Cambridge Festival 2025
Attend free events as part of the annual Cambridge Festival. Find out more about research taking place at Anglia Ruskin University.
- 19 March - 4 April 2025, 00:00
- Price: Free
My Self and My Brain: the neuroscience of self-consciousness
What are you and how did your brain create you? Although everyone has (and is) a self, it is not easy to explain how selves came to arise in the world. Most people associate the term ‘self’ with personality and identity, but what lies at its core – what is its deep biological basis?
- 19 March 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
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Let's Shape Research Together!
Do you want to make a change in your community? Are you interested in sharing your opinions to help academics develop ground-breaking research? Join this event to find out how ARU academics and members of the public collaborate at the early stages of research design. Learn about volunteering opportunities with ARU's 'Let's Shape Research Together' programme.
- 20 March 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
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Empowering Communities through accessible Research: Writing and reviewing short-form articles
With a focus on real-world applications and collaboration, drop-in to discuss practical skills for writing, reviewing, and sharing research that reaches a broad audience, making a tangible impact on community engagement and policy-making. Drop in to find out more, no need to book!
- 22 March 2025, 10:30 - 17:00
- Price: Free
Diabetes and Exercise: finding the perfect fit (In-person)
Exercise is recommended as way of reducing the risk of both developing diabetes and also the complications that may arise once it develops. But what happens when exercise becomes to challenging due to complications such as neuropathy, ulceration or poor circulation? How do we make exercise possible?
- 22 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
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Exhibition: Sustainable Textile Futures - Application of synthetic polymer degrading enzymes for sustainable textile design
This ARU student and staff collaborative pilot project aims to establish sustainable enzyme-based treatments for synthetic and mixed (natural, synthetic) fibre fabrics for textile design and up/recycling. Drop in to find out more, no need to book!
- 22 - 25 March 2025, 11:00 - 19:00
- Price: Free
Intergenerational safe-falling workshop
This Safe-Falling workshop with Katrina McDonald will utilise principles from the sport of judo to teach people how to apply the principles of falling safely.
- 22 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
- Price: Free
'The price of Mahogany' - Performing Activism: Re-making History
This three-part event will be based on exploring the themes presented in the play text through a movement workshop, a talk, and a staged reading of the play.
- 22 March 2025, 11:30 - 15:30
- Price: Free
All religions are one’? Myth and meaning in late 18th century British art
The late 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe are often viewed as the climax of the Age of Enlightenment, when discoveries in science and philosophy transformed Europe and America into societies dominated by reason. But much of the intellectual debate of the time still centred on religion and sacred history.
- 22 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
- Price: Free
Exhibition: The relationships between Fibromyalgia pain, wearing choices and creative practice
This exhibition explores the relationships between Fibromyalgia pain, wearing choices, and creative practice drawing upon the lived experience of those with the condition. Drop in, no need to book!
- 22 March 2025, 12:00 - 17:00
- Price: Free