Publications

Neil Andrews
Andrews, N. (2024). ‘Good Faith in English Contract Law’, in Good Faith in International Arbitration (E Geisinher, et al, eds), (Wolters Kluwer, The Hague, 2024), pp 15 to 28.

Macarena Arenas
Arenas, M. (2023). ‘Asphericity of Cubical Presentations: The 2-Dimensional Case’. International Mathematics Research Notices, [online] 2024(7), pp.5524–5547.
We show that under suitable hypotheses, the second homotopy group of the coned-off space associated to a C(9) cubical presentation is trivial, and use this to provide classifying spaces for proper actions for the fundamental groups of many quotients of square complexes admitting such cubical presentations. When the cubical presentations satisfy a condition analogous to requiring that the relators in a group presentation are not proper powers, we conclude that the corresponding coned-off space is aspherical.

Dr André Cabrera Serrenho
Watari, T., Yamashita, N. & Serrenho, A. C. (2024). ‘Net-Zero Embodied Carbon in Buildings with Today’s Available Technologies’. Environmental Science & Technology, 58, 1793-1801.
A study showing that zero carbon emissions in construction can be achieved by 2050 using existing technologies, including an increased used of timber, recycled steel and low carbon concrete.

Paul Cartledge
Cartledge, P. (2024). Foreword to D. Pritchard ed. ‘The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux’ (Cambridge U.P. 2024)

Helen Charman
Charman, H. (2024). ‘Mother State: a political history of motherhood’. London: Allen Lane, Penguin Books.
When we talk about mothering and politics together, we usually consider isolated moments: the policing of breastfeeding, or the cost of childcare. This book argues that this is not enough, constructing an alternative history of the UK—from the Women’s Liberation Movement to austerity—that reveals motherhood itself as an inherently political state.

Nicky Clayton
Davies, J. R., Garcia-Pelegrin, E., & Clayton, N. S. (2024). ‘Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) show episodic-like memory through the incidental encoding of information’. PLoS ONE, 19(5), Article e0301298.
Episodic memory describes the conscious reimagining of our memories and is often considered to be a uniquely human ability. As these phenomenological components are embedded within its definition, major issues arise when investigating the presence of episodic memory in non-human animals. Importantly, however, when we as humans recall a specific experience, we may remember details from that experience that were inconsequential to our needs, thoughts, or desires at that time. This ‘incidental’ information is nevertheless encoded automatically as part of the memory and is subsequently recalled within a holistic representation of the event. The incidental encoding and unexpected question paradigm represents this characteristic feature of human episodic memory and can be employed to investigate memory recall in non-human animals. However, without evidence for the associated phenomenology during recall, this type of memory is termed ‘episodic-like memory’. Using this approach, we tested seven Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) on their ability to use incidental visual information (associated with observed experimenter made ‘caches’) to solve an unexpected memory test. The birds performed above chance levels, suggesting that Eurasian jays can encode, retain, recall, and access incidental visual information within a remembered event, which is an ability indicative of episodic memory in humans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Maciej Dunajski
Dunajski, M. (2024). ‘Solitons, Instantons, and Twistors’. Second Edition. Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics 31, OUP
Most nonlinear differential equations arising in natural sciences admit chaotic behaviour and cannot be solved analytically. Integrable systems lie on the other extreme. They possess regular, stable, and well-behaved solutions known as solitons and instantons. These solutions play important roles in pure and applied mathematics as well as in theoretical physics where they describe configurations topologically different from vacuum. The book provides a self-contained and accessible introduction to the subject.

Patricia Fara
Fara, P. (2024). ‘‘Star Wars’ History Today’, May 2024, 90-93.
When the Cambridge astronomer Celia Payne-Goposchkin upset standard explanations for the formation of the solar system, the scientific establishment told her she was wrong – but then stole her findings. This article is one of a regular column called ‘Great Debates.’

Paul Fletcher
Brown, S.G., Fletcher, P.C., Seidlitz, J., Westwater, M.L., Ziauddeen, H. (2023). ‘Hypothalamic volume is associated with body mass index’, NeuroImage: Clinical, Volume 39, 2023.
The hypothalamus is a tiny brain region that plays a big role in the control of appetite. Using structural Magnetic Resonance imaging, we examined this region in over a thousand people and showed that it is significantly increased in size in those with higher body mass.

Jonathan Goodman
Goodman, J.M., Lam, C.C. (2023). ‘Reaction dynamics as the missing puzzle piece: the origin of selectivity in oxazaborolidinium ion-catalysed reactions’, Chemical Science 2023, volume 14, p12355-12365.

John Guy
Guy, J. and Fox, J. (2024). ‘Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’. London: Bloomsbury.
“Hunting the Falcon is a fierce, scholarly tour de force. The authors, a husband-and-wife historian team, are a dream pairing. There is an intensity to their research – the sleuthing through water-damaged documents hiding in musty collections; the reinterpreted ciphers and signatures in Tudor missives singed by fire; the telling marginalia ….” Tina Brown, The New York Times.

Sean Hartnoll
De Clerck, M., Hartnoll, S.A. and Santos, J.E. (2024). ‘Mixmaster chaos in an AdS black hole interior’. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(7).
This paper gives a new perspective on the chaotic crunching of space and the end of time inside a black hole.

Volker Heine
Chen, S. and Heine, V. 'Metallic Bonding Explained'. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Volume 36.

Matt Kenzie
Amhis, Y., Kenzie, M., Reboud, M., Widerhold, A. (2024). ‘Prospects for searches of b -> s nu nu decays at FCC-ee’, The Journal of High Energy Physics.
We investigate the physics reach and potential for the study of various decays involving beauty quark decays to strange quarks and two neutrinos at the Future Circular Collider running in electron-positron mode. We determine that such a facility would provide unprecedented precision and explore the phenomenological impacts on searches for New Physics.

Ottoline Leyser
Nahas, Z., Ticchiarelli, F., van Rongen, M., Dillon, J., and Leyser, O. (2024). 'The activation of Arabidopsis axillary buds involves a switch from slow to rapid committed outgrowth regulated by auxin and strigolactone’, New Phytologist, 242, pp. 1084-1097.

Tom McClelland
McClelland, T., & Dunin-Kozicka, M. (2024). ‘Affording imagination’. Philosophical Psychology, 1–24.

Fred Parker
Parker, F. (2023). 'Love’s Object, or, Unrequitable Love: reflections on the literature of passion between Rousseau and Percy Shelley', Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, 36, pp. 41-64.
Love that depends upon the imagination is vulnerable to disappointment or unappeasable longing: but this makes space for the imagination as creative function or power. The unrequited lovers discussed here are also writers, makers: the artwork understood not as displacement of desire but as modelling its instantiation in the world.

Larry Paulson
Paulson, L.P. (2024). ‘A formalised theorem in the partition calculus’, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, Volume 175, Issue 1, Part B, 2024, 103246, ISSN 0168-0072.
A paper on ordinal partitions by Erdős and Milner has been formalised using the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL augmented with a library for Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. The chosen material is particularly appropriate in view of the substantial corrections later published by its authors, illustrating the potential value of formal verification.

Jaideep Prabhu
Vassallo, J.P., Banerjee, S., Zaman, H. and Prabhu, J.C. (2023). ‘Design thinking and public sector innovation: The divergent effects of risk-taking, cognitive empathy and emotional empathy on individual performance’. Research Policy, 52(6), p.104768.
Individual traits predicting idea generation differ from those predicting implementation in public sector innovation. Risk-taking and cognitive empathy positively influence implementation, while emotional empathy negatively affects it. This 'empathy divergence thesis' provides insights into public sector intrapreneurship, despite organisational barriers to innovation.

Wendy Pullan
Pullan, W. (2024). ‘The disingenuous ‘clean-slate’: key concerns for reconstructing Ukraine’, in Architecture after War: A Reader, ed., Bohdan Kryzhanovsky, London: Mack Books and Kyiv: CANactions.
Since the Abercrombie plan for rebuilding London was developed before the end of World War II, it has been considered beneficial to think early of how destroyed cities can be reconstructed. My chapter focuses on longstanding issues of mixed cities that will have to be addressed whatever the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine.

Graham Ross
‘Rolling River: American Choral’ Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Iestyn Davies, countertenor Graham Ross, conductor Harmonia Mundi, HMM905362, April 2023
Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Chichester Psalms’ alongside works by Nico Muhly, Jennifer Higdon, Samuel Barber, Caroline Shaw, Eric Whitacre, David Lang, and others.

The Rev'd Mark Smith
Smith, M.S. (2024). ‘The Person of Christ: The Word Became Flesh’, (Latimer Trust), ISBN 978-1-916834-08-8
This is a short and accessible guide to the doctrine of the person of Christ. It explores the Scriptural witness to the person of Christ as both fully God and fully man, and the attempts of the early church both to articulate this truth and to guard it from error. A particular focus of the book is to show how this theology of Christ is embedded in, and expressed by, the formularies of the Church of England (the 39 Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer).

Desislava Staneva
Simon, C.S., McCarthy, A., Woods, L., Staneva, D., Huang, Q., Linneberg-Agerholm, M., Faulkner, A., Papathanasiou, A., Elder, K., Snell, P., Christie, L., Garcia, P., Shaikly, V., Taranissi, M., Choudhary, M., Herbert, M., Brickman, J.M. and Niakan, K.K. (2024). ‘Suppression of ERK signalling promotes pluripotent epiblast in the human blastocyst’.
In the first week of human embryogenesis, the fertilised egg divides and gives rise to placental, foetal and yolk sac progenitors. This study demonstrated the importance of the ERK signalling pathway in generating the foetal and yolk sac lineages, and identified a novel inhibitor allowing robust stem cell derivation.

Sam Stranks
Pan, L., Dai, L., Burton, O.J., Chen, L., Andrei, V., Zhang, Y., Ren, D., Cheng, J., Wu, L., Frohna, K., Abfalterer, A., Yang, T.C.-J., Niu, W., Xia, M., Hofmann, S., Dyson, P.J., Reisner, E., Sirringhaus, H., Luo, J., Hagfeldt, A., Grätzel, M., Stranks, S.D. (2024). ‘High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu2O photoelectrodes’. Nature 628, 765–770.

Dorothy Thompson
Thompson, D. (2024). ‘Ptolemaic Egypt’, in Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt. Sources in Translation, ed. Jane L. Rowlandson, Roger S. Bagnall and Dorothy J. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2024, 211–273.

Ed Turner
Hayes, M.P., Ashe-Jepson, E., Hitchcock, G.E., Clark, R., Hellon, J., Knock, R.I., Bladon, A.J. and Turner, E.C. (2024). 'Heatwave predicts shady future for insects', Journal of Insect Conservation,28.
In this study we investigated the impact of record-breaking temperatures in the UK on butterflies, and whether butterfly banks (artificially-created mounds on nature reserves), can provide cooler conditions that act as a refuge from extreme heat.