Boxing Day 2020 was so blustery that more than half of the UK’s daily electricity was met by wind power for the first time. Just over a week later, the wind died…Read More >
Gaming for Grammar
Learning grammar is a fundamental part of learning a new language, because it can help us understand how we build words and how we put those words together to make…Read More >
James Joyce’s Ulysses is an anti-stream of consciousness novel
This year marks 80 years since the death of the great Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). His most famous novel, Ulysses (1922), is one of those books, like Moby Dick…Read More >
Four-day week: how workplaces can successfully establish it
Many workplaces have been experimenting with different types of flexible working arrangements for years now, but the pandemic has made the need for flexibility far more pressing. This has led…Read More >
Addressing food system challenges: making interdisciplinarity work
It was our great pleasure to hold the 3rd Annual IFNH Forum online just before Christmas. We have been holding the Forum each year since the Institute was set up…Read More >
Bitcoin: why the price has exploded – and where it goes from here
Bitcoin achieved a remarkable rise in 2020 in spite of many things that would normally make investors wary, including US-China tensions, Brexit and, of course, an international pandemic. From a…Read More >
Connecting through Collections Histories
As a historian of archaeology, I know that museum collections are an important route into the history of empire. British archaeologists and antiquarians brought artefacts from many countries back to…Read More >
Overshadowed by COVID: the deadly extreme weather of 2020
The year 2020 will no doubt go down in history for other reasons, but it is also on target to be one of the warmest on record. And as the…Read More >
Our most popular papers of 2020
Which Reading research publications got the most attention across the globe in 2020? We’ve scoured Altmetric data to bring you the top ten most talked about Reading-authored papers of the…Read More >
International Migrants’ Day 2020
To celebrate International Migrants’ Day 2020, on its website the United Nations claims that ‘throughout human history, migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will to overcome adversity…Read More >