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Report investigates barriers to Bangladeshi and Pakistani women’s work
Bangladeshi and Pakistani women in London face intersecting barriers to finding good work, including racism, religious and gender discrimination and limited workplace flexibility – and cultural norms, while they may […]
How uncertainty affects our mental health
Friederike Hedley [2024] is researching the impact of uncertainty on cognitive and neural processing, with a focus on mental health problems and the developing brain. She recently published two journal […]
Learning from the past to make better buildings for the future
Michael Salka is interested in pushing the boundaries of architecture, but also in learning from past knowledge about bio-based building materials and how they adapt to different conditions. He began […]
New study sets out roadmap to accelerate nature-based climate solutions
Efforts to slow the climate crisis have long sought to harness nature, often through carbon “offsets”, aimed at bolstering forests, wetlands and agriculture, but have generally had only marginal success […]
Is gender equality going backwards?
Three Gates Cambridge Scholars debated whether gender equality is going backwards in the seventh episode of the current series of the ‘So Now What’ podcast. Reetika Subramanian [2019], William McInerney […]
