Changes in the purchasing policies of a major milk processor and a major retailer have led to thousands of dairy farmers across the UK and EU changing the ways they…Read More >
2018
Protecting and exhibiting Iraq’s cultural heritage
Iraq’s invaluable heritage assets have been subject to a range of negative impacts including looting and theft. Following the US/UK-led invasion in April 2003, thousands of valuable artefacts were looted…Read More >
Revealing Glastonbury Abbey’s sacred heritage
Researchers at the University of Reading are transforming our understanding of one of the most culturally significant sacred heritage sites in England, by analysing and interpreting a previously unpublished archive...Read More >
Don’t quit! Motivating foreign language students
By helping teachers make modern foreign language education more interesting, enjoyable and effective for their students, research from the University of Reading is improving classroom practice and learning outcomes in…Read More >
Language for resilience: helping refugees process trauma
Research from the University of Reading on how the use of ‘home languages’ can help refugees process and recover from trauma is influencing language teaching in classrooms across the world....Read More >
Ways of being Cuban: Promoting rural identity
A unique project developed by researchers at the University of Reading is celebrating and promoting the cultural and social identities of rural communities in Cuba. Rural development in Cuba has...Read More >
Spurring world action to save bees
The pollinating insects that we rely on for food crops have a more secure future thanks to the research and UN policy work of a Reading bee expert. Bees and...Read More >
Pioneering prebiotics for improved gut health
Reading food scientists have made great strides in our understanding of prebiotics – fuel for the ‘good’ bacteria in our guts – shaping health policy and benefiting the health of…Read More >
Safeguarding children in conflict and crisis (2018)
Children in conflict zones are safer thanks to robust guidelines developed by Professor Rosa Freedman in partnership with the specialist organisation, Keeping Children Safe. The guidelines are transforming the way…Read More >
The James Parkinson bicentennial
Two hundred years after apothecary and medical practitioner James Parkinson wrote his essay describing the ‘Shaking Palsy’, we still don’t fully understand the disease named after him. Research into Parkinson’s…Read More >
