'Threatening' faces and beefy bodies do not bias criminal suspect identification, study finds

Research shows that there is no bias toward selecting people with muscular bodies or facial characteristics perceived as threatening when identifying criminal

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 20, 2022 ~8 min

Women are ‘running with leaded shoes’ when promoted at work, says study

Promotion at work has greater emotional benefit for men than women, says a new study on gender and workplace emotion.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 19, 2022 ~6 min


Cambridge spin-out aiming to make it easier to find and apply regulations

RegGenome, a commercial spin-out from the University of Cambridge, has announced the completion of a $6 million seed funding round.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 14, 2022 ~2 min

Co-offenders likely to violently turn on one another, UK crime gang study shows

Researchers use over a decade of data from Thames Valley Police to reveal “mechanisms” that generate and sustain violence within networks of organised crime.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 12, 2022 ~6 min

Women in England had predominantly negative experiences of childbirth during pandemic in 2020, survey finds

47% of parents in a national survey reported negative experiences of giving birth during the pandemic in 2020, with uncertainties about rapidly changing

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 12, 2022 ~6 min

Trainee teachers made sharper assessments about learning difficulties after receiving feedback from AI

A trial in which trainee teachers who were being taught to identify pupils with potential learning difficulties had their work ‘marked’ by artificial

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 11, 2022 ~7 min

Lessons from modern languages can reboot Latin learning

A new guide calls for a broader approach to teaching Latin, one that draws on modern languages education, involving speaking, music and storytelling.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 7, 2022 ~7 min

‘Robot scientist’ Eve finds that less than one third of scientific results are reproducible

Researchers have used a combination of automated text analysis and the ‘robot scientist’ Eve to semi-automate the process of reproducing research results. The

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 6, 2022 ~5 min


Poorly conceived payment-on-results funding threatens to undermine education aid

Analysis of a results-based-financing programme for education aid in Ethiopia finds that multiple aspects of the arrangement were unfit for purpose from the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 30, 2022 ~7 min

Greater business-university collaboration will reap rewards, says new report

Interactions between UK businesses and universities are broad based and beneficial, but are being held back by firms' lack of capacity and information to tap

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March 28, 2022 ~6 min

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