50,000 join Cambridge Festival for ideas, debate and discovery
Cambridge turned curious, noisy and gloriously hands on this spring as the Cambridge Festival wrapped its 2026 edition with a surge of public energy, big ideas and record numbers.
The Cambridge Festival welcomes students from across the country for a taste of university life
Over 1,200 KS2 and KS3 pupils from across the region and beyond flocked to the Cambridge West site to experience studying at the University of Cambridge with a selection of lectures and workshops held as part of the Cambridge Festival.
On Saturday 28 March (1pm-3pm), join Theo and his colleagues Bisi Akintoye, Kojo Koram and Shayla Schlossenberg, a series of hands-on interactive activities we will imagine what futures beyond drug prohibition could look like here in Cambridge.
In this Speaker Spotlight, we speak to Professor Ella McPherson who will be speaking at a Gates Cambridge panel discussion exploring how you can lead with courage in an age of autocracy, misinformation and lack of trust.
In this Speaker Spotlight, we spoke to PhD researcher Hanna Foerster on how can we reconcile these tensions between the usefulness and the danger of AI.
Dr Cara Ruggiero and Dr Marie Spreckley from the MRC Epidemiology Unit lead the SPROUT study, a project exploring the relationship between food insecurity, family systems, and responsive feeding practices during the first 1000 days.
In this Speaker Spotlight, we speak to Catherine Meads, Professor of Health at Anglia Ruskin University. She will be speaking at Silenced data: The politics of health research in the USA on Tuesday 17 March.
Who says maths and art don’t mix? Ahead of Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity on 28 March, mathematician and author Marcus du Sautoy challenges the old divide between logic and imagination.
Our next speaker spotlight features Natalia Domagala, a Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy and her event examining the broader systems and power dynamics behind AI.
What if the global food crisis isn’t coming but already here? In our next Speaker Spotlight, we spoke to Rachael McDonnell, Deputy Director General of the International Water Management Institute and lead of the Commission on Water for Food Futures.
