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Community helping climate.

How to tackle climate change using a social generative approach including sacrifice and ecological design, as drawn from examples studied at the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation.

A fully manned UN armored personnel carrier driving full throttle into the training ground.

The new Lab seeks to spot climate-related conflict before it occurs and pre-empt it through socio-ecological action.

Citizen Zoo keepers.

An organisation supported by Cambridge Judge Business School is on a mission to reintroduce wildlife back into nature with help from non-expert Citizen Keepers in the community.

Cambridge Social Innovation Prize winners 2024.

5 social venture entrepreneurs chosen for the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2024 for potential social impact in the UK.

Group of women.

Career and personal development

Women’s collective leadership for social change

The online WomenEd community of educational reformers around the world illustrates alternative forms of organising in the digital age, says research from the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation.

Winners at the WISE Awards ceremony.

Six women who participated in the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation programme are among social entrepreneurs cited in WISE100.

Theo Brown of René House CIC.

Short videos about social ventures are released by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge to highlight the impact of people and firms on society.

Social entrepreneur using a laptop.

Cambridge Judge, Fauna & Flora, and the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme team up on a guide to establishing and operating Nature-Positive Enterprises (NPEs).

Mural at the Marsh House, restored from derelict by Marsh Farm Outreach.

Marsh Farm Outreach helped regenerate an area of Luton, UK, by overcoming friction between local officials and grassroots organisers, says a case study from the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Social Innovation: The Social Ideas Podcast

The Social Ideas podcast shares the impact of social innovation, its necessity and its capacity to challenge the status quo.

Throughout this series, highly committed change makers in business, civil society, policy and academia will talk about their work, their ideas and their motivation to strive towards to a more equitable and sustainable world.

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Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation YouTube channel

The Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, acts as a platform for research and engagement with social innovators, academia and policy in UK and across the world. We regularly post videos on our YouTube channel on all things Social Innovation.

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Featured playlists

Cambridge Social Ventures

A showcase of social ventures supported by our incubator programme.

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The Social Innovation Think Tank

The Social Innovation Think Tank is our new monthly series, exploring the power of Social Innovation. Hosted by Dr Neil Stott and Professor Paul Tracey from the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, each month we’ll hear from change-makers whose socially innovative work is creating a fairer and more sustainable world.

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Social Venturing Conversations

This series of webinars explores the challenges and difficulties social enterprises are facing and will give our guests the opportunity to share their best practices.

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Beyond the Pandemic

Hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, Beyond the pandemic: equality, diversity and inclusion explores why we need to embed the values and practice of equality, diversity and inclusion within the different infrastructures of society.

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