March
8 March 2021, 19:00 - 20:00
Lizzy Yarnold delivers the 11th Excellence in Sport Lecture as part of a series of events ARU is delivering to support International Women’s Day (8th March). Lizzy is a double Winter Olympic champion making her the most decorated Team GB athlete in the winter games.
9 March 2021, 17:30 - 19:00
ARU’s Athena SWAN presents a panel talk of experts from ARU who will take the audience thought key phenomena related to women in academia. We will cover facts and statistics, share inspirational lived experience stories, and discuss what remains to be done to achieve fully diverse and equitable academic landscape in 21st century.
10 March 2021, 19:00 - 20:00
Join us as we speak to three women about their experience of working in or being involved with activities which are historically more male dominated.
Natasha Orchard-Smith was the first female coach in the UK to work in semi-professional men’s football, Rosaliyo Samuel works as engineer and Aneela Rose represented Team GB in the AWPC World Powerlifting Championships in 2018.
11 March 2021, 19:30 - 21:00
Dr Melanie Boyce and Anna Dadswell were commissioned to undertake an independent research evaluation to assess delivery and impact of outreach service and how it supports women in their journey towards exiting prostitution. This presentation focus on the findings, the realities of the women’s experiences, the unique role of outreach in supporting these women, the value of working in partnership, and the challenges in delivering and researching outreach for women with multiple and complex needs.
12 March 2021, 13:00 - 14:30
The UK aviation industry has pledged to cut net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. How can supply chain innovation help? Hear more from ARU researchers and industry experts at our free business webinar.
26 March - 4 April 2021, 10:00 - 20:00
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was one of the most significant events in the twentieth century. To mark its 30th anniversary, Dr Jonathan Davis, Anglia Ruskin University, examine the causes of the quiet end of communism in the USSR.
26 March - 4 April 2021, 10:00 - 20:00
Experience an audio facilitated walk; encompassing art, nature, geoarchaeology and earth sciences wherever you are – inside or outside. Listen, imagine, create and share in the adventures of the enchanted pot from the Mesopotamian Marshlands.
26 March - 4 April 2021, 10:00 - 20:00
Making a welcome return to the Cambridge musical stage, the renowned Mifune Tsuji Trio present a concert of original and transcribed works for the unusual combination of violin, saxophone and piano.
26 March 2021, 19:00 - 20:30
Can science explain how we form relationships? Prof Viren Swami, Anglia Ruskin University, looks at how factors such as geography, appearance, personality, and similarity affect who we fall for and why.
27 March 2021, 15:00 - 16:15
The crime writers Cathi Unsworth, Syd Moore, and Mick Finlay, whose books draw on the Hagley Woods murder of 1943, the history of witches in Essex, and murder in Victorian London, talk about some of the events in history that have inspired their books.