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Patience Agbabi (1983) elected to Honorary Fellowship at Pembroke College

We are delighted to announce that renowned poet and novelist Patience Agbabi (1983) has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of her distinguished writing career.

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Pembroke Behind the Scenes: Meet the staff who keep the College running

For our 400 Hours series, Lodge Porter Adam Berry undertakes a behind-the-scenes investigation at Pembroke. Hear from Lodge Porter Spencer Solomon, long-serving Scout Mrs Singh and Deputy Butler Jamie Tricker about life behind-the-scenes.

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Corporate Responsibility and the Internet of Everything: top prize for Alexa Roscoe (2014)

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Pembroke MBA student Alexa Roscoe (2014) has been announced as the inaugural winner of the Robert Davies Memorial Essay Contest, winning the £15,000 top prize with her response to the challenge: Describe how ‘the internet of everything’ can enhance large scale transformational change around corporate responsibility and economic opportunity.

Alexa's submission explored how the Internet of Everything could drive growth in agriculture in the developing world. She comments: "We've just started exploring what the Internet of Everything can do to advance economic development and corporate responsibility. It's a topic that deserves to have a lot more attention drawn to it."

The winning essay can be read in full online here, and a summary blog post also by Alexa is available here.

The Robert Davies Memorial Essay Contest is a partnership between The Skoll Centre at Saïd Business School, Oxford and The Althea Foundation in San Francisco. More information is available here.