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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Clive Boddy

Clive Boddy is a research methodologist and also a pioneer in the field of corporate psychopathy where he has been researching the effects of toxic, psychopathic managers on business, organisations and society since 2005.

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Sarah Hart

Professor Sarah Hart is a mathematician specialising in group theory and author. She is Professor Emerita of Mathematics and Fellow of Birkbeck College (University of London) and has recently been announced as the Mathematical Association President

Black Town & Gown: The historical legacy of Black presence in the city of Cambridge

We sat down with Dr Kenny Monrose FRSA, a Fellow at Wolfson College and Researcher in the Department of Sociology to discuss their project exploring the historical legacy of Black presence in Cambridge.

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr James Sunderland

Dr James Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute working on the 'How to continue talking' project. His work aims to explore how interfaith communities can continue meaningful and respectful dialogue.

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Estherina Trachtenberg

Estherina Trachtenberg is a Blavatnik Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. She studies social connectedness and its impact on health, cognition, and the underlying brain networks.

Can ancient dead languages save today's endangered languages? A tale of identity and visibility

The world is facing a language crisis. Of its c.7,000 languages, Glottolog estimates that only 35% are safe - the rest are at varying stages of being threatened, moribund or nearly extinct. In some cases, it is already too late.

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Tim Minshall

Professor Tim Minshall is the inaugural Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and Head of the IfM’s Centre for Technology Management (CTM).

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Mireia Crispin

Dr Mireia Crispin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge and co-leads the Ovarian Cancer Programme at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Cambridge Centre.

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Matt Bothwell

Dr Matthew Bothwell is an astrophysicist, science communicator and author, and the current Public Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Interesting, inspiring and informative: The Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival 2024 ran from 13 March to 28 March 2024, with several pre-festival events also taking place in early March. It attracted a wide audience of all ages from the local area and beyond, including international visitors and viewers.