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Podcasts
Interview with fmr. Assistant Director of Admissions, UPenn
William Fenton, our guest this episode, talks us through the changes that we have been witnessing in the college admission space since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
21st Century Body Politics
CCIR Fellow and Gates Scholar Ronja Griep (Cambridge) and Professor Lisa Smyth explore abortion, motherhood and social roles in the family.
Interview with fmr. Director, Alumni Interviewing Program, Columbia University
Our guest this epsiode, Claire Gumus, shares that how relying on standardised test scores was always difficult for admission officers and students alike.
Public Lectures
Dr. Tom McClelland's Public Lecture
Our Public Lecture Initiative aims to bring leading scholars to high schools around the world for online lectures. In our most recent public lecture, Dr. Tom McClelland (University of Cambridge) gave a talk on the value of philosophy and its practical applications in the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence at the American College of Sofia in Bulgaria.
Student Research Spotlight
Theodore Patsis’ Paper on AI and Film Accepted to MIT Conference
CCIR Student Researcher Theodore Patsis (Athens College) had his paper “Computing Movie Script Similarity with Neural Word Embeddings” accepted to the highly prestigious 2021 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC). Learn more about his project and his experiences.
Sanay’s Paper on Language Model Published in Stanford Journal
Sanay (CCIR alumnus) a junior high school student in California. At CCIR, he developed his research project ”Using Large Language Models to Assist Content Generation in Persuasive Speaking.” His paper was accepted at Stanford University’s Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society. Learn more about his research and experience.
Richard Presenting at the BSA Medical Sociology Conference as the Youngest Presenter Ever
Richard explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the (re)definition of mental health disorders in New Zealand and worldwide. He will be standing among some of the leading researchers in medical sociology today—as by and far the youngest presenter at the conference. The British Sociological Associations’ annual medical sociology conference is one of the most prestigious sociology conferences in Europe.
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Our students don’t just consume knowledge. They create it.
At CCIR, we are incredibly proud of the work our students do. The aim of the Student Spotlight series is to showcase the amazing work that our students do at our programmes. In this episode, Audrey talks about her work on the history of Brexit under the mentorship of Dr. Devlin (Cambridge); she shares about her work and her experience conducting high-level independent research at CCIR.
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All of our unedited long-form student interviews are all in one place. You can watch our students’ talk about their work and their experiences at CCIR Student Research Spotlight.
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Connecting researchers with the public.
The CCIR Think Tank operates a range of non-profit initiatives that aim to empower researchers as public intellectuals.
Fellows
We fund and support early-career researches to do public intellectual work.
Podcasts
Explore the cutting edge of academic research with CCIR.
Re:think Essay Competition
Inviting students to reflect on the most important issues of today.
Public Lecture Initiative
Bringing leading scholars to high schools around the world.
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Our fellows are early-career researchers who aspire to be public intellectuals.
Ronja Griep is a Gates Scholar and a current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge working in feminist political philosophy. For her CCIR fellowship, she will be leading an interview series on 21st Century Body Politics, where she will discuss the politics of bodily beauty and wellness with leading academics in philosophy, the social sciences, and beyond.
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The RE:THINK Essay Competition
The 2021 Re:think Essay Competition invited high school students around the world to document, investigate, and to reflect upon the COVID-19 pandemic. In this culminating conference, our winning essayists are joined by our three distinguished Cambridge faculty judges—Dr. Tom McClelland (Cambridge, Philosophy), Dr. Hande Güzel (Cambridge, Sociology), and Dr. Daniele Casesse (Cambridge, Economics).
Watch the award-winning presentations here.
The CCIR x YIP Social Media Politics Policython
Over the course of two days, students explored the question of how social media can be transformed into a positive force in global politics, engaging in discussion with academics, social media influencers.
Watch the keynote lectures here.
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