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 rather than simple access to education, reflecting on the fact that access depends on deep structural factors that mean opportunity is not equally distributed.
Aya is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the...
Read more21 September 2021
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 as organoids. Research in the Lancaster Lab focuses on human brain development using stem cells to generate brain organoids that allow modelling of human brain development in vitro. The laboratory studies the most fundamental...
Read more20 September 2021
Clare Hall's Graduate Student Body Committee (GSB) has released its Graduate Student Handbook for the forthcoming academic year.
The handbook, produced in collaboration with staff at Clare Hall, can be found here, and is the perfect means of preparing for your time at the College. We highly advise downloading the PDF or bookmarking the webpage for future reference.
With special thanks to GSB President, Srijit Seal, for working on this ready for Michaelmas.
Additionally, for...
Read more17 September 2021
Professor Lord Martin Rees, 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, the three films present interviews with experts from the world of engineering and climate action, plus thought leaders and those at the forefront of building resilience into infrastructure and the built environment.
The films tackle...
Read more15 September 2021
Clare Hall Art Committee will present an exhibition of mixed media work by contemporary artist Mark Cazalet this autumn.
Running from 7 October-18 November, the Committee's first exhibition of the academic year will feature paintings, drawings and pastels by Cazalet, who is a dynamic artist and notable figure at the Royal Drawing School.
Professor Frances Spalding, curator of the exhibition and Chair of Clare Hall Art Committee, shares:
“This exhibition will be the equivalent to a firework display in its rush of energy and its multiple sparks of...
14 September 2021
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 the first to analyse somatic mutation in normal tissues across multiple organs within and between individuals.
In the studies, using mutations as markers of a cell’s past, researchers were able to retrace human development, including in a 78-year-old...
Read more08 September 2021
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 and Dr Michael Edwards seeks to explore these questions and more during Michaelmas 2021 and Lent 2022.
Seven meetings will be run over the two terms, and all are welcome to join what promises to be a lively discussion.
Landscape has featured prominently in studies of Southeast Asia: literally, as the terrain across which contested processes of development and dispossession play out, often through the...
Read more07 September 2021
Teo Kai Xiang, an inbound MPhil student, has been selected as a Chevening and Cambridge Trust Scholar, and will study the Sociology of Media and Culture this academic year. Kai Xiang is currently a Communications Officer at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague, where he leads the organisation's digital strategy and public engagement.
On receiving the Chevening/Cambridge Scholarship, he comments:
“I am beyond grateful to Chevening and the Cambridge Trust for empowering me to expand on my work on information and security policy at the...
02 September 2021
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 Hall during her Visiting Fellowship from 2018-19.
The paper, written by Dr White and Meghan A. Gonsalves, explores how universal rights have robust expression in the human brain, noting that ‘agency, autonomy, self-determination, freedom from want, and freedom from...
Read more31 August 2021
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 BioPharmaceuticals Research and Development at AstraZeneca, was interviewed by Professor Stelios Kavadias, Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies in Innovation & Growth and Co-Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre....
Read more25 August 2021