Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Roughly one in every 50 species of plant and vertebrate land animal lives there and nowhere else….Read More >
More research funding success in July 2021
Researchers at the University has have more funding success this month with funds awarded by research councils, government agencies and learned societies. The awards will be distributed across seven new…Read More >
The future of auditing: why plans to sharpen up the industry could actually make it worse
Following the collapses of Patisserie Valerie, Carillion and BHS, the auditors were heavily criticised in the media for signing off on the financial accounts published by each of these companies…Read More >
Surgery and Selfhood: lessons from open humanities publishing
On 7 June, I participated in the University’s first Open Research Awards, and was lucky enough to win with my case study examining the costs and benefits of open research…Read More >
Improving and future proofing our food: EIT Food 2021 projects
“We are all responsible for, and connected to, the food that we eat so we all need to work together to improve it.” This is the message at the heart…Read More >
How to predict the summer weather – magic, miracle and meteorology
On July 15 971, the bones of St Swithin were removed from their resting place on the order of Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and placed in a shrine inside the…Read More >
The Perks of Open data
I am a Post-Doctoral research scientist working in the energy-meteorology group at the University of Reading. A recent application to the Reading Open Research Data award lead to some extended…Read More >
Cross-disciplinary Conversations on Caring in a Crisis
In this post Amie Bolissian considers how the ‘Old Age Care in Times of Crisis’ Symposium in April 2021, highlighted the polysemic nature of old age care, the different ways…Read More >
House prices: the risks of a fall are higher than most people think
At the start of the pandemic, many analysts believed that the prices of owner-occupied housing would be heavily affected. After all, owner-occupation is a market and is influenced by the…Read More >
Mispronunciation: why you should stop correcting people’s mistakes
A recent survey of 2,000 adults in the UK identified the top ten “mispronunciations” people find annoying. Thankfully the majority (65%) of annoyed people do not feel comfortable correcting a…Read More >