Due to changes to staffing and research leave, the Reading Centre for Cognition Research is going into hibernation for the academic year 2023-24. We will not be running events or…Read More >
Reading Emotions 2023: 15th and 16th June
CCR members may be interested in the following conference at UoR this summer, organised by CiNN: Fluctuation and Change: implications for neurocognitive development and psychopathology Keynotes: Jessica Agnew-Blais (Queen Mary,…Read More >
RCCR Summer Seminars 2023: Understanding Hate Speech in Ordinary, Legal and Online Language
The 11th RCCR Summer Seminar Series will be on the theme of ‘Understanding Hate Speech in Ordinary, Legal and Online Language’. There will be three talks: Day/Time: Tuesdays, 11.00-12.30…Read More >
The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy
The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced a new book award: The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. This new £20,000 Prize will annually reward the most original philosophical…Read More >
Compelling Reasons Reading Group
RCCR Joint Director Emma Borg will be running a reading group on her new book manuscript *Compelling Reasons* next term (Spring 2023). Details here. Sessions will be both in-person and…Read More >
Pain Research Symposium 16th June
The University of Reading Pain Network is holding a symposium on the 16th June. This will be of use to all researchers, regardless of discipline or experience specifically in pain…Read More >
HIP Funding Opportunity
The Health Innovation Partnership, a collaboration between University of Reading (UoR) and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust (RBFT), is renewing its Collaborative Innovation Fund. The fund is open to colleagues from all professional groups…Read More >
Law and Corpus Linguistics meeting 19th April
The next meeting of the RCCR Law and Corpus Linguistics group will be 14.00-15.30 on 19th April. We will be discussing a paper by Kevin Tobia: ‘Testing Ordinary Meaning’, Harvard…Read More >
RCCR Top cited article
We are delighted to announce that RCCR members Emma Borg, Rich Harrison and Tim Salomon’s paper ‘Is the folk concept of pain polyeidic?‘ has been recognised as a #TopCitedArticle for…Read More >
Testimony and communication online workshop
RCCR members may be interested in this online workshop, run by the University of Oslo, on 9th-10th August, which aims to “bring together researchers working in epistemology and philosophy of…Read More >
New Open Access paper on individual differences in pain priors
A new paper reporting preliminary results from the RCCR project ‘Understanding and improving the stratification of psychological interventions for chronic pain patients’ was recently published: ‘Pain priors, polyeidism and predicitve…Read More >
Law & Corpus Linguistics Event
The RCCR project ‘Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying corpus analysis in legal interpretation’ is running its first reading group session on: Wednesday…Read More >
New Appointment: Dr. Sara Vilar-Lluch
The Law & Corpus Linguistics RCCR project is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Dr. Sara Vilar-Lluch. Sara’s background is in linguistics, particularly using corpus…Read More >
New postdoctoral job advertised
The Philosophy Department at the University of Reading is looking to hire a 2 year postdoctoral researcher to work on a John Templeton Foundation funded project entitled “Mistakes in Living Systems:…Read More >
Corpus analysis and legal interpretation
RCCR is delighted to announce a new 2 year project entitled: Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying corpus analysis in legal interpretation….Read More >
Research Training Opportunities this Summer
The University leadership Committee for Open Research and Research Integrity (CORRI), through its 2021-23 Open Research Action Plan (see https://tinyurl.com/uor-openresearch) is rolling out training opportunities to help you level up…Read More >
