This year's Women in Science Festival ran at Robinson College from 8th-9th April 2024. We welcomed 40 young people from state schools across the UK - from Torquay to Belfast, and Leeds to Gloucester - to Robinson College for two intensive days of science activities. Almost all the students came from Widening Participation backgrounds, and all were on track to achieve the grades needed to apply to Cambridge University should they wish to. The Festival was a great success, with lots of positive feedback.
Congratulations to Robinson PhD student Toby Ashworth who has won an award from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) for the best published essay by a doctoral student in 2023, full list here:
Paula López Caballero is a Mexican historian and anthropologist working as a full-time tenured professor at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and Research Associate at CLAS (University of Cambridge). The transversal hypothesis of her research is to understand the indigenous/non-indigenous divide, not as a given but as a highly unstable and elusive boundary and as an analytical problem in its own right. She is currently preparing a new monograph, tentatively titled Experts of Everyday Life. A history of ‘fieldwork’ in Mexico and the U.S., 1940-1960.
We’re delighted to announce that the Department of Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Robinson Fellow Saul Nassé as the next Chief Executive and Keeper of The National Archives in London, from July 2024. Saul was an undergraduate at Robinson from 1984-87, and was made a Fellow in 2019, when he was Group Chief Executive of Cambridge Assessment.
Andrew Wathey, Chair of The National Archives Board said:
Congratulations to Dr. Charmian Mansell, a PDRA at Robinson College whose book ‘Female Servants in Early Modern England’ was published by OUP last week.
Charmian works on early modern women’s work and her latest articles are 'Reconstructing the Labour of Care in Early Modern England’ and Beyond the Home: Space and Agency in the Experiences of Female Service in Early Modern England’. She is series editor of Women on the Move (Manchester University Press) - accepting submissions now!
Join us in the Crausaz Wordsworth Building to enjoy a series of talks from our postgraduate students. The Research Days provide a fantastic way of learning about and discussing the wide range of research in Robinson College. They also provide our students with a wonderful opportunity to give presentations to a wider audience. Students are offered a supportive coaching session beforehand.
Robinson College invites applications for the Baxandall Visiting Fellowship from outstanding scholars who intend to spend a research period in Cambridge.