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SUMMARY:Centenary Community Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The University of Reading’s annual Community Festival is a free\, family-friendly event celebrating the amazing research\, creativity and community spirit that make Reading special. As part of the University’s centenary year\, this year’s event has been renamed the Centenary Community Festival\, marking 100 years of the University’s connection with the town and community. The festival brings together staff\, students\, alumni\, local residents\, community groups\, businesses and partners for a day packed with live performances\, interactive activities\, food\, music and fun for all ages. \nThe research programme includes a research ‘exhibition’ featuring c.20 stands with hands-on activities\, a programme of children’s talks and research talks\, and some workshops or panel discussions. As well as showcasing our research in an accessible way\, this is also an opportunity for researchers to gain experience of public engagement with research in a festival setting. The research activities are popular and have been well received by both visitors and participants.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmFclD10x3A”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/centenary-community-festival-2026/
LOCATION:Whiteknights campus\, University of Reading\, Whiteknights Campus\, Reading\, RG6 6AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health,Environment,Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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SUMMARY:Deep Thinking on Systems and Complexity: What Are the Practical Insights for Transforming Food Systems?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPlease join us for an inaugural external-facing event of the University of Reading’s Systems and Futures Hub on Thursday 5th February 2026. \nThe event brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to explore how deeper conceptual thinking about systems and complexity can inform real-world action\, examining how complexity science\, systems practice\, and ecological insights can be applied to one of the world’s most pressing challenges: transforming food systems in adaptive\, inclusive\, and sustainable ways. \nTo confirm attendance\, please register using the following link: Deep Thinking on Systems and Complexity Event Registration \n\n\nAbout the Event: \nDeep Thinking on Systems and Complexity: What Are the Practical Insights for Transforming Food Systems? \nThursday\, 5 February 2026 | 15:00–17:00 (GMT) \nUniversity of Reading – Henley Business School\, Room G10\nDrinks reception to follow \nThis professional dialogue will explore how deeper conceptual thinking about systems and complexity can inform real-world action to transform food systems. This session will bring together leading thinkers and practitioners to discuss how complexity science\, systems practice\, and ecological insights can be applied to one of the world’s most pressing challenges. \nSpeakers \n\nDr. Jean Boulton – a complexity scientist\, strategic advisor and visiting academic at the University of Bath and Cranfield School of Management. With a background in theoretical physics\, she has spent over three decades helping organizations and policymakers apply complexity thinking to strategy\, sustainability and systemic change. She is lead author of Embracing Complexity and The Dao of Complexity\, and is widely recognized for translating complex systems theory into practical\, real-world insights.\nDr. Corinna Hawkes – is Director of the Division of Agrifood Systems and Food Safety at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)\, where she leads global initiatives to transform food systems for better nutrition\, health and sustainability. She previously directed the Centre for Food Policy at City\, University of London\, and is widely recognized for her work on food systems\, healthy diets and evidence-informed policy. Her leadership focuses on bringing systems thinking into practice to drive coherent and equitable food system change.\nDr. Tom Oliver – Professor of Applied Ecology at the University of Reading\, works at the interface of biodiversity\, environmental risk and complex systems. He has advised the UK government\, the European Commission and other expert bodies on environmental policy and resilience. Tom is also the author of the forthcoming book The Self Delusion\, which explores the science of interconnectedness and its implications for society and sustainability.\n\n\nProgramme:\n15:00 | Official Welcome – Professor Lisa Methven\n15:05 | Introduction – Dr. Jim Woodhill\, Director\, Agrifood Systems and Futures Hub\n15:10 | Presentation – Dr. Jean Boulton:  What Does Complexity Science and Systems Thinking Offer to Change Makers in Difficult Times\n15:25 | Presentation – Dr. Corinna Hawkes:  Putting Systems Approaches into Practice for Transforming the Food System – Challenges and Opportunities\n15:40 | Response – Professor Tom Oliver:  Implications for Our Work at Reading\n15:45 | Panel Discussion and Open Q&A\n14:45 | Final Reflections – Professor Carol Wagstaff\n17:00 | Close\, followed by drinks reception and networking – Blandford Room (Park House) \n\nTo confirm attendance\, please register using the following link: Deep Thinking on Systems and Complexity Event Registration \nWe hope you can join us for an engaging and forward-looking conversation. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/deep-thinking-on-systems-and-complexity-what-are-the-practical-insights-for-transforming-food-systems/
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health,Environment,Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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SUMMARY:The Conversation – training for researchers
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nWould you like to build a media profile and take your research to a global public audience by writing for The Conversation? Register now for one of our upcoming training sessions.\n \nWhat is The Conversation?\nThe Conversation is an independent\, open-access news platform where academics work with professional journalists to produce research-based articles. Supported by over 80 UK and European universities\, it helps bring academic insights into public debate.\n\nThe Conversation’s global network generates 23 million monthly page views\, with a total monthly audience of at least 40.7 million reads including through republication. \nWhy attend this session? \n\n\nHear directly from an editor at The Conversation about what they look for in articles and how the editorial process works\nLearn what makes a compelling story and how to pitch your ideas successfully\nExplore article types and approaches with practical examples\nGet tips on writing in an accessible\, engaging style\nDiscuss your research with the editor and receive feedback on potential pitches\n\nTraining Dates & Registration \n\nTue 27 Jan\, 14:00–16:00 – Agriculture\, Food & Health – Register here\nThu 29 Jan\, 14:00–16:00 – Environment – Register here\nTue 3 Feb\, 14:00–16:00 – Heritage & Creativity – Register here\nThu 5 Feb\, 14:00–16:00 – Prosperity & Resilience – Register here\n\nPlease note that there are a limited number of places so the session is open to academic staff only. If you sign up and then are no longer able to attend\, please cancel your registration so that your place can be re-allocated to a colleague on the waiting list. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/the-conversation-training-for-researchers/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health,Environment,Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250716T130000
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SUMMARY:Maternal well-being\, infant feeding and return to paid work - Report Launch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are delighted to invite you to a special online event launching the findings of the Maternal Wellbeing\, Infant Feeding and Return to Paid Work study funded by the Nuffield Foundation. This one-hour webinar will share key insights from the study\, introduce our toolkits for parents and employers\, and offer a space for interactive discussion about how workplaces can better support mothers returning to paid work while breastfeeding. \nRegister for the Event Here \nMeet the team: \nProfessor Sarah Jewell\, Dr Fari Aftab \, Professor Marina Della Giusta\, Professor Grace James\,  Professor Sylvia Jaworska. and Dr Sam Rawlings \nAbout the Research \nThis UK study investigated the wellbeing\, opportunities and experiences of mothers who wish to continue to breastfeed on return to paid work. Previous evidence found not meeting infant feeding goals (feeding in the way the mother wants to\, for as long as they/their child wishes to) can have a detrimental impact on wellbeing for both mother and child. Further\, it explored how employers can be better equipped to support their breastfeeding workers\, and how workplace policy\, and practice can evolve to support them. \nDrawing on the lived experiences of mothers\, HR professionals and line managers in the UK\, the study provides practical\, evidence-based recommendations for policy makers and for workplace policy / practice. \nWe will discuss some of our headline findings and policy implications and invite attendees to join a wider dialogue on promoting maternal wellbeing and inclusive workplaces. \nWe will be releasing the study’s final report prior to the online event. \nIf you have any questions about the event\, please contact:\nProfessor Sarah Jewell – s.l.jewell@reading.ac.uk \nThe Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance social wellbeing. It funds research that informs social policy\, primarily in Education\, Welfare\, and Justice. The Nuffield Foundation is the founder and co-funder of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics\, the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory. The Foundation has funded this project\, but the views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily the Foundation. \nBluesky: @nuffieldfoundation.org \nLinkedIn: Nuffield Foundation \nWebsite: nuffieldfoundation.org[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/maternal-well-being-infant-feeding-and-return-to-paid-work-report-launch/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250701T093000
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UID:31136-1751362200-1751387400@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Mediation of Medical Treatment Disputes – End of Project Conference
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This is a one-day conference reporting on the findings of the ‘Mediation of Medical Treatment Disputes: A Therapeutic Justice Model’ research project. \nThe aim of the research was to understand whether and\, if so\, the extent to which\, mediation can and should be viewed as a form of therapeutic justice in medical treatment disputes. \nThis conference will be of interest to mediators\, legal professionals\, academics\, policymakers and others working in health and care disputes resolution. \nFind out more.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/mediation-of-medical-treatment-disputes-end-of-project-conference/
LOCATION:Meadow Suite\, Park House\, Meadow Suite\, Park House\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250622
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UID:31389-1750550400-1750636799@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Routes to Protest: the River\, Vessels and People of 1381 | Estuary Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”31390″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]As part of the Estuary Festival 2025\, Professor Adrian Bell (Henley Business School) has collaborated with artist Sadie Hennessey to give a new voice to the key figures and the ordinary people involved in the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 through the power of an interactive soundscape. Hear the sermons\, letters and speeches that led to one of the most disruptive events of late medieval European history. \nThis event is founded upon Professor Bell’s research project ‘People of 1381‘\, a collaborative and comprehensive online record of the participants\, incidents\, and historical sources of the popular uprising that still resonates with us today\, over 600 years later. \nMORE INFORMATION: estuaryfestival.com/event2025/detail/routes-to-protest.html#[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/routes-to-protest-the-river-vessels-and-people-of-1381/
LOCATION:Gravesend Pier\, Gravesend\, Kent\, DA11 0BJ
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T130000
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SUMMARY:Making (slowly) as method in socio-environmental research?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nYou are warmly welcome to join our online Human Geography Research Cluster seminar\, in which Laura Pottinger\, University of Manchester will present: \nMaking (slowly) as method in socio-environmental research? \nIn this talk\, I draw on emerging ideas about ‘patchwork ethnography’\, an approach mobilising the often multi-sited\, fragmented\, non-linear character of ethnographic research in practice. I share early findings from an extended six-year study that uses a range of creative and material methods to explore environmental understandings and people-plant relationships in the practice of natural textile dyeing. I ask how the ‘soft’ metaphors of piecing\, steeping and stitching might be useful for cultivating gentle\, creative and slowly-paced methodological praxis. \nBiography: \nLaura Pottinger is a research fellow in cultural geography at the University of Manchester. Her research is interested in everyday forms of social and environmental activism\, people and plant relationships\, craft and cultivation. She draws on creative\, participatory and ethnographic methodologies to explore these themes. Her current fellowship research works closely with textile artists and makers to consider the potentials and challenges of slow making. \n________________________________________________________________________________ \n\n\nMicrosoft Teams Need help? \n\n\nJoin the meeting now \n\n\nMeeting ID: 376 315 403 228 \n\n\nPasscode: gs7fj2Jt \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDial in by phone \n\n\n+44 20 7660 8335\,\,989865079# United Kingdom\, City of London \n\n\nFind a local number \n\n\n\nPhone conference ID: 989 865 079# \n\n\nFor organizers: Meeting options | Reset dial-in PIN \n\n\n\nUniversity of Reading \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/making-slowly-as-method-in-socio-environmental-research/
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T140000
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UID:31040-1743080400-1743084000@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Disturbing the dead: Climate change and the potential relocation of Swedish cemeteries
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nYou are warmly invited to a Human Geography Research Cluster/ Global Development Research Division in person (Sorby Room 115\, 1st Floor of Wager Building) / hybrid seminar (1-2pm on 27/3/25). \nDisturbing the dead: Climate change and the potential relocation of Swedish cemeteries\nRoger Marjavaara\, Umeå University\, Sweden. \nAbstract \nThis presentation focuses on the contradiction of mobility and immobility in relation to interred human remains. While society generally embraces human mobility\, once individuals pass away and are disposed of\, mobility ceases to be the norm. Some counties\, like Sweden\, has a rigid burial legislation that prohibits the re-location of interred human remains. However\, both society- and climate-related events are increasingly affecting the eternal rest of the deceased. Utilizing quantitative data on all cemeteries in Sweden\, this study aims to assess and analyse the potential magnitude of future large-scale moves of human remains due to expected impacts of climate change\, and to put this into a relational context of norms and laws. Results show that climate change poses an apparent risk to cemeteries in Sweden. \nBiography \nRoger Marjavaara is associate professor in human geography at the department of geography at Umeå University\, Sweden. The main focus of his research is the driving forces and consequences of human mobility. Here\, temporary mobility\, or tourism\, is of special interest\, especially second home tourism and its impact on places and people. Dr. Marjavaara also has an interest in production and reproduction of places\, and retail geography and mobile consumers. Further\, post-mortal mobility is another field that has attracted his research attention. \n________________________________________________________________________________ \nMicrosoft Teams Need help?\nJoin the meeting now\nMeeting ID: 357 220 295 754\nPasscode: L53Cmw \n\n\n\nDial in by phone\n+44 20 7660 8335\,\,915358739# United Kingdom\, City of London\nFind a local number\nPhone conference ID: 915 358 739#\nFor organisers: Meeting options| Reset dial-in PIN\nUniversity of Reading \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/disturbing-the-dead-climate-change-and-the-potential-relocation-of-swedish-cemeteries/
LOCATION:Sorby Room\, Wager Building
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T135000
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UID:30985-1741870800-1741873800@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Through a decolonising lens? Exploring the connections between 'bereavement and grief' and the climate and ecological emergencies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nYou are warmly invited to an online Human Geography Research Cluster seminar on Thursday 13th March\, 1pm- 1.50pm (Teams link for joining below). \nThrough a decolonising lens? Exploring the connections between ‘bereavement and grief’ and the climate and ecological emergencies. \nJane McCarthy\, Honorary Associate\, The Open University; Visiting Professor\, Centre for Death and Society\, Bath University; Visiting Fellow\, University of Reading. \nAbstract \nThe impact of the climate and ecological emergency creates a central threat regarding the polycrisis currently unfolding across the globe\, rooted in colonial\, capitalist\, white\, modernity. While many peoples across the world already experience catastrophic ‘losses’ of many kinds\, the polycrisis gives rise to global issues of collective and individualised deaths\, profound losses and endings of many kinds\, raising existential threats to all life on earth. These are ’human’-made crises\, though not made equally by all ‘humans’\, requiring a sustained focus and concern\, of and for the living\, in both the anticipation and the aftermath of these deaths\, losses\, and endings. Yet\, while death and bereavement studies as constructed in affluent Minority worlds has claimed an arrogant universality\,  the narrative and rhetoric of modernity is most profoundly challenged by human mortality. The Open University programme on Existential Dis/Connections aims to bring currently disparate bodies of work into connection\, centring on our three core themes of death and loss\, the CEE\, and decolonisation. We seek to create new spaces for nurturing and embracing both epistemic and ontological justice\, to enable a pluriverse of cosmologies\, and ways of being and living alongside death\, to be valued and heard through a decolonising lens that starts from ‘elsewhere’. Can death studies decentre the current dominant approaches rooted in modernity\, to contribute towards an existential climate justice for the benefit all life and entities on earth? \n________________________________________________________________________________ \nMicrosoft Teams Need help?\nJoin the meeting now\nMeeting ID: 380 745 621 309\nPasscode: HzkWeL \n\n\n\nDial in by phone\n+44 20 7660 8335\,\,138757062# United Kingdom\, City of London\nFind a local number\nPhone conference ID: 138 757 062#\nFor organisers: Meeting options| Reset dial-in PIN\nUniversity of Reading \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/through-a-decolonising-lens-exploring-the-connections-between-bereavement-and-grief-and-the-climate-and-ecological-emergencies/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250221T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250221T191500
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
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SUMMARY:International Mother Language Day 2025: Linguistic Diversity in Reading
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nFind out more about which languages are most commonly spoken at the university and in Reading.\nThe Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism invites you to celebrate International Mother Language Day at a public lecture on 21 February 2025\, where we will showcase and celebrate language diversity in Reading. \nThe event will start at 6pm and take place on the University’s London Road campus. We will share the results of our survey capturing the languages that Reading residents and University staff and students speak. We will also showcase our research projects and staff and student “linguistic journeys”\, and do a linguistic bodymapping activity that everyone will be invited to take part in. \nAttendance is free and everyone is welcome. If you wish to attend please register here. \n\n\nLast year the centre collaborated with our community researchers to mark the day and brought together local people to celebrate Reading’s linguistic and cultural diversity through song\, dance\, poetry and other activities. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9OREtm29xE” title=”International Mother Language Day 2024″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/international-mother-language-day-2025-linguistic-diversity-in-reading/
LOCATION:L22\, G01\, London Road campus
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241105T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241105T140000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20241023T152835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T154150Z
UID:30336-1730804400-1730815200@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Caring in migrant families: Key messages and film screening
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”30342″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Please join us for this event to hear about the key messages from our project on Care\, Inequalities and Wellbeing among Transnational Families in the UK\, Spain\, France and Sweden. \nLunch and refreshments will be provided. Families with children are welcome.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We will share the key messages from our research and launch the final report and recommendations. We will also show short films about the experiences of families involved in the research and the changes they want to see. The films were co-produced with family participants and Rank and File theatre.\nThemes include: \n\nlanguage barriers in accessing healthcare\nyoung caregiving and language brokering in transnational families\nchallenges of accessing English for Speakers of Other Language courses\nbarriers to family visits and family reunification.\n\nThere will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss the project with team members from the University of Reading\, partner organisations and community researchers. \nEveryone is welcome\, just turn up – there is no need to register for this event. \nIf you have any access or dietary requirements\, or questions about the event\, please do not hesitate to contact Ruth Evans by email (r.evans@reading.ac.uk) or by phone 0118 378 7755 \nFor more information about the project please visit Transnational Families in Europe[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/caring-in-migrant-families-key-messages-and-film-screening/
LOCATION:Reading International Solidarity Centre\, Reading\, 35-39 London Street\, Reading\, RG1 4PS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr%20Ruth%20Evans%2C%20Global%20Development":MAILTO:r.evans@reading.ac.uk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240921
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20240426T102817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240627T140943Z
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SUMMARY:Climate and Finance Conference 2024
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are excited to announce the third edition of the Climate and Finance Conference\, which will take place at the ICMA Centre – Henley Business School on 20 September 2024. The conference aims to bring together researchers\, practitioners\, and experts in the intersection of climate change and finance. We invite submissions of papers or abstracts on a wide range of topics related to climate and finance. \nConference Details: \n\nDate: 20 September 2024\nVenue: ICMA Centre – Henley Business School\, University of Reading\nFormat: One-day conference with plenary sessions and a panel discussion\nAttendance: Both in-person and online participation are available. However\, we require conference speakers to attend in person.\n\nTopics of Interest (but not limited to): \n\nClimate adaptation and resilience\nNature finance and biodiversity\nExtreme weather hazards and finance\nTransition risk and transition planning\nScope 3 emission measurement and disclosure\nAccelerating the green economy\nSustainable investing\nCarbon pricing and emissions trading\nClimate finance policy and regulation\nEmerging trends in climate science and climate finance\nClimate finance challenges in emerging economies\n\nSubmission Guidelines: \n\nSubmission Deadline: 15 August 2024\nPlease send your papers or abstracts to s.varotto@icmacentre.ac.uk with the subject line “Climate and Finance Conference Submission.”\n\nAuthors of accepted papers will be notified by 28 August 2024. \nScientific Committee: \n\nProfessor Len Shaffrey\, NCAS and Meteorology Department\, University of Reading\nProfessor Simone Varotto\, ICMA Centre – Henley Business School\, University of Reading\n\nRegistration: The conference is free of charge\, but registration is required. Please register online at https://forms.office.com/e/A9yX8Cghxv by 9 September 2024. We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at the conference![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/climate-and-finance-conference-2024/
LOCATION:Henley Business School
CATEGORIES:Environment,Prosperity & Resilience
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SUMMARY:Inequalities: Interdisciplinary Symposium
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThis interdisciplinary symposium aims to explore the relationship between migration\, care and intersecting inequalities within the post-pandemic geopolitical landscape of immobility regimes\, crisis-driven displacement\, care deficits and ageing populations. The symposium will reflect on how paid and unpaid caring arrangements are shaped by intersecting inequalities in diverse migration and transnational contexts. We are interested in papers that address caring practices across the lifecourse\, intersectionality and inequalities in access to formal care and social protection globally. \nWe invite papers (to be presented in person) that address the following themes (but are also open to other related topics): \n\n‘Proximate’ and ‘distant’ intergenerational care in transnational families\nPaid and unpaid care and intersecting social differences and inequalities (gender\, race\, ethnicity\, disability/ chronic illness\, ageing\, socio-economic status\, legal status\, multilingualism\, education and so on)\nChildren’s and young people’s caring responsibilities in diverse migration contexts\n(Im-)mobility and care regimes and differential welfare entitlements and rights\nForced transnationality\, agency and social protection among refugees and asylum seekers\nLanguage brokering\, literacy mediation and access to support\nCare ethics and cross-cultural understandings of care\, wellbeing\, health and illness\nMethodological and ethical approaches to researching caring relations\, migrant/transnational family lives and inequalities\n\nThese highly politicised and emotive issues pose key challenges and dilemmas for policymakers\, practitioners and family members\, as well as researchers and academics interested in transnational migration\, care and social protection. \nIn addition to in person paper presentations\, the Symposium will include: \n\nTransnational ageing: theorising digital kinning and the multi-directionality of care: Keynote lecture by Professor Loretta Baldassar\, Edith Cowan University\, Western Australia (hybrid – online access available)\nIntergenerational Care\, Inequalities and Wellbeing among Transnational Families in Europe: Plenary presenting key findings of the ‘Transnational Families in Europe research project\, led by Professor Ruth Evans\, University of Reading and Dr. Rosa Mas Giralt\, University of Leeds. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with leading academics\, practitioners and policymakers (hybrid – online access available).\n\nA selection of papers presented at the Symposium will be included in an Edited Collection (open access) on Care\, Inequalities and Wellbeing across Generations in Transnational Families. \nRegistration \nRegistration fee (includes lunch and refreshments): £30 \nA small number of bursaries are available for postgraduates and practitioners (please provide details of expected travel costs when enquiring about this). Contact: r.evans@reading.ac.uk. \nAbstract submission \nPlease send your paper title and abstract (maximum of 250 words)\, with author(s)\, email address and affiliations\, by 8 April 2024 to Jodie Ellis (j.ellis2@reading.ac.uk). \nPlease also indicate if you wish your paper to be considered for the Edited Collection on Care\, Inequalities and Wellbeing across Generations in Transnational Families. \nFurther information \nContact: Ruth Evans: r.evans@reading.ac.uk \nWeb: Transnational Families in Europe: Care\, Inequalities and Wellbeing\, https:/research.reading.ac.uk/transnational-families/ \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/inequalities-interdisciplinary-symposium/
LOCATION:University of Reading\, RG6 6UR 
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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SUMMARY:Where Do We Go From Here?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Where Do We Go From Here? \n10 people\, one platform. A call for change but will change come? \nThrough missing a connection\, we find we have more in common than that which divides us. \nIn the breakdown of a system comes the opportunity for something new. \nDevised\, written\, and performed by asylum seekers\, refugees\, and those with lived experience of (dis)abilities or mental health challenges. This play speaks of our current times through the voices of people who often go unheard. Followed by post-show Q&A hosted by Fiona Talkington\, writer\, and broadcaster BBC Radio 3. \nThis performance will include BSL (British Sign Language) for the deaf community and AD (Audio Description) will be available. Wheelchair access is also available. This performance is suitable for 12+. If you need BSL interpretation and/or prefer to be near where the interpreters are more visible\, please enquire about this via the Front of House staff before the show and ask them for recommendations. We will also have a BSL interpreter before the show to help with this. \nWith special thanks to our partners: \nRefugee Support Group\, University of Reading\, LAMDA\, Reading Museum\, The Museum of English Rural Life\, Paff After the Emergency. \nSupported by The Arts Council England\, Reading Council and Berkshire Community Foundation\, thank you for your continued support. \nTicket Prices: \n£10 \n£5 Student Concessions[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/where-do-we-go-from-here/
LOCATION:Minghella Studios\, Minghella Building\, Whiteknights Campus\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240327T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240327T173000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20240222T153758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T153825Z
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SUMMARY:The Magic of Languages: A Journey of Linguistic Discovery
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Did you know that most people in the world speak two or more languages? How do they do it? Join Professor Ludovica Serratrice on a journey of linguistic discovery that will take you from babbling babies to children juggling words and sentences in two languages.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/the-magic-of-languages-a-journey-of-linguistic-discovery/
LOCATION:Edith Morley Building\, Van Emden Lecture Theatre\, Edith Morley Building\, University of Reading\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240307T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240307T160000
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SUMMARY:University of Reading and Natural History Museum Collaborative Research Fellowship Information Day
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 7th March 2024\, 10:00 – 16:00\nPalmer Building\, Whiteknights Campus\, University of Reading \nAre you considering a Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant application in 2024? The partnership offers new opportunities for collaborative research across a broad range of disciplines. This event aims at attracting interest from high-potential ECRs who may wish to apply for an independent research fellowship to be held jointly at the University of Reading and Natural History Museum. \nThe partnership would like to invite applications to attend an Information Day from ECRs who may wish to apply for an independent research fellowship to be held jointly at the University of Reading and Natural History Museum*. In addition to support with fellowship applications and project design\, we offer the potential to work at two dynamic\, research-intensive organisations\, together with a programme of support which will help to establish successful applicants’ careers and independence as academic researchers.  \nApplicants are asked to complete a short application form to register their interest in attending and outline their proposed areas of research. Projects which could build meaningful collaborations between the organisations\, and which have strong potential in the sustainability/environmental science area\, are encouraged.  \nApplicants to attend must be considering a fellowship which has the potential to undertake meaningful research in an area of study which is of relevance to both organisations.  \nSome key areas of strength and research themes can be found here.  \nLunch and refreshments will be provided. Travel expenses from UK applicants can be covered.   \nPlease email your completed application form\, together with a brief CV\, to NHM-UoR-partnership@nhm.ac.uk by Sunday 11th February 2024. We will issue invitations to the event to all successful applicants no later than Friday 23rd February.  \nPlease use the same email address for any queries regarding the application process\, the Information Day or the partnership as a whole.  \nDownload the application form here. \nAgenda: \n\n10.00: Arrival with refreshments    \n10.30: Introduction to the UoR-NHM partnership\n10.45: Introduction to UoR’s research themes \n11.00: Introduction to NHM’s research themes \n11.15: My Experience as a Fellowship Holder talks \n12.00: Networking Lunch and chance to look around campus \n13.30: Supporting you with your Fellowship \n14.30: Q&A session (involving all presenters)   \n15.00: Closing remarks \n15.10: Informal networking session with refreshments \n16.00: End  \n\n*Target fellowship schemes include: UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship\, BBSRC Discovery Fellowship\, STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship\, NERC Independent Fellowship\, The Wellcome Trust Career Development Awards\, Royal Society University Research Fellowship\, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship\, Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship\, Branco-Weiss Research Fellowship. 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/university-of-reading-and-natural-history-museum-collaborative-research-fellowship-information-day/
LOCATION:Palmer Building\, Whiteknights Campus\, University of Reading.
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health,Environment,Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240221T130000
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SUMMARY:My Mother Tongue: A celebration of community languages
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) to celebrate International Mother Language Day. The free\, family friendly event will showcase and celebrate some of the languages spoken in Reading. \nFree to attend. Light refreshments served. \nRegister using this Microsoft form.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/my-mother-tongue-a-celebration-of-community-languages/
LOCATION:Lifespring Church\, 143 Oxford Road\, RG1 7UY
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240207T153000
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SUMMARY:Human vs machine: what can corpus linguistics contribute to our understanding of large collections of texts?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nKeynote Speaker: Professor Sylvia Jaworska\, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics \nA collaboration between Heritage & Creativity and Prosperity & Resilience on Wednesday 7 February 2024 from 14:00-15.30. \nLocation: Palmer 103 and Online \n\n\n\n14.00\nWelcome and introduction\nDr Mara Olivia\, Digital Humanities Champion \nProfessor Roberta Gilchrist\, Research Dean\, Heritage & Creativity \nProfessor Adrian Bell\, Research Dean\, Prosperity & Resilience\n\n\n14.10\nKeynote address: Human vs machine: what can corpus linguistics contribute to our understanding of large collections of texts?\nProfessor Sylvia Jaworska\n\n\n14.40\nRoundtable\nDr Jonathan Golub (Politics & International Relations): “Treating the text of EU legislative proposals as data” \nDr Rachel Foxley (History): “A beginner’s project in textual analysis: political polarisation in the English Civil War” \nProfessor Mike Goodman (Geography & Environmental Science): “Analysing the texts of #CovidTwitter and getting students to de-normalise the world through frame analysis”\n\n\n15.10\nQ&A\n\n\n15.30\nWhat’s next for the Digital Humanities Community of Practice and Hub? and close.\nDr Mara Olivia\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nAbstracts\n[/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Keynote Address by Professor Sylvia Jaworska” tab_id=”1701707611243-a4829d54-d289″][vc_column_text]In this talk\, I will first outline key principles underlying the linguistically informed approach of corpus linguistics which has been adopted to study discourse in large collections of texts (corpora). I will focus in particular on the analytical tools of frequency\, concordance\, collocation and keyword and the software programme Sketch Engine to show the benefits of this approach to identify and examine discourse patterns and topics in large text corpora. Examples will include collaborative work conducted with researchers from HBS\, SAGES and Pharmacy. The second part will compare the corpus approach with another popular method widely used in social sciences\, that of topic modelling\, which was developed in computer science. It will report on insights from a small quasi-experiment in which the two approaches were used to identify topics in a corpus of sustainability reports. The talk explores how the identified topics were similar and different and what this means for the analytical power of the two methods. I will conclude with a series of tentative observations regarding the benefits and limitations of each method and recommendations for researchers in choosing analytical technique to study large collections of texts available digitally.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Professor Sylvia Jaworska” tab_id=”1701707709188-51fab374-658f”][vc_column_text]Professor Sylvia Jaworska explores professional communication in (new) media\, business and health settings focusing predominantly (but not exclusively) on the ways in which language and other semiotic choices are used to construct identities and perpetuate social stereotyping\, biases and stigma. She examines discourse and communication using tools and techniques from corpus linguistics and discourse analysis as well as other quantitative and qualitative methods adopted in linguistics and social sciences including interviews\, focus groups and surveys.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Dr Jonathan Golub” tab_id=”1701707709300-76f94e96-9b99″][vc_column_text]Dr Jonathan Golub is a political scientist using quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse decision making in the European Union. He is particularly interested in modelling the EU policymaking process and issues of institutional performance\, such as the role of formal versus informal rules\, the potential trade-off between efficiency and democratic legitimacy\, and the distribution of power between Member States and supranational actors. His research interests also include modelling UN Security Council decision making\, evaluating the effects of economic sanctions\, studying the determinants of national and global environmental policy\, and understanding judicial politics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Dr Rachel Foxley” tab_id=”1701707790995-b0c53051-44a1″][vc_column_text]Dr Rachel Foxley’s work focuses on the history of political language and political thought\, particularly in seventeenth-century England. Her PhD and first book were on the Levellers\, and looked at the way in which this remarkably audacious network of activists and pamphleteers adapted and reworked the less radical thought of the parliamentarian cause which they had supported. Her more recent and current work focuses particularly on the writings of the English republican writers of the seventeenth century\, including John Milton\, James Harrington\, Marchamont Nedham\, Henry Neville\, and Algernon Sidney. She is working on a book on their complex and perhaps conflicted treatments of the idea of democracy\, and have published several shorter pieces on them. She has an abiding interest in the reception of classical ideas in early modern Europe\, which is highly relevant to this project\, and she is co-editing the Brill’s Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought with David Carter and Elizabeth Sawyer. She is also interested in the gendered aspects of political texts and political thought\, and hopes to focus on this more in future work.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Professor Mike Goodman” tab_id=”1701707825866-10a6a91b-cf91″][vc_column_text]Professor Mike Goodman is an interdisciplinary\, critical human geographer focusing on the cultural politics of food\, humanitarianism and the environment. Research topics have included fair trade networks\, alternative food networks\, the rise of celebrity politics in the context of food\, climate change and global development and ways society is attempting to make life more just\, liveable and care-full in the Anthropocene. He is particularly interested in conceptualising how these issues and connections are framed in the media in order to understand their social and geographical significance to building more sustainable societies\, challenging existing structures of power and offering critical spaces for marginalised voices.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_column_text]If you are not already a member\, you are welcome to join the Digital Humanities Community of Practice via our MS Teams channel. (This link will take you to the Teams channel. If you are not already a member\, you will be presented with a dialogue box that says ‘Join’. Click this to send a request\, which will be approved if you are a member of the University of Reading. If you are already a member of the Team\, this link just takes you directly to the ‘General’ channel.) or email the DH Champion\, Dr Mara Oliva (m.oliva@reading.ac.uk) \nWithin the COP\, you will be able to introduce yourself\, share your research\, and access information about funding opportunities\, support\, and events. Read more here. \nOur events are open to all researchers\, staff\, and PGRs from any subject – we welcome interdisciplinary collaboration![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/human-vs-machine-what-can-corpus-linguistics-contribute-to-our-understanding-of-large-collections-of-texts/
LOCATION:Palmer 103
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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SUMMARY:Algorithmic Contracts and Consumer Law – thoughts from ELI’s Guiding Principles and Model Rules for Algorithmic Contracts project
DESCRIPTION:Exciting technological developments offer increased potential for contract automation. After much excitement about “smart contracts”\, the focus has now shifted to contract automation through algorithmic decision making (ADM) based on artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms\, especially deep-learning algorithms. \nImagine a new form of “digital assistant” which would not only assist a consumer in identifying possible purchase options (as is already the case with digital voice assistants and some chatbots) but take over the conclusion of routine contracts for a consumer. Would taking a consumer out of the decision-making loop altogether pose new challenges for (consumer) contract law? The European Law Institute (ELI) is part-way through a project exploring the many legal implications of utilising AI-driven ADM in contracting. Its first\, interim\, output focuses on testing the ADMreadiness of the current EU consumer law acquis. This paper will sketch the main elements of this interim report and suggest pointers for the continuing debate around algorithmic contracting. \nAbout the speaker \nProfessor Christian Twigg-Flesner LL.B. PCHE Ph.D. (Sheffield) is professor of Contract and Consumer Law at the University of Warwick. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of Contract\, Consumer and Commercial Law\, with a particular focus on the implications of digitalisation. His research covers English\, European and International dimensions. \nBook your free place on the University Store.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/algorithmic-contracts-and-consumer-law/
LOCATION:Palmer Building\, Room 103
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231013T130000
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SUMMARY:Emotional Labour: provenance\, politics and practice
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Jenna Ward (Dean of Coventry Business School) for a workshop seminar on emotional labour as part of Dr Simon Willems (Reading School of Art\, Henley Business School) interdepartmental fellowship research project. \nWith a focus on marginalised voices\, Jenna employs innovative arts-based research methods to explore emotionality within organizations and management. Her research spans various sectors and has led to her working with organisations such as the Department of Health\, the National Trust\, the City of London\, NHS\, Samaritans and\, most recently\, England Netball. \nTea & coffee and light refreshments will be available at 9:30 (lunch is included). \nView the seminar flyer for more information. \nPlease contact Simon Willems to RSVP.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/emotional-labour-provenance-politics-and-practice/
LOCATION:Henley Business School\, Room G03\, Henley Business School\, University of Reading\, Reading\, RG6 6UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T130000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20230718T084951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T134605Z
UID:27844-1696496400-1696510800@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Climate and Finance Conference
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are pleased to announce a half-day conference on climate and finance to be held at the ICMA Centre – Henley Business School on Thursday 5th October 2023 from 9:00am to 1pm. The aim of this event is to bring together UoR researchers in the area of climate change and finance to foster the development of joint research activities. \nThe conference will include two plenary sessions and a panel discussion. Speakers will present in person. \nParticipants can attend in person by registering for free by 25 September 2023 or online via this Teams link. \nView the full programme here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/climate-and-finance-conference/
LOCATION:ICMA Centre\, Henley Business School
CATEGORIES:Environment,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230830T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230830T120000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20230719T144535Z
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SUMMARY:AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2024 applicant webinar
DESCRIPTION:AHRC and the BBC have announced the latest call for New Generation Thinkers 2024\, which offers early-career researchers the opportunity to develop programmes for the BBC. Finalists in the competition will be able to workshop ideas with BBC producers\, get media and public engagement training\, and a platform for informing and influencing public opinion\, policy and practice. 60 applicants will be invited to BBC workshops\, from which 10 will be selected as New Generation Thinkers and will then experience a year of focused activity and development from the BBC and AHRC. \nWebinars are being run by AHRC for anyone interested in applying to the AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2024 scheme. \nWebinars will take place on the following dates. Please click the links to reserve a space. Once you register\, you will be sent joining instructions so you can take part in the webinar. \n\nWednesday 26 July at 2:00pm UK time\nWednesday 30 August at 11:00am UK time\n\nThe webinar will cover: \n\nan overview of the scheme and what to expect\nsome hints and tips for making your application\nhow to use the online application system\na chance to ask questions about applying\, the scheme\, and more.\n\nAbout AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2024  \nTo apply for the New Generation Thinkers scheme\, you must be: \n\na UK resident\nover the age of 18\ncurrently working or studying at a UK research organisation that is eligible to receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (see ‘your organisation’s eligibility’)\nstudying a relevant area of research (see ‘your research’)\n\nYou must also be either: \n\ncurrently studying for your first PhD and having made considerable progress on your research\, for example within one year of submission\nwithin eight years of the award of your first PhD\, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave\, caring responsibilities\, health reasons\, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic\nwithin six years of your first academic appointment at an organisation that is eligible to receive funding from UK Research and Innovation\, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave\, caring responsibilities\, health reasons\, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic. This must be a paid contract of employment\, either full-time or part-time\, which lists research or teaching as the primary function\, including research assistantships\n\nYou do not need to have a permanent contract of employment to be eligible\, provided you meet the conditions at the time of your application. \nIf you have applied to the scheme before\, you may apply again provided you have never been selected as a New Generation Thinker in any given year. \nYour research must have a primary focus in the arts and humanities. Your research could be bringing together arts and humanities research with other non-AHRC funded disciplines\, provided you can demonstrate suitable links to the world of arts and humanities and that arts and humanities remains a primary focus. The main topic areas are: archaeology; classics; cultural and museum studies; development studies; history; information and communication technologies; law and legal studies; library and information studies; philosophy; political science and international studies; theology\, divinity and religion; dance; design; drama and theatre studies; media; music; languages and literature; linguistics; visual arts \nThe deadline for applications is 3 October 2023 4:00 pm UK time. \nFor further information\, please visit: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/develop-research-for-bbc-platforms-new-generation-thinkers-2024/
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/ahrc-and-bbc-new-generation-thinkers-2024-applicant-webinar/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230726T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230726T150000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
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UID:27866-1690380000-1690383600@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2024 applicant webinar
DESCRIPTION:AHRC and the BBC have announced the latest call for New Generation Thinkers 2024\, which offers early-career researchers the opportunity to develop programmes for the BBC. Finalists in the competition will be able to workshop ideas with BBC producers\, get media and public engagement training\, and a platform for informing and influencing public opinion\, policy and practice. 60 applicants will be invited to BBC workshops\, from which 10 will be selected as New Generation Thinkers and will then experience a year of focused activity and development from the BBC and AHRC. \nWebinars are being run by AHRC for anyone interested in applying to the AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2024 scheme. \nWebinars will take place on the following dates. Please click the links to reserve a space. Once you register\, you will be sent joining instructions so you can take part in the webinar. \n\nWednesday 26 July at 2:00pm UK time\nWednesday 30 August at 11:00am UK time\n\nThe webinar will cover: \n\nan overview of the scheme and what to expect\nsome hints and tips for making your application\nhow to use the online application system\na chance to ask questions about applying\, the scheme\, and more.\n\nAbout AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2024  \nTo apply for the New Generation Thinkers scheme\, you must be: \n\na UK resident\nover the age of 18\ncurrently working or studying at a UK research organisation that is eligible to receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (see ‘your organisation’s eligibility’)\nstudying a relevant area of research (see ‘your research’)\n\nYou must also be either: \n\ncurrently studying for your first PhD and having made considerable progress on your research\, for example within one year of submission\nwithin eight years of the award of your first PhD\, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave\, caring responsibilities\, health reasons\, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic\nwithin six years of your first academic appointment at an organisation that is eligible to receive funding from UK Research and Innovation\, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave\, caring responsibilities\, health reasons\, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic. This must be a paid contract of employment\, either full-time or part-time\, which lists research or teaching as the primary function\, including research assistantships\n\nYou do not need to have a permanent contract of employment to be eligible\, provided you meet the conditions at the time of your application. \nIf you have applied to the scheme before\, you may apply again provided you have never been selected as a New Generation Thinker in any given year. \nYour research must have a primary focus in the arts and humanities. Your research could be bringing together arts and humanities research with other non-AHRC funded disciplines\, provided you can demonstrate suitable links to the world of arts and humanities and that arts and humanities remains a primary focus. The main topic areas are: archaeology; classics; cultural and museum studies; development studies; history; information and communication technologies; law and legal studies; library and information studies; philosophy; political science and international studies; theology\, divinity and religion; dance; design; drama and theatre studies; media; music; languages and literature; linguistics; visual arts \nThe deadline for applications is 3 October 2023 4:00 pm UK time. \nFor further information\, please visit: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/develop-research-for-bbc-platforms-new-generation-thinkers-2024/
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/ahrc-and-bbc-new-generation-thinkers-2023-applicant-webinar-2/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230710
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230715
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20230207T140158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T170159Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Workshop in Videographic Research Methods
DESCRIPTION:Following a successful debut in 2022\, we are pleased to announce a second Summer Workshop in Videographic Research Methods. Last year’s workshop was advertised to researchers across Reading’s Arts and Humanities disciplines – this time we are inviting expressions of interest from UoR colleagues working in all research areas. \nContext \nThe digital reworking of sound and image is an exciting and rapidly developing research practice. This workshop is designed to make these methods available to researchers at Reading\, across a variety of disciplines. A major ambition of the workshop is to develop the skills of researchers beyond film and television studies\, where these approaches are now firmly established. We believe there are significant and underexplored opportunities in applying videographic approaches to other subjects. \nThe workshop \nThe workshop will take place in Minghella Studios\, July 10th – 14th 2023. It will involve: \n\nbasic technical training in non-linear editing and related technologies\nproducing and sharing feedback on a series of exercises in response to briefs designed to engage with different and videographic approaches\ndiscussion of existing video essays and debates in the wider field of videographic scholarship\nreflection on videographic analysis and archival material\nplanning a longer audiovisual essay\, with opportunities for feedback later in the vacation\nlunch and refreshments.\n\nParticipants will nominate and work with an item of audiovisual material or material object relevant to their research\, as a means of ‘testing out’ how to develop critical ideas through editing. No prior experience or equipment is required (computers with appropriate software will be available at the workshop). \nThe workshop will once again be led by Screen Working Group / CFAC Co-Director Adam O’Brien and H&C Research Dean John Gibbs\, an audiovisual essayist with several years’ experience of teaching videographic criticism. It will also draw on expertise from colleagues in Special Collections and the wider videographic field. \nApplications \nIf you are interested in taking part\, please complete the expression of interest form and return it to adam.obrien@reading.ac.uk by Friday March 3rd. \nThe form invites you to confirm your availability for the dates and duration of the workshop\, to provide information about your research context\, and to identify an object of study\, indicating what potential there might be for working with it through audiovisual means. \nRSVP by Friday March 3rd.  \nPlease contact Screen Work Group Lead Adam O’Brien with any questions (adam.obrien@reading.ac.uk). \nTestimonials from 2022 \n“This was the most productive skills event I have encountered during my almost 15 years of working at the University. Its tight focus\, collegiality\, mix of academic and practical expertise\, and its lecturer-centered approach were especially welcome.” \n“Working in cultural studies\, I work across a range of different media. The workshop gave me the opportunity to work with audiovisual material in a different way\, improving my aesthetic analysis\, and also to think about different types of research output I can produce.” \n“The workshop surpassed my expectations and enabled me to develop new skills which will be useful in both teaching/research. The atmosphere was very supportive\, constructive and encouraging. It was also beneficial to be able to engage with colleagues beyond my department and breakdown the silos that can characterize research at a university.” \nExplore videographic methods… \nIf you are not yet familiar with videographic work\, these examples may help to illustrate the exciting potential and variety of the approach: \nPasta as prologue: the Spaghetti House siege on film (Charlie Shackleton): Two different dramatisations of the 1975 siege of a Knightsbridge restaurant by Black British radicals remind us that history also needs its agitators. \nThe Elephant Man’s Sound\, Tracked (Liz Greene): A deep archival dive into sound design\, David Lynch and creative-labour politics. \nThe Mighty Maestro on Screen (Evelyn Kreutzer): A study of gesture\, movement and music\, through the figure of the on-screen orchestral conductor. \n‘Say\, have you seen the Carioca?’ (John Gibbs): Moving between film\, popular music\, histories of dance and cinema exhibition practice; looking afresh at relationships between different historical periods and national cinemas. \nMediated Auscultation (Emilija Talijan): Stethoscopes\, bodies\, sounds\, modernism\, still and moving images.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/workshop-in-videographic-methods-23/
LOCATION:Minghella Studios\, Minghella Building\, Whiteknights Campus\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health,Environment,Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230619T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230620T170000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20230322T134553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230322T135357Z
UID:27202-1687165200-1687280400@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The first Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference will be held in person at the University of Reading\, UK on 19–20 June 2023. \nThis interdisciplinary conference is aimed at academics\, practitioners and employers interested in issues of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and their implications for workplace practice. \nSubmissions of theoretical\, experimental\, quantitative and qualitative empirical work on any aspect of diversity in the workplace from any field are invited. \nThere is no conference registration fee. \nSubmit your abstract (max 500 words) by midnight on Sunday 23 April. \nKeynote speaker: Dr Krystal Wilkinson\, Reader in Human Resources Management\, Manchester Metropolitan University. \n \n\nRead Bio >\n\nThe first set of results from Prof. Jewell and Prof. Longhi’s ‘Maternal well-being\, infant feeding and return to paid work decisions‘ project\, funded by the Nuffield Foundation\, will be discussed at the conference. \nInformation on registration will follow soon. \nVisit the University of Reading website for details on travelling to the University\, staying on campus and campus maps. \nIf you have queries\, please contact the local organisers: Professor Sarah Jewell (s.l.jewell@reading.ac.uk) or Professor Simonetta Longhi (s.longhi@reading.ac.uk).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/accommodating-diversity-in-the-workplace-conference/
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr%20Sarah%20Jewell":MAILTO:s.l.jewell@reading.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230615T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230615T140000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20230519T085232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T085232Z
UID:27487-1686834000-1686837600@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Adolescent reading habits
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) are happy to announce the speakers for the CeLM Seminar Series for the upcoming year. P \nPlease find information below\, including the date and time\, CeLM theme and location of each talk\, along with the speaker and talk title. \nIf you are interested in attending an online talk and are not at the University of Reading\, please email Holly Joseph (h.joseph@reading.ac.uk) for a joining link. \n15th June\, 2023 (1-2pm\, Language and Literacy\, online)\nBeverley Jennings (University of Reading)\nAdolescent reading habits \nUpcoming CeLM seminars: \n17th July\, 2023 (tbc) (6-7pm\, Health\, online)\nBetty Yu (San Francisco State University)\nDeconstructing bi/multilingualism\, social communication\, and autistic sociality with a focus on clinical application[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/adolescent-reading-habits/
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230614T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230614T160000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20230531T185051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230531T195703Z
UID:27602-1686751200-1686758400@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Shifting the focus of the global warming agenda to deal with adaptation and loss & damage (AL&D)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nIn this workshop\, Dr Terry Cannon\, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies\, will be presenting a paper and leading a discussion on the global political realities of policies and practices relating to climate change adaptation and loss and damage (AL&D). It should be a lively and provocative discussion so please come along. Please RSVP to a.h.arnall@reading.ac.uk by Wed 7 June to confirm attendance. \nEveryone attending the workshop will be sent Terry’s short paper in advance. The paper has been discussed by a group at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute\, by a group from Toronto\, York and Montreal Universities in Canada\, and now at Reading and soon at Cambridge.  There are many additions and some corrections to be made following the earlier discussions\, and Terry hopes that new ideas and responses will emerge at Reading. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/shifting-the-focus-of-the-global-warming-agenda-to-deal-with-adaptation-and-loss-damage-ald/
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230613T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230613T170000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20230303T180242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230524T135128Z
UID:26997-1686664800-1686675600@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:2023 Research Awards
DESCRIPTION:Invitation to 2023 Research Awards event \nWe are pleased to invite you to our 2023 Research Awards event on Tuesday 13 June 2023 from 1.45pm. The event will begin with a showcase of projects shortlisted for this year’s Research Awards and ECR Research Output Prize\, followed by the announcement of the winners. The event will conclude with afternoon tea and posters and is an ideal opportunity to find out what research is going on across the University and for networking. A list of the shortlisted projects can be found here. \nIf you would like to attend\, please click on the following image (or click the link in the attached PDF). Spaces are limited so please RSVP as soon as possible and before 29 May.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/2023-research-awards/
LOCATION:Meadow Suite\, Park House\, Meadow Suite\, Park House\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health,Environment,Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230525T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230525T140000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20230519T084919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T090605Z
UID:27485-1685019600-1685023200@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Bilingualism and Intersection of Race\, Disability and Nation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) are happy to announce the speakers for the CeLM Seminar Series for the upcoming year. P \nPlease find information below\, including the date and time\, CeLM theme and location of each talk\, along with the speaker and talk title. \nIf you are interested in attending an online talk and are not at the University of Reading\, please email Holly Joseph (h.joseph@reading.ac.uk) for a joining link. \n25th May\, 2023 (1-2 pm\, Health\, online)\nVishnu Nair (University of Reading)\nBilingualism and Intersection of Race\, Disability and Nation \nUpcoming CeLM seminars: \n15th June\, 2023 (1-2pm\, Language and Literacy\, online)\nBeverley Jennings (University of Reading)\nAdolescent reading habits \n17th July\, 2023 (tbc) (6-7pm\, Health\, online)\nBetty Yu (San Francisco State University)\nDeconstructing bi/multilingualism\, social communication\, and autistic sociality with a focus on clinical application[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/bilingualism-and-intersection-of-race-disability-and-nation/
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230331T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230331T120000
DTSTAMP:20260530T191732
CREATED:20230303T174629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T175745Z
UID:26987-1680264000-1680264000@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:2023 Research Awards - Deadline for entries
DESCRIPTION:New University Research Awards have been launched to celebrate the work of research and associated professional services staff. \nWork that showcases research excellence or fosters a positive research culture and environment is eligible in four new categories: \n\nPublic Engagement with Research\nOpenness in Research\nExternal Collaboration and Partnerships\nResearch Impact\n\nThe Awards are open to both researchers and associated professional services staff and entries are actively encouraged from all research themes and associated functions across the University. \nEntries can be from individuals or groups and activities of any scale will be welcome but must have taken place in the last three years (i.e. since January 2020). Shortlisted applicants will showcase their projects at an in-person Awards event on Tuesday 13 June from 2pm and winners will receive £1000 towards their next engagement activity. \nFurther information can be found on the 2023 Awards page and in the guidelines and eligibility criteria. Applications via this online form must be submitted no later than 12 noon on Friday 31 March. \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/2023-research-awards-deadline-for-entries/
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health,Environment,Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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