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Cambridge Digital Humanities Student and Harding Scholar Mutale Nkonde appeared on al Jazeera's The Listening Post, where she discussed AI and human bias.Read the full story on the Cambridge Digital Humanities news site.Watch the full interview on YouTube.

Raphael Hernandes, a Harding Scholar in his 1st year of a PhD in Digital Humanities, has been nominated for a European Press Prize, in the Innovation category. This follows an investigation which Raphael contributed to, into far-right Facebook groups linked to the 2024 UK summer riots.Raphael has been interviewed about this work by the University o…

Harding Scholar Ange La Furcia has recently completed a PhD in Latin American Studies, submitting her thesis on "Sea Antics: The Politics of Beauty and Transwomen in the Colombian Western Caribbean".Ange has been awarded the 2026 LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award for this thesis. This award recognises "an outstanding junior schola…

Stavroula Piliou, a Harding Scholar and PhD student in the Department of Pathology, has been featured in a new book by Professor Adrian Liston, titled ‘Self-Doubt: An Anthology of Experiences in the Biomedical Sciences’.Read more about the book and about Stavroula's story here.

Harding Scholar Jack Peden has been awarded the 2025 Helios Prize by the Department of Engineering.The prize recognises research on sustainable energy and/or energy efficiency, and was awarded to Jack for his co-authored research paper 'Production of hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from methane using a multi-pass floating catalyst chemical vapour dep…

I was awarded the Career Enhancing Award from the British Society of Immunology as well as the DMM grant from the Company of Biologists to attend the 2025 Cajal Neuroimmunology Course in Bordeaux, France. The Cajal course is an internationally recognised Neuroscience training programme that brings together early-career researchers and leading scie…

A showcase of the breadth and depth of the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme was on display at the 2025 Welcome Event.Special guests gathered at St Catharine’s College, including the Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Environmental Sustainability Professor Bhaskar Vira, Master of St…

Jack Peden, a Harding Scholar in the third year of a PhD in Engineering, recently published a paper in Nature Energy. In this paper, Jack and his colleagues developed a reactor to produce carbon nanotube materials and hydrogen from methane (natural gas).Jack writes, "We hope this work presents an important step towards enabling potentially sustaina…

Raffael Schumann's main PhD work has been published in the leading journal Science.Schumann is a Harding Scholar in his second year of a PhD in Biological Science at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and was one of the co-first authors on the paper, titled 'Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code'.

Moritz Blumer, a Harding Scholar who recently submitted his thesis for a PhD in Genetics, has had his main research project published in the Science journal.The project has also been featured in a news item on the University of Cambridge's website, titled "How ‘supergenes’ help fish evolve into new species".

"Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers" is an article recently published by Francesca Gardner, a Harding Scholar in her third year of a PhD in English.The article has received media coverage in the Times, the BBC, and The i Paper, as well as being reported on by ITV Anglia and the national ITV News. Francesca gave a radio interview with BBC…

Andrew Fischer, a Harding Scholar in his third year of a PhD in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, has been interviewed about his doctoral research by Kumamoto University in Japan. The interview was conducted in Japanese, and was translated and edited by Andrew.Andrew is conducting doctoral research at Kumamoto University on sixteenth-century docume…

Marina Papaiakovou, in her fourth year of a PhD in Veterinary Medicine, has led a piece in a new permanent gallery in the Natural History Museum in London. The exhibition, titled "Fixing Our Broken Planet", explores the environmental challenges facing our world, and showcases science-based solutions. It is themed around energy, health, materials, a…

Sandy Hickson, currently in the 2nd year of a PhD in Genetics, was recently interviewed about his PhD thesis research by the University of Cambridge Development and Alumni Relations department.He discusses the inspiration behind his research into mosquito-borne diseases, as well as his work to establish the Cambridge Biosecurity Hub. He also talks …

Raffael Schumann, in his second year of a PhD in Biological Science at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, recently participated in the course "Biosecurity Fundamentals: Pandemics" by BlueDot Impact. This was a 12-week online programme covering technical and policy efforts to prevent, detect and respond to catastrophic pandemics.Raffael was aw…