Connecting Research

Scholarly Publishing: Requirements and Opportunities
2018-12-05 09:30 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | Berkshire
Researcher Development Programme- Communications Training Sessions
This session is intended for early career researchers or for those needing a general overview.
We provide practical information about maximizing the visibility of your research publications for the benefit of both you and the University.
Following the session you will be able to:

recognise the different types and benefits of open access
comply with key open access policies
know what to deposit in CentAUR
apply to the University’s fund to cover open access publishing costs
make informed choices about where to publish
make informed decisions about sharing networks
access key bibliometric tools and Altmetric
register for and populate an ORCiD (See also OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS POLICIES AND WHAT THESE MEAN FOR YOU for a shorter, focused course for researchers who need to comply with REF and funder open access policies. There is an overlap between the courses.)

To book your place on this session, please contact peopledevelopment@reading.ac.uk

Real Estate and Planning research seminar - Sea Level Rise and Residential Property Values: Evidence from Australia
2018-12-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Henley Business School, Room G14, United Kingdom
Speaker: Dr Franz Fuerst, University of Cambridge

The Legitimate Journey of Novelty
2018-12-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Henley Business School, Room G10, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH
Leaderships, Organisations and Behaviour Research Seminar
Speakers:
Professor Gino Cattani – New York University Stern School
Professor Simone Ferriani – Cass Business School
Lunch will be provided

RESCHEDULED: Silent movie prologues and Go West screening
2018-12-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Minghella Studios, Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
The performance of the Silent Movie Prologues from Brazil and the screening of Go West (Keaton, 1925) on Friday 7 December were cancelled because of the campus closure.
We’re pleased to announce that the performance and screening are rescheduled for Monday 10th December and we are waiving admission (and refunding those who had booked tickets for Friday).
We look forward to seeing you at the Minghella Studios. Doors open at 7pm.
Join us at the Minghella Studios for the staging of two silent movie prologues together with a screening of the films they were designed to accompany: Buster Keaton’s wonderful comedy feature Go West (US, 1925) and the surviving fragment of another extraordinary 1920s film, Beggar on Horseback (US, 1925).
The two prologues, “The Stylised Cowboy” and “Doing it the Pirandello Way…”, were originally created to accompany the presentation of the films in Rio de Janeiro, in 1926. They combine popular theatrical traditions, an interest in early 20th Century modernism and a carnivalesque approach to Hollywood movies. As part of the AHRC/FAPESP-funded IntermIdia project, they are restaged in the Minghella Studios by students on the part 3 module Ensemble Practice, who have also created other atmospheric experiences to set the scene for the evening. Doors open at 7pm.
You can read more about the project here.

Biological Sciences Seminars Series
2018-12-11 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
Biological Sciences Research Seminar Series – Autumn Term 2018
Dr Mary J. O’Connell – University of Leeds
‘On the malleability of proteins and the emergence of novel coding elements’
Hosted by Dr Louise Johnson

A Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Approach To Understanding Drug Mechanisms Of Action
2018-12-11 13:00 - 14:00 | M212, WhiteKnights, Reading, RG6 6AX, United Kingdom
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar Series – Autumn 2018
Mathematical Biology Group Meeting
Emily Roashan- University of Reading
For further information on this seminar, please email; maths@reading.ac.uk or telephone; 0118 378 8996

MACE Film Festival Screenings 2018
2018-12-12 11:00 - 13:00 | Minghella Building, Minghella Cinema, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Invitation to the MACE Film Festival
Festival of Films
Produced by MA Creative Enterprise students – Pathway Film
For further information contact Professor Lucia Nagib via email; l.nagib@reading.ac.uk or telephone; 0118 378 4084

Real Estate and Planning research seminar - From a Property Tax to a Land Tax – Who Wins, Who Loses
2018-12-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Henley Business School, Room G15, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Speaker: Professor Pete Wyatt, University of Reading

Children's Christmas Lecture: Danger! High Voltage
2018-12-17 16:30 - 17:30 | Palmer Building, Room G10, Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
The University of Reading will be hosting it’s annual Children’s Christmas Lecture at the Whitenights Campus.
Explore the wonders of neuroscience and the power of our own body’s electricity. The lecture will delve into how we can record this electricity, what it means and how we can harness it for amazing things.
Admission free. Booking essential.
Suitable for children 7-12 years.
To book your place visit www.reading.ac.uk/events

Research Impact (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2018-12-18 10:00 - 12:30 | Berkshire
Researcher Development Programme – Communications Training Sessions
This session is aimed at all research staff within all disciplines. It will introduce the topic of Research Impact, the good that our research has on the world outside academia, and outline its importance and the steps that can be taken to achieve it. The Research Impact Team will work with you to understand the impact that your research could have, the stakeholders that would be interested in your work (including organisations, policy makers and the general public) and how to approach them and finally how to plan to gather evidence to support impact claims. Pathways to Impact (part of RCUK grant applications) will also be covered. This session will be tailored to suit academics with developed, developing or potential research impact.
To book your place on this session, please contact peopledevelopment@reading.ac.uk

RSC Bourke Award Lecture: Spectroscopy and dynamics of free radicals, metal oxide clusters, and transition states
2019-01-14 03:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Theatre G, Chemistry, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Research Colloquia.
Professor Daniel Neumark, Berkeley

"Apple dormancy break in the context of climate change" and "Automatic Irrigation System for Drought Stress in Rice"
2019-01-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
School of Agriculture – Crops Research Seminar Series
Carlota & Hayder

What really happened at COP24?
2019-01-16 12:30 - 14:00 | 1L06, Agriculture building, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BZ
Join the Walker Institute for its annual post-COP debrief. The team that travelled out to the COP24 conference in Katowice, Poland, will be speaking along with:
Prof Nigel Arnell – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Lead Author
Peter Gibbs – Ex BBC Weather Forecaster
SCENARIO DTP Students
The event promises to be an interesting and lively debate about what really happened in Katowice.

Economics External Seminar - Sasha Talavera, Swansea University
2019-01-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Chancellor’s Building, Room G14
Department of Economics External Seminar Series.
Sasha Talavera, Swansea University
Field: Big data, online prices

Nudging Towards a Better Financial Future: Applying Behavioural Insights in the Development of Financial Systems in Rural China
2019-01-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Henley Business School, Room G14, United Kingdom
Real Estate & Planning Research Seminar Series
Dr Helen Xiaohui Bao, University of Cambridge

Research Data Management Surgery (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-01-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Berkshire
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
You can book a one-to-one session with the Research Data Manager for advice and practical assistance in managing research data. Book sessions for help with all aspects of research data management, including: grant applications – preparing data management plans and costing requirements; managing and storing data during a project; preserving and sharing data from completed projects, and using the University’s Research Data Archive for this purpose.
14.00 – 14.30, 14.30 – 15.00, 15.00 – 15.30, 15.30 – 16.00

Typography Postgraduate Seminar - Karen Di Franco
2019-01-17 | Berkshire
Typography Postgraduate Seminars.
Karen Di Franco
Chaired by REB/SW

Wabi Sabi Leadership: New Lessons from Old Japan
2019-01-17 | Berkshire
Henley Business School – Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour research seminars.
Dr Dorota Bourne

An introduction to Bayesian approximations in deep learning and their application to adversarial detection
2019-01-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Berkshire
Department of Mathematics and Statistics – Postgraduate Seminars series.
Thomas Pinder (PhD Student, Lancaster University)

A presentation by Dr Rowena Kasprowicz & A presentation by Mrs Rachel Roberts: “Critical Conversations: the role of evaluative language in mentor meetings in Initial Teaching Training”
2019-01-17 13:00 - 14:00 | London Road, Building LO24, Room G06, 4 Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5AQ, United Kingdom
Institute of Education – Research Programme.
A presentation by Dr Rowena Kasprowicz, Lecturer in Second Language Education.
Mrs Rachel Roberts – “Critical Conversations: the role of evaluative language in mentor meetings in Initial Teaching Training”

Workshop on Storage Challenges in the UK
2019-01-20 09:30 - 17:00 | Polly Vacher Building, Room 185
The Special Interest Group of High-Performance I/O in the UK (SIG IO UK) organizes this workshop to bring together: users of data-intensive workloads, storage vendors, and system and middleware developers, in order to identify common challenges, to develop strategies for research and funding but also product development.
The workshop series generally covers all aspects of data access and management including I/O workflow handling, parallel file systems, middleware, tuning, performance monitoring, novel interfaces, storage technology, and data center perspectives. The workshop is primarily organized as a series of talks and group discussion slots.
This particular workshop focuses on exchanging information about challenges and the ongoing efforts to overcome them aiming to bring forward RD&E and the use of storage systems (in the UK). Users present their challenges faced dealing with I/O and ongoing RD&E to overcome them. Vendor talks focus on technical solutions for certain challenges accompanied by use cases demonstrating the benefit.
We welcome the submission of talks and short papers (in LaTeX article format) that summarize the challenges and ongoing effort in different institutions that we will lead to a joint paper submitted to Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science as part of the ISC-HPC proceedings.
Jean-Thomas Acquaviva successively worked for Intel, the University of Versailles and the French Atomic Commission (CEA). He participated to the creation of their joint laboratory the Exascale Research Centre, where he led the Performance Evaluation Team. Today he’s actively contributing the development of the DDN Storage Advanced Technology Centre in France. Jean-Thomas has hands-on experience in the HPC ecosystem, with positions in start-up, large research public institutions, SME or global organizations. He has been a direct contributor to the ETP4PH Strategic Research Agenda and he’s chairing two conferences on high performance storage.
Julian Kunkel is a Lecturer at the Computer Science Department at the University of Reading. He manages several research projects revolving around High-Performance Computing and particularly high-performance storage. Besides his main goal to provide efficient and performance-portable I/O, his HPC-related interests are: data reduction techniques, performance analysis of parallel applications and parallel I/O, management of cluster systems, cost-efficiency considerations, and software engineering of scientific software.
Hosted by Julian Kunkel.

Introduction to Bibliometrics (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-01-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Berkshire
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
Bibliometric data are increasingly used in research assessment exercises and in recruitment decisions but they can also give you insights into how your research is being used by others and help you to make informed journal choices. This session will introduce some commonly used bibliometrics and explain how they are calculated and what they mean. The issues behind the responsible use of metrics will also be explored. A hands-on section of the session will use tools such as Scopus, SciVal, Google Scholar and InCites to explore bibliometric data sources. This is a 90 minute session however the last 30 minutes will be allocated for hands on tasks.

Managing your Digital Researcher Identity (1-1 Session) (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-01-21 13:00 - 14:45 | Berkshire
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
Tracking the impact and reach of your research outputs is much easier if you have a consistent digital identity. Give your digital identity a health check by looking at your Google Scholar, ResearcherID, Scopus Author ID and ORCiD profiles. In this one-to one session you can check which researcher identifiers you already have, which ones you might need and ensure that your research outputs are correctly attributed to you. This session can include: setting up and/or checking your Google Scholar account; setting up and/or checking your ResearcherID, Scopus Author ID, ORCiD ID; checking that your publications are correctly attributed to you in bibliographic databases.
13.00 – 13.45, 14.00 – 14.45

RSC Bader Award Lecture: New Strategies for the Synthesis of Boronic Acid Derivatives
2019-01-21 15:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Theatre G, Chemistry, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Research Colloquia.
Professor Joseph Harrity, University of Sheffield

The Cocoa Research Centre: Supporting the cocoa sector through management of genetic resources and research
2019-01-22 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
School of Agriculture – Crops Research Seminar Series
David Gopaulchan

Tasting and appetite studies trial - tasting volunteers needed
2019-01-22 08:00 - 2019-01-31 17:00 | Berkshire
We are looking for THREE volunteers who are willing to take part in tasting and appetite studies, varying in time from 1 hour to 4 hours, on several visits.
You will be reimbursed for your time

Requirements:

18-70 years of age
Healthy, non-smokers
Not allergic / intolerant to dairy products or gluten
Not a staff member or student in Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Willing to give blood, urine and saliva samples

If you are Interested in taking part in this study please contact Sherrie at supertaster@reading.ac.uk

Using grass taxonomy to understand ancient Madagascar
2019-01-22 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
School of Biological Sciences – Research Seminar Series.
Prof Jules Griffin – University of Cambridge
Hosted by Prof Kim Watson

Researchfish (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-01-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Berkshire
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
One to one surgery sessions will be available for research staff in using the Researchfish online outcomes reporting systems.

Hybrid Warfare and Cyber Enhanced Lawfare
2019-01-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Foxhill House, Room G04
Ghandhi Research Seminar Series.
Dr Sascha-Dominik Bachmann
Bournemouth University
Chair: Matthew Windsor

MPE Wednesday - Benedetta Ferrario (Pavia University)
2019-01-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Slingo Lecture Theatre, JJ Thompson Building
Department of Mathematics and Statistics – MPE Wednesday.
Benedetta Ferrario (Pavia University)
