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Scholar receives Global Innovation Fellowship
Interdisciplinary social scientist Mona Jebril has been awarded a British Academy Global Innovation Fellowship which will see her spending a year working at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think […]
From physics to mental health: A passion for communicating learning
Matthew Blacker – or “Blacker” to his friends – has a lot of strings to his bow. He is a physicist with a fascination for quantum gravity and, in particular, […]
Bestselling author to speak about how to redefine success
Best-selling author Alan Guarino will be in conversation with Professor Kamal Munir as part of Gates Cambridge’s On Leadership series early next month. Guarino is author of The Greatness Code, […]
New book seeks to guide young people around the online world
Gates Cambridge Scholar Nij Lal is publishing a new book for young people to empower them to navigate the online world with awareness, responsibility and confidence. His illustrated book Behind […]
A Nobel solution for India’s toxic skies
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for their work on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) is more than an academic accolade – […]
Exploring young people’s experience of mental health treatment
Isabella Morse [2022] is passionate about improving the lives of children and understanding their stories, particularly those from underserved or high-risk communities. Her PhD explores how children access mental health […]
The power of adaptive engagement
Public engagement is a vital part of the Scholar’s Council work at Gates Cambridge and the challenges and opportunities of engagement shift according to global events. When Emma Soneson [2018] […]
Learning leadership skills for positive change
In 2013, Tara Cookson had just returned from fieldwork in the Peruvian Andes where she had been studying conditional cash transfer programmes. She had identified various problems with the programmes […]
Ultrabilitation: a partnership approach to enhancing human possibility
The human endeavour is driven by dreams, for to dream is to exist boundlessly in ways both triumphant and terrible. So fundamental are dreams that, from first breath, we are […]
Giving Gates Cambridge Alumni a voice
“There was a sense of urgency and optimism,” recalls Andy Robertson [2001] talking about how the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association first began to take shape. While the seeds of the […]
