Connecting Research

Research Impact (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-01-31 10:00 - 12:30 (Europe/London)
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
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.

The Practice of Educational Research - Prof. Alis Oancea, University of Oxford
2019-01-31 13:00 - 14:00 | London Road, Building LO24, Room G06, 4 Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5AQ, United Kingdom
Institute of Education – Research Programme.
Prof. Alis Oancea, University of Oxford
Refreshments Provided.

Reading 2050: Reading’s Climate Change Strategy
2019-01-31 18:00 - 19:00
Join Chris Beales from Reading Climate Change Partnership and Ben Burfoot of Reading Borough Council for a lecture: ‘Reading’s Climate Change Strategy’
The lecture is part of the ‘People and Lifestyle’ theme of the Reading 2050 lecture series, which provide a platform to discuss how Reading should evolve into a smarter and more sustainable city by 2050 (www.reading2050.co.uk )
Admission to the lecture is free.
The SBE, Barton Wilmore and Reading UK, established the Reading 2050 group in 2013. The Reading 2050 lecture series is structured around three themes, which underpin the Reading 2050 vision:
*Place and Environment
*People and Lifestyle
*Economy and Employment
In 2017, the School brought together expert speakers to discuss Reading’s heritage and history, the future of its transport and energy and the impact of climate change and floods. A discussion on Reading’s Art and Culture was facilitated earlier this year, and there are other Reading 2050 events planned for 2019.
https://livingreading.co.uk/publications-events

Chemistry Research Colloquium - Professor David Scanlon, UCL
2019-02-04 15:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Theatre G, Chemistry, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Research Colloquia.
Professor David Scanlon, UCL

School of Agriculture - Crops Research Seminars - Odinkemneme Ukwoma-Eke & Ahmed O Warsame
2019-02-05 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
School of Agriculture – Crops Research Seminar Series
Odinkemneme Ukwoma-Eke & Ahmed O Warsame

Introduction to the SciVAL Research Intelligence Tool (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-02-05 10:00 - 12:00
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
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.

Investigating archaeal cell surface structures by cryoEM
2019-02-05 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
School of Biological Sciences – Research Seminar Series.
Dr Bertram Daum – University of Exeter
Hosted by Prof Kim Watson

Politics & International Relations Seminar - David Marshall, University of Reading
2019-02-05 16:15 - 17:45 | Edith Morley, Room 406
School of Politics & International Relations Seminar Series.
David Marshall, University of Reading

MPE Wednesday - Adam Griffin (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
2019-02-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Slingo Lecture Theatre, JJ Thompson Building
Department of Mathematics and Statistics – MPE Wednesday.
Adam Griffin (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)

Have Locational Risks Been Priced in REITs Return?
2019-02-06 13:00 - 14:00
Real Estate & Planning Research Seminar Series
Dr Bing Zhu, University of Reading

Minerals in Milk (ionic calcium in milk - is to worth measuring... and other snippets)
2019-02-06 13:00 - 14:00 | CHEMLT1, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
Food and Nutritional Science Research Seminars.
Dr Mike Lewis
“Minerals in Milk (ionic calcium in milk – is to worth measuring… and other snippets)”

The Year of Intelligence: A History Lesson for Donald Trump
2019-02-06 16:30 - 18:00 | Edith Morley, Room 128, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
History Department Seminar Series

Dr Dafydd Townley, ‘The Year of Intelligence: A History Lesson for Donald Trump.’
All seminars are held on Wednesday from 4:30 to 6pm in Edith Morley, room 128. Refreshments are provided and all are welcome!

Typography Postgraduate Seminar - Yuchan Zhang
2019-02-07
Typography Postgraduate Seminars.
Yuchan Zhang
Chaired by AB/JLM

PGR Supervisors CPD focusing on Confirmation of Registration
2019-02-07 13:00 - 14:00 | London Road, Building LO24, Room G06, 4 Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5AQ, United Kingdom
Institute of Education – Research Programme.
Dr Holly Joseph and Dr Daisy Powell

Calling the Shots: Constructing Histories of Contemporary Women Filmmakers in the UK
2019-02-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Palmer Building, Room G05
Film, Theatre and Television Research Seminar series.
Dr Shelley Cobb and Prof. Linda Williams
Dr. Shelley Cobb is the Principle Investigator of Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 2000-2015. Shelley is an Associate Professor of Film at the University of Southampton. Her main areas of research and teaching expertise are in women and film (both production and representation), gender and popular culture, celebrity studies and adaptation. Her articles and chapters on women filmmakers, gender and contemporary Hollywood, film adaptation, and celebrity culture appear in a range of journals as well as edited collections. In 2015 she published her first monograph Adaptation, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (Palgrave Macmillan).
Prof. Linda Ruth Williams is the Co-Investigator of Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 2000-2015. Linda is Professor in Film Studies at Exeter University. She has written five books and edited or co-edited several others, including The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, Contemporary American Cinema (co-edited with Michael Hammond) and others. Linda Ruth Williams has always worked on gender and culture, and has a longstanding interest in representations of sexuality and the history of censorship and classification.

Leverhulme Trust Lecture: Early Holocene Lifeways in the Haidai Region of Northern China: New Discoveries and New Interpretations.
2019-02-07 18:00 - 19:00
China was one of the centres for the origin and initial dispersal of farming lifestyles, based on the domestication of rice, millets and pigs. Professor Guiyun Jin will present new discoveries and interpretations about the transition from hunter-gatherers to Neolithic farmers in the Haidai region of northern China. She will describe new excavations and sources of data, some of it unpublished, providing insights into how farming developed and ultimately led to the rise of social complexity in the later Neolithic and beyond – the character of which will form the subject of her second Leverhulme Lecture in June 2019.
The main lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Archaeology foyer, all who join us for the lecture are invited to stay for the reception.
Please RSVP to events@reading.ac.uk by 30 January 2019 along with any dietary or access requirements. We will then provide joining instructions for the event closer to the time.

Double Kinetic Resolution in the Enantioselective Synthesis of Tetrathiohelicenes
2019-02-11 15:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Theatre G, Chemistry, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Research Colloquia.
Dr Richard Stephenson, UEA

Discovering Hidden LGB Histories in berkshire Court Archives
2019-02-11 16:30 - 18:00 | Berkshire Record Office, 9 Coley Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 6AF, United Kingdom
As part of LGBT History Month, join us to hear University of Reading students Amy Hitchings and George Stokes discuss the findings of their summer 2018 UROP research. Learn about some previously forgotten lives, see some of the Victorian and Edwardian documents they used for research and enjoy tea and cake.

Effective Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) Communication: The Role of Information Design - Professor Sue Walker
2019-02-11 17:00 - 18:30 | Edith Morley, Room 124, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
nit

Feasibility of image analysis in protein content quantification
2019-02-12 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
School of Agriculture – Crops Research Seminar Series.
Matt Ordidge

Predicting how climate change will interact with land-use change to drive biodiversity change
2019-02-12 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
School of Biological Sciences – Research Seminar Series.
Dr Tim Newbold – University College London
Hosted by Dr Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez

Biofortification of wheat as a strategy to improve zinc status in Pakistan: the BIZIFED study
2019-02-12 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
School of Biological Sciences – Research Seminar Series.
Prof Nicola Lowe – The University of Central Lancashire
Hosted by Prof Simon Andrews

Researchfish (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-02-13 12:00 - 14:00
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
One to one surgery sessions will be available for research staff in using the Researchfish online outcomes reporting systems.

Economics External Seminar - Alice Goisis, London School of Economics
2019-02-13 12:15 - 13:30
Department of Economics External Seminar Series.
Alice Goisis, London School of Economics
Field: Family, ethnic/health inequalities

Improving Mortgage Default Collection Efforts by Employing the Decoy Effect
2019-02-13 13:00 - 14:00
Real Estate & Planning Research Seminar Series
Professor Michael Seiler, Raymond A. Mason School of Business

Listeria monocytogenes responses against oxidative stress & Development and characterisation of a processed meat product with health benefits
2019-02-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
Food and Nutritional Science Research Seminars.
Marcia Boura
“Listeria monocytogenes responses against oxidative stress”
Dr. Simona
“Development and characterisation of a processed meat product with health benefits”

The Changing Face of Climate Science
2019-02-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Slingo Lecture Theatre, JJ Thompson Building
The Changing Face of Climate Science
Wednesday 13th February, 14:00 – 14:45 – Slingo Lecture Theatre, JJThomson Building

The University of Reading is delighted to host this special event, celebrating the opening of the Slingo Lecture Theatre. This is in honour of Dame Julia Slingo DBE and Professor Anthony Slingo, both esteemed scientists and valued members of the University of Reading community. Dame Julia Slingo DBE will be talking about the evolution seen in Climate Science over the last 45 years followed by a Q&A chaired by Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Van de Noort.

Dame Julia served as Chief Scientist of the UK Met Office from 2009 until retirement where she led a team of more than 500 scientists, they worked on a broad portfolio of research. This research underpinned weather forecasting, climate predictions and climate change projections. Through her career, she has worked at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the University of Reading.
Amongst other awards, Dame Julia was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015 and Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2016. In her retirement, she has taken on a number of advisory roles, including Special Advisor on Science to the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organisation, and is now a member of the new National Environment Research Council under UK Research and Innovation.
Dame Julia has brought innovative approaches to understanding and modelling weather and climate. She has developed and used complex weather and climate models to deliver new insights into how the atmosphere and climate system works, as well as significant advances in predictive skill and climate services.
Admission free, booking advisable.
To book your place visit www.reading.ac.uk/events

Research Data Management Surgery (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-02-13 14:00 - 16:00
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

Applying for Funding - Prof. Adrian Bell
2019-02-13 15:00 - 16:30 | London Road, Building LO22, Room 108
Institute of Education – Research Programme.
Prof Adrian Bell, Research Dean of Prosperity and Resilience

Typography Postgraduate Seminar - Darryl Lim
2019-02-14
Typography Postgraduate Seminars.
Darryl Lim
Chaired by FR/RB
