We're pleased to launch Robinson College's summer outreach events for 2024! 

All events are free of charge, and open to students at UK state-maintained schools and colleges. 

The Arts and Sciences events are designed to be general disciplinary exploration days, and the STEP Prep Day is designed specifically to support with the STEP exam. Please see below for full details of the events taking place in early July. 

Arts and Humanities Summer Taster

Robinson Fellow Professor Peter Hutchinson will be speaking about traumatic brain injury (TBI), the commonest cause of death under the age of 40 in high-income countries, in a Cambridge University Hospital lecture.

Congratulations to Robinson College PhD student Jingyu Chen, who has been chosen as one of the final 4 in an international competition in Tokyo. Her composition will be performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra later this month

Born in Guangdong, China, she has a Bachelor's degree from the Royal Northern College of Music and a Master's degree from the Royal College of Music and is currently studying for her PhD in composition.

Congratulations to Robinson College apprentice gardener Nicholas Warrington on passing his Horticulture Operative Level 2 with Distinction.

Nicholas has a natural talent for gardening and his cheery disposition, as he helps the Robinson College gardening team care for our spectacular gardens, is always a pleasure to see.

Well done Nicholas and thanks for all your hard work!
 

Last Friday the Robinson College Rugby Team were victorious in the 2023/24 Cuppers Shield at Shelford Rugby Club.

They reached the final following a nail biting semi-final against the All Greys -  17-17 at full time, won by Robinson in a penalty shoot out.  They faced Downing/Gonville & Caius in the final, this time with a clear win of 42-12.

Congrats to the whole team! 

We were delighted to welcome back the Financial Times US News Editor and Robinson alumnus Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson who read MML at Robinson from 1990. A group of students interested in a career in journalism gathered to hear about Andrew’s journey from Varsity to the FT.

It was a full house on Wednesday at the Robinson College/Y Combinator event. Students from across Cambridge came to hear Tom Blomfield and Surbhi Sarna, Group Partners at Y Combinator, share their founding story journeys and experiences from advising YC startups.

Congratulations to Bartomeu Monserrat, Robinson Fellow and Professor of Materials Physics at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, was recently selected as one of five finalists of ‘The Princess of Girona Award for Scientific Research’. He presented his scientific work in Santander, Spain to an audience of young students and met the King of Spain together with the other finalists.

Last night the College welcomed Dr Emma Cooper to the Fellowship.

Emma is a University Assistant Professor in Literacy Education at the Faculty of Education. Her research interests include curriculum studies, multimodal literacies, and social semiotics. ‘I’m so thankful for the very warm welcome I have received from the Robinson community and I’m very much looking forward to supporting this community as a Fellow’.

https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/cooper/

Congratulations to Robinson postgraduate student Andrew Fischer, a Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar, who has been awarded a Japanese Studies Fellowship by the Japan Foundation to conduct doctoral research at Kumamoto University for twelve months. 

The Japan Foundation was established by the Government of Japan and offers a select number of fellowships to outstanding doctoral students each year. This is a fully funded fellowship.