A new website that catalogues punk memorabilia from the 70s and 80s is set to become the UKs largest digital archive of punk ephemera. It’s the latest development from Professor…Read More >
Development agencies need to improve their language
How can aid agencies effectively support communities and ‘listen to their needs’ if their staff don’t speak the local language? In an article written for The Conversation, Professor Hilary Footitt and Dr…Read More >
Glastonbury Abbey uncovered
Glastonbury Abbey has played an important part in British history for hundreds of years. Legend says that it is the burial place of King Arthur and it was regarded to be the site…Read More >
Communicating Suffrage and Citizenship with Reside Dance
On 6th February 2018, the UK celebrated 100 years since some women and all men were given the vote. In the preceding months, Dr Jacqui Turner, Lecturer in Modern History…Read More >
Promoting educational equality: from the bottom to the top – Westminster Symposium 27 February
Despite numerous initiatives to tackle educational inequalities and encourage social mobility, little has changed in the past 50 years. Here, Dr Carol Fuller, Associate Professor at Reading’s Institute of Education…Read More >
Designing information for public understanding
By Dr Alison Black, Research Professor, Centre for Information Design Research. As January gives way to February, many UK tax payers sigh with relief as they submit their tax returns,…Read More >
Safeguarding the world’s pollinators: International experts converge on Reading to inform UN policy
Thirty international experts met at the University of Reading recently, to help the United Nations develop better policies and practices to safeguard the world’s pollinators. The meeting of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy…Read More >
Inspiring future scientists with fossil pollen time machines
Oli Wilson, a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences, is exploring Brazil’s unique and endangered Araucaria forests – how they were…Read More >
Carbon dioxide is not the only greenhouse gas: Reading science informing debate at COP23
By Professor Keith Shine, Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science The United Nations Climate Conference The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the principal negotiating forum…Read More >
Bringing Tropicália to life at the Tate Modern
A series of Brazilian films, showing at the Tate Modern, London from 9-12 November, explores the role of cinema in the Brazilian Tropicália cultural movement, and will bring together a range…Read More >