Alumni CAM

Issue 108

Issue 108

Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 108 – Easter 2026

My room, your room: Journalist and author Sathnam Sanghera meets Law student Rocio Leyva Thomas.

The Trailer of Life has been a Cambridge institution for more than 30 years, so what’s its secret?

Alumni life: Hanadi Jabado says investing in the right people will create the future we want to live in.

 

 

 

108 cover
 Download PDF version

Features

Kayak guide Shokita Masakatsu (73) photographed on a beach near his home. His philosophy is to share the joy of sea kayaking and

Features /

On age

I want to live for ever. I want to retire at 50. Paying for care is a lottery. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to retire. The tropes of ageing are simultaneously contradictory and limiting, so what does it really mean to age well?
Always on my mind

Features /

Always on my mind

Coverage of mental health issues, particularly in the young, is on the rise – as is speculation that it’s being overdiagnosed. Now Tim Dalgleish, the inaugural Dawson Professor of Young People’s Mental Health, is on a mission to find new ways to change lives.
Grazing cattle help maintain suitable nesting habitats for the ground-nesting lapwings.

Features /

Old Father Thames keeps rolling

Great Father Thames has provided food, industry, transport and protection for the inhabitants of London and the east of England for more than a thousand years – but human activity has taken its toll. Now’s the time to restore its former glory.
Van of Life

Features /

Trailer of Life

Cheesy chips, quesadillas and, of course, burgers. For more than 30 years, the Trailer – or Van – of Life has been a Market Square staple, delivering vital sustenance at the end of many a late-night student adventure. So what’s its secret?

Regulars

104 hero

Crossword /

108 Crossword- It's drawn out by Nimrod

Solvers must find ways to connect four groups of three (including three nonstandard phrases) from realms – one group each – of history, geography, science/nature and entertainment. Wordplay in each of the normally numbered clues leads to the answer with an extra letter not entered in the grid.
BBC Young Musician of the Year Brass Final Matilda Lloyd

Soundtrack /

Matilda Lloyd's (Trinity 2014) Cambridge soundtrack

Blowing her own trumpet: how a ‘bit of fun’ turned into a lifelong passion Winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year Brass Final was just the start for Matilda Lloyd, the ‘trumpeter extraordinaire’ who became a global superstar.
Sathnam Sanghera and Law student Rocio Leyva Thomas.

My room, your room /

Y43, Christ’s My room, your room

The posters may have changed, but the air of excitement, possibility and pride is as strong as ever, say author Sathnam Sanghera and Law student Rocio Leyva Thomas.
TIMD- 'The school system is broken beyond repair'

This idea must die /

This idea must die- ‘The school system is broken beyond repair’

Professor Hilary Cremin believes the status quo for the education system is becoming untenable, and has some ideas about what might come next.
Society- Golf

Student life /

Society CAM 108- Hole in one

Hole in one. 
If you want to know how to combine serious sport with serious fun, the Golf Club has it down to a tee.
Alumni Life 108

Alumni life /

CAM 108- Alumni life

‘We need to disrupt the VC model to invest in the people who are driving our society, and in terms of the future we want to live in’
Chancellor Chris Smith champions academic freedom

Inbox /

Easter- Editor's letter and inbox

Welcome to the Easter edition of CAM
A solution for the age: New Rokos School of Government to begin work

News /

Easter edition- Campendium

CAM's summary of what's been happening across the University.