Engagement & Impact Awards 2017

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Death to hanging

For the former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the death penalty is a “cruel punishment [that] has no place in the 21st century.” By April 2017, more than two-thirds of the…Read More >

Working better with Whitley (2017)

In 2012, Whitley in South Reading secured £1 million Big Local National Lottery Funding for community development over 10 years, as part of a national initiative that would benefit 150…Read More >

Solar Stormwatch

Solar Stormwatch is a project to map, for the first time, solar storms – eruptions of mass ejected from the sun’s atmosphere. Led by Dr Luke Barnard and Professor Chris…Read More >

Dig deep

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 >

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 >

Educational outsiders

Some projects are discrete, lasting a finite amount of time. Others are a work in progress. In the latter category is the continuing work of Dr Helen Bilton to promote…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 >