How To prepare for the arrival of your baby: antenatal classes at ARU Peterborough
Free ante-natal classes are for pregnant women and their partners and run twice a month.
- 16 October 2025 - 16 June 2026, 00:00
- Price: Free
How To...
The ‘How To’ series of workshops at ARU Peterborough are designed to support you with everyday challenges. Our specialist lecturers will share their knowledge and expertise to bring you hints and tips to make life a little easier. Each month, we will host a different workshop from managing your finances to planning your next DIY project.
- 16 October 2025 - 16 June 2026, 12:20 - 18:15
- Price: Free
How To breastfeed your baby: breastfeeding support at ARU Peterborough
Free weekly drop-in for mothers - you can access confidential support and information around all your breastfeeding needs.
- 22 October 2025 - 10 June 2026, 10:00 - 12:00
- Price: Free
Cambridge Festival 2026
Attend free events as part of the annual Cambridge Festival. Find out more about research taking place at Anglia Ruskin University.
- 16 March - 2 April 2026, 10:00 - 16:00
- Price: Free
Design Lab Showcase exhibition
Design Lab Showcase is an exhibition highlighting the ideas, prototypes and experiments emerging from ARU's new Design Lab initiative within the Media, Arts and Creative Technologies Centre.
- 20 March - 10 April 2026, 09:00 - 17:00
- Price: Free
Future Karaoke: Ancient Weapons
Join us for a special edition of Future Karaoke, a themed literary reading series curated by the Cambridge Writing Centre at ARU. This event brings together Cambridge-based writers, students, and guests to present brand new work inspired by pre-20th century instruments of battle.
- 25 March 2026, 14:30 - 16:30
- Price: Free
Materialized Science Fiction: Speculative Narratives as Infrastructure for Corporate Power and Governance
Join the Centre of Business and Society for a research seminar from Dr Ali Rıza Taşkale on the use of “materialized science fiction” to make sense of corporate power today.
- 25 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
- Price: Free
The paradox of speech: how evolutionary simplification made humans the most talkative primate (In-person)
Join us for Professor Jacob Dunn’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture, in which he will explore why humans can speak in eloquent, complex sentences, while our closest primate relatives rely on just a handful of calls.
- 25 March 2026, 18:00 - 19:30
- Price: Free
The paradox of speech: how evolutionary simplification made humans the most talkative primate (Virtual)
Join us for Professor Jacob Dunn’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture, in which he will explore why humans can speak in eloquent, complex sentences, while our closest primate relatives rely on just a handful of calls.
- 25 March 2026, 18:00 - 19:30
- Price: Free
Stephen Hawking’s Time Travellers Party
Drop in for timejump poems and poetry board games — reconstruct fragments of poem from across the eras, or roll the dice in a race to escape the time vortex!
- 28 - 29 March 2026, 11:00 - 16:30
- Price: Free