments: It has been a great pleasure to edit the
- [Biblical Studies: Professor Richard Hays receives British Academy Burkitt Medal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/burkittmedal22/) - Our congratulations to Life Member Professor Richard Hays, who is the recipient of the 2022 Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies, awarded for his internationally-recognised and influential work on the Gospels, the letters of Paul, and New Testament ethics. Professor Hays comments: I am honoured by the wholly unexpected news that I am to receive the
- [Tutorial news: College welcomes 118 new students](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/matriculation22/) - Clare Hall is delighted to welcome 118 new students, who have joined us for the start of this academic year from 32 different countries, between them studying 72 courses across all six of the University’s Schools (Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology). Photos: Jeremy Peters Find
- [Social and intellectual interaction: Clare Hall students invited to Special Interest Groups](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/specialinterestgroups22/) - Clare Hall students are invited to join Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of their choice this academic year, following on from the success of last year's programme. SIGs are subject-focused groups of students and Fellows (and other members of the College including Visiting Fellows) that aim to encourage regular small group social and intellectual interactions among
- [Environmental architecture: President’s research profiled by the University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/retrofittingrevolution22/) - Professor Alan Short, President of Clare Hall, has been profiled by the University of Cambridge, within an article titled A retrofitting revolution, published this week. In the piece, Professor Short reflects on his work in environmental architecture, noting climate change's impact on temperatures in hospitals: One of the biggest problems of climate change is infrastructure
- [Dopamine research:  Professor Barbara Sahakian appears on BBC podcast](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dopamineresearch22/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, has spoken about the neurotransmitter dopamine on the BBC's Made of Stronger Stuff podcast. Dopamine is involved in many processes, from consciousness and concentration, to motivating goal directed behaviour, for example, by enhancing task-related enjoyment. Its important role in the brain's reward system is well-known - but
- [Climate change: Dr Carolyn Cobbold speaks about UK coastlines on Sky podcast](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/climatecast22/) - Dr Carolyn Cobbold, a Life Member and former Research Fellow at Clare Hall, features in Sky’s latest ClimateCast episode. During the episode, Sky News' Leah Boleto is joined by environmental journalist and presenter of Sky’s weekly climate show, Tom Heap, to discuss the impact of coastal erosion and how people power has helped the fight against climate change.
- [Genomics of reproductive ageing and fertility: Staša Stanković to present research to Parliament](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/reproductiveageingstemforbritain22/) - Staša Stanković, a PhD student in Genomic Medicine at Clare Hall, has been shortlisted to the top ten within the Biological and Biomedical Sciences category in STEM for Britain – a major scientific poster competition organised by the UK government’s Parliamentary & Scientific Committee. She will present her work to Parliamentarians and subject judges on 7 March 2022, and
- [Gender equality: Staša Stanković attends One Young World Summit](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/oneyoungworld22/) - Staša Stanković, a PhD student in the MRC Epidemiology Unit and a postgraduate member of Clare Hall, attended the One Young World Summit as the only delegate of Serbia last month, and is recipient of a Leading Europe 2022 Scholarship. What shaped me as a young leader were the experiences where comfort was not guaranteed,
- [Art at Clare Hall: exhibition by Jerry Scott takes us on a 'journey through colour and texture'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/jerryscott22/) - Clare Hall is this autumn delighted to present an exhibition by Jerry Scott. Titled A Feast for the Eye, the exhibition is representative of the artist’s work over the last twenty years, featuring both paintings and collages. Frances Spalding, Art Committee Chair and Curator of this exhibition, writes: 'Jerry Scott’s collages have rightly been called
- [Music at Clare Hall: first concert of new academic year announced](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/fsqmich22/) - Clare Hall Music Committee is thrilled to release tickets for its first concert of the new academic year - a recital by the College's quartet-in-residence, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. Enjoy a selection of incredible works by Praetorius, Brahms, Dvořák and Mendelssohn on Sunday 2 October, live from our Dining Hall from 7.30pm. Tickets and further details
- [Leadership in unprecedented times: Sir Mene Pangalos features in Judge Business School video series](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/jbsvideo21/) - Sir Mene Pangalos, Fellow of Clare Hall, recently participated in ‘CJBS Perspectives: Leadership in Unprecedented Times’ – a video series in which prominent business leaders discuss major topics and themes, covering how they and their organisations have coped, and even thrived, in the face of the pandemic. Sir Pangalos, who is Executive Vice President of
- [Cambridge Literary Festival: Professor Dame Gillian Beer to be interviewed about memoir](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridgeliteraryfestival21/) - Professor Dame Gillian Beer, Honorary Fellow and former President of Clare Hall, will appear in conversation with writer Claire Keegan this month, during Cambridge Literary Festival. In November, Professor Beer will then discuss her own new short memoir, Stations Without Signs, while being interviewed by writer and broadcaster Alex Clark. On the latter: a few days after her
- [REF 2021: President leads Cambridge’s Architecture Department to first place](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/ref2021/) - Clare Hall's President, Professor Alan Short, has led the University of Cambridge's Architecture submission to the top place in its discipline in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework - one of four Cambridge submissions ranked first across all UK universities. Professor Short chaired the Architecture Department's REF team. Cambridge’s global reputation is recognised by the results of the REF, which is
- [Friends reunited: over 80 guests enjoy Donors’ Garden Party](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/donorsgardenparty22/) - We were delighted to host this summer’s Donors’ Garden Party on Saturday 16 July, welcoming more than 80 guests back to Clare Hall for the afternoon. A Mediterranean lunch menu served in a marquee in the Fellows’ Garden fitted the midsummer occasion perfectly, and the conversation flowed freely as friends and supporters of the College enjoyed
- [Molecular Biology: Dr Madeline Lancaster joins EMBO](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/embo22/) - Dr Madeline Lancaster, a Fellow of Clare Hall, has been named a new member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) - a community of almost 2,000 leading life scientists in Europe and beyond. A group leader in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Dr Lancaster's work has led to unprecedented insights into the development of the
- [Open Cambridge: Clare Hall members to discuss human brain development, energy harvesting, and human-AI synergy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/opencambridge22/) - Clare Hall is delighted to present an Open Cambridge event around the theme 'Wondrous Innovation', which will take place on the afternoon of 13 September this year. Three members of Clare Hall's academic community share incredible insights into their research and teaching methods, spanning human brain development in cerebral organoids; energy harvesting and sensing; and human-AI synergy.
- [Creative Writing: careers panel features Dr Tess Little](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/creativewriting22/) - Writer and historian Dr Tess Little, a Life Member of Clare Hall, recently joined a careers panel on creative writing, organised by the University of Cambridge Careers Service. Tess, who completed an MPhil in Modern European History at Clare Hall in 2013–14, has since been elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her short
- [Toxic drugs detected with AI - Srijit Seal leads study](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/toxicdrugsai22/) - Srijit Seal, a PhD student in Chemistry at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, has led a team to build a machine learning model that takes measurements from human cells, making predictions about drug safety. The discovery of new drugs can be a complex process, so any tools that help to accelerate the process are critical.
- [Chemistry: Srijit Seal wins SLAS Student Poster Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/slasposter22/) - Congratulations to Clare Hall PhD Student and former GSB President, Srijit Seal, who has won a Student Poster Award from the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS). SLAS is an international professional society of academic, industry and government life sciences researchers, coupled with the developers and providers of laboratory automation technology. Srijit attended the organisation's
- [Tutorial news: Salje Medals awarded to Dr Wesam Al Asali and Dr Matteo Giordano](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/saljemedal22/) - Clare Hall graduates, Dr Wesam Al Asali and Dr Matteo Giordano, have been awarded the Salje Medal for their PhD theses. Two medals are awarded by the College each year to the most outstanding PhD (1) in the Arts and Humanities and (2) in the Sciences. Learn about their research here: Dr Wesam Al Asali In my
- [Staff update: Clare Hall appoints new Bursar](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/bursar22/) - Clare Hall is delighted to announce the appointment of its new Bursar, Per Reiff-Musgrove, who will begin in post on 20 October 2022. Per joins us from the Eastern Academic Health Science Network, where he is currently Director of Finance, following a varied career including several years as Head of UK Pensions at Shell,
- [Clare Hall Boat Club: College launches fundraising appeal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/boatappeal22/) - This week sees the launch of a new Boat Fundraising Appeal, as Clare Hall Boat Club (CHBC) seek to fund a replacement new-used men's boat to support their future on the river. Following last week’s return to bumps racing on the Cam, CHBC now looks forward to the Easter Term and preparation for the Mays. The Boat Club has recently
- [Tutorial news: largest ever cohort welcomed back to Clare Hall for graduation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/graduationjul22/) - On Saturday 23 July we were delighted to welcome the largest ever cohort of Clare Hall graduands for a graduation dinner and ceremony at Senate House. 50 graduands and 7 recent graduates returned to College to celebrate their degrees. Enjoy a selection of photographs from the day on Facebook. New graduates can find information on alumni benefits via
- [Tutorial news: inaugural Hart and Hart-Marshall Prizes awarded](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/hartprizes/) - Clare Hall was recently delighted to award the inaugural Hart Research Prize and Hart-Marshall Humanities Prize to Lydia Soifer and Teo Kai Xiang respectively. Both prizes are supported by an endowment kindly gifted by Professor Jonathan Hart with the aim of supporting research progression. The awardees attended this year’s College Awards Event, which was held
- [Cricket at Clare Hall: College members enjoy first summer match in four years](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cricketmatch22/) - Clare Hall was delighted to host its annual Cricket Match between the President's XI and Clare Hall students yesterday, with the students winning 146/9 to the President’s XI 116/7. The match - the first in four years due to inclement weather and the pandemic - was held at the Leckhampton sports ground in the glorious summer sunshine. This
- [Clare Hall Allotment Initiative: Sunday yoga sessions planned](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/allotmentyoga22/) - The GSB Committee is happy to announce that members of Clare Hall can attend weekly instructor-led yoga sessions at the College's Allotment from this weekend. Head down to Clare Hall Allotment on Sundays from 11.30am (8 May, 15 May, 29 May, 5 June & 12 June) to enjoy stretching your body and relaxing your mind in nature!
- [Art at Clare Hall: exhibition to celebrate work by acclaimed architectural design practice](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/alisonbrooksarchitects22/) - An exhibition of models, drawings and photographs of work by Alison Brooks Architects will be presented at Clare Hall in the coming weeks. Titled Alison Brooks Architects: Cultural Formations - Selected Works 2002-2022, the exhibition showcases 20 years' work by the acclaimed London-based design practice, which was founded by Alison Brooks in 1996. The works on
- [Art at Clare Hall: exhibition of Leonardo's anatomical drawings to launch in May](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/leonardoexhibition22/) - From next month, Clare Hall Art Committee will present The Art and Heart of Leonardo - an exhibition chiefly of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings, as seen through contemporary eyes. The exhibition is the outcome of Francis Wells’ long-standing interest in Leonardo, which first took hold when, as a young man, he studied anatomy for surgery.
- [Ashby Lecture: Professor Susan Neiman to explore 'Why the Left is not Woke'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/ashbylecture22/) - Philosopher and writer Professor Susan Neiman will give the Clare Hall Ashby Lecture 2022 this month. Professor Neiman is Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam and has written extensively on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics. Her work shows that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thinking and action. Lecture details Thursday 28 April
- [Reimagining the Post-Coronial University: Simone Eringfeld wins 2021 BERA Master’s Dissertation Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/beramastersaward21/) - Simone Eringfeld, a recent graduate from Clare Hall and the Faculty of Education here at the University of Cambridge, is the winner of the 2021 BERA Master’s Dissertation Award for her dissertation Reimagining the Post-Coronial University through Podcasting: Hopes and Fears for the Future of Higher Education after Covid-19. Simone’s thesis asks how we might
- [Prebunking Covid-19 misinformation: Dr William Patrick McClanahan contributes to study](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/fakenews21/) - Dr William Patrick McClanahan, a recent graduate of Clare Hall, has contributed to a research article examining methods for prebunking Covid-19 misinformation. Published by Big Data & Society, the article reveals results from two large-sample studies, presenting strong cross-cultural evidence for the effectiveness of two short and easily scalable prebunking interventions to reduce susceptibility to
- [Affective Intelligence and Robotics: Minja Axelsson’s research on robots and wellbeing highlighted by the University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/robotswellbeing21/) - Clare Hall PhD student Minja Axelsson’s research focus is human-robot interaction and affective computing. She examines how human-robot interaction could be applied to improve our mental wellbeing. This week, her research within the team of Dr Hatice Gunes has been highlighted by the University, via its research webpages. Dr Gunes is a Reader in Affective
- [Alumni Festival: Professor Peter Wadhams to examine Shroud of Turin](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/alumnifest21/) - Clare Hall is delighted to be hosting a remote talk, tour and live Q&A on the scientific examination of the Shroud of Turin by Emeritus Fellow, Professor Peter Wadhams, within the University of Cambridge's Alumni Festival 2021. Professor Wadhams will talk us through the many questions surrounding the Shroud of Turin which have left scientists
- [Science in London: Life Members release book on memorials](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/scienceinlondon21/) - Istvan Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai, Life Members of Clare Hall, have published a book titled Science in London: A Guide to Memorials (Springer Nature, 2021). The book focuses on the memorials of scientists, explorers, medicine men and women, and inventors found in London, UK. It is the concluding volume of a set of four (with
- [Clare Hall Allotment Initiative: first summer harvest enjoyed](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/allotmentharvest21/) - Back in March, members of Clare Hall's Allotment Initiative gathered to sow a variety of vegetables in West Court. Fast-forward to July and the team behind the project have harvested a sizeable crop, making a range of nutritious dishes for an inaugural summer allotment meal. Sarah Gough, a PhD candidate from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and co-founder of the
- [Cultural isolation: Mohammad Chowdhury publishes memoir of journey as Western Muslim post-9/11](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/westernmuslimmemoir21/) - Mohammad Chowdhury, a Life Member who completed an MPhil in the Economics and Politics of Development at Clare Hall in 1990, has written a memoir titled Border Crossings: My Journey as a Western Muslim (Unbound, 2021). The memoir sees Mohammad describe his experiences as a Western Muslim since the 9/11 terrorist attacks by the Islamic
- [Neuroscience and dignity: paper by Dr Tara White published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/newyorkannals21/) - A new paper by Dr Tara White, a Clare Hall Life Member, has been published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Titled 'Dignity Neuroscience: Universal rights are rooted in human brain science', Dr White wrote the first draft of this paper from her office in the Ashby Library here at Clare
- [Genomics: Dr Tim Coorens' ground-breaking research on somatic mutations published](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/somaticmutations21/) - A PhD student from Clare Hall has co-written two papers presenting new insights into how the human body develops from one cell into trillions, and the genetic mutations that cells pick up along the way. Dr Tim Coorens, who works in genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, published both studies last month in Nature. They are
- [Sociology: Aya Waller-Bey discusses access and inclusion in schools on University podcast](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/accessinclusionpodcast21/) - Aya M. Waller-Bey, a Life Member of Clare Hall, appears on a new podcast published by the University of Cambridge, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme. The podcast features three speakers discussing how education simultaneously preserves, and can help us to overcome, inequality. In the podcast, Aya talks about quality
- [Global conversations: film on Surabhi Agrawal's research shown during CRASSH festival](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/crasshfestival21/) - A film based on the research of final-year PhD student Surabhi Agrawal is being screened during CRASSH's 20th Anniversary Outdoor Film Festival on 13 October. The film, made during a collaborative project through Cambridge Creative Encounters with animator Ali Assaf, looks at steel corrosion leading to iron carbonate (FeCO3) scale formation. On her research, Surabhi
- [Engineering Systems: Dr Yossi Sheffi discusses Covid's impact on global supply chains](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/covidpodcast21/) - Dr Yossi Sheffi, Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), appears in a new podcast focusing on global supply chains in the pandemic. Dr Sheffi is an expert in systems optimisation, risk analysis and supply chain management, which are the subjects he researches and teaches at MIT, both
- [Art at Clare Hall: exhibition to feature experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cattaiexhibition22/) - Clare Hall's Art Committee will present an exhibition of experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai this summertime. Running from 23 June - 4 August 2022, almost unthought represents a bold approach to painting in which the metallic surface manifests as physical, like sculpture, cutting the space and interacting with light. This will be the first time these works
- [Art History: Mary McGillivray included in ‘The Australian’ top 100 arts and culture list](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/australianlist22/) - Mary McGillivray, an MPhil student in Art History and visual culture commentator, has been named in The List: Arts and Culture by The Australian this week. This inaugural list strives to reveal the top 100 identities taking the creative industries into the future, and has been compiled by an expert panel of journalists, and features artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
- [Materials Science: Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan wins Armourers and Brasiers' Venture Prize](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/armourersandbrasiersventureprize22/) - Congratulations to Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan, a Fellow of Clare Hall, whose laboratory's microfluidic force sensors have won the Armourers and Brasiers' Venture Prize 2022. Developed in collaboration with Vikas Khanduja, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, these new smart sensors assist in the soft tissue balancing and correct positioning of an orthopaedic implant during
- [Cultural leadership: Professor Kevin Thompson elected international honorary member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/aaasmember22/) - Professor Kevin (Kit) Thompson, master of Moon Chun Memorial College, University of Macau (UM) and an Associate of Clare Hall, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as an international honorary member, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of performing arts. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of
- [Neuroscience research: College members identify pandemic's detrimental impact on children's social intelligence](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/socialintelligence21/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, Fellow of Clare Hall, has co-authored a piece for The Conversation on children's brain development and the way it is affected by social limitations of the pandemic. The article was co-written by four specialists including Professor Sahakian and Dr Christelle Langley, Affiliated Postdoctoral Member of Clare Hall. It highlights that peer-to-peer interaction
- [This Cambridge Life: Dr Tobias Baldauf profiled by the University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/thiscambridgelife-baldauf21/) - Dr Tobias Baldauf, a Research Fellow and Tutor here at Clare Hall, has been profiled in the University's 'This Cambridge Life' blog series. Dr Baldauf is a member of the Relativity and Gravitation Group and the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics here at Cambridge. In the blog, Dr
- [Dementia research: Dr Julie Qiaojin Lin named UK DRI Emerging Leader 2021](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/emergingleader21/) - Dr Julie Qiaojin Lin, a Research Fellow of Clare Hall, has been recognised as an Emerging Leader in dementia research by the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI). Dr Lin is a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, hosted by Professor Giovanna Mallucci’s Lab in the UK DRI at Cambridge and jointly sponsored by Professor Clemens Kaminski at Cambridge
- [In Memoriam: The Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/carolyntannerirish21/) - It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of the Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish, Tenth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah and Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall. Bishop Irish was the daughter of American scholar, industrialist and philanthropist, Obert Clark ‘O.C.’ Tanner, who founded the Tanner Lectures on Human Values in 1978.
- [Standing the test of time: Dr Madeline Lancaster to host British Neuroscience Association webinar series](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/bnawebinars21/) - Dr Madeline Lancaster, a Fellow of Clare Hall, is hosting a series of three webinars for the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) in July this year. The set of three talks will discuss reproducibility and how to carry out credible neuroscience research using in vitro models. It will feature speakers who are experts in neural cell cultures and stem
- [Women in Engineering: Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan in WES Top 50](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/westop5021/) - Congratulations to Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, an Official Fellow of Clare Hall from the Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, who has been named a WES Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021. Founded by the Women's Engineering Society in 2016, the WE50 awards are linked to International Women in Engineering Day – the celebration of women in
- [Criminology research: Dr Hannah Gaffney collaborates on toolkit for youth violence and crime prevention](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/yeftoolkit21/) - Dr Hannah Gaffney, a Clare Hall Research Fellow, has collaborated with the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) on their toolkit for youth violence and crime prevention, which launches today with an online event featuring the Home Secretary. The toolkit has been produced to highlight effective and ineffective methods in reducing youth violence, and will help police
- [Dopamine and consciousness: College members illustrate conscious brain activity's link to 'pleasure chemical'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dopamineconsciousness21/) - Research from University of Cambridge scientists, including Professor Barbara Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, demonstrates how the brain chemical dopamine plays a key role in consciousness. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, the study illustrates that conscious brain activity seems to be linked to the brain’s 'pleasure chemical' dopamine, and that the use
- [Infection-resilient environments: report co-authored by President recommends measures](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/nepcreport21/) - A report regarding UK infrastructure’s resilience to infection, co-authored by Clare Hall’s President, Professor Alan Short, has been published by the National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC). Looking ahead to winter 2021/22, the Royal Academy of Engineering and its partners in the NEPC were asked by Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, to undertake
- [Landscapes of Southeast Asia: Dr Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz to lead reading group](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/landscapesofsoutheastasia21/) - What are the landscapes of Southeast Asia? How are they inhabited, cultivated, framed, curated, and witnessed—and by whom? A reading group run by Dr Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz (Clare Hall Research Fellow) and Dr Michael Edwards seeks to explore these questions and more during Michaelmas 2021 and Lent 2022. Seven meetings will be run over the
- [Demystifying resilience: Professor Lord Martin Rees appears in film series](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/resiliencefilmseries21/) - Professor Lord Martin Rees, an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, is one of several leading thinkers set to appear in a series of short films explaining what resilience is, and why it matters, launching this month. Titled Resilience Engineered and developed by The Resilience Shift in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and SWR Media,
- [LIVE from London Spring: Dame Emma Kirkby to headline festival](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/londonspringfestival21/) - English Soprano Dame Emma Kirkby is headlining VOCES8's LIVE from London Spring Festival, which runs from 13 February-22 April this year. Dame Emma, who is an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, will share a much-anticipated performance on Sunday 14 March 2021. Taking place on Mothering Sunday, the recital will feature Dame Emma along with Toby Carr (theorbo),
- [This Cambridge Life: Dr Madeline Lancaster profiled by the University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/thiscambridgelife-lancaster21/) - Dr Madeline Lancaster, a Fellow of Clare Hall and Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), has been profiled in the University's 'This Cambridge Life' blog series. In the piece, Dr Lancaster reveals details on her research with mini brain tissues – three-dimensional tissues known
- [Mathematics Education: Dr Ems Lord interviewed by UK Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/knowledgeexchange21/) - UK Parliament has today published a video interview profiling Dr Ems Lord, a Research Fellow at Clare Hall and Director of NRICH, the mathematics outreach project based at the University's Mathematics faculty. Dr Lord has been working with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Teaching Profession. She was interviewed by UK Parliament’s Knowledge
- [In Memoriam: Professor Richard J. Eden](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/richardjeden21/) - It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of one of its founding Fellows, Professor Richard J. Eden, at the age of 99. Professor Eden received his Cambridge doctorate in 1951, under Paul Dirac and with tuition from Werner Heisenberg. He received the Smith's Prize in 1949, and was first elected to
- [Disordered gambling: College members' research highlights UK's urgent need for independent funding](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/gamblingdisorder22/) - Work by a team including Professor Barbara Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, and Dr Christelle Langley, an Affiliated Postdoc, has highlighted key research priorities relating to gambling addiction, and the urgent need for independent research funding in the UK. Writing in The Lancet Psychiatry, the group of clinicians and scientists set out their priorities for tackling the
- [Disordered gambling: College members to appear in BBC documentary](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/footballgambling21/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, and Dr Christelle Langley, an Affiliated Postdoc, will appear in BBC One's upcoming documentary, Paul Merson: Football, Gambling and Me, discussing the science behind disordered gambling. 'It begins impulsively,' explains Professor Sahakian in a Cambridge University news story, 'maybe an individual sees their dad going into a betting shop
- [Women's Rights: College members curate exhibition examining UN's 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/un199521/) - Melanne Verveer, Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, and Rebecca Turkington, a PhD candidate in History here, have curated an exhibition titled Women's Rights Are Human Rights: The United States and the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women. The exhibition, which launched yesterday at Georgetown University Library, Washington DC, examines the Fourth World Conference on Women,
- [Medieval Culture: Dr Natalia Petrovskaia wins Journal of the International Arthurian Society Essay Prize](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/journalessayprize21/) - Congratulations to Dr Natalia Petrovskaia, a Life Member of Clare Hall, whose article has won the Journal of the International Arthurian Society Essay Prize 2021. Titled 'Peredur and the Problem of Inappropriate Questions', the article reopens the question of the relationship between the medieval Welsh version of the Grail narrative, the Historia Peredur vab Efrawc,
- [Astrophysics and Cosmology: Professor John Barrow's research honoured by RAS](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/royalastronomicalsoc21/) - Research by the late Professor John Barrow, a Fellow of Clare Hall, was recently honoured during a specialist discussion organised by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). John Barrow FRS (1952-2020) was Professor of Mathematical Sciences here at Cambridge. His output was prodigious, publishing more than 500 research papers in astrophysics and cosmology, many as single
- [Largest ever millipede fossil uncovered - Dr William McMahon part of team](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/millipedefossil22/) - Dr William McMahon, a Research Fellow of Clare Hall, has co-authored a paper published by the Journal of the Geological Society, analysing the largest-ever millipede fossil, which was found on a Northumberland beach in 2018. The 326-million-year-old giant millipede's remains were found at Howick Beach. Known as Arthropleura, this species was over 2.5 metres long, making it likely to
- [Piper’s stained-glass: Professor Frances Spalding to give talk](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/johnpiper21/) - Professor Frances Spalding, an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, will give a talk on John Piper’s stained glass for the British Society of Master Glass Painters in January 2022. The Society’s first online lecture of the new year coincides with the Centenary touring exhibition visiting All Saints Church, Bristol, where John Piper made some extraordinary
- [The future of education: Rina Lai elected Fellow of Royal Society of Arts](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/royalsocietyofarts22/) - Congratulations to Clare Hall PhD student Rina P. Y. Lai, who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) for her contributions to social advancement through her research and work in education. The Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts is awarded to individuals who have been recognised by an award
- [Dementia research: Professor Barbara Sahakian speaks on University podcast](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/mindoverchatter22/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, appears in the University of Cambridge's latest Mind Over Chatter podcast episode. The episode sees Professor Sahakian joined by sociologist Richard Milne and neurologist James Rowe, discussing the causes of dementia, how it can be diagnosed and treated, and preventative factors. Tune in via https://mind-over-chatter.captivate.fm/episode/dementia-risks-diagnosis-and-prevention Barbara J. Sahakian is Professor
- [Architecture in post-revolutionary Cuba: Wesam Al Asali wins RIBA award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/ribaaward22/) - M. Wesam Al Asali, a Life Member of Clare Hall, has won the RIBA President’s Award for Research in the category of History and Theory. Wesam has received the award for work produced in collaboration with Dr Michael H. Ramage, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, and Dr Dania González Couret from the Universidad Tecnológica
- [English Literature: Professor Jana Giles elected to Joseph Conrad Society of America Board of Trustees](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/conradsocietyelection22/) - Professor Jana M. Giles, a Life Member of Clare Hall, was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She was promoted to Full Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Monroe in autumn 2021, and continues as Endowed Professor in English Literature. Her latest publications have
- [Alzheimer’s research: Professor Li Su to speak at ARUK conference](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/alzheimersresearchconf22/) - Professor Li Su, a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, has been invited to speak during Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK)'s annual conference in Brighton this month. Professor Su will present at the 'Life of a Fellow' event, sharing his experience of setting up a research group after being awarded the prestigious ARUK Senior Fellowship, and being appointed Professor of Neuroimaging at
- [Quaternary research: Professor Kevin Edwards made Honorary Life Member of QRA](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/quaternaryresearchassociation22/) - Congratulations to Professor Kevin Edwards, a Fellow Commoner of Clare Hall, who has been made an Honorary Life Member of the Quaternary Research Association (QRA), in recognition of his long-standing and wide-ranging contributions to Quaternary Science and the QRA. Professor Edwards is one of three new Honorary Life Members recently announced by the QRA, which is the premier
- [Race equality: Professor Li Su to share experiences in panel](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/raceequalitynetwork22/) - Professor Li Su, a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, will appear in a panel discussion hosted by the Race Equality Network next month, within their event titled This too, is Cambridge. The panel will focus on East and South East Asian experiences in Cambridge to both promote and celebrate those staff at the University, as well as recognise
- [History of Science: Abraham Pais Prize awarded to Dr Patricia Fara](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/abrahampaisprize22/) - Dr Patricia Fara, a Life Member of Clare Hall and Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, has been awarded the 2022 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics by the American Physical Society. The citation reads: 'For outstanding and wide-ranging scholarship on the History of Science, especially regarding the Physical Sciences in the 17th through the
- [Cambridge Festival: Clare Hall members to tackle key issues of digital era](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-cambridgefest22/) - Several Clare Hall members are involved in this year’s interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival, which will run from 31 March-10 April with a mixture of online, on-demand and in-person events, covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge. 2022's festival focuses on the impacts of our ever-increasing dependence on technology. Below is a selection of events featuring
- [Neuroscience pioneer: Dr Madeline Lancaster wins Blavatnik Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blavatnikaward22/) - Congratulations to Dr Madeline Lancaster, a Fellow of Clare Hall, who is a 2022 UK winner of a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. Dr Lancaster receives the award for her pioneering development of the first method for generating brain organoids from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, a technology that is ushering in a new era of
- [Plant Sciences: Rachel Murray-Watson receives I.E. Melhus Prize](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/iemelhusprize22/) - Rachel Murray-Watson, a PhD student from Clare Hall, has been awarded the I.E. Melhus Prize by the American Phytopathological Society, one of the largest plant science societies in the world. Rachel is part of the Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology Group at the Department of Plant Sciences here at the University of Cambridge. The group looks
- [English Literature: Professor Dame Gillian Beer to speak about dialogue in the Alice books](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/litcamb-beer22/) - Professor Dame Gillian Beer, Honorary Fellow and former President of Clare Hall, is leading a virtual lecture and seminar within Literature Cambridge's summer programme, examining dialogue in Lewis Carroll's Alice books. The synopsis is as follows:'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) are full of conversations: Alice
- [Heritage safeguarding: Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira co-edits new book](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/intangibleculturalheritage22/) - Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira, a PhD candidate in Archaeology at Clare Hall, has co-edited a new book titled Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage. Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, the book is framed within the Covid-19 pandemic and addresses the vulnerability and fragility of sustaining heritage in times of prolonged shock. It offers insights into the manifold ways
- [Sinology research: Dr Michael Loewe wins 6th World China Studies Contribution Award](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/chinastudies21/) - Dr Michael Loewe, Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, received a 6th World China Studies Contribution Award yesterday, for his research in Sinology. He commented:'I am honoured by the World Forum on China Studies for the award of Contribution to China Studies in the World. Many years have passed since the beginning of my cooperation with Chinese
- [COP26: Dr Carolyn Cobbold to speak during summit](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cop26/) - Dr Carolyn Cobbold, a Research Fellow of Clare Hall, will appear within a film screened in the Green Zone of the UN's Climate Change Conference (COP26) this weekend. The screening event, titled Coast to Coast: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate, Biodiversity and People, will showcase successful examples of habitat restoration in coastal wetlands and illustrate the benefits to climate
- [EMNLP: Cambridge researchers awarded Best Long Paper at the top AI conference](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/emnlp21/) - Fangyu Liu (a student at Clare Hall, pictured) and Nigel Collier, together with collaborators from McGill University and the University of Copenhagen, have been awarded the Best Long Paper Award at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Conference 2021. The award-winning paper, 'Visually grounded reasoning across languages and cultures', aims to address the
- [Disputing the deluge: Dr Darko Suvin to discuss collected writings on science fiction and utopian studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/sciencefictionutopianstudies21/) - Dr Darko Suvin, Professor Emeritus at McGill University and a Life Member of Clare Hall, will discuss his brand new book in a Zoom event this month. Titled Disputing the Deluge: Collected 21st-Century Writings on Utopia, Narration, and Survival, the book draws together 24 of Dr Suvin's most significant interventions in the linked fields of science fiction and utopian studies,
- [Genetics and disease: papers co-authored by Dr Eric Gamazon published in Science and Nature](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/scienceandnature21/) - Dr Eric Gamazon, a Life Member of Clare Hall (Visiting Fellow, 2018), has co-authored two papers published by the journals Science and Nature. The Science paper, co-authored in collaboration with fellow Cambridge University researchers, performed the largest-ever genetic analysis of protein expression, providing a detailed map of connections between genetic variants, proteins, and complex diseases.
- [Street architecture in Covid-19 São Paulo: Professor Fraya Frehse directs documentary](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/covidsaopaulo22/) - Professor Fraya Frehse, a Life Member of Clare Hall, has directed a new documentary exploring street architecture in Covid-19 São Paulo. The piece was commissioned by the Architecture Museum of Technische Universität München for their exhibition, Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture, and Cities. The documentary (22’40’’) uncovers the remarkable architectural talent found on the streets of São Paulo, filmed against the backdrop of
- [White Rose Resistance: Dr Jud Newborn to present lecture-performance on Hans and Sophie Scholl](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/schollwhiteroseresistance22/) - Dr Jud Newborn, a Life Member of Clare Hall, will give a live multimedia lecture-performance on Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Anti-Nazi Resistance this Sunday (9pm GMT). The programme, hosted by the Sousa Mendes Foundation, is an adaptation of Dr Newborn's hour-long lecture-performance, The White Rose Student Anti-Nazi Resistance - and Heroes Today in the Fight for Democracy
- [African Food Day: event to be hosted at Clare Hall this weekend](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/africanfoodday22/) - The African Society of Cambridge University organises African Food Day with the aim of showcasing the diversity of food and culture on the African Continent, and this year the event is being held at Clare Hall. Lundi-Anne Omam (pictured), a Public Health and Primary Care PhD student from Clare Hall (pictured), comments: I am very delighted
- [LGBTQ+ History Month: Javier Pérez-Osorio to speak at Selwyn seminar](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/selwynlgbtqhistory22/) - Within a series of academic seminars organised by Selwyn College's MCR for LGBTQ+ History Month, Clare Hall student Javier Pérez-Osorio will give a talk titled Tropical Frames: New Approaches to Latin American Queer Cinema this Friday. Javier, a PhD candidate at the Centre for Film and Screen, University of Cambridge, will present an overview of his research project in
- [Cambridge Literary Festival: Professor Frances Spalding to speak about English interwar art](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridgelitfest22-spalding/) - Cambridge Literary Festival’s spring programme (20-24 April 2022) will include a talk by Professor Frances Spalding, Affiliated Lecturer for Cambridge University’s History of Art Department and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall. Titled The Real and the Romantic, Professor Spalding’s talk will explore how English art flourished between the two World Wars. Frances will give an illustrated talk, speaking
- [STEM for Britain: Hayden Salway wins  silver medal from Royal Academy of Engineering](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/stemforbritainsilver22/) - Congratulations to Hayden Salway, a Sensor CDT PhD student at Clare Hall, who this week attended Parliament to present his engineering research as part of STEM for Britain, winning a silver medal. Hayden’s poster on developing novel materials to revolutionise medical X-ray imaging was judged against dozens of other scientists’ research in the only national competition
- [H-index: Professor Athanassios Fokas honoured by high  ranking](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/fokashindex22/) - On 17 February 2022, Research.com announced the list of its 1,000 top mathematicians worldwide, ranked according to the h-index. Professor Athanassios S Fokas, Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, has ranked first among all mathematicians of the two mathematics departments of the University of Cambridge - namely of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics - where he occupied the
- [25 years of NRICH: interview with Dr Ems Lord marks flagship maths outreach project's anniversary](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/nrichanniversary22/) - NRICH, Cambridge’s flagship maths outreach project, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Director Dr Ems Lord, a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, has been interviewed by the University to mark the occasion, reflecting on the project's impact during Covid-19. In Spring 2020, the UK Government highlighted NRICH resources to schools and the team contributed to
- [Youth policy in Kazakhstan: Kamila Rollan appointed member of Presidential Council by State Secretary](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/youthpolicykazakhstan22/) - Kamila Rollan, a third-year PhD student at the Faculty of Education, has been appointed a member of the Presidential Council for Youth Policy by the State Secretary of Kazakhstan. This council is a main advising and decision-making body on youth policy in Kazakhstan. State Secretary of Kazakhstan, Yerlan Karin, said:'[The council] includes public activists, young
- [News on Ukraine: doomscrolling advice published by College members](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/ukrainedoomscrolling22/) - Research insights penned by Professor Barbara Sahakian (Fellow of Clare Hall); Dr Christelle Langley (Affiliated Postdoc); Professor Jianfeng Feng (Associate) and Dr Chun Shen (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fudan University) offer guidance on the negative effects doomscrolling can have on our cognition and mood. Published in The Conversation, their new article highlights the ways in which doomscrolling (spending an excessive amount
- [Research integrity: Ralitsa Madsen elected to new UK Committee](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/ukcori22/) - Ralitsa Madsen, a Life Member of Clare Hall, is a member of the newly-established UK Committee on Research Integrity (UK CORI). Initially hosted by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), UK CORI will serve as an independent body seeking to promote and champion research integrity within the UK and internationally. Ralitsa's appointment is for a three-year term, and
- [Cannabis research: Clare Hall members explore affects on cognition and psychology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cannabisresearch22/) - Research by Professor Barbara Sahakian (Fellow of Clare Hall); Dr Christelle Langley (Affiliated Postdoc); Martine Skumlien (PhD candidate at Cambridge); and Tianye Jia (Fudan University) interrogates how the drug cannabis affects the human mind. In three recent studies published in The Journal of Psychopharmacology, Neuropsychopharmacology and the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, the research group demonstrates that cannabis can influence a number
- [Meeting HRH: Moniruz Zaman discusses research with The Prince of Wales](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridgetrust-hrh22/) - Moniruz Zaman, a Clare Hall student and Cambridge Trust scholar, recently met HRH The Prince of Wales at a Cambridge Trust event. Moniruz is an LLM (Master of Law) student and is recipient of The HRH Prince of Wales Commonwealth Scholarship, which was launched in spring 2019 to support postgraduate students from Commonwealth nations studying
- [Rebellious research: book co-authored by College members](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/rebelliousresearch22/) - Clare Hall PhD student, Eleanor Ryan, and Life Member, Simone Eringfeld, are co-authors of chapters in a new book titled Doing Rebellious Research - In and Beyond the Academy, which is already gaining a lot of press attention. Published by Brill, the book explores the notion that rebellious departures and performances in academic research and
- [Festival of Wellbeing: College members to present sleep research](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/wellbeingfest22/) - Two members of Clare Hall will present a lecture regarding optimal sleep next week, within the University of Cambridge's Festival of Wellbeing. Professor Barbara J Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, and Dr Christelle Langley, an Affiliated Postdoctoral Member of the College, will share evidence-based methods for improving cognition and wellbeing during the talk, which is taking place
- [In Memoriam: Michael H. Black](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/michaelhblack22/) - Clare Hall is very sad to announce the death of Michael H. Black, an Emeritus Fellow of the College, aged 94. Michael was a British author and held the position of University Publisher at Cambridge University Press. He was awarded a minor scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge, and graduated with a first in Modern Languages
- [Alumni Festival: Professor Erma Hermens to discuss art historical discovery methods](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/alumnifest22-news/) - Professor Erma Hermens, Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute and a Fellow of Clare Hall, will present an illuminating talk during the University of Cambridge's Alumni Festival this September. We often marvel at the amazing technical skills of artists and artisans when visiting museums. Through interdisciplinary research, combining technical art historical research with scientific analyses and
- [Mathematician remembered: Dr Ems Lord appears on BBC Radio 4 'Great Lives'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/greatlivesradio22/) - Dr Ems Lord, a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, appeared in a BBC Radio 4 'Great Lives' episode this week, discussing the life and work of Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw. Born Kathleen Timpson in 1912, Dame Kathleen was deaf from an early age, and is best known for her contribution to pandiagonal magic squares. She was also
- ['Our subcommittee aims to address race and ethnicity-based discrimination'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-aelibrary21/) - The GSB’s BAME Access & Equality subcommittee introduce their new Library Clare Hall’s new Access & Equality Library is now open for use.Created by the Graduate Student Body (GSB)’s new BAME Access & Equality Subcommittee, the Library provides resources on race, access, and diversity to members of Clare Hall. The Library features fiction, non-fiction, and
- ['It’s always heartening to hear both crews giving each other three cheers following a Bump'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-maybumps21/) - As we enjoy the sunshine here in the UK, the minds of many will turn to what we looked forward to in summers past. Alongside May Balls, one of the highlights of June would be Bumps season, which traditionally would have begun on Wednesday 9 June and run until Saturday Due to the mercurial nature
- ['Having a supportive Tutor and housemates I could turn to during difficult times made me realise that in Clare Hall we are a family'](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/blog-yearbook21/) - Several Clare Hallers kindly shared insights into their research and personal reflections on the College for a mini yearbook this month. Here are some highlights… Abhisheka 'My MPhil research aims to highlight the importance of adopting multi-disciplinary approaches to address biodiversity conservation challenges. The project I am currently working on evaluates the effectiveness of art

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- [Kevin Edwards](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/edwards/) - Professor Kevin J Edwards Kevin Edwards holds degrees from the Universities of St Andrews (MA, DSc) and Aberdeen (PhD). He is Emeritus Professor in Physical Geography and Adjunct Chair in Archaeology in the University of Aberdeen, and Adjunct Professor in Anthropology in the Graduate Center, City University of New York. At the University of Cambridge
- [Iain Black](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/black-i/) - Dr Iain S. Black Dr Iain Black is an Historical Geographer with research interests in money, banking and the architecture of finance. He began his career as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, before moving to King's College London and later the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Clare
- [Gregory MacIsaac](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/gregory-macisaac/) - Professor Gregory MacIsaac D. Gregory MacIsaac is Associate Professor of Humanities at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. His specialisation is Ancient Greek philosophy. He has taught in the Bachelor of Humanities ‘Great Books’ program since 1998. He grew up in Nova Scotia and took his B.A. in Classics at the University of King's College (Halifax). He
- [James Tanna](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/james-tanna/) - James Tanna James currently works as a Senior Evidence Officer at disability inclusion INGO CBM. In this role, he designs, implements, and evaluates health, education, and human and social rights projects for persons with disabilities. He is particularly interested in participatory and evidence-based approaches to development and solving conflicts.James has previous experience as a law
- [Barbara Sahakian](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/sahakian/) - Professor Barbara Sahakian Professor Barbara Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She is a past President of the International Neuroethics Society and of the British Association for Psychopharmacology.
- [Lori Passmore](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/passmore/) - Professor Lori A Passmore Professor Lori Passmore is a Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge. Using an integrated approach combining structural, biochemical and functional studies, Professor Passmore aims to reconstitute multi-protein complexes and their activities. She determines high-resolution structures of these complexes to understand their mechanisms. Professor Passmore's work focuses
- [Frederik Ravn Klausen](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/frederik-ravn-klausen/) - Dr Frederik Ravn Klausen Frederik Ravn Klausen is a mathematical physicist specialising in the rigorous study of quantum systems, probability theory, and statistical mechanics. His research focuses in particular on the mathematical structure of quantum noise, decoherence, and entanglement, as well as the interface between quantum information theory and classical models of random geometry. He
- [Elise Garritzen](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/elise-garritzen/) - Dr Elise Garritzen Elise Garritzen specializes in the cultural and social history of history writing, book history, and Victorian cultural history. She is intrigued by the formation of scholarly practices, communities, networks, and institution in nineteenth-century Europe. Recently, she had discovered a new passion for celebrity history. Her current project “Scholarly Stardom; or Why Historians
- [Anna Marie Roos](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/anna-marie-roos/) - Professor Anna Marie Roos Anna Marie Roos earned her PhD from the University of Colorado. She has taught at Salisbury University (USA), the University of Minnesota, and the University of Oxford. She is currently Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Lincoln (UK). Roos has been a visiting fellow
- [Marc Czarnuszewicz](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/marc-czarnuszewicz/) - Dr Marc Czarnuszewicz Dr Marc Czarnuszewicz is an Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow at Clare Hall, affiliated to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He was awarded a BA in Oriental Studies (Persian and Arabic) at the University of Oxford in 2018. Subsequently, he obtained an MLitt in Medieval Middle Eastern History from
- [Maria Spillantini](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/spillantini/) - Professor Maria G. Spillantini Professor Spillantini has been researching the cause of dementia for almost 30 years and is currently based at the University of Cambridge as part of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. She has published her findings in internationally renowned journals like Nature and regularly speaks at meetings and conferences around the world.
- [Ian Farnan](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/farnan/) - Professor Ian Farnan Professor Ian Farnan is a Reader in Earth and Nuclear Materials in the Department of Earth Sciences. He is an expert in the effect of nuclear radiation on materials and has developed nuclear magnetic resonance methods to provide an element-specific probe of radiation damage and actinide substitution in a range of materials
- [Aneeza Pervez](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/aneeza-pervez/) - Dr Aneeza Pervez Dr Aneeza Pervez is a social and developmental psychologist whose research examines children’s prosociality, belonging, and peer relationships, with particular attention to how social power and structural inequalities shape everyday school life. She uses qualitative, mixed-methods, and participatory approaches to explore how children understand and practise kindness, fairness, and courage across diverse
- [Chloe Austerberry](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/chloe-austerberry/) - Dr Chloe Austerberry Chloe Austerberry’s work focuses on uncovering early markers of genetic effects on cognitive and psychological outcomes. She is particularly interested in childhood language development and the early social environment as potentially key mechanisms through which genetic differences between individuals contribute to variation in complex life outcomes such as educational attainment and antisocial
- [Anna Knutsson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/anna-knutsson/) - Dr Anna Knutsson Anna Knutsson is an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at Clare Hall College and a visiting scholar at the Centre for History and Economics and the Faculty of History. Anna Knutsson is an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at Clare Hall College and a visiting scholar at the Centre for History and Economics and the Faculty
- [Francesca Rossi](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/francesca-rossi/) - Dr Francesca Rossi Dr Rossi received her PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). In her doctoral work, she studied the molecular functions of circular RNAs in rhabdomyosarcoma tumour, particularly focussing on the role of the interaction between the circular RNA circZNF609 and the messenger RNA CKAP5 in regulating microtubule
- [Brian Carrick](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/brian-carrick/) - Dr Brian Carrick Dr Brian Carrick is a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in the group of Dr Lori Passmore, where he studies how messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are regulated. Brian’s interest in RNA began during his undergraduate studies with Professor David Engelke at the University of Michigan, where he completed
- [Ashling Giblin](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ashling-giblin/) - Dr Ashling Giblin Dr Ashling Giblin is a Postdoctoral Training Fellow in the Neurobiology Division at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Her research interests lie in understanding the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases from a cell biology and structural biology perspective. Ashling received a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science from the University of Galway,
- [Helene Scott-Fordsmand](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/scottfordsmand/) - Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand Helene Scott-Fordsmand is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science on a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation grant. She works on the project ‘Diagnosing bodies in a messy reality’ which explores the role of medical classification in clinical inquiry and the contrast between idealised categories and ‘messy’ human bodies.
- [Lydia H. Liu](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/lydia-h-liu/) - Professor Lydia H. Liu Lydia H. Liu is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Professor Liu has published extensively on critical translation theory, Chinese and comparative literature, digital media, political thought, and the philosophy of language. She is the author of The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of
- [Aran Garcia-Lekue](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/aran-garcia-lekue/) - Professor Aran Garcia-Lekue Aran Garcia-Lekue received her Degree in Physics at the EHU (University of the Basque Country) in 1998, obtaining the Extraordinary Degree Prize. In 2003, she obtained her European PhD (Summa Cum Laude) also at EHU. In 2003 she obtained a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral EU Grant to develop her research at the University of
- [Katherine Luongo](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/katherine-luongo/) - Dr Katherine Luongo Katherine Luongo is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at Northeastern University and deputy editor of African Studies Review. She is a specialist in the anthropological history of Kenya. Dr Luongo studies legal systems in colonial and contemporary Africa, global legal regimes, and human rights. She is the author of Witchcraft
- [Peter Jeffery](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/peter-jeffery/) - Professor Peter Jeffery Peter Jeffery is Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology Emeritus and served as Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, from 2019-21. He grew up in a house full of books and music, in the New York neighborhood immortalized in Spike Lee’s 1994 movie “Crooklyn.” He attended what
- [Karthick Ram Manoharan](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/karthick-ram-manoharan/) - Dr Karthick Ram Manoharan Karthick Ram Manoharan, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at National Law School of India University, will be joining the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge as Smuts Visiting Research Fellow in October 2025. He will be working on the Indian Emergency and its implications for political theory;
- [Rosa W. Runhardt](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/rosa-w-runhardt/) - Dr Rosa W. Runhardt Dr Rosa Runhardt is Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science at Radboud University, the Netherlands, and visiting fellow at Clare Hall as well as the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge in Michaelmas and Lent term of 2025-2026. Dr Runhardt specializes in philosophy of causation
- [Sidnie White Crawford](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/sidnie-white-crawford/) - Professor Sidnie White Crawford Sidnie White Crawford is Willa Cather Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism emerita at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Visiting Professor (Dept. of Bible) at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the textual criticism of the
- [Charles R. Carrigan](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/charles-r-carrigan/) - Dr Charles R. Carrigan The thrust of Dr Carrigan’s research during his career has gradually migrated from Earth's center to its surface. As a graduate student at UCLA, he studied fluid dynamics of Earth’s outer core and its relationship to the geomagnetic field. While a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge in the Department of Earth Sciences
- [Tomohito Baji](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/tomohito-baji/) - Associate Professor Tomohito Baji Tomohito Baji is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research stands at the intersection between Intellectual History and International Relations, focusing mainly on the theories and visions of empire and international order in early twentieth‐century Britain and Japan. He is the
- [William McMahon](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/mcmahon/) - Dr William McMahon Dr William McMahon is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences. He holds an MSci degree in Geology from Imperial College London and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Previously he has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and the University of Hull. His
- [Andreas Mørkved Hellenes](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/andreas-morkved-hellenes/) - Dr Andreas Mørkved Hellenes Andreas Mørkved Hellenes is a research fellow at Clare Hall, a postdoc at Chalmers University of Technology and an associated researcher at the Faculty of History. He is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and holds a PhD in History from the same establishment (2019). Dr Mørkved’s main research interests lie
- [Ioannis Brilakis](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ioannis-brilakis/) - Professor Ioannis Brilakis Prof Ioannis Brilakis is a Laing O’Rourke Professor of Civil & Information Engineering and the Director of the Construction Information Technology Laboratory at the Division of Civil Engineering of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
- [Gaurav Chaudhary](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/gaurav-chaudhary/) - Dr Gaurav Chaudhary Dr Gaurav’s research interests lie in the broad field of quantum materials theory, with an aim to predict and explain quantum phenomena observable in solid state materials.. Gaurav Chaudhary is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Theory of Condensed Matter Group of Cavendish Laboratory and a research fellow at Clare Hall. Gaurav’s research
- [Petri Pellikka](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/petri-pellikka/) - Professor Petri Pellikka Prof. Petri Pellikka is a distinguished scholar in the field of remote sensing of environment. He carried out his MSc studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and PhD studies at Ludwig-Maximilan University in Munich, Germany. He was appointed as a first professor of geoinformatics at the University of Helsinki in 2002.
- [George D. Montañez](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/george-d-montanez/) - Dr George D. Montañez, PhD George D. Montanez is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, California. He is a former data scientist with Microsoft AI + Research. He obtained a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University, with additional degrees in computer science (BS, University
- [Marie Spreckley](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/marie-spreckley/) - Dr Marie Spreckley Dr Marie Spreckley specialises in weight management research and clinical practice. She has extensive experience as a clinician in NHS weight management services as well as in private practice. Her clinical work focused on delivering evidence-based interventions that integrate lifestyle changes and behavioural support to promote sustainable weight loss and overall health
- [Francesca Tinti](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/francesca-tinti/) - Professor Francesca Tinti Francesca Tinti is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, which she joined in 2009 after holding positions at the Universities of Cambridge and Bologna. A historian of the early medieval period, she has published extensively on church organization and pastoral care, with a particular focus on England. She
- [Julie Fendler](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/julie-fendler/) - Dr Julie Fendler After an academic path that alternated between fundamental mathematics and applied statistics—resulting in degrees in both fields—Julie Fendler completed a PhD in biostatistics. Recently awarded her doctorate, she is currently a postdoctoral researcher within the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on inference for mixture models within
- [Sara Brill](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/sara-brill/) - Professor Sara Brill Sara Brill is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, where she has also served as Chair of the Philosophy Department, Chair of the Classical Studies Program, and Associate Chair of the Humanities Institute. She is currently the editor of Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. She works on the psychology,
- [Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/motrescumayes/) - Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is an Official Fellow and Postgraduate Tutor at Clare Hall, and a Member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge. She is also a Member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI). Her primary work is as a visual anthropologist
- [Kelly Fagan Robinson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/faganrobinson/) - Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson is an Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology and Subject Manager (Anthropology) for the MPhil in Health Medicine and Society in the Department of Social Anthropology. Kelly's research focuses on disabilities, communication, inequalities, social access, and public policy. Her work foregrounds the ways that individual histories, bodies, sensorial
- [William Lionheart](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/bill-lionheart/) - Professor Bill Lionheart Bill Lionheart (William R.B. Lionheart, FIMA, FIET) is a professor of applied mathematics at Manchester specializing in inverse problems in imaging. When asked what he does he usually says "make 3D images of inside something from measuring outside". X-ray tomography is a typical example which translates in to the mathematical problem of
- [Quentin Harmer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/quentin-harmer/) - Dr Quentin Harmer Quentin is Chief Technology Officer at Endomag and Global Head of Breast Surgery R&D for Hologic. An engineer, technologist, and mentor, Quentin has over twenty-five years’ experience in leading the development of advanced medical devices and drug-delivery systems. He works at the interface of technology, clinical practice and medical regulation to understand
- [Loukik Arora](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/loukik-arora/) - Dr Loukik Arora Loukik has recently joined as Investment Lead in Innovation Impact Investment Team at Macmillan where he will be working on growing the portfolio and the fund to invest in technologies to shape the future of cancer care. He is part of the inaugural cohort (22 investors) of the Science and Technology Venture
- [Carol Harrison](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/carol-harrison/) - Professor Carol Harrison Carol Harrison is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Her current project, “A Women’s History of Vatican I,” examines the controversies surrounding the First Vatican Council (1869-70) from the perspective of lay Catholic women who rejected papal infallibility. Her research has been supported by the American Academy in Rome,
- [Wanli Ma](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/wanli-ma/) - Dr Wanli Ma Dr Wanli Ma is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project is supported by EPSRC as part of the MicroBlast project. Prior to joining Cambridge, he completed his PhD in computer science at Cardiff University's Visual Computing Group, led by Prof. Paul Rosin.
- [Ben Allanach](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ben-allanach/) - Professor Ben Allanach Professor Ben Allanach is Professor of Theoretical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He has held postdoctoral research appointments at CERN, LAPTH (France), the University of Cambridge, and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He holds Visiting Scientist status at CERN, where he continues to collaborate regularly.A particle phenomenologist, Professor
- [Paul J.C. van Laar](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/paul-j-c-van-laar/) - Paul J.C. van Laar Paul J.C. van Laar is a technical art historian based in Cambridge. He is Research Associate Scientific Research at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Hamilton Kerr Institute, where he combines advanced scientific analysis with art historical inquiry to explore artistic techniques, material choices, and evolving visual changes in works of art.Paul specializes
- [Gareth Jones](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/gareth-jones/) - Dr Gareth Jones Gareth is a research associate at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology and the Department of Physics. Following the completion of his PhD from the New Mexico Institute for Mining and Technology in 2018, he held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Cambridge (2018-2022) and the University of Oxford (2022-2024). His research
- [Linda Ruth Williams](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/linda-ruth-williams/) - Professor Linda Ruth Williams Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film at the University of Exeter. Her research specializes in women in the contemporary screen industries, mostly UK-focused but very much in an international context. She is part of two significant AHRC-funded projects investigating women’s work in the screen industries, considering filmmakers as creative labourers,
- [Keith Dear](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/keith-dear/) - Dr Keith Dear Keith is CEO & Founder of AI strategy start-up Cassi. Previously an Expert Adviser to the Prime Minister on Science, Technology, Space, and Modernising Defence, and an Intelligence Officer in the RAF. He has served in Iraq, completed three deployments to Afghanistan, deployed to Abkhazia (Georgia) with the United Nations, to Mali
- [Jordan Lane](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/jordan-lane/) - Dr Jordan Lane Dr Jordan Lane has extensive experience in the AI drug discovery space and is driven by a profound commitment to revolutionising drug discovery, integrating artificial intelligence with bioscience to enhance drug safety and efficacy. At Ignota Labs, Dr. Lane leads innovation, leveraging his extensive background in biochemistry, genetics, and AI to pioneer
- [Ayla Humphrey](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ayla-humphrey/) - Dr Ayla Humphrey Ayla Humphrey's work focuses on early identification of young people's mental health and developmental needs and the advancement of services for children & families to meet these needs. She is the Course Director for the MPhil Foundations of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and a practicing Clinical Psychologist in NHS Child and
- [Nikolai Kazantsev](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/nikolai-kazantsev/) - Dr Nikolai Kazantsev Dr Nikolai Kazantsev is a research associate at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. Nikolai's interdisciplinary research interests focus on system-level methodologies to develop, reconfigure, and deploy manufacturing and service capacities across supply chains. This work aims to enhance British society’s resilience in the face of future pandemics and other catastrophic disruptions
- [Li Su](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/su/) - Professor Li Su Professor Li Su is the head of the Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience Group, and has a joint appointment as Professor (Grade 12) in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield. Spanning over two universities, he leads a multi-disciplinary
- [Roman Staňo](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/roman-stano/) - Dr Roman Staňo Roman Staňo is a Postdoctoral Research Associate, working in the group of Rosana Collepardo-Guevara at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry. He uses computer modelling to investigate polymers, chromatin, droplets, gels and other soft materials. His research exists somewhere on the interface between physics and chemistry, trying to combine the two to
- [Saurav Dutta](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/saurav-dutta/) - Dr Saurav Dutta Saurav is a Palaeobiologist with the British Antarctic Survey's Palaeo Environments, Ice Sheets and Climate Change (PICC) research team. He utilizes taxonomic identification and geochemical analysis of Eocene and Oligocene fossil deposits to reconstruct ecological responses and adaptations of marine benthic fauna to climatic and environmental changes during Antarctica's pivotal greenhouse to
- [Fabio Pino](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/fabio-pino/) - Dr Fabio Pino Fabio Pino is a dynamic and curious researcher whose interests span fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, space exploration, and foreign languages. He earned three master's degrees via two double-degree programs—Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano, and General Engineering from École Centrale de Lyon—and completed the interdisciplinary Alta Scuola Politecnica
- [Lucia Tantardini](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/tantardini/) - Dr Lucia Tantardini Lucia Tantardini specialises in the Renaissance and Early Modern period, c. 1400-1600. Dr Tantardini holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Previously she worked at Christie’s London and at the Art Institute of Chicago. She joined Clare Hall as a Research Fellow and she is currently Official Fellow, Tutor, and Praelector.
- [Sonia Garcia Ruiz](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/sonia-garcia-ruiz/) - Dr Sonia Garcia Ruiz Sonia completed her PhD at University College London in 2023, focusing on splicing accuracy across human tissues, with a particular emphasis on the human brain. This led to multiple first-author publications (García-Ruiz S et al. NatComms 2025; García-Ruiz S et al. NAR 2023; García-Ruiz S et al. GigaByte 2023; García-Ruiz S
- [Alessandra Granata](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/alessandra-granata/) - Dr Alessandra Granata Dr Alessandra Granata is a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, and a group leader at the Cambridge Cardiovascular Interdisciplinary Research Centre. She is an accomplished stem cell biologist with extensive experience in disease modelling for cardiovascular and neurovascular disorders. Her research centres on using patient-derived
- [Wenlong Li](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/wenlong-li/) - Dr Wenlong Li Wenlong Li is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr Giulia Biffi’s group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute. He obtained his BSc and MSc in Pharmaceutical Science at Shandong University in China, and was awarded a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council in 2016 to pursue his doctoral studies. Wenlong carried out
- [Maria Chondronikola](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/maria-chondronikola/) - Dr Maria Chondronikola Dr Maria Chondronikola is a research scientist in human nutritional physiology and experimental medicine. Her research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms that regulate metabolic function and energy homeostasis in humans, with a particular emphasis on obesity and its associated complications, including insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, and hepatic steatosis.Dr Chondronikola began her academic journey
- [Annapaola Fedato](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/annapaola-fedato/) - Dr Annapaola Fedato Dr Annapaola Fedato completed her MSc in Natural Science at the University of Padua (Italy) in 2016, with a thesis on visuospatial integration and cognitive archaeology. She went on to pursue a PhD at the Spanish National Research Center for Human Evolution (CENIEH), where her research focused on the relationship between hand
- [Theodoros Papalas](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/theodoros-papalas/) - Dr Theodoros Papalas Theodoros Papalas is a chemical engineer who graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in November 2018 (3rd in a class of 120 students). In December 2018, he began his Ph.D. in the Laboratory of Petrochemical Technology within the Department of Chemical Engineering at Aristotle University, under the supervision of Prof. Angeliki
- [Daniel Richter](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/daniel-richter/) - Dr Daniel Richter Dr Daniel Richter currently is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He obtained a BSc and MSc in Interdisciplinary Sciences at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where he also obtained his PhD in Biology in 2024, working on the discovery and application of naturally occurring enzymes. He
- [Shigeru Akita](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/shigeru-akita/) - Professor Shigeru Akita Akita was born in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, in 1958, graduated from Hiroshima University (BA in History in 1981; MA in History in 1983), and received a PhD in history in 2003 from Osaka University. He worked at Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan, from 1985 to 2023, and has held the position
- [Souvik Sarkar](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/souvik-sarkar/) - Dr Souvik Sarkar Dr. Souvik Sarkar is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie/UKRI Fellow in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. As a researcher specializing in organic and supramolecular polymer chemistry, he focuses on the design and construction of molecules and assembled materials, and finally evaluate them for potential applications across the energy
- [Gabriel Reder](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/gabriel-reder/) - Dr Gabriel Reder Gabe Reder is dedicated to harnessing informatics, robotic automation, and artificial intelligence towards transforming biological laboratory research. With experience spanning metabolomics, systems biology, laboratory robotics, data science, and computational reasoning, he is especially interested in the interface between symbolic knowledge representation, generative AI, and physical automation for self-driving biological experimentation and discovery.In
- [Zak Kinsella](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/zak-kinsella/) - Dr Zak Kinsella Dr Kinsella is a Visiting Scholar at the Precision Breast Cancer Institute, Department of Oncology. Zak completed his PhD in Molecular Oncology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. His thesis explored breast cancer multi-omics with a particular focus on digital pathology, spatial proteomics, and spatial transcriptomics, and their use
- [Midori Yamaguchi](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/midori-yamaguchi/) - Professor Midori Yamaguchi Midori Yamaguchi is a professor at the Department of Sociology, Daito Bunka University, Tokyo. She specialises in gender history. Yamaguchi has researched the Victorian Anglican Church from a gender perspective. Her monograph, Daughters of the Anglican Clergy: Religion, Gender and Identity in Victorian England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), which developed from her doctoral
- [Sudipto Sarkar](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/sudipto-sarkar/) - Sudipto Sarkar Sudipto Sarkar was elected a Foundation Fellow at Clare Hall in 2025. He is a Barrister and Senior Advocate (SA) based in India. He was called to the Bar in 1973 by Gray’s Inn, London, and is an Associate Member of Six Pump Court Chambers, Temple, London. He has been practising as an
- [Malabika Sarkar](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/malabika-sarkar/) - Professor Malabika Sarkar Professor Malabika Sarkar was elected a Foundation Fellow at Clare Hall in 2025. She is an academic, former Vice-Chancellor and Professor of English. She was Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University, Delhi NCR, from 2019 to 2023 and Professor of English. As Principal Academic Advisor and Professor of English at Ashoka University from 2015,
- [Yi Feng](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/feng/) - Dr Yi Feng Dr Wai Yi Feng is the Director of Studies in Education (PET) and Fellow of Clare Hall. She was formerly a Royal Society Research Fellow in STEM education. Her research interest lies in understanding the impact of education programmes that aim to enrich students’ experience of STEM. Dr Feng has worked with
- [Jianfeng Feng](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/jianfeng-feng/) - Professor Jianfeng Feng Jianfeng Feng is the Professor of Computer Science at Warwick University, the chair professor of Shanghai National Centre for Mathematic Sciences, the Dean of Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence in Fudan University, and the Dean of the School of Data Science in Fudan University. Feng has spent much of
- [Xuanning Chen](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/xuanning-chen/) - Dr Xuanning Chen Dr. Xuanning Chen is a postdoctoral researcher and KTP associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Information Science and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Dr. Chen’s research centres on two interconnected areas: (1) The first is human-AI interaction, with a particular
- [Insung Bae](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/insung-bae-2/) - Professor Insung Bae Professor Insung Bae leads the Nanostructured Organic Materials Lab (NOML) at Hannam University, specializing in innovative organic materials for electronics and energy applications. His research includes the development of organic semiconductors and crystalline polymers for advanced thin-film devices like transistors, memory, and sensors. Additionally, his work with ion-transport electrolytes aims to improve
- [Karen Ersche](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ersche/) - Professor Karen Ersche Professor Karen Ersche joined Clare Hall in 2006 as a Betty Behrens Research Fellow, and was elected an Official Fellow in 2014. Karen is Professor of Addiction Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry. In the field of addiction, she is especially fascinated and encouraged by the way that advances in behavioural and
- [Michael Ngai](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ngai/) - Michael Ngai Michael Ngai is Chairman of The Red Group and Chairman of Asia GreenTech Fund. He has a wealth of experience in the international financial sector. Michael is also a member of the 12th, 13th, 14th National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC); Chairman of Hong Kong Finance Association; Council Chairman of
- [Norman Fraser](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/norman-fraser/) - Dr Norman Fraser Norman Fraser has spent more than 30 years founding and leading international IT businesses. In parallel, he has pursued academic research interests across a variety of disciplines, with particular emphasis on disciplinary interfaces. After studying Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh (MA Hons) and computer science at University College London (MSc), he
- [Ronan Agnew](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ronan-agnew/) - Dr Ronan Agnew Ronan Agnew is a glacier geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey and a postdoctoral affiliate of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge He uses active and passive seismic methods to study the processes beneath and within the Antarctic Ice Sheet, focussing particularly on understanding the processes at the glacier bed. During his PhD
- [Fatemeh Rezaee](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/fatemeh-rezaee/) - Dr Fatemeh Rezaee Fatemeh is a UKRI Fellow in Mathematics at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Research interest:-Algebraic geometry and homological algebra: geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves, derived categories,Bridgeland stability conditions on triangulated categories, birational geometry, Hilbert schemes, wall-crossing, stable maps.-Combinatorics, Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, Commutative Algebra: Hilbert scheme of points.-Pattern Recognition
- [Oliver Müller](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/oliver-muller-2/) - Dr Oliver Müller Dr Oliver Müller is an SNSF Ambizione Fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and is an expert on the detection and characterization of the faintest galaxies in the Universe – the dwarf galaxies. Oliver studied Physics at the University of Basel, where he also received his PhD in
- [Marilyn Reizbaum](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/marilyn-reizbaum/) - Professor Marilyn Reizbaum Marilyn Reizbaum is the Harrison King McCann Professor of English at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She works in the areas of modernist studies, contemporary Scottish and Irish literatures and film, Jewish cultural studies, the history of ideas. Her most recent book, Unfit: Jewish Degeneration and Modernism, considers the intersection between turn
- [Tanvi Solanki](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/tanvi-solanki/) - Professor Tanvi Solanki Tanvi Solanki is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature Yonsei University's Underwood International College in Seoul, South Korea. During 2024-2025 she will be Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. After receiving her BA from
- [Joseph Mason](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/joseph-mason/) - Dr Joseph Mason Joseph is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Music in Cambridge and an Official Fellow at Clare Hall. Prior to joining Clare Hall, Joseph was the Weston Junior Research Fellow in Music at New College, Oxford, and a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. Joseph's research centres on
- [Richmond Kwesi](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/richmond-kwesi/) - Dr Richmond Kwesi Dr Richmond Kwesi is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Classics in the School of Arts at the University of Ghana. He obtained his PhD in 2017 from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His teaching and research stems from a passion to engage in
- [Lawrence Hamilton](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/hamilton/) - Professor Lawrence Hamilton Lawrence Hamilton is Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Lawrence holds the SA UK Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory, Witwatersrand and Cambridge, where he teaches and researches on various topics in political theory, the history of political and economic thought and South African politics. He has
- [Steven Lu](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/steven-lu/) - Steven Lu Founder of an asset management firm: HL Oriental and a DeepTech Venture: SDA Cambridge. Cambridge EMBA, with 15 years of investment experience in Hong Kong. Born in Hunan China, Steven earned B.Eng and B.Sc from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He came to Hong Kong to study at HKUST as an exchange student in 2004,
- [Maélie Caussé](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/maelie-causse/) - Dr Maélie Caussé Maélie Caussé is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge's Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, in Chris Pickard's group. Her work focuses on searching superconductivity at high temperatures in hydrides, employing machine learning (ML) for high-throughput screening to identify groundbreaking materials.She completed her Ph.D. in 2024 at the French
- [Hannele Seeck](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/hannele-seeck/) - Professor Hannele Seeck Professor Seeck has published about 100 academic and professional publications. She leads the Disinformation, Propaganda & Soft Power Research Lab. The research conducted, for example, at University of Cambridge, LSE and LUT—which is global, interdisciplinary and critical with the profound aim of making the world a better place to live—has always been
- [Robin Stoll](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/robin-stoll/) - Dr Robin Stoll Robin completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Bonn, graduating in 2019. He completed his PhD in 2024 at Stockholm University under the supervision of Alexander Berglund, working on Algebraic Topology. Since September 2024, he is a postdoc in the group of Oscar Randal-Williams at the Department of
- [Yafei Wang](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/yafei-wang/) - Dr Yafei Wang Dr Wang is an Associate Professor at Central China Normal University, specializing in publishing. She is currently an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at Clare Hall College and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University Press and Assessment. Dr. Wang holds a PhD in cultural communication. For the past decade, she has been researching on
- [Lucy Helen Walker](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/lucy-helen-walker/) - Miss Lucy Helen Walker Lucy Walker (b.1998) is quickly establishing her place as one of Britain’s foremost emerging compositional voices. Originally from the North-East of England, Lucy is now based in Cambridge. She completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Gonville & Caius College, graduating in 2020 with double first-class honours, and the Sir
- [James Denholm](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/james-denholm/) - Dr James Denholm I currently hold a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Radiology (University of Cambridge) and with AstraZeneca. I develop methods using machine learning, AI and computer vision to combine and analyse multi-modal medical imaging data including histological images, spatial metabolomic data and immunofluorescence imaging. I work on projects concerning chronic kidney disease,
- [Haoyang Ye](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/haoyang-ye/) - Dr Haoyang Ye Haoyang is a research associate at the Astrophysics Group in the Department of Physics and has a particular interest in developing imaging and data analysis algorithms for radio telescopes. As a neurodivergent herself, Haoyang also works for ADRC as a mentor to support neurodivergent students.Haoyang holds a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering
- [Paul Dastoor](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/paul-dastoor/) - Professor Paul Dastoor Professor Paul Dastoor is Professor of Physics at the University of Newcastle in Australia. He received his B.A. degree in Natural Sciences and his PhD in Surface Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is Director of the Centre for Organic Electronics, which he established in 2007. He has been Visiting Research
- [Ivan Jankovic](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ivan-jankovic/) - Dr Ivan D. Jankovic Dr Ivan D. Jankovic was elected a Foundation Fellow at Clare Hall in 2014. He read Criminology at the College in 1970-71. He retired as a practicing lawyer in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2013. In 2012, Dr Jankovic generously established The Ivan D. Jankovic Studentship Fund at Clare Hall in support of
- [Tam Marshall-Watts](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/tam-marshall-watts/) - Tam Marshall-Watts Tam Marshall-Watts was Registrar at Clare Hall at a time of growth and change for the college. Her background is in academia and healthcare from London to Saudi Arabia and then ending up in Cambridge! Tam joined the University in 2019, working at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and is
- [Ems Lord](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/lord/) - Dr Ems Lord Dr Ems Lord is Director of NRICH, the University of Cambridge’s flagship mathematics outreach project. Her research focuses on widening participation in mathematics, especially addressing the gender imbalance in mathematical attainment and academic progression among female mathematicians. Dr Lord's interests include the teaching and learning of problem-solving skills and the potential of
- [Hendrik Puschmann](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/puschmann/) - Hendrik Puschmann was a student at Clare Hall from 2004 to 2006 and is now a Fellow Commoner. A commercial lawyer, he provides legal advice to the College when needed (thankfully, not very often), was one of the chairs of the 2016 Campaign – the fundraising campaign for the College’s 50th anniversary – and has
- [Jingyi Jenny Zhao](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/zhao/) - Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao is ISF Senior Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. Dr Zhao completed her BA, MPhil and PhD degrees in Classics at the University of Cambridge. She works in the area of Sino-Hellenic Studies, taking a comparative perspective on the philosophical traditions of ancient Greece and
- [Julia Hedgecoe Dawson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/hedgecoedawson/) - Julia is a professional photographer, attended The Guildford School of Photography whose teaching was based on The Bauhaus tradition. Her career began in Fleet Street working as a picture researcher on The Observer, then as a freelance photographer for The Telegraph and various other newspapers and magazines; some advertising, and work with musicians including at
- [Lewis Bremner](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/lewis-bremner/) - Dr Lewis Bremner Dr Bremner is the Soon-Young Kim Fellow in the History of East Asian Science and Technology at the Needham Research Institute, and an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at Clare Hall. He is a historian of science, technology, and medicine with a primary focus on Japan. He received his DPhil in History from the
- [Alexander Anderson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/alexander-anderson/) - Dr Alexander Anderson Dr Alexander Anderson is a Career Development Fellow in the Cell Biology Division at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB). His research investigates how metabolism activates broader regulatory programs within cells. He is interested in the role of mitochondria in brain development and explores the cell-specific specialisation of
- [Birgit Rogalla](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/birgit-rogalla/) - Dr Birgit Rogalla Birgit Rogalla is a physicist turned oceanographer from the flatlands of the Netherlands and the mountains of Canada. Her research interests lie in understanding how humans change the physical dynamics and biogeochemical cycles of the polar regions, with a focus on trace element cycling in the Arctic Ocean and Antarctic ocean-ice shelf
- [Chiara Azzi](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/chiara-azzi/) - Dr Chiara Azzi Dr Chiara Azzi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Babraham Institute. Her research is driven by a deep interest in molecular mechanisms that regulate developmental processes of multicellular systems, through transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation. Dr Azzi’s experience in developmental and RNA biology began during her Master's thesis internship in Prof Donal O’Carroll's
- [Valeria Ramirez](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/valeria-ramirez/) - Dr Valeria Ramirez Valeria is a Research Associate at the Policy Evidence Unit for University Commercialisation and Innovation (UCI). Her research lies at the intersection of innovations and society, examining how communities of practice create, use, adopt and adapt new technologies. She specialises in digital performance metrics, evaluation, and quantification. Her doctoral research explored the
- [Ben de Souza](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/desouza/) - Ben de Souza is a British choral conductor, accordionist and singer. He is the Founding Director of the choir at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and is currently Musical Director of Farnham & Bourne Choral Society and Newbury Chamber Choir, and is Director of Music at Earley St Peter’s Church, Reading. In 2023 he was appointed the
- [Philip Campbell](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/campbell/) - Sir Philip Campbell Sir Philip Campbell has spent most of his career as a professional editor in science publishing. After post-doctoral research in upper-atmospheric physics at the University of Leicester, he became Physical Sciences Editor at Nature, and then, in 1988, the founding Editor-in-Chief of Physics World at the UK's Institute of Physics. In 1995 he was appointed
- [Andrew Blake](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/blake/) - Professor Andrew Blake Andrew Blake, FREng FRS is a pioneer in the development of the theory and algorithms that make it possible for computers to behave as seeing machines. Following an election by the Fellowship, Andrew became Vice-President of Clare Hall in August 2024. His interests are primarily in automating the analysis of images and tracking
- [Shelly Singh-Gryzbon](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/shelly-singh-gryzbon/) - Dr Shelly Singh-Gryzbon Shelly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Her work involves the application of fundamental engineering principles, such as fluid dynamics and structural mechanics, to solve clinically relevant problems. Shelly uses computational modelling and simulation to discover mechanistic relationships for improved understanding of the development and progression
- [Helen Pennant](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/pennant/) - Helen has been a fellow of Clare Hall since July 2013 when she arrived in Cambridge from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver to take up her role as Director of the Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust. Helen has always been fascinated by the diversity different cultures offer and has a strong belief
- [Ann Kennedy Smith](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ann-kennedy-smith/) - Dr Ann Kennedy Smith Ann Kennedy Smith is a writer, researcher, and literary critic. She grew up in Ballycastle, County Antrim and gained her first degree in French and German (joint honours) at Trinity College Dublin. She began her studies at Queens’ College Cambridge in 1985, and received her PhD on Charles Baudelaire’s art criticism
- [Khaled Soufani](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/soufani/) - Professor Khaled Soufani Professor Soufani holds a Masters in Applied Economics and a PhD in Financial Economics. He is Management Practice Professor of Financial Economics and Policy, and a member of the Economics and Policy group at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Professor Soufani has published extensively in economics and finance in areas
- [Alan Short](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/short/) - Professor C. Alan Short Professor Alan Short read Architecture at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Senior Scholarship, winning a postgraduate Exchange Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He was appointed the 5th Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University in 2001, succeeding Sir Leslie Martin, Bill Howell and Sir Colin
- [Mene Pangalos](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/pangalos/) - Sir Menelas (Mene) Pangalos Sir Mene Pangalos, PhD FRSB FMedSci, was appointed by AstraZeneca as Executive Vice-President, R&D BioPharmaceuticals in January 2019. He was responsible for BioPharmaceutical R&D from discovery through to late-stage development covering Cardiovascular, Renal, Metabolism, Respiratory, Inflammation, Autoimmune, Microbial Science and Neuroscience areas. Prior to this, Mene served as Executive Vice-President of
- [Erma Hermens](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/hermens/) - Professor Erma Hermens Professor Erma Hermens is Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation and the Conservation and Science division at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She leads a team of conservators and heritage scientists, liaising between curators, conservators and scientists, combining art historical and contextual research of art with scientific analytical data, digital
- [Elizabeth Ashman Rowe](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ashmanrowe/) - Professor Elizabeth Ashman Rowe Elizabeth Ashman Rowe's area of research is the history and culture of Scandinavia in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, roughly from 750 AD to 1500 AD. Most of her work arises from a simple starting point, namely that in an era before printing, there was no such thing as
- [Holly Hedgeland](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/hedgeland/) - Dr Holly Hedgeland Dr Holly Hedgeland is Senior Tutor at Clare Hall. She has an established research background in surface science, with a particular interest in dynamical phenomena at surfaces. Dr Hedgeland began her research career at the Cavendish Laboratory in the Helium Atom Scattering group, conducting doctoral work to benchmark the novel experimental technique
- [Per Reiff-Musgrove](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/reiffmusgrove/) - Per Reiff-Musgrove is responsible for the non-academic side of Clare Hall. Together with the staff, Per works to ensure that governance of the College is well managed through the Governing Body, Council and the Finance Committee. Support services are the cornerstone of college life and he oversees the provision of well-organised accommodation, porters, housekeeping and
- [Pietro Liò](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/lio/) - Professor Pietro Liò Pietro Liò is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group. Professor Liò is also a member of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine. His research focuses on developing Artificial Intelligence and Computational Biology models to understand diseases'
- [Florian Fischer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/florian-fischer/) - Dr Florian Fischer Dr Florian Fischer is a postdoctoral researcher in the Intelligent Interactive Systems group in the Department of Engineering, working on the understanding and development of efficient, ergonomic and accessible interaction between humans and digital devices. He is particularly interested in how computational methods from control theory and machine learning can contribute to
- [Buzz Baum](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/buzz-baum/) - Professor Buzz Baum Professor Buzz Baum is a group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where his team studies the cell biology of archaea and the origins of complex cells. Buzz was named after the second man on the moon, but was always more interested in life than space. He grew
- [John West](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/john-west/) - John West CEO, now retired, of one of the most successful spinout companies from Cambridge: Solexa. It is now the DNA sequencing technology of Illumina, broadly used in the Covid pandemic, prenatal testing, and cancer. John’s career has leveraged both engineering and molecular technologies to enable advances in science and medicine. Beginning with a childhood
- [Judy West](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/judy-west/) - Professor Judy West Wharton MBA, 18 years corporate experience in business and finance roles, followed by 15 years as a business focused Economics Professor. Born in Minneapolis, West completed a B.A., cum laude, with a major concentration in Economics, Wellesley College, Massachusetts. She was one of two students chosen annually to spend her junior year
- [Fiona Blake](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/fiona-blake/) - Fiona Blake has had a long career as a psychiatrist in Oxford and Cambridge. She took a special interest in maternal mental illness and the service provision for mentally ill homeless people. She is currently a medical member of the Mental Health Tribunal service. She has also had long term interest in the visual arts.
- [Rachel Sippy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/rachel-sippy/) - Dr Rachel Sippy Dr Rachel Sippy is a JRF conducting epidemiologic research focusing on the drivers and determinants of infectious disease seasonality and dynamics, primarily focusing on dengue fever and other mosquito-borne arboviruses. Data are a critical scientific resource, integral to the scientific process. Technological improvements have increased the precision of our measurements as well
- [Adnan Haider](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/adnan-haider/) - Dr Adnan Haider Dr Adnan Haider is a Senior ML Research Scientist and Engineer at Apple. Adnan joined Apple as an ML Research Scientist and Engineer in 2019. Throughout his research career, Adnan primarily focused on the challenge of automatic speech recognition (ASR). ASR technology seamlessly transforms spoken words into text or commands, revolutionising hands-free
- [David Cope](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/cope/) - Professor David Cope David Cope was elected a Foundation Fellow of College in 2014, having been a Life Member since 2008. From 1998 to 2012 he was Director of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology at the UK Parliament. Further links Professional website
- [Eric Nye](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/eric-nye/) - Professor Eric Nye An Emeritus Professor, Eric has relocated to Cambridge where he continues his research on the early Cambridge Apostles, especially John Sterling (1806-1844) whose life and letters he will publish. During his PhD work on Coleridge at the University of Chicago, a Rotary Foundation Scholarship brought him first to Queen’ College, and he
- [Edward Coales](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/coales-e/) - Edward John Coales Edward Coales studied Farm Management before running a small farm in Leicestershire between 1960 and 1974. He then worked in management for two agricultural co-operatives. In 1981 he became Local Secretary for the National Farmers Union in Suffolk until his retirement in 2001. He became a supporter of Clare Hall after his
- [Adrian du Plessis](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/duplessis/) - Adrian du Plessis Adrian du Plessis was born in South Africa and educated at Natal University and Stanford University. After teaching in Swaziland for three years until independence in 1968, he joined Cambridge University Press in 1969 as an editor. Adrian created a list in English as a Foreign Language for CUP and when he
- [Sohini Kar-Narayan](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/karnarayan/) - Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan Working in the Device Materials Group here at Cambridge, Professor Kar-Narayan’s research aims at developing functional nanomaterials and devices for applications in energy, sensing and biomedicine. Her work involves piezoelectric, ferroelectric, magnetoelectric and thermoelectric nanostructures for harvesting and harnessing ambient waste energies, and extending these functionalities to sensing applications as well. She
- [Christelle Langley](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/christelle-langley/) - Dr Christelle Langley Dr Christelle Langley is a Cognitive Neuroscientist, she received her PhD from the University of Bristol in 2019. Her PhD focused on understanding the relationship between fatigue and cognition in Multiple Sclerosis, with particular emphasis on the neural mechanisms. She joined the University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry in Professor Barbara J
- [Michael Zimmermann](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/michael-zimmermann/) - After forty years as a career diplomat in the Austrian Foreign Service, Michael Zimmermann joined Clare Hall as an Honorary Fellow in 2023. His most recent assignment was as Austrian Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, and his association with Cambridge goes back more than twenty years, when he was director of the Austrian
- [Malcolm Millbrook](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/malcolm-millbrook/) - Mr Malcolm Millbrook Malcolm Millbrook’s connection with the University of Cambridge began in 2008, when he joined the Faculty of History to work within its General Enquires Office. In 2010 he became a jack of all trades administrator in the Division of Social and Developmental Psychology, which in 2012 merged with the Department of Experimental
- [Eugene Wong](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/eugene-wong/) - Professor Eugene Wong Eugene Wong was elected a Foundation Fellow at Clare Hall in 2024, having been an early Visiting Fellow of the College (1968-69). He has had a varied career that includes 35 years on the Berkeley faculty and service as Associate Director of Science and Technology Policy in the first Bush White House
- [Susan Coales](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/coales-s/) - Susan Coales (pen name: Sue Heaser) Susan Coales is an author, illustrator and teacher with a lifelong interest in the jewellery arts. Her career began in Archaeology - working as a Finds Assistant for the Museum of London and then as an illustrator for English Heritage, drawing ancient jewellery from all over Britain. She is
- [Juan Rodríguez-Molina](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/rodriguezmolina/) - Dr Juan B Rodríguez-Molina Dr Juan Rodríguez-Molina is a Research Fellow of Clare Hall whose research focuses on biochemistry and structural biology. Genomes carry the information needed for cells to grow, develop and survive. Our genomes (and the genes within them), however, are inert if they are not decoded to produce bioactive molecules such as
- [Ursula Smith](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ursula-smith/) - Professor Ursula Smith Ursula Smith is a member of the Fitzwilliam Quartet and has taught at Guildhall since 2011. She is an established international chamber musician who has played at events including the Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Schleswig-Holstein and Salzburg festivals, and has collaborated with musicians including Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Steven Isserlis, Heinz Holliger, Marieke Blankestijn and
- [Chun Shen](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/chun-shen/) - Dr Chun Shen Dr Chun Shen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Fudan University; a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience; and an Affiliated Postdoc at Clare Hall. Dr Shen has a multidisciplinary educational background including Philosophy (bachelor, 2011), Psychology (master, 2013), and Biomedical Engineering (PhD, 2020). Her research interests are focused on
- [Daniel de Malmazet de Saint-Andeol](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/daniel-de-malmazet-de-saint-andeol/) - Dr Daniel de Malmazet Dr Daniel de Malmazet is an Affiliated Postdoctoral Member at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Daniel de Malmazet studied optical engineering in Paris and later obtained a Master’s degree in Cognitive Sciences from Grenoble. Despite having studied mainly mathematics, physics and engineering, Daniel became interested in the innerworkings of the
- [Jonathan Cornwell](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonathan-cornwell/) - Mr Jonathan Cornwell Johnny Cornwell is Director of the Science & Human Dimension Project at Clare Hall, Cambridge. As director of the Science & Human Dimension Project, he convenes interdisciplinary conferences which bring together the research community with experts from industry, government, the arts and the media, to broaden the appreciation of new ideas and
- [Jehangir Cama](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/jehangir-cama/) - Dr Jehangir Cama Dr Jehangir Cama is a biophysicist, translational scientist and entrepreneur. He completed his PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge and the Cavendish Laboratory, focusing on biological membrane transport processes, with a particular interest in the transport of small molecule antibiotics across bacterial and biomimetic membranes. He developed expertise in the use and development
- [Elizabeth Barsotti](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/elizabeth-barsotti/) - Dr Elizabeth Barsotti Dr Barsotti is a Career Development Fellow in neurobiology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience; and an Affiliated Postdoc at Clare Hall. Her PhD is in petroleum engineering from the University of Wyoming, where she invented and patented
- [Ping Sheng](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ping-sheng/) - Professor Ping Sheng Ping Sheng is a senior member of the Institute for Advanced Study and Professor Emeritus at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Ping Sheng is a senior member of the Institute for Advanced Study and Professor Emeritus at HKUST. He obtained his BSc in Physics from the California Institute of Technology,
- [Georg Maierhofer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/georg-maierhofer/) - Dr Georg Maierhofer Dr Georg Maierhofer is a Henslow Research Fellow at Clare Hall, his research interests lie in the broad field of numerical analysis for partial differential equations and applications of computational mathematics. Dr Maierhofer completed his PhD degree as a research scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, working on the design of efficient techniques
- [Dieter R. Tetzner](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/dieter-r-tetzner/) - Dr. Dieter Tetzner Dieter Tetzner is a Chilean Geologist with a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on the use of ice core records to reconstruct past environmental changes in polar and sub-polar regions. His approach combines traditional ice chemistry with the novel analysis of insoluble microparticles trapped
- [Daniela Rhodes](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/rhodes/) - Professor Daniela Rhodes Prof. Daniela Rhodes, FRS, is a distinguished structural and molecular biologist. She was a senior scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, where she worked, and later studied for her PhD under the supervision of Nobel laureate Aaron Klug. Continuing her work under the tutelage of Aaron Klug at Cambridge,
- [Freya Clementine Cruickshank Johnson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/freya-clementine-cruickshank-johnson/) - Dr Freya Clementine Cruickshank Johnson Dr Johnson is an 1851 Research Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Dr Johnson is an 1851 Research Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Her research involves atomic-precision growth of antiferromagnetic thin films, advanced electronic and magnetic characterisation, and ultrafast spectroscopy, to develop materials for high
- [Yasser Qureshy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/yasser-qureshy/) - Dr Yasser Qureshy Dr Yasser Qureshy is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Faculty of Divinity and the University of Cambridge. Dr Qureshy read for a MA in Ancient Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (Oriel College) with a dissertation on Aristotle’s theory of metabasis in the Posterior Analytics and a PhD
- [Helen Ritchie](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/helen-ritchie/) - Ms Helen Ritchie Helen Ritchie is a Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Applied Arts at The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. She is responsible for European applied arts dating from 1700 to the present, including the acquisition of work by contemporary artists. Her research interests include British Studio Ceramics, contemporary crafts, European design post-1850, Artist/Designer
- [Helen Curry](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/helen-curry/) - Dr Helen Curry Dr Helen Curry researches and teaches the history of recent science and technology, especially as it relates to food and agriculture. Helen Anne Curry is a University Senior Lecturer in the history of science and technology, and a fellow and director of studies in the History and Philosophy of Science at Churchill
- [Richard McMahon](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/richard-mcmahon/) - Professor Richard McMahon Richard McMahon is a Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, and a founding member of Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP) team that discovered the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae. The team leader Saul Perlmutter was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery. Professor McMahon was
- [Caroline Humphrey](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/caroline-humphrey-dbe-fba/) - Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey FBA Caroline Humphrey, FBA, is an anthropologist who has worked in Russia, Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang), India, Nepal and Ukraine. She has researched a wide range of themes including Soviet and post-Soviet provincial economy and society; Buryat and Daur shamanism; Jain religion and ritual; trade and barter in Nepal;
- [Adriano Gualandi](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/adriano-gualandi/) - Professor Adriano Gualandi Adriano Gualandi is an Assistant Professor in Geophysics at the Department of Earth Sciences. He is an Assistant Professor in Geophysics at the Department of Earth Sciences and an Official Fellow of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge (UK). He is also a visiting researcher at the Italian National Earthquake Observatory
- [Johan Gärdebo](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/johan-gardebo/) - Dr. Johan Gärdebo Johan Gärdebo is a Research Fellow of Clare Hall (2023–2025), an associate of the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics, and a visiting scholar at the Department of History of Science. He studies climate knowledge and decarbonisation policies as these interplay in local, national, and transnational settings, from late 1800s to the present. Gärdebo is currently collaborating on
- [David Duncan](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/david-duncan/) - Dr David Duncan Dr. Duncan's research at Cambridge on the Score Design project is looking into whether modifications to the appearance of musical notation can make it significantly easier to read at first sight. David is a Research Fellow at Clare Hall. He is a composer and music notation specialist, currently working as a research
- [Gustav Zamore](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/zamore/) - Dr Gustav Zamore Dr Gustav Zamore is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Faculty of History and a Research Fellow at Clare Hall. He obtained his doctorate in History from the University of Oxford in 2017, and holds a BA and MA from the University of Uppsala, with Latin as his main subject, and
- [Ian Strachan](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/strachan/) - Ian Strachan served as Bursar from 2017 to 2022.
- [Trudi Tate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/tate/) - Dr Trudi Tate Dr Trudi Tate is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English. She works on English literature from the 1850s to the present day, with a particular interest in how literature attempts to bear witness to events of its time, particularly in times of war.
- [Amanda Walker](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/walker/) - Amanda enjoyed a happy few years as Bursar of Clare Hall. At the close of her term, her election to Emeritus Fellow was warmly received.
- [Jenny Bangham](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/bangham/) - Dr Jenny Bangham Jenny Bangham is a historian of science, interested in the practices, politics and representations of genetics. Her Wellcome Trust-funded project asks how scientific communities come together to produce community resources, such as repositories, newsletters and databases. It traces the early history of FlyBase, an online genetic database that orders and communicates genetic
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- [Stephen Toope](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/toope/) - Professor Stephen Toope Professor Toope joined Cambridge after a distinguished career as a scholar and academic leader. He was Director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs (2015-2017), and before that President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia (2006-2014). He served as President of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (2002-2006),
- [Elizabeth Garnsey](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/garnsey/) - Dr Elizabeth Garnsey Educated in Geneva, Dr Garnsey majored in economics at Oxford and completed a master’s degree and PhD (1975) in political economy at the University of California. Her doctoral research revealed the inability of the Soviet system to foster economic innovation. The rise of Silicon Valley while she was a student in California
- [Laura Castelli](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/castelli/) - Dr Laura M. Castelli Dr Castelli studied Music in Como and Philosophy in Pisa, Tübingen and Oxford. She received her piano diploma from the Conservatoire of Novara in 2001 and her doctorate in Philosophy from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 2008. Before joining the Faculty of Classics in 2022, she worked at the
- [Carolyn Emma Kirkby](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/kirkby/) - Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby, DBE, is an English soprano and one of the world's most renowned early music specialists. She has sung on over 100 recordings. Kirkby was a founding member of the Taverner Choir, and in 1973 began her long association with the Consort of Musicke. She took part in
- [Melanne Verveer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/verveer/) - Melanne Verveer served as the first US Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, nominated for the position by President Obama in 2009, and is now the Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, working to promote a more stable, peaceful and just world by focusing on the important role women play in
- [Peter Wadhams](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/wadhams/) - Professor Peter Wadhams Professor Wadhams is currently head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at DAMTP and became Emeritus Professor in October 2015. He is the UK’s most experienced sea ice scientist, with 40 years of research in sea ice and ocean processes in the Arctic and the Antarctic. He is the author of numerous
- [Martin Rees](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/lord-martin-rees/) - Professor Lord Martin Rees Martin Rees is the UK's Astronomer Royal. He is based at Cambridge University where he is a Fellow (and Former Master) of Trinity College. He is a 'crossbencher' in the House of Lords and was President of the Royal Society for the period 2005-10. He obtained his MA and PhD at
- [Madeline Lancaster](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/lancaster/) - Dr Madeline Lancaster Dr Madeline Lancaster is a Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in Cambridge. Dr Lancaster studied biochemistry at Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA, before completing a PhD in 2010 in biomedical sciences at the University
- [Gillian Beer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/beer/) - Professor Dame Gillian Beer Dame Gillian was the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1994 until her retirement in 2002. She is a former President of Clare Hall and now Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall and Girton College. An Andrew W Mellon Senior Scholar at
- [Petar Veličković](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/velickovic/) - Dr Petar Veličković Dr Petar Veličković is a Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), obtained under the supervision of Professor Pietro Liò’, who is a Fellow of Clare Hall. Dr Veličković's research concerns
- [Frances Spalding](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/spalding/) - Professor Frances Spalding Frances Spalding is an art historian and biographer. She began publishing pieces for The Times Literary Supplement, The Burlington Magazine and other journals while still a postgraduate student. Her British Art Since 1900, in Thames & Hudson’s World of Art series, established her as a specialist in 20th-century British art. She then
- [Athanassios Fokas](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/fokas/) - Professor Athanassios S. Fokas Professor Fokas has a BSc in Aeronautics from Imperial College (1975), a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology (1979), and an MD from the University of Miami (1986). In 1996 he was appointed to a Chair in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College. In 2002 he was appointed
- [Kevin Thompson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/thompson/) - Professor Kevin Thompson Professor Kevin Thompson is Master of Colêgio Memorial Moon Chun and President of the Macau European Chambers of Commerce. Recognised internationally as one of the most pre-eminent performing conservatoire and arts academy directors, he became the UK’s youngest president when he was appointed to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 1988. He was
- [Tony Street](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/street/) - Dr Tony Street Dr Street’s research interests focus on the intellectual history of the Islamic world through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE, a period of fruitful tension between Aristotelian philosophy and the Islamic sciences. He concentrates above all on the logical texts which developed through this period, and the reasons for their growing independence
- [Keith Peters](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/peters/) - Professor Sir Keith Peters Professor Sir Keith Peters, FRS, was the President of the Academy of Medical Sciences from 2002-2006. He is Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge and Senior Consultant in Research and Development for GlaxoSmithKline. He graduated in Medicine from the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1961. After posts in
- [Juha Jäykkä](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/jaykka/) - Dr Juha Jäykkä Juha made a 15-year career in mathematical physics, where his research interests included gravity, high energy physics, superconductors, and development of algorithms and research software for supercomputers. In 2018, he moved to Arm Ltd to lead a research software engineering team developing a computer architecture simulator called gem5.
- [Michael Evans](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/evans/) - Dr Michael Evans Dr Evans specialises in second- and foreign-language education. His recent research and writings have focused on the relationship between identity and additional language learning. He is co-investigator of the education strand of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded interdisciplinary study Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies. This work examines the link between
- [Hans Graf](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/graf/) - Professor Dr Hans F. Graf Professor Graf held the Chair in Environmental Systems Analysis until his retirement in December 2015. He contributed widely to the understanding of climate variability, the effects of volcanic activity on the Earth System, and the role that clouds play for the energetics of atmospheric circulation. Professor Graf has a special
- [Lucy Russell](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/russell/) - Lucy Anne Russell is a violinist and member of our Quartet-in-Residence, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. She was born in Germany of Scottish/Norwegian origin, but has lived mainly in London. Lucy was a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal Academy of Music, going on to take music degrees at the University of York, where she gave the
- [Alan George](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/george/) - Dr Alan George Alan George plays viola in our Quartet-in-Residence, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. He comes from Cornwall and studied violin with Colin Sauer at Dartington Hall, viola with Herbert Downes in London, and chamber music with Sidney Griller at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1968 he won an open scholarship to King’s College
- [Helaine Blumenfeld](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/blumenfeld/) - Helaine Blumenfeld OBE grew up in New York and studied Moral Philosophy at Columbia University, receiving a PhD in 1964. She moved to Paris where she studied sculpture with Ossip Zadkine, and had her first solo exhibition in Palais Palfy, Vienna. Most notable recent exhibitions include: Salisbury Cathedral, Pilane Sculpture Park, Huygens Hofwijck Museum, Canary
- [Marilynne Robinson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/robinson/) - Professor Marilynne Summers Robinson Marilynne Robinson was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, USA in 1943. She attended public schools in Idaho, then Pembroke College in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, graduating in 1966. She attended graduate school at the University of Washington, Seattle, completing her PhD in 1971 with a thesis on Shakespeare. Her first novel,
- [Francis Wells](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/wells-f/) - Francis Wells is a Cardiothoracic surgeon based at the Royal Papworth Hospital, part of the University of Cambridge group of specialist hospitals. Francis trained in London, Cambridge and the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was senior Research Fellow to Professor John Kirklin, a founding father of modern cardiac surgical practice. His specialist
- [George van Kooten](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/vankooten/) - Professor George van Kooten George van Kooten is the Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity - the oldest endowed chair in the University of Cambridge, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1502. As her epitaph in Westminster Abbey states, ‘Margaret of Richmond, mother of Henry VII, grandmother of Henry VIII … gave a salary … to
- [John Parker](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/parker/) - Professor John S. Parker Professor John S Parker was the Director of the Botanic Garden from 1996-2010. He studied Botany at Oxford, where he conducted research for his doctorate on plant chromosomes and natural populations.
- [Julius Lipner](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/lipner/) - Professor Julius J. Lipner Professor Lipner, FBA, has lectured widely in the UK and abroad, and has been appointed visiting scholar and visiting professor in a number of universities both nationally and internationally. He has made a number of radio and TV appearances and is a member of the editorial board of several international journals.
- [Ra Jong-yil](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/jongtil/) - Professor Ra Jong-yil Ra Jong-yil is a former South Korean ambassador who has written books on politics concerning North Korea. He completed his BA and MA at Seoul National University before coming to Cambridge to complete a PhD at Trinity College. Later he became a Professor at Kyung Hee University and a Fullbright Senior Fellow
- [Patrick Hemmerlé](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/hemmerle/) - Patrick Hemmerlé Acclaimed for the originality of his concert programmes and the depth of his interpretations, Patrick Hemmerlé is a French pianist living in England. He is Clare Hall's Musician-in-Residence and is Artistic Director of the Intimate Engagements concert series. Patrick's vast repertoire encompasses a large body of works, including the 24 Chopin Etudes and
- [Stuart Dalziel](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/dalziel/) - Professor Stuart Dalziel Professor Stuart Dalziel has run the University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics’ GK Batchelor Laboratory for over 20 years. Stuart is a New Zealand and British fluid dynamicist. After his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science in Auckland, he completed his PhD in Cambridge in 1988 under the supervision
- [Robert Carlyon](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/carlyon/) - Dr Robert Carlyon Dr Robert Carlyon leads a research group at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit that investigates the basic processes of both healthy hearing and that experienced by profoundly deaf people whose hearing has been restored by a cochlear implant (CIs). His group's research with normal-hearing listeners investigates questions such as how
- [Stephen Bourne](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/bourne/) - Stephen R. R. Bourne For the first 21 years of his life Stephen lived in Uganda, Tanganyika and Kenya. An MA in French and German came from Scotland and he taught English for a year in France. England provided him with a chartered accountancy qualification, which he took with him to Hong Kong, where he
- [Lee Bollinger](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/bollinger/) - Professor Lee C. Bollinger Lee C. Bollinger became Columbia University’s 19th President in 2002 and is the longest serving Ivy League president. He is Columbia’s first Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Law School faculty, and one of the nation’s foremost First Amendment scholars. Professor Bollinger is widely published on legal
- [Manohar Bance](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/bance/) - Professor Manohar Bance Professor Manohar Bance is the inaugural Professor of Otology and Skull Base Surgery at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant at the Cambridge University Hospitals Trust (Addenbrookes), appointed in 2017. Before his arrival in Cambridge, he was Professor and Head of the Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Dalhousie University
- [Robert Anderson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/anderson/) - Dr Robert G. W. Anderson Dr Anderson came to Clare Hall as an Official Fellow in 2006, having spent most of his career working in national museums, initially as a curator, and latterly as director, first of the National Museums of Scotland (1984–92) and then of the British Museum (1992–2002). In the period between these
- [Charles Smith](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/smith-c/) - Professor Charles G. Smith Professor Smith has worked on nano-electrical and nano-mechanical devices since 1985. He pioneered electrical transport work on GaAs quantum dots and techniques for measuring single electron charge movement in those dots, initially at low frequencies and more recently high frequencies readout techniques for quantum technology applications. He has developed a number
- [Hugh Markus](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/markus/) - Professor Hugh Markus Hugh Markus was appointed Professor of Stroke Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Cambridge University Hospitals Trust in 2013. He was an undergraduate at Cambridge and Oxford universities before training in Medicine and Neurology in Oxford, Nottingham, and London. Before his current appointment, Hugh was Professor of
- [David Ibbetson](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ibbetson/) - Professor David Ibbetson David Ibbetson was President of Clare Hall between 2013 and 2020. He holds the Regius Professorship of Civil Law at the University. Before taking up the chair in 2000, he taught at Oxford, and was subsequently a Fellow of Corpus Christi College between 2000 and 2013. Professor Ibbetson's research is in the
- [Martin Harris](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/harris-m/) - Sir Martin Harris Sir Martin Harris, CBE is a British academic and former University Vice-Chancellor. He began his academic career at the University of Leicester in 1967, where he lectured in French Linguistics. Sir Martin then spent fifteen years at the University of Salford as a Senior Lecturer, Professor of Linguistics, Dean and, later, Pro-Vice-Chancellor.
- [Graeme Harrower](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/harrower/) - Graeme Harrower Graeme practised law in the City of London for 30 years and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute ofTaxation. He served as a councillor in the City of London Corporation for seven years.
- [Geoffrey Cass](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/cass/) - Sir Geoffrey Cass Sir Geoffrey was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Darlington, County Durham, at Jesus College, Oxford and Nuffield College, Oxford. An Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Sir Geoffrey is also a member of Jesus College, Cambridge. He was a Trustee of the Cambridge University Foundation and Chairman of the Audit Committee, while
- [Hettie Ward](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ward/) - Hettie Ward is the Assistant Keeper in the Paintings, Drawings and Prints department at the Fitzwilliam Museum and has a special interest in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings. She has curated the exhibitions, Scent from Nature: Beauty's botanical origins, Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours and Brueghel and his time: Landscape drawings from
- [Berta Verd](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/verd/) - Dr Berta Verd Dr Verd is Associate Professor of Computational and Theoretical Biology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow in the Biological Sciences at Jesus College, Oxford. A mathematician by training, Dr Verd spent a year studying a Masters degree in Sociology of Science before starting to
- [Michael Green](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/green/) - Professor Michael B. Green Professor Green, FRS HonFInstP, is a British physicist and a pioneer of string theory. He is Professor of Theoretical Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London; Emeritus Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge; and was Lucasian Professor
- [Norman Davies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/davies/) - Professor Norman Davies Professor Davies, CMG, FBA, FLSW, FRSL, FRHistS, is an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall and of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is Professor Emeritus of UCL-SSEES.
- [Murray Stewart](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/stewart/) - Dr Murray J. Stewart Dr Stewart is an Emeritus Scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where he works on the molecular mechanism by which macromolecules, such as proteins and ribonucleic acids, are transported into and out of cell nuclei through nuclear pores. Further links Professional profile
- [Christopher Hope](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/hope/) - Dr Christopher W. Hope Dr Hope was specialist adviser to the inquiry into Aspects of the Economics of Climate Change by the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs. He was also an adviser on the Policy Analysis of the Greenhouse Effect (PAGE) model to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.
- [David Neal](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/neal/) - Professor David E Neal David currently works as Senior Vice President for Global Research at Elsevier / RELX. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. In his role at Elsevier, he leads the Research Collaboration Unit, and provides perspective as a senior researcher and clinician on the provision of better informatic
- [Chandrika Nath](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/nath/) - Dr Chandrika Nath Dr Chandrika Nath has over 20 years' experience of working at the science/policy interface in a wide variety of national and international contexts. A former glaciologist, she is currently Executive Director of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the leading global organisation supporting collaboration in Antarctic Research and providing advice to
- [Michael Ashby](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ashby/) - Professor Michael F Ashby Professor Michael Ashby has been associated with the Engineering Design Centre since its inception, as one of the three Principal Investigators. He received his bachelor's degree and a doctorate in natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and then joined the Institute for Metal Physics at the University of Göttingen, Germany,
- [Emilio Artacho](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/artacho/) - Professor Emilio Artacho Emilio is Professor of Theoretical Mineral Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is a Professorial Fellow of Clare Hall. He obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1990, and then spent two years at the University of California (UC), Berkeley as a Fulbright Fellow,
- [Robert Ackerman](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/ackerman/) - Professor Robert Ackerman Professor Ackerman is affiliated with Columbia University, NYC; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; University of the Arts, Philadelphia; and Clare Hall, as a former Visiting Fellow, now Fellow Commoner. Select publications J.G. Frazer: His Life and Work (Cambridge University Press, 1987)Selected Letters of Sir J.G. Frazer (Oxford University Press, 2005)Introduction to Jane
- [Andrew Roberts](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/roberts/) - Andrew Roberts is a violinist and member of our Quartet-in-Residence, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. He has been known to the Fitzwilliam players for many years – and first teamed up with them in July 2019, taking part in a performance of the Mendelssohn Octet, and thereafter as second violinist during the periods before, during, and
- [Joanna Womack](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/womack/) - Joanna Womack Joanna is a qualified solicitor and worked briefly in company and commercial law in London before returning to Cambridge. She was a College Lecturer in Law at New Hall from 1975-1983 and Bursar of New Hall from 1983-1990. Following a stint as Bursar of Trinity Hall from 1990-1993, she was appointed Treasurer, University
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- [Ali Smith](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/smith-a/) - Ali Smith Ali Smith is a fiction writer; she was born in Inverness and lives in Cambridge. Her writing has been translated into 40 languages. Ali’s books have won and been shortlisted for many awards. How To Be Both (2014), winner of the Goldsmiths and Baileys Prize and the Costa Book Award for Best Novel;
- [Malcolm Longair](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/longair/) - Professor Malcolm Sim Longair Malcolm Longair CBE FRS FRSE is Jacksonian Professor Emeritus of Natural Philosophy and Director of Development, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Professor Longair was appointed the ninth Astronomer Royal of Scotland in 1980, as well as Regius Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, and the Director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
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- [Tony Hooley](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/directory/hooley/) - Dr Tony Hooley After receiving a BSc (First Class Honours) in Electronics from University of London, in 1971 Dr Hooley joined the Radio Astronomy Group (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge), with a PhD awarded in 1976. In 1974 he joined the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy as one of a team of four who designed

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- [Visiting Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/visiting-fellow/)
- [Emeritus Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/emeritus-fellow/)
- [Honorary Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/honorary-fellow/)
- [Research Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/research-fellow/)
- [Fellow Commoner](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/fellow-commoner/)
- [Official Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/official-fellow/)
- [Praelector](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/praelector/)
- [Associate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/associate/)
- [Music Committee Chair](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/music-committee-chair/)
- [Choir Director](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/choir-director/)
- [Special Interest Groups Coordinator](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/special-interest-groups-coordinator/)
- [Colloquium Convenor](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/colloquium-convenor/)
- [Quartet-in-Residence member](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/quartet-in-residence-member/)
- [Review Editor](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/review-editor/)
- [Music Committee Treasurer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/music-committee-treasurer/)
- [Musician-in-Residence](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/musician-in-residence/)
- [Artistic Director of Intimate Engagements](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/artistic-director-of-intimate-engagements/)
- [Art Committee Chair](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/art-committee-chair/)
- [GSB Committee](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/gsb-committee/)
- [Foundation Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/foundation-fellow/)
- [GSB Green Officer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/gsb-green-officer/)
- [GSB Sports Officer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/gsb-sports-officer/)
- [GSB External Officer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/gsb-external-officer/)
- [GSB Arts and Music Officer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/gsb-arts-and-music-officer/)
- [GSB Secretary](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/gsb-secretary/)
- [Affiliated Postdoctoral Member](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/affiliated-postdoctoral-member/)
- [GSB Welfare Officer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/gsb-welfare-officer/)
- [Needham Research Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/needham-research-fellow/)
- [Affiliated Postdoctoral Members Liaison](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/affiliated-postdoctoral-members-liaison/)
- [Composer-in-Residence](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/composer-in-residence/)
- [Industry and Enterprise Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/industry-and-enterprise-fellow/)
- [Betty Behrens Research Fellow](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/betty-behrens-research-fellow/)
- [GSB Punt Admiral](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/positions/gsb-punt-admiral/)

## Subjects

- [Sustainable Architecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/sustainable-architecture/)
- [Physics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/physics/)
- [Physics Education](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/physics-education/)
- [Neurology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/neurology/)
- [Stroke Medicine](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/stroke-medicine/)
- [Classics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/classics/)
- [Geography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/geography/)
- [Historical Geography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/historical-geography/)
- [Publishing](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/publishing/)
- [Business Management](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/business-management/)
- [History and Philosophy of Science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/history-and-philosophy-of-science/)
- [Agriculture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/agriculture/)
- [Archaeology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/archaeology/)
- [Jewellery Crafts](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/jewellery-crafts/)
- [Ancient Jewellery](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/ancient-jewellery/)
- [English Literature](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/english-literature/)
- [Intellectual History and English Literature](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/intellectual-history-and-english-literature/)
- [History](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/history/)
- [History of Science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/history-of-science/)
- [Neuroscience](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/neuroscience/)
- [Addiction](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/addiction/)
- [Psychiatry](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/psychiatry/)
- [Law](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/law/)
- [International Law](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/international-law/)
- [Education](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/education/)
- [Political Economy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/political-economy/)
- [Technology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/technology/)
- [Medieval Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/medieval-studies/)
- [Political Science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/political-science/)
- [International Relations](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/international-relations/)
- [National Security](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/national-security/)
- [Astrophysics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/astrophysics/)
- [Mathematics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/mathematics/)
- [Mathematics Education](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/mathematics-education/)
- [Earth Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/earth-sciences/)
- [Philosophy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/philosophy/)
- [Anthropology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/anthropology/)
- [Visual Anthropology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/visual-anthropology/)
- [Cosmology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/cosmology/)
- [Social Anthropology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/social-anthropology/)
- [Structural Biology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/structural-biology/)
- [Biochemistry](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/biochemistry/)
- [Artificial Intelligence](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/artificial-intelligence/)
- [Engineering](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/engineering/)
- [History of Art](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/history-of-art/)
- [Architecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/architecture/)
- [Medieval History](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/medieval-history/)
- [Chinese Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/chinese-studies/)
- [Ancient Philosophy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/ancient-philosophy/)
- [Surgery](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/surgery/)
- [Urology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/urology/)
- [Oncology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/oncology/)
- [Music](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/music/)
- [Computer Science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/computer-science/)
- [Historiography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/historiography/)
- [Comparative Collegiate Practice](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/comparative-collegiate-practice/)
- [Cardiothoracic Surgery](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/cardiothoracic-surgery/)
- [English](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/english/)
- [Materials Science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/materials-science/)
- [Medicine](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/medicine/)
- [Disorders of Hearing and Balance](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/disorders-of-hearing-and-balance/)
- [Freedom of Expression](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/freedom-of-expression/)
- [First Amendment](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/first-amendment/)
- [Divinity](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/divinity/)
- [Antarctic Research and Policy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/antarctic-research-and-policy/)
- [Psychology of hearing](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/psychology-of-hearing/)
- [Fluid Dynamics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/fluid-dynamics/)
- [Earth and Nuclear Materials](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/earth-and-nuclear-materials/)
- [STEM Education](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/stem-education/)
- [Molecular Biology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/molecular-biology/)
- [Computational Biology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/computational-biology/)
- [Scandinavian History](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/scandinavian-history/)
- [Semiconductor Physics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/semiconductor-physics/)
- [Medieval Islamic Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/medieval-islamic-studies/)
- [Old Norse Literature](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/old-norse-literature/)
- [Applied Mathematics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/applied-mathematics/)
- [Meteorology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/meteorology/)
- [Volcanology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/volcanology/)
- [Romance Linguistics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/romance-linguistics/)
- [Energy and the environment](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/energy-and-the-environment/)
- [Plant Genetics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/plant-genetics/)
- [History of evolution](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/history-of-evolution/)
- [Telomere structure and function](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/telomere-structure-and-function/)
- [Polar Oceanography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/polar-oceanography/)
- [Art](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/art/)
- [Photography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/photography/)
- [Development Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/development-studies/)
- [Human Rights Law](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/human-rights-law/)
- [Global Women’s Issues](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/global-womens-issues/)
- [Political Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/political-studies/)
- [Theoretical Physics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/theoretical-physics/)
- [Biology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/biology/)
- [Literature](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/literature/)
- [Economics and Policy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/economics-and-policy/)
- [Philosophy of Science and Medicine](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/philosophy-of-science-and-medicine/)
- [Chemistry](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/chemistry/)
- [Finance](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/finance/)
- [Economics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/economics/)
- [Musicology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/musicology/)
- [Chemical Engineering](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/chemical-engineering/)
- [Epidemiology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/epidemiology/)
- [History of Political Thought](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/history-of-political-thought/)
- [Machine Learning](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/machine-learning/)
- [Geophysics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/geophysics/)
- [Astronomy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/astronomy/)
- [Senior Curator](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/senior-curator/)
- [History of Technology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/history-of-technology/)
- [Communication Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/communication-sciences/)
- [Management and Organisation](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/management-and-organisation/)
- [Philosophical Theology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/philosophical-theology/)
- [Biophysics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/biophysics/)
- [Paleoclimate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/paleoclimate/)
- [Neurobiology and Engineering](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/neurobiology-and-engineering/)
- [Public engagement with science, technology, and ethics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/public-engagement-with-science-technology-and-ethics/)
- [Philosophy of Science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/philosophy-of-science/)
- [Business Administration](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/business-administration/)
- [Data-driven stochastic processes, science policies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/data-driven-stochastic-processes-science-policies/)
- [diplomacy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/diplomacy/)
- [immunology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/immunology/)
- [Neuropsychology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/neuropsychology/)
- [Science and Technology Studies (STS)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/science-and-technology-studies-sts/)
- [Biofluid Mechanics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/biofluid-mechanics/)
- [Entrepreneurship, Biotechnology, Oncology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/entrepreneurship-biotechnology-oncology/)
- [Business](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/business/)
- [Literature & history of women at Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/literature-history-of-women-at-cambridge/)
- [Research communication and assessment](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/research-communication-and-assessment/)
- [Developmental Biology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/developmental-biology/)
- [Oceanography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/oceanography/)
- [Administration](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/administration/)
- [Medical imaging and data analytics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/medical-imaging-and-data-analytics/)
- [Music (Composition)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/music-composition/)
- [History of Science, Medicine and Technology in East Asia](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/history-of-science-medicine-and-technology-in-east-asia/)
- [International Development](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/international-development/)
- [Information Science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/information-science/)
- [Computational Neuroscience](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/computational-neuroscience/)
- [Synthetic Biology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/synthetic-biology/)
- [Automation of Biological Experimentation and Discovery](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/automation-of-biological-experimentation-and-discovery/)
- [Molecular Oncology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/molecular-oncology/)
- [Film Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/film-studies/)
- [Global History](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/global-history/)
- [Human Evolution](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/human-evolution/)
- [Nutritional physiology and metabolism](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/nutritional-physiology-and-metabolism/)
- [Pancreatic Cancer](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/pancreatic-cancer/)
- [Human Transcriptomics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/human-transcriptomics/)
- [Nutrition & Behavioural Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/nutrition-behavioural-sciences/)
- [Fluid Mechanics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/fluid-mechanics/)
- [Palaeobiology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/palaeobiology/)
- [Clinical Psychology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/clinical-psychology/)
- [Industry and Enterprise](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/industry-and-enterprise/)
- [Technical Art History](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/technical-art-history/)
- [Religions of the Silk Road](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/religions-of-the-silk-road/)
- [Biostatistics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/biostatistics/)
- [Psychology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/psychology/)
- [Geophysics (Volcanism)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/geophysics-volcanism/)
- [Dead Sea Scrolls](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/dead-sea-scrolls/)
- [History of International Thought](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/history-of-international-thought/)
- [Language](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/language/)
- [Political Theory](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/political-theory/)
- [Mathematical Physics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/mathematical-physics/)
- [Life Sciences Investments](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/life-sciences-investments/)
- [Analysis of PDEs](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/analysis-of-pdes/)
- [Oncology Drug Discovery](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/oncology-drug-discovery/)
- [Biotechnology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/biotechnology/)
- [Management Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/management-studies/)
- [American History](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/american-history/)
- [Medical Sociology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/medical-sociology/)
- [Conservation Leadership](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/subjects/conservation-leadership/)

## Department

- [Department of Architecture](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-architecture/)
- [Department of Clinical Neurosciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-clinical-neurosciences/)
- [Department of Geography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-geography/)
- [Cambridge University Press](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/cambridge-university-press/)
- [Ely Cathedral](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/ely-cathedral/)
- [Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/institute-of-chartered-accountants-in-england-and-wales/)
- [Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-applied-mathematics-and-theoretical-physics/)
- [Department of History and Philosophy of Science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-history-and-philosophy-of-science/)
- [Little Ouse Headwaters Project](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/little-ouse-headwaters-project/)
- [Independent Researcher](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/independent-researcher/)
- [Faculty of English](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-english/)
- [Faculty of History](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-history/)
- [McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/mcdonald-institute-for-archaeological-research/)
- [Scott Polar Research Institute](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/scott-polar-research-institute/)
- [Departments of Geography and Archaeology, University of Aberdeen](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/departments-of-geography-and-archaeology-university-of-aberdeen/)
- [Department of Psychiatry](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-psychiatry/)
- [Cambridge Neuroscience](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/cambridge-neuroscience/)
- [Centre for Technology Management](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/centre-for-technology-management/)
- [Institute for Manufacturing](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/institute-for-manufacturing/)
- [Department of Engineering](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-engineering/)
- [Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-anglo-saxon-norse-and-celtic/)
- [University of Iowa](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-iowa/)
- [Gachon University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/gachon-university/)
- [University of Helsinki](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-helsinki/)
- [Cavendish Laboratory](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/cavendish-laboratory/)
- [Faculty of Mathematics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-mathematics/)
- [Department of Earth Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-earth-sciences/)
- [Faculty of Divinity](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-divinity/)
- [Department of Social Anthropology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-social-anthropology/)
- [Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/centre-for-the-study-of-global-human-movement/)
- [Cambridge Digital Humanities](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/cambridge-digital-humanities/)
- [Amateur Cinema Studies Network](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/amateur-cinema-studies-network/)
- [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/)
- [Centre for the Study of Existential Risk](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/centre-for-the-study-of-existential-risk/)
- [Trinity College, Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/trinity-college-cambridge/)
- [House of Lords](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/house-of-lords/)
- [The Royal Society](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/the-royal-society/)
- [Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/max-planck-cambridge-centre-for-ethics-economy-and-social-change/)
- [Social Morphologies Research Unit](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/social-morphologies-research-unit/)
- [MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/mrc-laboratory-of-molecular-biology/)
- [University of the Basque Country](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-the-basque-country/)
- [Department of History of Art](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-history-of-art/)
- [Needham Research Institute](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/needham-research-institute/)
- [Elsevier](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/elsevier/)
- [DeepMind](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/deepmind/)
- [University of Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-cambridge/)
- [Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/cambridge-mechatronics-ltd/)
- [Hooley Research Ltd](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/hooley-research-ltd/)
- [University of Milan](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-milan/)
- [British Museum](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/british-museum/)
- [Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-asian-and-middle-eastern-studies/)
- [Fitzwilliam String Quartet](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/fitzwilliam-string-quartet/)
- [Moon Chun Memorial College](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/moon-chun-memorial-college/)
- [Royal Papworth Hospital](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/royal-papworth-hospital/)
- [Literature Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/literature-cambridge/)
- [Columbia University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/columbia-university/)
- [Department of Medicine](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-medicine/)
- [Queen Mary University of London](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/queen-mary-university-of-london/)
- [Faculty of Law](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-law/)
- [University of Tokyo](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-tokyo/)
- [Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/scientific-committee-on-antarctic-research/)
- [MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/mrc-cognition-and-brain-sciences-unit/)
- [G.K. Batchelor Fluid Dynamics Laboratory](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/g-k-batchelor-fluid-dynamics-laboratory/)
- [Faculty of Education](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-education/)
- [Hamilton Kerr Institute](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/hamilton-kerr-institute/)
- [Fitzwilliam Museum](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/fitzwilliam-museum/)
- [Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-materials-science-and-metallurgy/)
- [Department of Computer Science and Technology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-computer-science-and-technology/)
- [Computer Laboratory](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/computer-laboratory/)
- [AstraZeneca](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/astrazeneca/)
- [Department of Physics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-physics/)
- [Centre for Atmospheric Science](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/centre-for-atmospheric-science/)
- [University of Manchester](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-manchester/)
- [Cambridge Judge Business School](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/cambridge-judge-business-school/)
- [School of the Biological Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/school-of-the-biological-sciences/)
- [Centre for Mathematical Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/centre-for-mathematical-sciences/)
- [Centre of Development Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/centre-of-development-studies/)
- [UCL](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/ucl/)
- [School of Clinical Medicine](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/school-of-clinical-medicine/)
- [Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/georgetown-institute-for-women-peace-and-security/)
- [Department of Politics and International Studies](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-politics-and-international-studies/)
- [Arm](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/arm/)
- [University of Oxford](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-oxford/)
- [Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/cambridge-centre-for-ai-in-medicine/)
- [Faculty of Classics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-classics/)
- [Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/yusuf-hamied-department-of-chemistry/)
- [Faculty of Economics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-economics/)
- [University of Newcastle, Australia](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-newcastle-australia/)
- [Uppsala University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/uppsala-university/)
- [University of Warwick](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-warwick/)
- [Faculty of Music](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-music/)
- [Department of Psychology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-psychology/)
- [Institute of Astronomy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/institute-of-astronomy/)
- [NeRRe Therapeutics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/nerre-therapeutics/)
- [LUT University, Department of Social Sciences, School of Engineering Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/lut-university-department-of-social-sciences-school-of-engineering-sciences/)
- [Chalmers University of Technology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/chalmers-university-of-technology/)
- [British Antarctic Survey](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/british-antarctic-survey/)
- [Fudan University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/fudan-university/)
- [Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/cancer-research-uk-cambridge-institute/)
- [Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/clare-hall/)
- [Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/guildhall-school-of-music-and-drama-london/)
- [University of California, Berkeley](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-california-berkeley/)
- [Office of Intercollegiate Services](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/office-of-intercollegiate-services/)
- [Austrian Foreign Ministry (retired)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/austrian-foreign-ministry-retired/)
- [Babraham Institute, Immunology Programme](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/babraham-institute-immunology-programme/)
- [Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/chemical-engineering-and-biotechnology/)
- [Department of English, University of Wyoming (retired)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-english-university-of-wyoming-retired/)
- [Apple](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/apple/)
- [De Anza Community College, California](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/de-anza-community-college-california/)
- [Solexa Ltd / Illumina Inc, Personalis, Inc (retired)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/solexa-ltd-illumina-inc-personalis-inc-retired/)
- [Aalborg University Business School](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/aalborg-university-business-school/)
- [Independent scholar](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/independent-scholar/)
- [Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Faculty of English. Department of Computer Science and Technology (Visiting Academic)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-anglo-saxon-norse-and-celtic-faculty-of-english-department-of-computer-science-and-technology-visiting-academic/)
- [Babraham Institute, Epigenetics Programme](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/babraham-institute-epigenetics-programme/)
- [University of South Carolina](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-south-carolina/)
- [Department of Radiology and AstraZeneca](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-radiology-and-astrazeneca/)
- [Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-history-and-philosophy-of-science-university-of-cambridge/)
- [Hannam University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/hannam-university/)
- [Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-pure-mathematics-and-mathematical-statistics/)
- [Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-chemical-engineering-biotechnology-university-of-cambridge/)
- [HL Oriental](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/hl-oriental/)
- [Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne-2/)
- [University of Ghana](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-ghana/)
- [Bowdoin College](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/bowdoin-college/)
- [Yonsei University, Underwood International College](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/yonsei-university-underwood-international-college/)
- [DPMMS](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/dpmms/)
- [Council Chairman, City University of Hong Kong](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/council-chairman-city-university-of-hong-kong/)
- [Daito Bunka University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/daito-bunka-university/)
- [MRC Epidemiology Unit](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/mrc-epidemiology-unit/)
- [Department of Oncology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-oncology/)
- [Film Studies, Department of Communications, Drama and Film, University of Exeter](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/film-studies-department-of-communications-drama-and-film-university-of-exeter/)
- [Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/graduate-school-of-humanities-osaka-university/)
- [Carleton University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/carleton-university/)
- [Fairfield University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/fairfield-university/)
- [Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/clinical-biochemistry-university-of-cambridge/)
- [Ignota Labs](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/ignota-labs/)
- [Kavli Institute for Cosmology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/kavli-institute-for-cosmology/)
- [Macmillan Innovation Impact Investments](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/macmillan-innovation-impact-investments/)
- [Nuclera](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/nuclera/)
- [Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Salzburg](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-catholic-theology-university-of-salzburg/)
- [Endomag](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/endomag/)
- [Radboud University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/radboud-university/)
- [MRC Biostatistics Unit - University of Cambridge](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/mrc-biostatistics-unit-university-of-cambridge/)
- [Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Retired/Consultant)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-retired-consultant/)
- [Harvey Mudd College](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/harvey-mudd-college/)
- [DIPC (Donostia International Physics Center)](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/dipc-donostia-international-physics-center/)
- [Bible/Princeton Theological Seminary](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/bible-princeton-theological-seminary/)
- [National Law School of India University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/national-law-school-of-india-university/)
- [University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-helsinki-department-of-geosciences-and-geography/)
- [Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/department-of-psychological-and-brain-sciences-dartmouth-college/)
- [History Department & International Affairs Program, Northeastern University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/history-department-international-affairs-program-northeastern-university/)
- [Program in Sacred Music](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/program-in-sacred-music/)
- [University of Notre Dame](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-notre-dame/)
- [College of the Humanities](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/college-of-the-humanities/)
- [Amilon Bio Ltd](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/amilon-bio-ltd/)
- [University François Rabelais of Tours](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-francois-rabelais-of-tours/)
- [Cambridge Innovation Capital](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/cambridge-innovation-capital/)
- [Artios Pharma Ltd](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/artios-pharma-ltd/)
- [BioNTech](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/biontech/)
- [University of Surrey](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/university-of-surrey/)
- [Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/)
- [Saint Louis University](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/departments/saint-louis-university/)

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- [Social Anthropology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/social-anthropology-3/)
- [Chemical Engineering](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/chemical-engineering/)
- [Epidemiology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/epidemiology/)
- [Machine Learning](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/machine-learning/)
- [Psychology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/psychology/)
- [Astronomy](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/astronomy/)
- [Media and Communications](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/media-and-communications/)
- [Neuropsychology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/neuropsychology/)
- [Paleoclimate](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/paleoclimate/)
- [Neurobiology](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/neurobiology/)
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- [Science, Technology, and Ethics](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/categories/science-technology-and-ethics/)
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