MRC Epidemiology UnitCambridge Festival 2023
The crisis in mental health in young women and girls: does our education system make it worse
PhD student Lauren Cross participated in a Cambridge Festival hybrid panel discussion with Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Professor Tamsin Ford, chaired by Murray Edwards College President Dorothy Byrne. The discussion examined why girls and young women are suffering levels of stress and anxiety so far in excess of those their mothers and grandmothers experienced, and what part stress at school and university plays in this.
Growing up in a changing environment – What really influences what young people eat?
Dr Eleanor Winpenny, Dr Tiago Canelas and Mr Struan Tait discussed the food choices of adolescents and young adults in this Cambridge Festival talk, and the wide range of factors that may influence the food eaten across this period of life. They shared their research from the UK and abroad, focusing on young people’s diets and the influence of changing home, institutional and built environments.
Cambridge Festival 2021
The new, interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival, replacing the Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, took place from 26 March to 4 April 2021. The festival wast primarily digital – to enable wide-reaching engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Involving people in telehealth research during the COVID-19 pandemic – The challenges of scale, engagement and inclusivity
Unit scientists Dr Kirsten Rennie and Dr Rebecca Richards discussed how telehealth approaches are transforming how we are conducting research, focusing on two examples; the Fenland COVID-19 study assessing people’s health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and the SWiM-C weight management intervention.
Life Sciences – A Day in Our Lives
This involved a number of two to three minute-long films, in which PhD students from across Cambridge talk about their average day. Featuring MRC Epidemiology Unit PhD students Matthew Keeble and Julia Carrasco Zanini Sanchez.
MRC Cancer Unit Phd Student Annie Howitt joined Matthew Keeble and others to provide a young person’s guide to life sciences research.