Submitted by Katherine Laidlaw on Thu, 15/02/2024 - 10:42
The yearly Cambridge Festival showcases research in a wide range of subjects, in a varied programme of talks, exhibitions, films, and more.
A number of Harding Scholars will be involved in this year's Festival.
Francesca Gardner, 2022 cohort, English, St Catharine's
Francesca will be involved in the launch of this year's Festival at West Hub, to present a short film based on her research which will be shown for the first time at the event. The film, titled "Making Light of Essays | Making Essays of Light", was made in collaboration with creative professional Sarah Gomes Harris for Cambridge Creative Encounters, a project which brings together researchers and creative professionals to produce creative responses to research in a variety of media.
Further information about this exhibition is available here.
Luc Liedtke, 2022 cohort, Chemical Engineering, St Edmund's
Luc will be presenting at "Ammonia Energy for the Future" at the Department of Chemical Engineering. The presentation will discuss the role that ammonia will play as a carbon-free energy vector in the future. This discussion will be followed by a live hydrogen balloon ignition, to demonstrate the amount of energy safely contained in a few millilitres of ammonia.
Sampurna Mitra, 2023 cohort, Chemistry, St Catharine's
Sampurna is contributing to a display on the generation of green fuels. She will also run interactive sessions with the public on this topic.
Stavroula Piliou, 2023 cohort, Pathology, Lucy Cavendish
Stavroula is contributing to an event at the Cambridge Festival titled "Sensory Science", organised by Professor Adrian Liston. First developed by Dr Erica Tandori and Professor Jamie Rossjohn at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, this programme aims to open up science communication to the blind and low vision community, as well as anyone else who wants to learn about science through a multi-sensory experience. The event is running in the UK for the first time at the Cambridge Festival.
Scientists from the Department of Pathology will work in collaboration with artists from Anglia Ruskin University to translate science into sensory art. Four teams of scientists have been created: the Neuroimmunology team, Intracellular Bacteria team, Coeliac Disease team, and Cervical Cancer team. As part of the Neuroimmunology team, Stavroula is working to communicate multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, to the blind and low vision community.
The event will run on Monday 18th March from 1pm-5pm at St Catharine's College. Anyone interested in attending can register for free via Eventbrite.
A full programme of exciting events is available on the Cambridge Festival website.