Traumatic Brain Injury: from impact to recovery

Robinson Fellow Professor Peter Hutchinson, Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Dr Virginia Newcombe, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability worldwide, with complex effects that unfold from the moment of injury through long-term recovery. Professor Peter Hutchinson and Dr Virginia Newcombe bring together cutting-edge neuroscience and clinical experience to explore the causes of TBI, how it is managed in acute care, and what shapes recovery outcomes. From emergency interventions to rehabilitation and patient-centred care, this session offers a comprehensive insight into one of medicine’s most challenging fields.

19 September 2026
16.30pm-17.30pm
Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

Politics in continued chaos: is this the new norm? (panel discussion)

Laura Kyrke-Smith Member of Parliament for Aylesbury House of Commons. Laura did her undergraduate degree in History at Robinson College, Cambridge, graduating in 2005. She also has a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

Politics can feel more unpredictable than ever, but is this sense of disorder new? Or are we simply living through the latest chapter in a much older story of disruption, debate and renewal?

Chancellor Lord Chris Smith chairs a thought-provoking panel with Sir Vince Cable, Professor Annabel Brett and Laura Kyrke-Smith, bringing together perspectives from across public life, academia and policy.

Moving beyond day-to-day politics, the conversation draws on history and philosophy to challenge assumptions about “chaos”, and to ask what enduring patterns might lie beneath today’s uncertainty.

19 September 2026
3pm-4pm 
Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

How to find terrestrial life on earth using AI

Anil Madhavapeddy (Robinson, Computer Science 2002), Professor of Planetary Computing, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Tessera is a free, open “map-maker” for the whole planet.

Understanding the Earth using satellites used to require a supercomputer and an army of experts to label imagery by hand. Today, Tessera does the expensive part once for everyone, and hands users a ready-made "seasonal fingerprint" of every patch of ground on the planet. After that, answering a variety of questions such as where all the forests are, or where floods might hit, or where all the hedgehogs live, all become a matter of ordinary programming.

This means that just about anyone can have a go, and this event will show you how!

19 September 2026
3pm-4pm
Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

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