2017

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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 >

Value to the Valuers

Around the world, central banks continue to wrestle with the aftershocks of the global financial crisis of 2007–08. Crashes in property markets were isolated as a major cause and Professor…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 >

Spiralling upwards

Climate scientist Ed Hawkins has made a big difference to the understanding of a vital contemporary issue: the upward spiralling of global temperatures. Dr Hawkins analysed the past 165 years of…Read More >

Predicting drought

Robust rainfall monitoring is helping to mitigate climate-related risks in African countries There are more than 200 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa who depend on rain-fed subsistence agriculture; rainfall…Read More >

The butterfly effect

Research at Reading is shaping new approaches in environmental policy-making, and furthering the way for butterfly conservation.

China’s smarter hospitals

A data platform developed in Beijing and Reading has cut medical errors and reduced patients’ length of stay in hospitals across China.