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Modern and Medieval Languages
Trinity offers a unique setting for the study of modern languages and cultures, enabling students to gain deep expertise in language, critical analysis, and intercultural communication. At Trinity you will discover a truly global community of students from a wide…
Psychological & Behavioural Sciences (PBS)
Trinity College is delighted to invite applications for undergraduates to be admitted into the PBS Tripos, by the UCAS deadline of 15 October 2025 to commence studies in October 2026. The highly popular PBS course at Cambridge is in its…
JRF: Shortlisting and Election
Short-listing and the 2000-word statement A short-list of candidates will be drawn up in the week beginning 29 September 2025. Candidates will be told as soon as possible thereafter whether they have been short-listed. Those on the short-list will be…
Revitalizing Louisiana Creole with a digital tool
Elected a Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics in 2020, Dr Oliver Mayeux’s research on Louisiana Creole has contributed to a new Google app helping to revitalize endangered indigenous languages around the world. Here he explains his fascination for languages and…
Dr Benjamin Marschall: philosophy, language and mathematics
Dr Benjamin Marschall talks about language and mathematics in our latest Q&A with new Junior Research Fellows. How did you become interested in philosophy? I came to philosophy through political theory: like many people I was a sort-of teenage…
Royals at Trinity
King Charles III
Lees Knowles Lectures 2022: ‘The Civilianization of War’
In this year’s Lees Knowles Lectures, Professor Jay Winter, Charles J Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, will explore the aftermath of the First World War, from the Armistice of 1918 to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923,…
Meet Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts, Dr Padraig Regan
Dr Padraig Regan is an award-winning poet from Belfast and one of the two new Fellow Commoners in the Creative Arts at Trinity. Here they write about ‘intellectual voraciousness’ and their current plans for the Fellowship. Please tell us a…
Life at Trinity
If you’re interested in finding out more about what it’s like living as a student at Trinity College, you’ve come to the right place. Here you will find details of catering and accommodation, followed by an insight into some of…
Tom Murray is new Shaffer playwright-in-residence
Tom Murray is appointed Shaffer playwright-in-residence at Trinity 2023-2024. Here he writes about his inspiration and plans for the residency. Please tell us about yourself I’m a 23 year old playwright from the village of Linton in Cambridgeshire. I graduated…
Areas of Greatest Need
The Areas of Greatest Need Fund Making an unrestricted donation through the Areas of Greatest Need fund allows the College the maximum flexibility to adapt and respond to changing pressures, support new initiatives and research, and maintain our historic fabric,…
Staff and students spot record 25 species during the Big Garden Birdwatch
Trinity’s gardeners, joined by other staff and students, saw record number of birds including a kingfisher, an egret and two green woodpeckers during the Big Garden Birdwatch 2024. Apprentice Gardener, Ursula Morris said: ‘It’s great being a gardener because we…
‘… on the impossibility of being Byron in 2024’: Rebecca Watts at The Byron Festival
Trinity alumna Rebecca Watts is a Cambridge-based poet and Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow. Her debut collection The Met Office Advises Caution (Carcanet, 2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and her second collection Red Gloves (Carcanet 2020) won a Gladstone’s Library…
‘The Old Firm’: Trinity’s success at the 1924 Olympics
As Trinity supports Imogen Grant’s quest for an Olympic medal, we look back on the College’s winners from the 1924 Paris Olympics. Charles Maxwell Eley, James McNabb, Robert Morrison and Terrence Sanders who had rowed together since their Eton College…
Dame Sally Davies attends UN General Assembly to help combat antibiotic emergency
This week Dame Sally Davies is attending the High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance at the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New York. As UK Special Envoy on AMR, Dame Sally campaigns on multiple fronts in a bid to beat…
Olympic medalist Dr Imogen Grant returns to Trinity for her other medal
Olympic gold medalist Imogen Grant returned to Trinity and collected another medal – this one of plywood and MDF – from around Henry VIII’s neck at Great Gate via a cherry picker and amid cheers from the crowd below. Dr…
Soham Village College students unleash their creativity in The Litmus
Soham Village College student Boaz, who had forgotten all about his entry to the Litmus, was surprised to return home and hear his parents say: ‘You’re now a published author. Go and write some more!’ He was one of nine…
FIRST PERSON: ‘I love Maths even more than I did before university’
First-year Trinity Maths student Vera Lavrova grew up in Russia and Germany, where she practised her problem-solving skills in many maths Olympiads, before deciding to apply to Cambridge. Vera is funded to study by the Backing Ingenuity for Growth (BIG)…
What has Polly Shorrock learnt from rowing for Cambridge?
Polly Shorrock will row in Blondie, the Women’s Reserve Boat, racing against Oxford’s Osiris on Sunday 13 April. She talks about balancing rowing with an MPhil in Classics and what being part of Cambridge University Boat Club has taught her. …
200 years of rowing at Trinity
As more than 200 members celebrate the bicentenary of Trinity’s Boat Club, we share a potted history of rowing at the College. 1825: Trinity’s Boat Club is founded In 1825 a handful of Trinity students founded the College’s first…