Cambridge India Research Foundation

Cambridge India Research Foundation

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The Cambridge India Research Foundation enables members of the public, University of Cambridge alumni, and friends of the University in India to provide funds for bursaries, fees and other expenses incurred by Indian students studying in Cambridge, as well as supporting research partnerships.

CIRF will support and facilitate new and existing collaborative partnerships in and with India through research and education in new areas of shared working through interdisciplinary partnerships.

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Contact

To learn more about the work of CIRF, discuss your philanthropic goals or to subscribe to our newsletter, please email CIRF@admin.cam.ac.uk

Events

The Hearth Lecture Series

A collaboration between the India Habitat Centre and Hearth Advisors that presents discussions about an evolving future. The monthly series connects the frontiers of academia, research, societal concerns, technology and evolving thought with issues that matter to people’s lives. 

Upcoming events

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Past events

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The Blind Side of Science: the challenges and journeys of women in academia and scientific inquiry

For ages, women have faced systematic exclusion from scientific inquiry, often overlooked as both participants and subjects. 

News and research

Explore the Cambridge research developments that are making an impact on Indian lives.

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Lucy Cavendish strengthens links with India after welcoming the new, dancing College President

Girish Menon has clocked up five months as the President of Lucy Cavendish College, a job that is “completely different” from his previous roles across four decades working in International Development.
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Law, young lives, and ‘the spirit to excel’: How Prathiba M Singh is paying it forward

‘It's nice to contribute to the system and make a change—and it's an everlasting change."
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Physics, passion and purpose: how one alumna is helping to transform India's STEM for girls

“I have been on such a fun journey”, says Darshana Joshi (Hughes Hall 2012), who benefited from a scholarship to support her PhD in Physics and now, back home in New Delhi, runs a global charity that inspires and upskills young people to enable access to STEM careers.
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Professor Ravindra Gupta named as the Professor for Global Health

Downing alumnus (1994) and Honorary Fellow, Professor Gupta has been named the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) Professor of Global Health at the University of Cambridge.
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Killer heatwaves endanger India's development

Heatwaves could slow or reverse India’s progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) without heat impact assessments.
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Prolonged droughts likely spelled the end for Indus megacities

New research involving Cambridge University has found evidence — locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas — of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may have upturned the Bronze Age Indus Civilization.
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Foresters bring Cambridge 'water curriculum' to Indian Himalayas

Foresters across the mountainous northeastern Indian state of Nagaland will help roll out a unique programme of environmental education, co-developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
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Dasgupta Review: Nature’s value must be at the heart of economics

Nature is a “blind spot” in economics. We can no longer afford for it to be absent from accounting systems that dictate national finances, or ignored by economic decision-makers.
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When Symptoms Don't Stop

Treating those most severely affected by COVID-19 has necessarily taken priority during the pandemic. But could long COVID be the next wave of the crisis?
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Antibiotic resistance and the rise of the 'superbug'

We've all heard the doom and gloom about antibiotic resistance, 'pharmageddon', and the rise of 'superbugs'. But what lies behind this story, and more importantly, how (if at all) will it affect you?
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Using entrepreneurship to address the climate emergency

Society has no more urgent priority than “flattening the climate curve”. The social institution called “entrepreneurship” will make a vital contribution to this effort because there are four particular flavours of innovation corporates struggle to provide.
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TIGR2ESS - Shaping the Future of Indian Farming

TIGR2ESS, ‘Transforming India's Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable Food Supplies’, is a major collaboration of over 20 organisations led by the University of Cambridge, and funded by GCRF. India is developing fast, and a sustainable new approach to food production is urgently needed. TIGR2ESS is working to shape a fairer, more reliable food and water system for the country.
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The Fitzwilliam museum after its restoration

How to give to Cambridge

Philanthropy is the golden thread linking our greatest achievements. You can donate today — online, by phone or by post. Legacy gifts are also a vital way to secure our future. Our fundraisers are on hand any time to offer advice or to discuss a major gift.

 

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Philanthropic giving is at the heart of the success of the Collegiate University, enabling us to make discoveries that change the world and to ensure that our students receive an unrivalled education. Cambridge owes its world-leading excellence in research and teaching to the generosity of its supporters. Our history is synonymous with a history of far-sighted benefaction, and the same is as true today as it has ever been.

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Testimonial

Law, young lives, and ‘the spirit to excel’: How Prathiba M Singh is paying it forward

‘It's nice to contribute to the system and make a change—and it's an everlasting change."
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Philanthropic impact story

Physics, passion and purpose: how one alumna is helping to transform India's STEM for girls

“I have been on such a fun journey”, says Darshana Joshi (Hughes Hall 2012), who benefited from a scholarship to support her PhD in Physics and now, back home in New Delhi, runs a global charity that inspires and upskills young people to enable access to STEM careers.
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Gift announcement

Arcadia awards £10.3 million for the continuation of two major projects mapping endangered archaeological heritage in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

We are are pleased to announce that the Arcadia charitable foundation has awarded grants totalling £10.3 million to continue the work of the Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (MAEASaM) project and the Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia (MAHSA) project.
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