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We are delighted to announce that SEET (Support Education, Empower Together), an organisation co-founded by Constantin, has won a Global Grad Show award.The Global Grad Show showcases graduate student projects that are addressing complex issues around the world through innovative social impact.  This year, 150 projects were shortlisted for the Show…

The Vice-Chancellor and the Master of St Catharine's College welcomed our third cohort of Scholars in an online event held on 20 October 2021. Guests also had the opportunity to hear more about the broad research portfolio of the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars, with research presentations from members of the 2019 and 2020 cohorts: Clai…

Take a look at Grace’s fascinating article, “To save forests, researchers are hooking trees up to Twitter”, co-authored with two forest scientists, Dr Tim Rademacher (Harvard Forest) and Professor Kathy Steppe (Ghent University).

Brigid Ehrmantraut (2019 cohort)Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Wolfson CollegeCongratulations to Brigid, who has been awarded the prize for best graduate student paper delivered at the Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) annual conference. Brigid presented her award-winning paper, ‘A Wrong Turn on the Way to Troy’: Sam…

Sian Gooding (2019 cohort)Faculty of Computer Science & Technology, Jesus CollegeIn an interview with the Computer Laboratory, Sian speaks about her journey to PhD study at the University of Cambridge and why you should never give up, no matter the odds. Read about how Sian took the ‘road less travelled’ here.

Rachel Mckeown (2020 cohort)Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, St Catharine’s CollegeWe are delighted that Rachel has been selected to receive a Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize in recognition of her outstanding performance in her final year of undergraduate studies.You can read more about Rachel’s achievement h…

Faculty of History, Clare CollegeConvened by Constantin every other week during term time, the DAAD-funded German History Research Group provides a unique environment for scholars from different disciplines, working with different methods and time periods, to discuss German history.In early March, workshop presentations explored the complex history…

We were delighted to welcome the second cohort of Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars in an online welcome event last month.The event included speeches from the Vice-Chancellor, David Harding and the Master of St Catharine's College and research presentations from four of our 2019 Scholars: Brigid Ehrmantraut; Tim Welsh; Sian Gooding; and C…

Nilesh’s PhD project involves the development of an original, novel, non-editing gene therapy to target cancer cells.In a new film from #CambridgePostgrad, Nilesh talks about why he chose to study for his PhD at the University of Cambridge.Indian postgrads on why they chose Cambridge University

Grace’s PhD research focuses on the role of analogy in modern physics, but before coming to Cambridge she studied the conceptual issues invoked by a quantity known as quantum tunneling time — the time taken for a quantum particle to 'tunnel’ through a barrier in a classically-forbidden way. She recently pitched an article on quantum tunneling time …

Oliver is a member of the Cancer Systems Biology group (Miller Laboratory), analysing how chemotherapy changes the immune system of cells. Through recognising the methods cancer uses to exploit the immune system, new treatments may be developed.Oliver’s contribution is acknowledged in an article about the group’s work, published in Nature Genetics.…

We were proud to welcome our very first cohort of Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars in October 2019.  Read more about the Welcome Event for the inaugural cohort.