Buildings behaving badly: the perils of ‘open plan’
A business academic who specialises in studying office life has suggested four top tips to help survive in a modern open plan workplace.
PiR hosts forum discussing the opportunities and obstacles of ‘Uber healthcare’
Specialist recruitment company PiR recently hosted a CEO Breakfast Forum to explore radical new models for connecting demand and supply in healthcare and clinical research.
IT Governance celebrates ten years supporting customers’ management system projects
IT Governance, the leading supplier of cyber security, risk management and IT governance products and services, is celebrating ten years supporting over 4,000 customers’ management system projects worldwide using documentation toolkits.
Cambridge Publishing Management Spring 2016 newsletter
With spring being earlier this year, we are so excited to welcome the season of growth and renewal. It’s been a busy few months for us at CPM already: our MD Jackie Dobbyne gave a talk to sixty primary school children as part of World Book Day last month; we engaged with a number of not-for-profits at the CHASE conference in London and also attended the annual IPG Spring Conference, where we…
What's the big idea?
Creative Director at KISS, Rich Bland, reflects on the influences on creativity over the decades, but there’s one question that’s worrying him…..
Photonics materials available from Strem Chemicals UK
The area of photonics is ubiquitous in daily life and deals with light (photon) generation and detection. Most photonic applications are in the range of visible and near-infrared light. The term photonics developed as an outgrowth of the first practical semiconductor light emitters from the early 1960s and optical fibers from the 1970s.
Pioneering centre for physical sciences-industry collaborations opens at Cambridge University
A centrepiece for industrial partnership with the physical sciences and engineering officially opened today. The £26 million Maxwell Centre will focus on “blue skies” research in areas such as efficient energy generation, storage and use, including work on photovoltaics, energy storage, refrigeration, lighting and ICT.
Cambridge Cognition unveils the first wearable for monitoring mental health
Cambridge Cognition shows its groundbreaking mental health wearable Cognition Kit™ for the first time at the Neurotech Investing Conference in Boston this week.
Maserati list of 100 supportive entrepreneurs includes Cambridge Judge connections
The annual Maserati 100 index of Britain’s entrepreneurs includes several people connected to Cambridge Judge Business School, including the Chairman of the Advisory Board and the Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre.
March 2016 Market Review from NW Brown
The March 2016 Market Review from the NW Brown investment experts is now available to download.
US2U Consulting celebrates 10 years with a truck down memory lane
US2U Consulting celebrated its 10th birthday with a visit to its first client, Boniface Engineering.
Spending for smiles: money can buy happiness after all
Money can buy happiness when spending fits our personality, finds study by University of Cambridge researchers based on 77,000 real bank spending transactions.
Redgate releases community editions of its MySQL tools
In a move reflecting the increasing acceptance and adoption of open source software and the principles behind it, Redgate Software has released community editions of its MySQL database tools. Alongside the paid-for enterprise editions, MySQL Compare and MySQL Data Compare are now available free for non-commercial use.
Innovia Technology tackles a big issue with big data
Innovia Technology helps the global apparel industry take a united approach to a textile dye problem.
Maple T.A. 2016 enables easy authoring of STEM testing content
Maplesoft™, a leader in software products for technical education and research, announced today the release of the latest version of its popular testing and assessment tool, Maple T.A.™.
Uninfected or asymptomatic? Diagnostic tests key to forecasting major epidemics
Major epidemics such as the recent Ebola outbreak or the emerging Zika epidemic may be difficult to forecast because of our inability to determine whether individuals are uninfected or infected but not showing symptoms, according to a new study from the University of Cambridge.
Powered by insects: funding for new food waste solution
A Cambridgeshire business has been awarded £60,000 to address the issue of food waste by harnessing the power of insects.
Birketts’ social housing team wins national ‘client choice’ award
Birketts, the full service law firm based in East Anglia, has been announced as the client choice winner of the 2016 Corporate Intl Magazine Global Award: ‘Social Housing Law - Law Firm of the Year in England’.
Companies update – new requirement for a 'PSC Register'
As of yesterday (6 April 2016), UK companies will need to keep a new register of ‘Persons with Significant Control’, explains Hewitsons.
Cash for councils in the East of England to fill 136,000 potholes
Motorists and cyclists are set to benefit after the government today announced how £50 million of funding will repair nearly 1 million potholes across the country over the next 12 months.
'Into boundless space I leap': open day at the new Maxwell Centre
Explore new architecture, science, art and dance and celebrate the opening of the Maxwell Centre this Saturday (9 April 2016).
Global carnivore conservation at risk
A new study confirms that the global conservation of carnivores is at risk. The paper, published in the journal Scientific Reports, models future global land conversion and estimates this will lead to significant range loss and conflict with local people in regions critical for the survival of already threatened carnivore species.
XGA301 industrial gas analyzer ensures effectiveness of glove boxes
Glove boxes are used extensively to handle hazardous or sensitive materials, often with a protective or highly controlled atmosphere. Michell’s XGA301 industrial gas analyzer provides a reliable and cost-effective method to monitor for air leaks combined with moisture measurement.
Scientists and conservation charities join forces to track Spanish bluebell invasion
The Wellcome Genome Campus Public Engagement team has joined forces with the Eden Project and The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire to launch the first ‘Bluebell Barcoding Day’ today (Wednesday 6 April), which will help track the threat to English bluebells from an invasive Spanish variety.
Video introduces the international legal services offered by law firm Mills & Reeve
For over 20 years, Mills & Reeve has been building a worldwide network of trusted legal advisers, international lawyers who share their standards of specialist expertise and client service.