Connecting Research

Colours More Than Sentences: Illustrated Editions of "The Ballard of Reading Gaol"
2019-05-01 - 2019-07-31 | Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL), Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX, United Kingdom
Exhibition celebrating the many different illustrated editions of Oscar Wilde’s famous poem.
Free admission, no booking require.

Chemistry Research Colloquium - Dr György Hantal, University of Vienna
2019-05-13
Chemistry Research Colloquium – Dr György Hantal, University of Vienna
Title TBA

Hydro-JULES: Next generation hydrological and land surface predictions
2019-05-13 12:00 - 12:50 (Europe/London) | GU01, Department of Meteorology
Monday Departmental Seminar Programme – Meteorology Department
Simon Dadson
CEH Wallingford

School of Agriculture Crops Research Seminar: Tobias Lane & Ahmed Omar Warsame
2019-05-14 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
School of Agriculture – Crops Research Seminar Series.
Tobias Lane & Ahmed Omar Warsame

Introduction to the SciVAL Research Intelligence Tool (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-14 10:00 - 12:00
SciVal is a powerful research intelligence tool based on bibliometric data from research publications. SciVal enables researchers and those supporting research staff to visualize their institution/group’s research performance and benchmark it relative to their peers based on a variety of different metrics. It can also help you identify areas or partners for the development of collaborative networks. This session will introduce you to the scope and possibilities of SciVal and show you how to perform targeted analyses based on the publications of your own research division. This is a 90 minute session. The first 60 minutes will explain what the tool is and how it can be used. The last 30 minutes will be an extended hands-on activity so that you get practical experience of using the tool.

Atlantic transports from free model runs, reanalyses and coupled simulations​
2019-05-14 13:00 - 13:50 | Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, Room GU01, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH
Tuesday Seminar Programme – Meteorology Department
Davi Mignac Carneiro

Types of ‘Misleading Pictures’ in Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
2019-05-14 16:10 - 18:00
Department of Philosophy – Wittgenstein Forum
Jonathan Beale

Who is a woman? and why it matters
2019-05-14 17:00 - 19:00 | London Road, Building LO22, Room G01, University of Reading, London Road campus, Reading, RG1 5AQ
Speakers: Dr Holly Lawford-Smith and Dr Jane Jones
Chair: Prof Carol Fuller, Institute of Education
Date: 14th May 2019
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Place: Room G01, Building L22, London Road Campus
Free to attend, but registration essential.
Please email Carol Fuller to register: c.l.fuller@reading.ac.uk
Holly Lawford-Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her BA and MA at the University of Otago, and her PhD at the Australian National University. Her interests are in social philosophy broadly construed, and latest publication is the book Not in Their Name: Are Citizens Culpable for Their States’ Actions? with Oxford University Press.
Jane Jones is a feminist philosopher and founder of The Institute of Feminist Thought, an online feminist school offering courses in feminist history and philosophy. Jane studied Social and Political Science at Cambridge before going on to gain an MPhil and PhD in feminist philosophy. Since 2011 she has been involved in feminist activism, while writing about issues at the intersection of feminist thought, politics and culture. Throughout the many years of studying and writing, Jane has worked as an educator – both in universities, and as a private tutor.

Research Data Management: An Introduction (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-15 10:00
The aim of this course is to introduce general principles and practices of research data management that will be applicable to researchers at all stages of their careers working with research data in any discipline, whether in the sciences, social sciences or humanities. The course will cover: public funders’ and the University’s research data policies and requirements; data management plans for funding applications; ethics and legal compliance; storage, organisation and documentation of data; ownership and rights in data; data preservation and sharing.

The Urban Room - Public-facing encounters (Architecture)
2019-05-15 12:00 - 14:00, 2019-05-17 12:00 - 14:00 | School of Architecture
Public-facing artist ‘encounters’ will occur on Wednesdays and Fridays, 12-2pm, between 15 May and 31 May. All are welcome.
At the University of Reading this summer, we present the Urban Room: a temporary wooden structure which carries the potential for enabling conversation and encounters between people and communities across Reading as a town and the University. Built by second year Architecture students as part of their studies, the Urban Room will offer a visually stimulating focal point on the beautiful London Road campus of the University during May and June.
More details: Urban Room: May-June 2019

ICMA Research Seminars - Emese Lazar
2019-05-15 13:00 - 14:00 | ICMA G09, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BA, United Kingdom
ICMA Research Seminars – Emese Lazar

Public Lecture: Sooner or Later: Shifting the Timing of Electricity Demand
2019-05-15 17:30 - 18:30 | London Road, Building LO22, Room G01, University of Reading, London Road campus, Reading, RG1 5AQ
Jacopo Torriti, Professor of Energy Economics and Policy, School of the Built Environment

When we all consume electricity at the same time, energy suppliers have to activate dirty old power plants with excessive greenhouse gas emissions and high system costs. Shifting the timing of electricity demand is critical for balancing the grid when consumption is high and when there are drops in supply from renewables. However, little is known about the extent to which pricing and new technologies will enable a higher level of demand-side flexibility. In this inaugural lecture, Jacopo Torriti presents research on the timing of electricity demand, peaks, people’s activities and demand-side flexibility.
The lecture is free to attend and open to all. Registration is required in advance by emailing Sue Flanders (s.m.flanders@reading.ac.uk).

Workplace incivility: an identity based analysis
2019-05-16 | Henley Business School, Room 108, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Henley Business School – Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour research seminars.
Dr Chris Woodrow

2nd Reading Experimental and Behavioural Economics Workshop
2019-05-16 08:45 - 18:00 | Department of Economics
Keynote speakers (in alphabetical order):

Jordi Brandts (Barcelona GSE, Spain)
Marie Claire Villeval (CNRS, France)

Regular session speakers (in alphabetical order):

Puja Bhattacharya (WZB, Germany)
Steven Bosworth (University of Reading, UK)
Subhasish M. Chowdhury (University of Bath, UK)
Francesco Fallucchi (LISER, Luxembourg)
Joo Young Jeon (University of Reading, UK)
Lingqing Jiang (University of Essex, UK)
Ryan Kendall (University College London, UK)
Robertas Zubrickas (University of Bath, UK)

“Teachers' curriculum decision making in an accountability culture” & “Martial arts and well-being: understanding practice and its role in the construction of beliefs”
2019-05-16 13:00 - 14:00 | L24, G06
Institute of Education – Research Programme
Dr Rebecca Harris – “Teachers’ curriculum decision making in an accountability culture”
Prof Carol Fuller – “Martial arts and well-being: understanding practice and its role in the construction of beliefs”

Funding Update and Research News - School of Pharmacy Research and Scholarship Seminars 2019
2019-05-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Hopkins Building, Room 101, University of Reading, Reading, RG1 6UR, United Kingdom
Prof Adrian Williams

Film, Theatre and Television Research Seminars - Dr Sarah Grochala
2019-05-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Henley Business School, Room 201
Film, Theatre and Television Research Seminar series.
Dr Sarah Grochala

Department of Film, Theatre and Television Research Seminar - Dr Sarah Grochala
2019-05-16 16:00 - 18:00 | HBS 201
Department of Film, Theatre & Television Research Seminar – Dr Sarah Grochala
All staff and PGR students are welcome to attend.

The Politics of Form: Exploring the role different dramaturgies play in determining the political character of a play (Film Theatre and Television Seminar)
2019-05-16 16:00 - 18:00 | HBS 201
Within the context of British theatre, plays are generally considered political if they address current social and political issues within the content of their narrative. Little attention is paid to the political character of the dramaturgical forms that shape the play’s content. As Rebellato notes, there is a ‘puritan attitude’ within British theatre that ‘thinks form a distracting nuisance’ and privileges plays that provide audiences with a series of ‘pungently instructional points’ (Contemporary Theatre Review 18:4, p.530).
This seminar will look at the importance of considering a play’s form when determining the political character of a play. It will explore the role that different dramaturgies play in shaping a play’s politics, arguing that the dramatic structure can act as a prism though which to re-imagine the structures of everyday social reality.
These ideas will be explored through an analysis of Charlotte Jones’s Humble Boy (National Theatre, 2001) and Nick Payne’s Constellations (Royal Court, 2012); two plays that explore the ways in which advances in contemporary physics are reshaping our understanding of the nature of the universe. While both plays draw on the same source material, Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe, they articulate his ideas through very different dramaturgical forms and, in doing so, take on very different political characters.
Biography

Sarah Grochala is Senior Lecturer, Writing for Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she leads the MA/MFA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media. Her first monograph, The Contemporary Political Play (Bloomsbury, 2017), was shortlisted for the 2018 TaPRA Early Career Research Prize. In 2018, she was awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award for a project examining the lack of contemporary European drama in translation on British stages in the run up to Brexit. As a playwright, her plays include S-27 (Finborough Theatre 2009), which won the 2007 Amnesty International/iceandfire Protect the Human Playwriting Competition.

Making Architecture, Making Communities (Architecture Lecture Series) - Fiona Macdonald
2019-05-16 17:30 - 18:30 | London Road, Building LO22, Room G01, University of Reading, London Road campus, Reading, RG1 5AQ
A public lecture series encouraging conversation around architecture in communities around Reading.
Fiona Macdonald, Matt and Fiona
Admission free. No booking required.

Wolfenden Lecture: Our Trans Lives: Life, Love and Lorraine
2019-05-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Henley Business School, Room G11, Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Join Jake & Hannah Graf where they will discuss everything from their transgender lives through to Lorraine Kelly’s sofa!
In 2013 Hannah came out as a transgender woman and became the highest ranking transgender soldier within the British Army.
Jake Graf transitioned in 2008, and after a lifetime of searching for positive representations of trans people onscreen, Jake wrote, directed and starred in his first film ‘XWHY’.
Jake and Hannah met in December 2015, and knew from their first date that they had a future together. Balancing Hannah’s military postings with Jake’s London based film career, the pair have learnt to deeply value their time together, their relationship growing stronger as a result.
They got engaged in New York in September 2017, Jake proposing on Central Park Lake. A small, intimate wedding took place in London in March 2018, the couple surrounded by family and friends.
They are virtually inseparable: both patrons of the Mermaids charity, Hannah frequently working on Jake’s films and media requests for them as a couple now commonplace. The pair were listed at joint number 10 on this year’s Guardian Pride Power List and have become something of an inspiration to the international transgender community, seizing every opportunity to increase acceptance and understanding of the transgender experience.
Admission free. Booking advisable.

Letterforms and Layout: Designing factual books for children
2019-05-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL), Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX, United Kingdom
Professor Sue Walker, Professor of Typography at the University of Reading.

Botany Events - Fascination of Plants Day 2019
2019-05-18
Alongside fellow plant scientists across the globe, we will be opening our botanical doors to celebrate this year’s Fascination of Plants Day.
Find out more at readingbotany.net
Time and location TBA.

Using a new scattering approximation for ice aggregates to perform polarised radiative transfer simulations and compare to remote-sensing retrievals.​
2019-05-18 13:00 - 13:50 | Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, Room GU01, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH
Tuesday Seminar Programme – Meteorology Department
Karina McCusker

"Targeting and imaging G-quadruplex DNA with metal complexes" - Professor Ramon Villar, Imperial College London
2019-05-20
Chemistry Research Colloqium
“Targeting and imaging G-quadruplex DNA with metal complexes” – Professor Ramon Villar, Imperial College London

ORCiD Identifiers – What are they and why do I need one? (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-20 10:00 - 12:00
ORCID identifiers are being increasingly adopted by publishers and funders and there are already over 700 ORCID users at University of Reading. This session will help you understand why you need to create an ORCID identifier (ORCID iD) to establish your researcher identity and claim your research outputs. Find out how and when to use your ORCID ID in your professional scholarly activities. This is a 90 minute session, however the last 30 minutes will be reserved for you to create and populate an ORCID record with assistance from the trainer.

Northern Hemisphere monsoon response to mid‐Holocene orbital forcing and greenhouse gas‐induced global warming
2019-05-20 12:00 - 12:50 | GU01, Department of Meteorology
Monday Departmental Seminar Programme – Meteorology Department
Roberta D’Agostino
MPI Hamburg

That Gut Feeling: We Are Not Alone - Pint of Science
2019-05-20 19:30 - 21:30 | The Three Guineas – Firefly Cellar Rooms, Station Approach, Reading RG1 1LY
Pint of Science is a worldwide science festival that takes place 20-22 May and brings researchers to your local pub to present their scientific discoveries.
We have trillions of bacteria living in our bodies, together known as the microbiome. From birth, they play a vital role in keeping our bodies healthy, in protecting against pathogens and preventing diseases. They are greatly influenced by what we eat and here we will find out how to feed them and what it takes to keep them happy.

From Language Learning to Loss - Pint of Science
2019-05-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Walkabout Reading , Wiston Terrace, off Friar Street, Reading RG1 1DG
Pint of Science is a worldwide science festival that takes place 20-22 May and brings researchers to your local pub to present their scientific discoveries.
How can learning new languages train your brain? What can we learn about how language is processed when the brain is damaged? Christos will explain how bilingualism can reshape the brain, while Willemijn will talk about what happens when language is lost. If you want to learn about new research, discovering how the brain controls language, this is the talk for you. Suitable for all audiences- no science knowledge needed.
