Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge

29/05/2026

🌿📚 Lucy student, Cambridge Trust and Chevening Scholar, Unmilan Kalita describes the factors that shaped his interest in environmental history and politics and his commitment to understanding the frontiers of the discipline of politics:

Chevening Awards (FCDO)

Lucy student, Cambridge Trust and Chevening Scholar, Unmilan Kalita describes the factors that have informed his academic and career path.

29/05/2026

🌱⚙️ Have you received an offer from Lucy for a 2026–27 Masters programme?

The Future Global Leaders Programme offers eligible postgraduates the opportunity to develop the skills, confidence and experience needed to lead in today’s complex global environment. Designed for those with ambition and an enterprising mindset, the programme explores leadership in practice and supports your development as a socially driven leader.

Find out more in the 2026–27 Application Pack: https://bit.ly/4dEaEJ0

28/05/2026

We’re proud to partner with the Cambridge Trust in helping to remove financial barriers and open doors for exceptional students from around the world to study at Cambridge, and to see firsthand the difference this support makes. Below are inspiring stories from Lucy alumni whose journeys have been shaped by these opportunities.

Thank you to the Cambridge Trust for spotlighting these important stories and for more than 40 years of supporting talented students to thrive at Cambridge.

28/05/2026

🎟️🎉 Due to popular demand, we have released extra tickets so we can open Garden Party ticket sales to Lucy students, family, guests, and students from other colleges.

🎶 Join us for an unforgettable evening of live music, DJ sets, and a fantastic range of games and activities.

🍦 Your £25 ticket includes two drinks, a taco feast, blondie & ice cream for dessert.

🥂 Additional drinks packages will also be available to purchase.

💫 Tickets are limited, so be sure to grab yours soon: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lucycavendishcollege1/1993231

27/05/2026

🎤👟 It's go time! "Girish on the Go!" time.

President Girish asks JCR President, Mat Ciesielski and Green Officer, Johanna Kosak for three things people should know about them and about Lucy.

👀✨ Look out for our MCR edition...coming soon!

26/05/2026

🍴🥂 Five Formal Halls to look forward to!
We hope to see you in the Dining Hall soon…

Cover image: Our Sports Formal, which took place on 15 May.

26/05/2026

College Honorary Fellow Sophie Hannah will be launching her new poetry collection at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge on Tuesday 2 June at 6 pm, and warmly invites members of the College community to attend.

The book also includes the full scripts and lyrics from her two murder mystery musicals.

Tickets are available below.

Carcanet Launch with Sophie Hannah & Martina Evans, with guest reader Nic Aubury.

25/05/2026

📢 Lucy Cavendish College is seeking to appoint a Development Officer (Fundraising) who will use their exceptional fundraising, communication, and project management skills to support Lucy Cavendish College’s ambitious development objectives.

Benefits include: 36 days holiday pro rata, free meals on shift, pension, gym & wellbeing perks.

⏰ Closing date: 22 June 2026
💰 Salary: £34,850 – 36,951 p.a.
🕒 Job type: Full time, 37.5 hours per week

To learn more about this role, or to make an informal enquiry, please contact the Development Director on [email protected].

📩 To apply for this role, visit: https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/development-officer-fundraising

25/05/2026

☀️🎓 From staying hydrated on the walk to Senate House to posing with a beloved toy panda, last Friday’s graduation was certainly unique!

It was lovely to get to celebrate our graduates and those who have been cheering them along throughout their academic journeys.

🎉 Congratulations, Lucy graduates!

22/05/2026

📚👏 We are so pleased to congratulate...

🏅Florence Staniforth Student Fiction Prize winner, Agnes Jardin for "The God of Running Water".

🏅Stott Alternative Futures Prize winner, Laura Brink for "All the poems have dried up".

Get to know Laura and Agnes:

Winners were announced at the Fiction Prize dinner on 21 May at the same ceremony as the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.

21/05/2026

👏💻 A huge congratulations to Lucy Economics postgrads, Luke Petronijevich-McDowell and Wen Chong Cheah, who came in first place at the Cambridge Policy Hackathon at Judge Business School last weekend.

“I joined the Cambridge Policy Hackathon with Luke and 2 friends from other colleges. Our prompt was to think of a solution to tackle cross-border payment fraud. We proposed the establishment of a global fraud information database that will be managed by a consortium of central banks and overseen by the BIS/FATF.

The key issue that prevents this happening today is that banks are reluctant to share client information with each other. We propose to employ blockchain technology to mask the identities of users such that only the client’s banks can see them when sharing information. Another problem is that banks in the Global South or developing countries lack the incentive to join multilateral organisations. So we propose a global fund that provides technical assistance to these banks to motivate them to join the information sharing platform.”

-Wen Chong Cheah