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Reading the world differently: eight books to broaden your mind

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28 April 202528 April 2025

Expand your reading list this spring and summer with some thought-provoking new works! Throughout the past month, our #readingatReading campaign has explored recently published books by University of Reading researchers....Read More >

CentAUR – the Open Access publications repository at the centre of our community

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23 October 202425 October 2024

From its beginnings as a ‘National Day of Action for Open Access’ in 2007, International Open Access week has been promoted and expanded by libraries, publishers and other organisations. The...Read More >

Peer review and AI: what will this mean for best practice?

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25 September 202425 September 2024

Have you been asked to do a peer review for a journal recently? The chances are that at least one invitation may have landed in your inbox as the new...Read More >

Why we’re hunting through a century of data from Britain’s northernmost observatory

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26 June 2024

Built in 1913 as a naval radio station, the Shetland Isles’ Met Office at Lerwick provides the temperature reading you see on the top right-hand corner of the UK weather...Read More >

A new campaign wants to redefine the word ‘nature’ to include humans – here’s why this linguistic argument matters

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10 May 202417 May 2024

What does the word nature mean to you? Does it conjure visions of wild places away from the hustle and bustle of people, or does it include humans too? The...Read More >

Responding to real-world problems through innovative collaboration

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9 April 20249 April 2024

At the University of Reading, we’re trialling a new way of addressing real-world problems through innovative research collaboration.

Open Access Week 2023 – Creating a community Open Access journal

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25 October 202325 October 2023

An interview with Dr James Anderson, founder of an Open Access journal dedicated to his research community

Earth Day 2023 – call for poems

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22 March 202322 March 2023

To celebrate Earth Day on 22 April 2023, we are inviting staff to share their own poems on the theme of ‘re-imagining our world’ and climate research at the University.

Technicians at the heart of what we do

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1 June 202215 February 2023

At the heart of the University is a team of expert technicians – carrying out a hugely diverse range of highly skilled tasks to support our research and teaching. This…Read More >

Levelling up and the neighbourhood

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2 March 202223 February 2023

The UK government’s continued recognition to the importance of ‘neighbourhoods’, is clearly demonstrated in its White Paper on Levelling Up the United Kingdom, published on 2 February, with the term…Read More >

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