Royal Geography Society Podcasts
The Royal Geography Society podcasts tackles issues in both human and physical geography, on topics including gentrification, chinses cities, urban...
Read moreCrash Course
Crash Course provides 10 minute YouTube video series on a huge range of topics, building up from an introductory level...
Read moreHE+
The HE+ website hosts subject resources written by Cambridge academics and is designed for self-study. This is an absolutely brilliant resource...
Read moreNewnham Essay Prizes
Newnham College’s essay prizes are open exclusively to girls studying in Year 12/Lower Sixth and feature a £500 prize for...
Read moreScience Friday
Described as “your trusted source for news and entertaining stories about science”, Science Friday hosts a range of weekly podcasts,...
Read moreBattle of Ideas
The Battle of Ideas is a two-day annual festival which encourages free-thinking and open-ended discussion about a number of current...
Read moreThinking Allowed
Thinking Allowed is a BBC Radio 4 programme presented by former Professor of Sociology Laurie Taylor, looking for half an...
Read moreYale Open Courses
Yale is one of the USA’s top universities, and they have a great selection of lectures and materials from their...
Read morePopAnth
PopAnth looks to take the work of anthropologists around the world, who research and explore current and historic human societies,...
Read moreSocial Science Bites
Their own website explains it best: “hear leading social scientists present their perspectives on how our social world is created,...
Read moreViva Voce podcasts
Interested in hearing about current research in the humanities and social sciences? Viva Voce asks current and former PhD students...
Read moreCRASSH blog
CRASSH is the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, based in Cambridge. Their blog invites contributors...
Read moreThe Conversation
What happens when academics and journalists work together to produce a news website? No matter your interests, be in in...
Read moreGresham College lectures
Gresham College, founded in 1597, exists to disseminate knowledge by providing free public lectures. You can view past lectures on their...
Read moreYoung Geographer of the Year
The Royal Geographical Society and Geographical Magazine organise an annual competition for keen geographers aged 9-18. There’s also an essay competition...
Read moreHE+
The HE+ project website from Cambridge contains resources such as extra reading material, links to external websites, exercises to try...
Read moreHay Festival talks from Cambridge
The Hay Festival is a celebration of literature and the arts, and Cambridge often brings along its own academic to...
Read moreHay Levels
The Hay Levels are a series of five minute videos from some of the world’s leading academics and teachers which...
Read moreNational Schools Geology Challenge
Do you have any talented Year 12/13 students studying science, geology or geography? The National Schools Geology Challenge rewards groups of...
Read moreGeological Society resources
The Geological Society’s website has a bunch of great resources (factsheets, videos, podcasts, interactive pages, and lesson plans for teachers...
Read moreGeographical
Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society. Lots of interesting features on places, people and nature, as...
Read moreMDG Visualisation
A great interactive visualisation from the NHME on how different countries are progressing towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). If...
Read moreNational Geographic
The go-to magazine for any budding geography student, National Geographic has been publishing amazing articles and photographs relating to geography,...
Read moreFutureLearn
What would you like to learn? Whether it’s ecosystems, health, business, stem cells, climate change, programming, religion or quantum physics,...
Read moreedX
EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from lots of US and world universities. There are over 300 short courses...
Read moreCoursera
MOOCs (or Massive Open Online Courses) have really taken off in popularity in recent years. Coursera partners with top universities...
Read moreCambridge on YouTube
YouTube is probably one of the easiest ways to explore your subject nowadays. The University of Cambridge’s account is great,...
Read moreiTunes U
iTunes U is a dedicated section of Apple’s iTunes Store that houses an endless supply of educational audio and video files from...
Read moreFitzwilliam Essay Competitions
Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge runs annual essay competitions, usually for those studying in the lower sixth, to reward gifted students...
Read moreFestival of Ideas
The Cambridge Festival of Ideas is an annual celebration of the arts, humanities and social sciences. Hundreds of talks, performances, films...
Read moreCRIAViews
CRIAViews is a blog which aims to engage audiences with articles on international affairs. Many of the authors are academics...
Read morePeterhouse Essay Prizes
Peterhouse, one of the Colleges which makes up the University of Cambridge, organises essay competitions each year for students in...
Read moreZooniverse
Take part in science and humanities research projects from the comfort of your own home! Search for planets around stars, classify...
Read moreAeon Magazine
Aeon is an online magazine which features oodles of essays and video documentaries on issues in science and society. It...
Read moreCambridge SMS
The Cambridge Streaming Media Service (SMS) is a huge online vault of recorded public lectures and other events which have...
Read moreBBC iWonder
BBC iWonder features a range of interactive online guides which organise videos, audio files, infographics, activities and written sumaries to...
Read moreIn Our Time on Radio 4
BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ has become a hugely popular discussion programme, attracting over two million listeners who want...
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