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Senior Member secures UK Government grant for innovative trial

October 31, 2024

College Senior Member, Dr Christopher de Saxe, has secured a grant for GoMetro from the UK government’s Freight Innovation Fund, as part of their Accelerator Programme. The grant is part of a £1.8 million funding round for 10 small and medium enterprises to trial new technology for decarbonising freight and driving innovation in the sector, and will support GoMetro in a six-month trial. Christopher joined GoMetro in July 2024, having previously been a Senior Research Associate in the Cambridge University Engineering Department and a Fellow in Engineering at Robinson College.

New collection in the College Library

October 31, 2024

Robinson College Library has taken in a new collection of books over the summer. The Peter Blundell Jones Collection contains 350+ donated titles on modern European architecture and came to us in 10 large boxes on a rainy morning in March. It is an outstanding resource for students and researchers alike, with many of the titles unique within Cambridge. Amongst the collection are the books that Peter wrote during his career as an Architect and Architectural Historian.

Dr Tom Crawford joins Robinson as a College Teaching Officer in Maths

October 21, 2024

Welcome to Dr Tom Crawford who has joined Robinson this term as an undergraduate College Teaching Officer in Maths. Tom is the Public Engagement Lead at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and is also a Fellow by Special Election at St Edmund Hall.

He completed his PhD in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Paul Linden and obtained his undergraduate degree in Maths from the University of Oxford in 2012 where he studied at St John’s College.  He now teaches Maths at both the University of Cambridge and Oxford.

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