You're invited to join us for the remaining RCMS concerts this term:
FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER at 6.30pm (until 7.15pm)
Robinson College Chapel, Cambridge
A Celebration of Folk Music
A concert organised by James Richards, featuring traditional, acoustic folk music, from countries across Europe and beyond
Free admission
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.
We’re excited to see Dame Pippa Harris (English, 1986) feature as the producer of Armando Iannucci’s hit HBO TV series, The Franchise. The satirical comedy series follows Daniel, a first assistant director, as he navigates the challenges of working on a minor superhero film within a larger franchise. You can read more about it here.
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.
In the first episode of The Chronicles podcast, Robinson Fellow in the History of Political Thought Dr Adam Woodhouse introduces us to the man behind a name which instantly evokes skulduggery and ruthless political effectiveness: Machiavelli.
Congratulations to Robinson student Louis De Neve (Natural Sciences 2021) who competed in The Head of the Charles 2024.
We're pleased to welcome, Fiona Davey (she/her), the new Student Wellbeing Advisor at Robinson College. Fiona has a background in Public Health Education & Promotion and experience working on urban educational farms, in the classroom, and in social services with a focus on youth empowerment, healthy living, and social justice.
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.
Congratulations to Professor Bartomeu Monserrat, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge who was awarded the prize for his work on computational physics, computational materials science, electronic structure, and energy materials.