Real World Challenges Seminar Series

Real World Challenges Seminar Series

Cambridge Prisms

The Cambridge Prisms: Real World Challenges series will accelerate discovery and progress research by supporting the formation of new collaborative networks to address real-world challenges with a truly interdisciplinary ethos. Cambridge Prisms serve to facilitate conversation and debate of the latest developments and perspectives from the scientific, environmental, social science, medical, legal, economic, and ethics research communities.

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Prof. Anna Dominiczak
Prof. Munir Pirmohamed
Dr. Matthew Prime
Prof. Dianne Nicol
Prof. Bass Hassan
Dr. Bina Joe
Prof. Nathalie K. Zgheib
Prof. Anna Schuh
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Dr Jessica Jones
Dr Wolfgang Kiessling
Dr Merve Özyurt
Professor Jens-Christian Svenning
Prof Nicholas Dulvy
Prof Julien Louys
Prof Carlos Peres
Carl J Reddin
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Cambridge Prisms
Cambridge Prisms

July 2025

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Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork
Jul 17 @ 1pm
Keynote

Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork

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Victoria Prowse
Environment Agency
Thursday, July 17, 2025 1:00 PM (UTC)
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August 2025

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This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates
Aug 5 @ 8:30am
Keynote
Charles Darwin University
University of Adelaide

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates

Professor John Woinarski
John Woinarski
Charles Darwin University
Dr Jess Marsh
Jess Marsh
University of Adelaide
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 8:30 AM (UTC)
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September 2025

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Published seminars

Low cost, high throughput quantification of microplastics released from textile wash tests: Introducing the fibre fragmentation scale
Jul 2
Keynote

Low cost, high throughput quantification of microplastics released from textile wash tests: Introducing the fibre fragmentation scale

Lisa Macintyre
Were dinosaurs doomed to extinction? New insights from phylodynamic models
Jun 25
Keynote
ETH Zurich

Were dinosaurs doomed to extinction? New insights from phylodynamic models

Bethany Allen, ETH Zurich and GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
It’s time to assign nonforested, nonagricultural lands a global designation
May 22
Keynote
Arizona State University
Texas A&M University

It’s time to assign nonforested, nonagricultural lands a global designation

Osvaldo E Sala, Arizona State University
David D. Briske, Texas A&M University
Mitochondria as a target of micro- and nanoplastic toxicity
May 14
Keynote
Koç University

Mitochondria as a target of micro- and nanoplastic toxicity

Fulya Dal Yöntem, Koç University
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May 7
Keynote
University of Leeds

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Kate Simpson, University of Leeds
Rethinking extinction “crises”: The case of Asian songbird trade
May 1
Keynote
University of Leeds

Rethinking extinction “crises”: The case of Asian songbird trade

Sicily Fiennes, University of Leeds
Water Diplomacy
Apr 16
Keynote
Technical University of Denmark
Athens University of Economics and Business

Water Diplomacy

Phoebe Koundouri, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) Global Climate Hub; Alliance of Excellence for Research and Innovation on Αephoria (AE4RIA)
Giulio Boccaletti, CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene
Mar 26
Keynote
Aarhus University

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene

Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Water Management
Mar 25
Keynote
Technical University of Denmark
Athens University of Economics and Business

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Water Management

Phoebe Koundouri, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) Global Climate Hub; Alliance of Excellence for Research and Innovation on Αephoria (AE4RIA)
Allison Lassiter, University of Pennsylvania