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Julia Llewellyn Smith (Modern and Medieval Languages 1987) estimates she has conducted over 4000 interviews during her c...
26/08/2026

Julia Llewellyn Smith (Modern and Medieval Languages 1987) estimates she has conducted over 4000 interviews during her career as a journalist, with her subjects including Tom Hanks, Jimmy Carter and Princess Anne. She has written for numerous broadsheets and tabloids, alongside penning a non-fiction book and seven novels — although, when it comes to writing, she does not identify so much with the latter.

"Novel writing is a very lonely, very gruelling job," says Julia. “None of the authors I know enjoy what they do. An author friend of mine described it as like having eight children with all the pain, and you don’t even love them when they come out.”

In 2026 alone, The Times has published Julia’s interviews with ex-Spice Girl Mel B, actor Alan Cu***ng and dynastic British media personality Brooklyn Beckham, to name a few.

Read the full story on the College website.

Julia Llewellyn Smith (Modern and Medieval Languages 1987) estimates she has conducted over 4000 interviews during her career as a journalist, with her subjects including Tom Hanks, Jimmy Carter and Princess Anne. She has written for numerous broadsheets and tabloids, alongside penning a non-fiction...

It is no laughing matter, but an Edinburgh Fringe comedy night has raised £20,000 for brain cancer research.Professor Ri...
24/08/2026

It is no laughing matter, but an Edinburgh Fringe comedy night has raised £20,000 for brain cancer research.

Professor Richard Gilbertson’s laboratory at The Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute on the Biomedical Campus is the beneficiary of Underbelly Festival’s Big Brain Tumour Benefit, which took place on Wednesday 19 August, via the Angel Child Fund charity.

Nish Kumar, Rosie Jones and Justin Mooorhouse were three of the big-name comics in the line-up for the show which took place at Edinburgh University’s McEwan Hall.

Pictured: Comedian Rosie Jones on stage at the Big Brain Tumour Benefit (Credit: Ian Georgeson)

It is no laughing matter, but an Edinburgh Fringe comedy night has raised £20,000 for brain cancer research. Professor Richard Gilbertson’s laboratory at The Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute on the Biomedical Campus is the beneficiary of Underbelly’s Big Brain Tumour Benefit, which took p...

Ten years ago, Candida Meyrick (English 1990) was diagnosed with cancer. It was, in her words, "the mother of all wakeup...
19/08/2026

Ten years ago, Candida Meyrick (English 1990) was diagnosed with cancer. It was, in her words, "the mother of all wakeup calls," and prompted her to realign herself with what she felt really mattered.

"One of my children was really into birds of prey," she says. "He was drawing them; he would get excited by them. And it reawakened my own buried love of them, which dates back to when I was a small child in Yorkshire looking at kestrels."

And so, whilst acquiring her female Harris Hawk, Bird, in 2020 may have felt extraordinary, it did not feel outlandish to Candida.

Read the full story on the College website.

Ten years ago, Candida Meyrick (English 1990) was diagnosed with cancer. It was, in her words, "the mother of all wakeup calls," and prompted her to realign herself with what she felt really mattered. "One of my children was really into birds of prey," she says. "He was drawing them; he would get ex...

Gonville & Caius College Fellow Professor Steven Barrett is part of a UK-based consortium conducting the world’s first a...
19/08/2026

Gonville & Caius College Fellow Professor Steven Barrett is part of a UK-based consortium conducting the world’s first airspace trial aimed at reducing condensation trails – known as contrails – that could greatly reduce aviation’s global warming impact.

Backed by the UK Government, 'Operation Blue Skies' brings together partners, including the University of Cambridge, to evaluate AI-driven flight path adjustments across North Atlantic airspace.

Operation Blue Skies is a £5 million, 30-month programme, partly funded by £2.65 million from the Department for Transport. It includes two operational trials to be conducted during the winter months across NATS-controlled Shanwick oceanic airspace, the eastern half of the North Atlantic corridor.

Full story on the College and University website.

Gonville & Caius College Fellow Professor Steven Barrett is part of a UK-based consortium conducting the world’s first airspace trial aimed at reducing condensation trails – known as contrails – that could greatly reduce aviation’s global warming impact. Backed by the UK Government, 'Operati...

Gonville & Caius College will this autumn welcome over 80% of incoming UK undergraduates from the state sector.“This is ...
14/08/2026

Gonville & Caius College will this autumn welcome over 80% of incoming UK undergraduates from the state sector.

“This is the first time in our history we have had over 80% of UK students from state schools and colleges,” said Dr Chris Scott, Caius’ Tutor for Admissions and Outreach.

“We are delighted to maintain a student body which more closely represents the diversity of post-16 education in the UK. This shows the success of our wide-reaching outreach initiatives.

“The results of our students throughout their degrees at Caius show that our strategies to widen participation have, naturally, increased the academic performance of our student body. We continue to seek to admit candidates with the greatest academic potential, irrespective of background.

“We look forward to welcoming our incoming students in late September – and we look forward to receiving applications for 2027 entry from aspiring students in October.

“I’d also like to send my congratulations to the many Caius candidates who will be finding out today that they have received a place at another college through the Summer Pool.”

Full story on the College website.

Gonville & Caius College will this autumn welcome over 80% of incoming UK undergraduates from the state sector. “This is the first time in our history we have had over 80% of UK students from state schools and colleges,” said Dr Chris Scott, Caius’ Tutor for Admissions and Outreach. “We are ...

Amber Gooding (HSPS 2023) left an impression at Gonville & Caius College and was rewarded ahead of her graduation by pee...
12/08/2026

Amber Gooding (HSPS 2023) left an impression at Gonville & Caius College and was rewarded ahead of her graduation by peers and academics alike.

Amber in July received the Len Sealy Fun Award ahead of General Admission. The prize recognises a student’s overall contribution to College life.

No matter the year group, those at Caius at the same time as Amber would recognise her and many would know her. A sparkling personality, blonde hair often splashed with pink, fashionable even when in Crocs and occasionally seen eating her breakfast from her Gonville Court window.

Amber read Human, Social and Political Sciences, specialising in Anthropology, but beyond her academic pursuits she was busy too. She was a Caius Schools access ambassador and contributed designs for admissions tote bags and stickers. She knew students in years above and below – her College ‘mum’ is now one of her best friends.

As Gonville & Caius College Students’ Union Freshers’ Representative in her first year and the start of her second year, she supported incoming undergraduates’ transition to Caius by organising events in freshers’ week and providing guidance, getting to know those in the year below.

She also served as the GCSU Women’s and Non-Binary Officer and the College netball captain, while also being part of the FemGenSoc committee.

She says: “I’m very grateful. The Master announced it at graduation dinner. I recognise that I have done quite a bit, and it’s nice to be praised for something different.

“I see it as the ability to hold a network almost, but not in a corporate networking way. In a ‘she knows what I would need if I asked her’ kind of way.”

Amber believes it was easy to have such a network at Caius, having made a late decision to choose the College in the first place.

Amber Gooding (HSPS 2023) left an impression at Gonville & Caius College and was rewarded ahead of her graduation by peers and academics alike. Amber in July received the Len Sealy Fun Award ahead of General Admission. The prize recognises a student’s overall contribution to College life.

Jasmine Habgood will take up a place on the MSc Performance Science programme at the Royal College of Music in September...
10/08/2026

Jasmine Habgood will take up a place on the MSc Performance Science programme at the Royal College of Music in September following almost three years as a staff member at Gonville & Caius College.

Jasmine joined Caius in October 2023 and has since achieved a Level 4 Apprenticeship with Distinction in PR & Communications. She began her role as Choir Apprentice: PR & Communications Assistant before being offered a permanent position as Music PR Assistant.

Jasmine is particularly grateful to Precentor Matthew Martin and Choir Administrator Claire Wheeler for their support, and enjoyed working with members of The Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, past and present.

Full story on the College website.

Jasmine Habgood will take up a place on the MSc Performance Science programme at the Royal College of Music in September following almost three years as a staff member at Gonville & Caius College. Jasmine joined Caius in October 2023 and has since achieved a Level 4 Apprenticeship with Distinction i...

The generosity of an alumna made the restoration of the Gate of Virtue possible – and now a lasting thank you to Janice ...
07/08/2026

The generosity of an alumna made the restoration of the Gate of Virtue possible – and now a lasting thank you to Janice Hu (Management Studies 1992) has been cast in stone on the path approaching the Gate in Tree Court at Gonville & Caius College.

When the Gate of Virtue, one of the College’s most significant architectural and heritage assets, was meticulously restored in 2022, the project was funded by a substantial gift from Janice, who initially wished to remain anonymous.

In an example of the College’s lasting gratitude to alumni, Caius was keen to show our permanent thanks to Janice with an epigraph in Latin, which would undoubtedly have met with the approval of Dr John Caius, who re-founded the College in 1557 and is believed to have commissioned the Gate from Elizabeth I’s Master Mason, Humfrey Lovell, shortly after 1564.

The epigraph was composed by Mr Franco Basso, Fellow in Classics from 2022-25.

Hinc virtutem | Huius portae specta | munificentia Janice Hu | Restitutam | MMXXII

(Translation: From here the virtue | of this gate behold | through the generosity of Janice Hu | restored | 2022)

Home News Epigraph Completes Conservation of Gate of Virtue Professor Richard Gilbertson College positions: Master Subjects: Medicine Richard Gilbertson completed his medical training and PhD in paediatric oncology in the UK before moving in 2000 to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the USA,...

Explain your PhD work to King Charles III in 60 seconds. Your time starts, now…It sounds like a roundtable workplace cha...
06/08/2026

Explain your PhD work to King Charles III in 60 seconds. Your time starts, now…

It sounds like a roundtable workplace challenge, but was reality for James de Salis Young (Engineering 2019) at the opening of the New Whittle Laboratory last month.

James completed his undergraduate degree, an integrated Master’s, at Gonville & Caius College and progressed to a PhD under the supervision of Professor Rob Miller, a Caius Fellow, Chair in Aerothermal Technology and Director of the Whittle Laboratory at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

His doctoral work has been varied, investigating the use of hydrogen as a fuel for sustainable aviation, including the development of patented parts which can recover part of the energy required to liquify hydrogen. Liquid hydrogen is stored at exceptionally low temperatures, energy dense and takes up less volume than its gas equivalent. But in a ‘generation one’ hydrogen aviation engine, it must be warmed up to become gas for combustion to take place.

“The research question for the team was: how can you recover the energy that’s been put into liquefy the fuel most efficiently,” James says.

“It is a non-traditional way of working, where we are really unconstrained. We had the freedom to do whatever we wanted, with just one goal – to create the best engine concept or set of engine concepts which will do this.”

Read the full interview with James on the Caius website.

Home News The King and I: Explaining Sustainable Aviation Professor Richard Gilbertson College positions: Master Subjects: Medicine Richard Gilbertson completed his medical training and PhD in paediatric oncology in the UK before moving in 2000 to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the USA, w...

Professor Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Director of Studies in Architecture and Design, has celebrated the architecture at Go...
27/07/2026

Professor Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Director of Studies in Architecture and Design, has celebrated the architecture at Gonville & Caius College in a news series on the College website.

Caius has a remarkable architectural heritage spanning nearly seven centuries, including designs by no fewer than seven winners of the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. With many of the College's buildings described and analysed in detail, Professor Brittain-Catlin, supported by Fellows Dr Michael Wood and Professor Yao Liang, has used authoritative sources in compiling the web pages.

Professor Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Director of Studies in Architecture and Design, has celebrated the architecture at Gonville & Caius College in a news series on the College website.

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