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'What I learnt from my fieldwork in Guatemala': Stories of Development from the Field

Working in international development, Pembroke graduate Isabela (2024, MPhil Development Studies) focuses on how large-scale initiatives impact the lived experiences of local communities. While conducting fieldwork in Guatemala, she interviewed small-scale producers participating in an agricultural and financial development project, seeking to understand how they perceive and experience "development" in their everyday lives.

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Pembroke MCR launches second volume of the Pembroke Academic Journal

A group of Pembroke graduate students have recently published a second volume of the Pembroke Academic Journal, a forum for showcasing the diverse intellectual interests of our talented MCR community.

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SUPER FUNGI: Can mushrooms help save the world?

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Pembroke's Academic Director, Dr Mark Fricker, is a biologist with a special interest in the growth of adaptive networks of mould systems, and what we can learn from this about efficient network engineering of infrastrcuture projects.  Dr Fricker's work has been featured alongside that of colleagues with related research projects in a documentary film SUPER FUNGI: Can mushrooms help save the world?

The film was screened at the 2013 Pariscience International Film Festival and won two awards: the Audience Prize and the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Prize for a film dealing with research and spreading scientific knowledge, through an original scenario.  It will be screened, in its original French, on the European TV network Arte this Thursday, 16th October, at 10:50pm and will be available on Arte + 7 during the following seven days.

To read more about the film, and watch a short trailer of the English version click here.