We’re delighted to announce Robinson College alumnus, Francis Bushell, is performing as a soloist with the Cambridge University Orchestra on 4 May at West Road Concert Hall.

HAYDN, MOZART and RAMEAU | Cambridge University Orchestra
When: May 4, 2024 7:30 pm
Where: West Road Concert Hall
https://www.cmp.cam.ac.uk/Haydn

Mr David Reynolds retires today as our Head Porter, after 5 years with the College.  Prior to his time at Robinson he spent 37 years on Britain’s railways, leaving as the Chief Signalling Inspector and a Royal Train Operations Inspector.  On behalf of the entire College, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to you David, for your years of service and commitment to Robinson. We wish you all the best for the next chapter ahead!

Congratulations to the Cambridge Sailing team who came first at the open BUSA Team Racing Championships at Grafham Water Sailing Club. Robinson student Gordon Cogan Sivarajan (Natural Sciences, 2020) was part of the crew who were victorious after three days of racing.

Full results and some more info here: 
An article from the CUCrC (cambridge university cruising club, our dinghy sailing club) website: 

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: