Happy #Diwali from Cambridge! ✨ Professor Bhaskar Vira Bhaskar Vira, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, and Nikhil, President of Cambridge's Hindu Cultural Society, shine a light on this year's festivities 🤩

Are you a #Cambridge postgraduate student looking for mental health support? The Student Wellbeing Service is here for you. You can self-refer anytime through the academic year for online and in-person appointments. Find out more at bit.ly/48Fo6qB #ReachOutCambridge

Professor Bhaskar Vira talks about approaches to understanding the place of the natural environment in human well-being. Watch Live:- youtube.com/live/izjGNvTSt… Organized by:- IHD NITI Aayog RIS #GlobalConclave2024 #IHD25Years #IHDIndia #GC2024

Celebrating lift project completion ✅ The Geography main building is again open and all floors are fully accessible 🎉

Guest Editorial in People&Nature w/Rachel Carmenta and co-authors. We delve into dynamic landscapes of the #biocultural #diverse #tropics, exploring the impacts of conservation and development on people-nature relationships. Check out our Synthesis: bit.ly/PluralValues 📚1/7

📢 All students are invited to attend an open meeting about Cambridge’s commitment to tackling the climate crisis. Fergus Kirman Cambridge SU will chair, and you can put your questions to senior University leaders. 📍Teams at bit.ly/ClimateCambrid… 🗓️ 15 Feb 15:15-16:15

What would you take to a desert island? 🏝️💿 Listen to the inspiring story of Cambridge Geography volcanologist Prof Clive Oppenheimer Clive Oppenheimer, who reveals the soundtrack of his life on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Available now on BBC Sounds 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Wishing a wonderful Ramadan to all our students, staff, alumni and friends around the world 🌙 We hope this special month brings peace and happiness to all – #RamadanMubarak! ❤️ 📷 Ibrahim Rahman 📍 Cambridge Central Mosque

Nice promotion of our HLPE report from a few years ago! Happy International Forest Day Terry Sunderland Bhaskar Vira Penn State Geography

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Announcement: Britain Nepal Academic Council is pleased to announce that Paola Tiné and Alice Millington awarded BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize 2024. Details: bnac.ac.uk/bnacnews/paola…

It was a great pleasure to host High Commissioner Doraiswami Vikram Doraiswami and his team, and to hold some very constructive conversations during his visit to Cambridge.

Earlier today, Prof. Bhaskar Vira Bhaskar Vira, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge University paid a visit to my office. Prof. Bhaskar's visit was in relation to the 'Green Jobs' project which is part of Cambridge University's Mastercard Foundation programme.

At the University of Ghana, Prof. Bhaskar has been working closely with University of Ghana's Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Inst. of Statistical, Social & Economic Research on the 'Green Jobs' project. His visit was therefore to further discussions on this and many other projects of mutual benefit.

Productive Lunch Meeting Advances WACCI 3.0 Initiative: Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education at University of Cambridge, Professor Bhaskar Vira, and I agree that ST&I for resilient, nutritious crops will elevate our collaboration.

👋🏾 Meet Mastercard Foundation Scholars Chibuzor, Itumeleng and Godbless – Africa’s next generation of transformative leaders. 🌍 The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program aims to contribute to climate resilience and sustainable futures in Africa 👉🏽 eng.cam.ac.uk/news/meet-mast…

📢New Anthropocene paper discussing the Himalayan context. When local belief has long held that humans can mobilise earth forces through the ritual technologies of Buddhism, is “the Anthropocene” really a new epoch of thought? Accessible open access here: globalbuddhism.org/article/view/3…

Is Cambridge University right to enforce a retirement age? I think so – who wants to be a ‘job blocker’? But what are you supposed to do between retiring and dying? Visit the grandkids on your senior railcard???? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Day 2⃣ of the #NatureAction Dialogues🌿 opens with an engaging keynote delivered by Bhaskar Vira on the challenges of valuing #biodiversity, with emphasis on the ongoing challenges of valuation techniques that are embedded in our current economic systems. 📸⤵️

A huge congratulations to Dr Matthew Adeleye (Matthew Adeleye) who have been awarded a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship 👏 #UKRIFLF