Humanities and Social Sciences Taster Days
Our taster days offer your students the best way to experience University life.
We hope you can join us on campus for one of them. Email [email protected] to find out how we can support your travel.
Taster days
Humanities and Social Sciences Taster Day
11 February 2026, Cambridge
Join us for our Humanities and Social Sciences Taster Day where we’ll ask the big questions, explore how the world works and why, and how societies change over time through themes that are relevant today.
Whether your students are interested in history, politics, philosophy, sociology, or just the questions themselves, our Humanities & Social Sciences Taster Day offers an opportunity to deep dive into what studying these subjects at degree level is really like and where they can lead. Through a series of lectures and interactive sessions they’ll experience the kind of thought-provoking, learning that defines these subjects – and get a taste of the skills and knowledge that shape global conversations.
Meet our staff team
Dr Richard Carr: 20th century British politics, American politics, contemporary local government, and economic growth, interwar politics and appeasement.
Dr Jon Davis: 20th century international history, the Cold War, Labour-Soviet relations, global history since 1980s, Labour's socialism.
Dr Mirna Guha: political sociology, gender-based violence, gender relations, social inequalities, gender and development, impact evaluation.
Professor Rohan McWilliam: the West End of London, Victorian studies, modern British and United States history, Labour history, The history of popular culture, historiography.
Dr Tristan Moyle: philosophy of plants and animals, phenomenology of the life-world, political philosophy of land ownership, environmental humanities.
Dr Mike Wilby: philosophy of mind, collective intentionality, philosophy of artificial intelligence, philosophy of evil, the concept of the ‘public sphere’.