Current Challenges & Future Directions: Mini-Tutorial Series

Invitation to Register: Current Challenges & Future Directions in Key Fields

A series of free online mini-tutorial ‘tasters’ for pre-GCSE students, with Cambridge/Oxford/Yale/McGill experts (April 2020)

Schools have closed early for the Easter break this Friday, and holiday plans have been essentially cancelled for students across the country and internationally.

A network of students, dons and families are organising a series of Cambridge/Oxford style mini-tutorial sessions online for 14-17+ (pre-GCSE) across the UK and internationally, just 60 minutes per session, through April 2020 over CISDL Zoom.

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The ‘taster’ sessions will consider current challenges and future directions in law, biomedicine, maths, sciences, economics, sustainable development, literature and history, led by a mix of well-known/emerging academics and practitioners who lead top research institutes, social enterprises or international organizations in each field.

Online tutorials will take place Wednesdays and Fridays from 10-11 am UK over the month of April. Over zoom, the expert provides a 20-min introduction to the burning issues in their area, then the students can ask questions and discuss interactively for 30 mins, followed by a 10-min round-up. To follow up, the expert provides their personal recommendations of the top 5 current online resources, for any students to pursue the field further.

Upcoming Session leaders

• April 01, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Wed 01 April for current challenges and future directions in international law with Prof. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, DPhil, MEM, BCL/LLB, BA Hons (CISDL Senior Director, University of Cambridge Leverhulme Visiting Professor, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change CLGI Executive Secretary, Justicia Fundamentum laureate, author of Sustainable Development Law and other books) and Dr. Markus Gehring, JSD, Dr iur, MA, LLM (University of Cambridge Law Lecturer, Jean Monet Chair of European Law and Sustainable Development, CISDL Lead Counsel, Hughes Hall Law Director of Studies, editor of Sustainable Development in World Trade Law and other books).
• April 03, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Fri 03 April for current challenges and future directions in biomedicine session with Dr. Mark Kotter, MD, MPhil, PhD (University of Cambridge neurosurgeon, spinal surgery specialist, founder of Bit Bio biomedical social enterprise for command line access to life, National Institute for Health Research Clinician Scientist & Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards Laureate, author of CNS Remyelination in Disease and other studies).
• April 08, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Wed 08 April for current challenges and future directions in entrepreneurship and strategy, session with Prof. Chris Coleridge, MBA, MSc, PhD (Univ of Cambridge Judge Business School Senior Faculty in Management Practice; London Business School Adjunct Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation; Univ of Cambridge Judge Master of Studies in Entrepreneurship Founder; Cambridge University Venture Capital & Private Equity Society Senior Treasurer; Goldman Sachs 10ksb, London Stock Exchange ELITE, New Entrepreneurs Foundation instructor; University College London Best Lecturer Awards Laureate; co-editor of The Green Finance and Fintech Book and other studies).
• April 10, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Fri 10 April for current challenges and future directions in global health session with Prof. Maya Prabhu, MD, LLD, MSc, AB (global health jurist and policy expert, Yale University Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Yale Center for Asylum Medicine / Yale Institute for Global Health Fellow, CISDL Lead Counsel, Yale Adult Refugee Clinic Co-Lead, graduate of Harvard, LSE and McGill Universities, author of Immigration Health: Law, Policy and Ethics and other studies).
• April 15, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Wednesday for current challenges and future directions in cell biology session with Professor Margaret Robinson, PhD, BA (Cambridge University Professor and Researcher, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Principal Investigator, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, European Molecular Biology Organization Member, Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow and Royal Society Fellow, graduate of Harvard University and Smith College, co-author of Role of the AP-5 Adaptor Protein Complex in Late Endosome-to-Golgi-Retrieval and other studies. For More Information https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/robinson.Link to Publications https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk /images/ robinson/view).
• April 17, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Friday for current challenges and future direction in theoretical physics session with Prof Ben Allanach, PhD, BSc (Cambridge University Professor of Theoretical Physics, STFC Quantum Selves Exhibitor, Science and Technology Facilities Council; Consolidated High Energy Physics Theory Grant Principal Investigator, Cambridge University Pheno Working Group & also former PPARC Advanced Fellow, CERN Theoretical Physics Fellow, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Higher Scientific Officer, CERN Council Strategy Group Scientific Secretary, also Guerilla Science Stage Show Consultant, Quantum Selves Artist and TEDx Presenter, author of Review of Particle Physics and other books. For More Information: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/research /hep/person /bca20. Link to Publications https://inspirehep.net/literature?sort=mostrecent &size=25&page=1&q=f%20a %20allanach#with-citation-summary).
• April 22, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Wed 22 April for current challenges and future directions in online education: examples from engineering session with Prof. Richard Prager, PhD, MA, BA (Cambridge University Head of Engineering Department, Royal Academy of Engineering fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellow, Queens’ College Cambridge Fellow, Cambridge Medical Imaging Group Founder, I want to study engineering website editor,  Stradx and Stradwin Freehand 3D Ultrasound System Principle Architects, Cambridge University Professor teaching a Third Year Course on Medical Image Acquisition, Currently Writing a Novel on Algorithms for High-Resolution Ultrasonic Beam-Forming, Cambridge University previous School of Technology Head, co-author of A spatial coherence approach to minimum variance beamforming for plane-wave compounding and other studies).
• April 24, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Fri 24 April for current challenges and future directions in global human rights session with Dr. Ashfaq Khalfan, DPhil, BCL/LLB, MA, BA Hons (international human rights jurist, Amnesty International Director of Law, CISDL Board of Governors Chair, former Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Advisor, graduate of McGill and Oxford Universities, author of Odious Debt Doctrine and other studies).
• May 1, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Fri 1 May for current challenges and future directions in global governance session with Dr. Alexandra R. Harrington J.D., LL.M., D.C.L (McGill) (international law and global governance expert, Balsillie School of International Affairs Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance; University of Albany School of Law Professor; former United Nations Environment Programme Advisor, CISDL Research Director & Lead Counsel, author of International Organizations and the Law and other books).

Further experts in April may include:

• On current challenges and future directions in astrophysics session with Lord Martin Rees, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS (Baron Rees of Ludlow, British cosmologist and astrophysicist,  Astronomer Royal, former Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge / President of the Royal Society, University of Cambridge Centre for Study of Existential Risk co-founder, Faraday / Crafoord / Templeton award laureate, author of On the Future Prospects for Humanity and other books)*

Further resources for learning

• Video: With great thanks, we are able to share the ‘100 Years of Universes’ lecture of Prof. John Barrow, BSc, DPhil, DSc (University of Cambridge Professor of Cosmology, Mathematics and Astrophysics, Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, graduate of Durham and Oxford Universities, Dirac Prize / Institute of Physics Gold Medal of the Institute of Physics / Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal laureate, author of The Book of Universes and other volumes).
• Developed by University of Cambridge for students thinking about University,  HE+ provides access to a range of educational materials, activities and suggestions for further reading.
• Math Builders provides a fun application to solve GCSE maths problems.

After registering – join 10 minutes before the projected start time, using Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/704301516  (ID: 704 301 516)

Week One Start Times: Apr 1, 2020 10:00 AM London / Apr 3, 2020 10:00 AM

* invited but not confirmed

**This event was made possible through a collaboration of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and the Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Cambridge, with special thanks to  experts from the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, the Centre for Climate Change Engagement,  and Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Selected lectures will be added for on-demand viewing.

Session 1: Current challenges and future directions in international law with Prof. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and Dr. Markus Gehring

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Session 3: Current challenges and future directions in entrepreneurship and strategy session with Prof. Chris Coleridge

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Session 5: Current challenges and future directions in cell biology session with Professor Margaret Robinson

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Session 6: Current challenges and future direction in theoretical physics session with Prof Ben Allanach

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Session 7: Current challenges and future directions in online education: examples from engineering session with Prof. Richard Prager

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