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Spring 2025 Admissions is officially OPEN.

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CCIR Academy
The most rigorous online research mentorships with Ivy League and Oxbridge professors. Now includes access to the CCIR Lab at MIT.
2025 Admissions Are OPEN
Conducting In-person Research at MIT Lab
Starting Spring 2025, all CCIR students will now receive free access to the state-of-the-art CCIR Lab on the campus of MIT.
CCIR Lab at MIT
Ten Nobel Laureates Spoke with CCIR Students
Ten Nobel laureates have attended CCIR’s events, with live interactions with CCIR students.
CCIR Student Symposium with Nobel Laureates
Our Exceptional Alumni
Nearly one-third of our US-bound Alumni are currently in one of the Ivy Leagues, MIT, or Stanford.
Alumni College Admission Statistics
CCIR Interviews with Ivy League Admission Officers
Watch our Future of Higher Education podcast series where we discussed the state of university admissions with Admission Officers from Columbia, UPenn, Georgetown, NYU, UC Berkeley, and more.
Explore our Podcasts
CCIR Student Researchers Making History
CCIR alumnus Richard Jia will be standing among the leading researchers in medical sociology today—as by far the youngest presenter at the British Sociological Association (BSA)'s conference in its 72 years history.
Student Research Spotlights
Cambridge Re:think Essay Competition 2025 is OPEN
We welcome talented high school students from diverse educational settings worldwide to contribute their unique perspectives to this year's competition.
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CCIR Academy Featured by Nature
Student Researcher Rachel sharing her research experience at CCIR on the world’s most prestigious academic publication.
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Academy
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Rigorous online research mentored by world-class university professors for high school and undergraduate students.

Not-for-profit outreach connecting academia and the public.

Podcasts

Interview with fmr. Assistant Director of Admissions, UPenn
William Fenton, our guest this episode, talks us through the changes that we have been witnessing in the college admission space since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Interview
21st Century Body Politics
CCIR Fellow and Gates Scholar Ronja Griep (Cambridge) and Professor Lisa Smyth explore abortion, motherhood and social roles in the family.
Interview
Interview with Director of Alumni Interviewing Program, Columbia University
Our guest this epsiode, Claire Gumus, shares that how relying on standardised test scores was always difficult for admission officers and students alike.
Interview

Public Lectures

Dr. Tom McClelland's Public Lecture
Our Public Lecture Initiative aims to bring leading scholars to high schools around the world for online lectures. In our most recent public lecture, Dr. Tom McClelland (University of Cambridge) gave a talk on the value of philosophy and its practical applications in the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence at the American College of Sofia in Bulgaria.
Interview

Student Research Spotlight

Theodore Patsis’ Paper on AI and Film Accepted to MIT Conference
CCIR Student Researcher Theodore Patsis (Athens College) had his paper “Computing Movie Script Similarity with Neural Word Embeddings” accepted to the highly prestigious 2021 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC). Learn more about his project and his experiences.
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Sanay’s Paper on Language Model Published in Stanford Journal
Sanay (CCIR alumnus) a junior high school student in California. At CCIR, he developed his research project ”Using Large Language Models to Assist Content Generation in Persuasive Speaking.” His paper was accepted at Stanford University’s Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society. Learn more about his research and experience.
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Richard Presenting at the BSA Medical Sociology Conference as the Youngest Presenter Ever
Richard explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the (re)definition of mental health disorders in New Zealand and worldwide. He will be standing among some of the leading researchers in medical sociology today—as by and far the youngest presenter at the conference. The British Sociological Associations’ annual medical sociology conference is one of the most prestigious sociology conferences in Europe.
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The Academy

Our students don’t just consume knowledge. They create it.

At CCIR, we are incredibly proud of the work our students do. The aim of the Student Spotlight series is to showcase the amazing work that our students do at our programmers. In this episode, Audrey talks about her work on the history of Brexit under the mentorship of Dr. Devlin (Cambridge); she shares about her work and her experience conducting high-level independent research at CCIR.

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Cambridge Centre for International Research

Dive
Deep

Discover the world through research.

We work with top Oxbridge faculty to bring research to the brightest young minds of today. The CCIR Academy offers two unique programmes to empower the next generation of researchers.

Cambridge Future Scholar

Join a highly-selective online research programme designed and taught by Ivy League and Oxbridge professors.

  • Spring 2025 Admission OPENS Now
  • Early Admission Deadline: 1 March 2024
  • Regular Admission Deadline: 15 March 2025
  • Fall Start Date: March/April 2025

1-on-1 Research Mentorship

Embark on tailor-made research experience with an Oxbridge faculty mentor.

  • Admission Open All Year
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The Think Tank

Make an
Impact.

Connecting researchers with the public.

The CCIR Think Tank operates a range of non-profit initiatives that aim to empower researchers as public intellectuals.

Fellows

We fund and support early-career researches to do public intellectual work.

Podcasts

Explore the cutting edge of academic research with CCIR.

Re:think Essay Competition

Inviting students to reflect on the most important issues of today.

Public Lecture Initiative

Bringing leading scholars to high schools around the world.

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The Think Tank

Latest News

The Cambridge Re:Think Essay Competition 2025
This past 2024, CCIR saw over 4,200 submissions from more than 50 countries. In 2025, we are looking forward to another round of global submissions and we will be welcoming the winners to the Cambridge campus this summer.
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Nobel Laureates at CCIR
We are beyond excited to announce that ten Nobel laureates have attended and spoke at CCIR. They have shared their valuable insights during the live sessions.
Nobel Keynotes at CCIR

Our fellows are early-career researchers who aspire to be
public intellectuals.

Ronja Griep is a Gates Scholar and a current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge working in feminist political philosophy. For her CCIR fellowship, she will be leading an interview series on 21st Century Body Politics, where she will discuss the politics of bodily beauty and wellness with leading academics in philosophy, the social sciences, and beyond.
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ABOUT CCIR

The Cambridge Centre for International Research was founded by a group of Cambridge graduates committed to making academic research more accessible to the public. Working with leading researchers and early-career academics, we seek to expand the reach and impact of ideas that matter.

Our Mission

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  • Research course catalogue
  • Professor biographies
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Deadlines

Cambridge Future Scholar (Spring 25)

Admission is OPEN.

Early Admissions Deadline: 1 Mar

Regular Admissions Deadline: 15 Mar

Rolling Admissions.

1-on-1 Research Mentorship
Admission is open all year.

Rolling Admissions.