We’re delighted to share this career and life update from Dr Matthew Grosvenor and Dr Evianne Grosvenor, Life Members who met here at the College and made a significant impact as GSB officers — We have fond memories of the lively student community at Clare Hall. It was fascinating meeting so many students from different parts of the world, and discussing their lives and work at formal dinners and student social events. We served in different roles in the Graduate Student Body committee (GSB)…

Meet Benjamin Morris — a Life Member of Clare Hall who today works as a poet, writer, researcher, and carpenter… — Currently I have several manuscripts underway. One is a full-length poetry collection called The Singing River, which has come perilously close to being published several times in the past few years, so I’m hoping that means I’m on the right track. The peril continues. Day-to-day, though, I’m revising a novel…

Dr Wasi Faruqi received an MBE last year, for work completed over many years at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Here Wasi shares a little about his career, and what he most values about being a Life Member of Clare Hall. — I was introduced to Clare Hall in 1986 by Murray Stewart, a colleague from the MRC-LMB who was a Fellow of the College. At that time an eminent Structural Biologist, Sir Michael Stoker was the President and Dr Leslie Barnett, another colleague from the LMB, was Senior Tutor at Clare…

Dates for your diary this festive season… — Friday 3 December, 8pm Winter Cocktail Night The Anthony Low Building (ALB) bar presents its monthly cocktail evening, with a wintry twist.

Meet Aiora Zabala, a Life Member of Clare Hall, as she discusses her role as Senior Editor of Nature Sustainability and the impact of creativity on her work — I joined Clare Hall in 2010 to pursue a PhD in Land Economy, and I’m now Senior Department Fellow. I chose the College mainly because of the swimming pool and it being a sister college of St Cross, Oxford, where I obtained an MSc in Environmental Policy. I’ve found Clare…

Andy Tseng, a PhD student in Engineering from Clare Hall, shares details on his areas of specialism in AI — My research focuses on Spoken Dialogue Systems — a subfield of Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to develop a specific type of machines, known as dialogue systems, that are capable of communicating with human beings using our language and completing pre-defined tasks for us, such as…

Christos Kalli is a Life Member of Clare Hall. In this blog we learn what he’s been up to since graduating from Cambridge — including a glimpse of recent poetry based on Cypriot mythology, trauma, and history — I have recently joined the Department of English at the University of Texas as a PhD student. Here I attempt to wear — sometimes on top of each other — the hats of the poet and the poetry scholar. As a poetry scholar I am conceptualising a doctoral project that…

Several Clare Hallers were kind enough to share insights into their research and personal reflections on the College for a mini yearbook this month. Here are some highlights… —

Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao, a Research Fellow at Clare Hall based at the Needham Research Institute, discusses her focus on philosophy in ancient Greece and early China. — I was born in China and moved to Cambridge at the age of eleven. Little did I know then that I would go on to study and to have a family here — Cambridge has become my home! …