The Reading Young Archaeologists’ Club (Reading YAC) launched in January 2016 – and in just 18 months has already had a tangible impact on participants and researchers alike. Set up…Read More >
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A feel for heritage (2017)
Sensory Objects started in 2012 as a three-year AHRC-funded project to make museums more inclusive by listening to, and acting on, research by people with learning disabilities. Led by associate…Read More >
Increasing the visibility of children’s eye health (2017)
Professor Anna Horwood, of the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, is helping to pioneer new ways of understanding how we use our eyes together to focus on near…Read More >
Helping Iraq’s heritage
Thanks to the work of Professor Roger Matthews, the rich cultural heritage of Iraq – the world’s cradle of civilisation – is being helped with the protection it needs to…Read More >
Getting the UN buzzing
For the past two years, Simon Potts, Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, has been playing a major role in improving worldwide policies for the conservation of pollinators and their…Read More >
Bees, please
How best to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators to food security? And how to ensure that threats they face as ecosystem providers are countered? For research fellow Dr…Read More >
Virtual Rome (2017)
Ancient Rome has come alive thanks to the work of Dr Matthew Nicholls and his creation of the world’s most detailed digital model of the ‘Eternal City’. Virtual Rome, a…Read More >
War Child: Meditating on an archive
War Child, conceived by Dr Teresa Murjas of the department of Film, Theatre and Television, is a digital project about the Evacuee Archive held by the Museum of English Rural…Read More >
Producing dairy products with reduced saturated fat content
Since 2011, an estimated 3 million milk consumers each year in the UK have benefitted from research from the University of Reading which has helped reduce saturated fatty acids (SFAs)...Read More >
Social diversity in Roman Britain
A project by Dr Hella Eckardt and colleagues in Archaeology has found that Romano-British populations were much more diverse than previously thought. Using a combination of archaeological techniques, such as isotope analysis...Read More >
