Expert Comment: Could oil price surge accelerate the UK’s shift to renewables?

Published on March 10, 2026

Researchers from across the Smith School of Enterprise & Environment discuss how renewed instability in the Gulf is reshaping global energy markets and what this means for UK consumers, businesses and policymakers.
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The King presents The Queen Elizabeth Prizes for Education

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Cambridge launches major strategic partnership with IonQ to ‘supercharge’ quantum research in the UK

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The partnership will support the creation of the IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre to be based at the Ray Dolby Centre, the new home of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory. The Centre will house a state-of-the-art IonQ 256-qubit quantum computer, which will be the most powerful quantum computer in the UK when it is installed.As part of the collaboration, Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency and part