Wolfson College Cambridge: Timeline

Start-up presentations may be submitted from the competition's opening on Sunday, January 1st, through to Friday, February 17th. The eligibility requirements and materials requested for this submission may be found on the Enter Competition page.

The Wolfson Executive Committee will thereafter review submissions' conformity with eligibility requirements and submit the full pitching materials for review by the WES network of experienced Judges and Mentors.

Teams will be informed in early March of whether they have progressed to the final round. Finalists will have the opportunity to participate in a live event held on Tuesday, March 28th and present their full pitches to the Judges Panel, as well as to our audience - including mentors, investors, College alumni, and other members of the WES network.

The winning team will be awarded the Wolfson Enterprise Prize of 250£ to help support their project's launch or continued development, and all teams with promising projects have the potential to meet interested partners or investors through the competition.

What's on

Event Type (field_event_type)

Reconstructed design 2 from the Sutton Hoo helmet, incorporating portions known from fragments as well as conjectural portions.

‘And did they bring their horses?’ Re-evaluating the emergence of the English, c.400-700 CE

16/04/2024 at 17.45

This talk offers a critical evaluation of the popularly-held view that the origins of the English lie in 5th- and 6th-century population movement from north-west Europe. It argues, instead, that surviving evidence indicates post-imperial evolution and adaptation from the Romano-British past.

Image 'Barbarians under the rug' by Enej Gala

Art Exhibition: 'After News Before Bed'

20/04/2024 at 10.00

Visit Wolfson's latest exhibition 'After News Before Bed' featuring work by emerging artist Enej Gala, winner of the Wolfson Royal Academy Schools Graduate Prize.

Photo of speaker, Catherine Namono, on a rock during her research

'Sex'-on-the-rocks: Geometric rock art and musical expressions amongst the African Pygmy forest hunter-gatherers in search of 'balance', 'harmony'

22/04/2024 at 13.00

How does the interpretation of geometric rock art in Uganda shed light on the societal and cultural experiences of African Pygmy forest hunter-gatherers?

Multicolored silhouettes of human heads in a collage forming a concept of diversity or population.

The Place of Antigypsyism within Debates on Racism

25/04/2024 at 17.00

This event is the third of three roundtables that Wolfson's REACH Research Hub will be organising over the academic year under the heading ‘Hierarchies of Racism?’