By Prof Jane Setter, Professor of Phonetics Apologies for the huge understatement, but the English language has changed rather a lot since 1917. This blog was written to mark English…Read More >
Heritage & Creativity
Prizes awarded for outstanding research outputs
Dinosaurs, chickens and the Russian revolution were among the topics that won University of Reading academics prizes for their research last week. The five academics, one from each research theme,…Read More >
Reading wins £3.3m in research grants in January
Researchers at the University of Reading secured more than £3.3 million in research grants and awards in January. A total of 25 research projects were confirmed in the first month…Read More >
Votes for women – and £5m to celebrate, 100 years on
by Dr Jacqui Turner, Department of History, University of Reading This week was International Women’s Day and women were everywhere. We were in the media, online, on TV, and crowded…Read More >
Weather forecasters face storm of criticism – so is it time for a new look?
By Dr Andrew Charlton-Perez, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading Former BBC weather forecaster Bill Giles’ criticism of weather forecasts raises questions about how weather is communicated generally. Mr Giles…Read More >
Tsar wars: when International Women’s Day led to real revolution
By Dr Andy Willimott, Lecturer in Modern Russian History, University of Reading International Women’s Day 2017 sees a plethora of excellent and worthwhile events, highlighting many issues still facing women…Read More >
Book look: ‘Medieval Archaeology’ edited by Reading archaeologists
Two Reading archaeologists have edited a new book compiling dozens of influential research papers on European medieval archaeology. Medieval Archaeology, edited by Professor Roberta Gilchrist (Research Dean for Heritage &…Read More >
What reproducibility crisis? Open research may have the answers
By Dr Robert Darby, research data manager One of the pillars of all empirical research is that the findings of experiments should not just be one-offs. Anyone with the ability…Read More >
Reading secures £3.9m in research awards in December
Researchers at the University of Reading secured more than £3.9 million in research awards in December. A total of 21 research projects were given the go-ahead in the last month…Read More >
Can we mend broken hearts?
Professor Peter Kruschwitz is Professor of Classics at Reading and a specialist in Latin Language and Literature. The fence around the University of Reading’s Humanities and Social Science (HumSS) Building is…Read More >