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Stories from the people that make Cambridge 探花直播 unique.

Kirstie Stage in the gardens at Christ's College

探花直播graduate student rewriting Deaf histories and disability histories

05 January 2024

When Kirstie Stage was diagnosed with hearing loss, she realised that the experiences of Deaf and disabled people were missing from the history books. Kirstie is determined to bring these narratives to the fore.

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26 Apr 2018

Self-confessed geek Peter Benie began programming computers when he was ten. A chance meeting in 2009 led to him playing a key part in the upgrading...

19 Apr 2018

Julie Darsley exudes the warmth needed to run an organisation that helps newcomers settle into life at Cambridge. Her personal experience has given...

12 Apr 2018

Henry Disney admits that the task of classifying hundreds of species of scuttle fly has sometimes seemed a crazy undertaking. But his deteriorating...

05 Apr 2018

Linda Fisher is an administrator who hates committees. Her commitment to the courses she organises at the Institute for Continuing Education (ICE)...

29 Mar 2018

Tom Bundell is an eminent biochemist whose passions for politics, music and travel enrich his scientific research. He鈥檚 led some of the country鈥檚...

22 Mar 2018

As a graduate student in Cambridge almost 20 years ago, Pauline Essah asked herself: 鈥淲here are the other Africans?鈥 Today she manages the expanding...

15 Mar 2018

James Downs is exceptionally talented鈥娾斺奲oth academically and musically. He鈥檚 also a perfectionist who has struggled with OCD and anorexia. He now...

08 Mar 2018

Judith Bunbury鈥檚 career has taken her from geology into archaeology, where she contributes to international teams puzzling out the narratives of...

01 Mar 2018

In the last ten years Ahmed Balboula and his family have lived in three different countries as he鈥檚 pursued a career in reproductive genetics. His...

22 Feb 2018

Beth Singler looks at how ideas of science and religion are woven into our lives through the stories we tell. She鈥檚 particularly interested in our...

15 Feb 2018

Psychologist Terri Apter made her name with a ground-breaking book about mothers and teenage daughters. Her latest book, published last week...

08 Feb 2018

Sir Colin Humphreys is known for his pioneering work in LED technology. In parallel with his scientific career, he鈥檚 spent 50 years studying the...

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