Bank Insolvencies in Developing Economies: A Closer Perspective on the EMEA Region
2019-04-05 09:30 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | University of Reading, RG6 6UR
The Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation and Lancaster University Law School are hosting this free one day conference at the University of Reading. The conference is proudly supported by Stephenson Harwood LLP.
The conference will generate discussions on the recent regulatory package to finalise and reform Basel III (Basel IV). In addition, the conference touches on wider issues connected to bank insolvencies, including the role of insolvency law and banking regulation in safeguarding the financial stability of banks.
Speakers will include:
– Dr. Ravel Jabbour, Credit Suisse – The Fragmentation of International Banking Regulation
– Dr. Abiodun Layonu, Senior Advocate of Nigeria – Proactive Distress Resolution and Bank Insolvency in Emerging Markets
– Dr. Horace Yeung and Saleh Al-Barashdi, University of Leicester and Sultan Qaboos University, Oman – Institutional Development of the Dubai International Finance Centre and the Qatar Financial Centre: The Insolvency Law Framework
– Deji Olatoye, International Finance Corporation – When Death Catches the Hunter: Towards a Systematised Approach to Bank Bailout
– Dr. Hamiisi Junior Nsubuga, Middlesex University London – Bank Insolvencies in Developing Economies: The Collapse of Crane Bank (Uganda) and its impact on Uganda’s Insolvency Laws – Designing an Efficient Insolvency Model
– Ms. Sofia Ellina, Lancaster University – The Reformed Insolvency Regime in Cyprus After The Banking Crisis of 2013: The Viewpoint of Banks Towards Rescue Procedures.
We will be joined by four other expert speakers on issues affecting European, African and cross-border markets. We are also delighted to be joined by Professor Andrew Campbell (Emeritus Professor of International Banking & Finance Law, University of Leeds), who will be chairing one of the sessions.
The conference is open to academics, legal and insolvency practitioners, policymakers, and members of the international banking community.

School of Agriculture - Crops Research Seminars: Anthony Isadeha
2019-04-09 | Agriculture Building, Room 1U02
School of Agriculture – Crops Research Seminar Series.
Anthony Isadeha

Introduction to Altmetric Explorer (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-04-11 10:00 - 12:00
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
Altmetric Explorer helps track mentions to research outputs from Twitter, Facebook, news outlets, Wikipedia, Mendeley and lots of other ‘alternative’ sources. This hands-on session will show you how to use the tool to investigate and analyse the reach and impact of your research. You will find out about the background and rationale for altmetrics, understand how to interpret the Altmetric ‘donut’, know how to track media attention to research publications, find out who is saving your publications in Mendeley, and discover how you could use Altmetric data in grant applications, CVs, and impact statements.

'Mother-F*ers of Invention: Women in Geriaction' - by the University of Tennessee's Chris Holmlund, Leverhulme Visiting Professor
2019-04-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Reading Film Theatre, PO BOX 217 Palmer Building, Whiteknights, Berkshire, RG6 2AH
“Geriaction” originally referred to the question of how to keep elderly, largely female, patients in nursing homes active. In the last decade it has been applied to aging stars in action films. Suddenly the gender emphasis shifted. These days popular and academic critics talk about white male stars from the 1980s who continue to appear in action, now aged 60-, 70-, and 80-plus.
Comparatively little attention has been paid to women in geriaction movies, though increasing numbers of older female actors are working part-time, largely in supporting roles, in English-language action. To think geriaction in relation to women and to performance, I look at two actresses who are among the most beloved and influential mother-f*ers of action invention: Pam Grier and Sigourney Weaver. Born in 1949, both turn 70 this year. Both continue to work in action-related movies, though Grier no longer stars in them and Weaver rarely does. How do age, race and reputation impact casting and influence reception? When women appear in geriaction, is physical strength necessary or might know-how and skill, spirit and spunk, compensate for decreased agility and wider waistlines? Do older female characters achieve mastery? What kind of mastery, if so?
How we treat aging and the elderly is culturally conditioned. Geriaction films play a part. What might the performances that bad asses like Pam Grier and Sigourney Weaver have given over the past two decades suggest for the future?
Chris Holmlund has long been interested in action film, stardom and performance. Her books include Female Trouble (2017) and Impossible Bodies (2002). She edited The Ultimate Stallone Reader (2014) and American Cinema of the 1990s (2008) and co-edited Contemporary American Independent Film (2005) and Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary (1997). She is working on a book on Action Films, Action Stars for Routledge. She is currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Reading.

School of Agriculture - Crops Seminars: Carrie Twitchens
2019-04-16 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
School of Agriculture – Crops Seminar Series.
Carrie Twitchen

Salt tolerance and effect of seed priming on the physiological mechanisms, yield and grain nutritional quality of rice (Oryza sativa L.) accessions
2019-04-23
School of Agriculture – Crops Research Seminar Series.
Julián Mateus Rodriguez & Celsa M Macandza

Communicating your Research: Five Simple Ideas (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-04-23 13:30 - 16:00
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
This session will get you thinking about communicating your research using different channels to engage with a range of audiences, including other academics, policymakers and practitioners. Led by the new Research Communications and Engagement Team, this will be an opportunity to work with experienced communication specialists on effective ways to communicate your research. This is an increasingly important part of being a successful academic, and will be useful for researchers at all stages of their career.

ICMA Research Seminars - Chen Chen, Monash University
2019-04-24 13:00 - 14:00 | ICMA G09, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BA, United Kingdom
ICMA Research Seminars – Chen Chen, Monash University

Using Social Media to Communicate and Enhance your Research (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-04-24 13:30 - 16:00
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
This is aimed at all interested researchers. Social media has fast established itself as not only a tool to broadcast information, but also as a platform for discussion and debate. This session is an introduction to using social media tools to communicate your research effectively. We’ll look at some strategies of how you can get started and manage your social media presence; ways different platforms are used and provide some real life examples of how other researchers have used social media. Finally, we’ll explore how you can start to measure the success, or otherwise, of your social media efforts.

Understanding Modern Spain
2019-04-24 16:30 - 18:00 | Edith Morley, Room 128, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
History Department Seminar Series

Professor Paul Preston (LSE) and Professor Mary Vincent (Sheffield) – Understanding Modern Spain
All seminars are held on Wednesday from 4:30 to 6pm in Edith Morley, room 128. Refreshments are provided and all are welcome!

Smart City Cluster in the Thames Valley – How can smart city thinking make a difference in Reading and other parts of the Thames Valley?
2019-04-25 18:00 - 19:00 | London Road, Building LO22, Room G01, University of Reading, London Road campus, Reading, RG1 5AQ
Rob McDonald, Director of Smart Infrastructure at Peter Brett Associates will deliver the next Reading 2050 lecture. Here he outlines the main themes of his presentation.
We are living through a time of unprecedented change both in terms of the rate of change in technology but also in the challenges we face. Council budgets are under increasing financial pressure to deliver their core services with worse to come with an aging population and Reading is no exception. At the same time climate has come to the fore and Reading has joined a large number of authorities across the UK in declaring a climate emergency with the aim to be carbon neutral by 2030, a challenge of a scale which should not be underestimated.
A smart city approach to thinking needs to be at the core of our response to these challenges, tackling our big challenges from a wide range of perspectives, breaking down the silos between specialisms and better engaging with the people who live, shop and work in our town. Whilst there in an inference that smart cities are all about the technology, the optimum solution may not be technology led.

Reading Borough Council is the lead authority for the Thames Valley Berkshire, Smart City Cluster project which is acting as a catalyst to accelerate smart city thinking, building on existing cross authority and cross sector working within the authorities. It is a £1.73m internet of things (IoT) based project funded by Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). This lecture will set out how the project has formed in the way that it has, balancing the need of the authorities with available funding opportunities. It will set out where we are, give an overview of the first round of challenges issued to industry and the next steps with the project.
Rob is a Director of Smart Infrastructure at Peter Brett Associates, now part of Stantec. He has over 25 years of experience in transport planning and ITS with a key focus on research, innovation and knowledge sharing through UK and European funding. In recent years Rob had developed his focus from intelligent transport systems to a wider smart cities approach, recognising the need to break out of individual siloes to deliver the places that we want to live in in the future. Rob secured funding and is now leading a LEP funded Smart City Cluster project in Berkshire that will be calling on industry, in the first instance, to address challenges around Council services for vulnerable people. Rob is also a keen advocate of embracing disruptive technology changes that will influence the way we travel and is working with his new colleagues in Stantec to bring in their leading-edge experience such as in shared autonomous vehicles.
The lecture is part of the ‘Economy and Employment’ 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 in 2018, and there are other Reading 2050 events planned for 2019.
https://livingreading.co.uk/publications-events

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.

Writing a Data Management Plan (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-01 10:00 - 12:00
Many public funders of research require applicants to submit a data management plan (DMP) or Technical Plan as part of their application, detailing what data will be collected in the proposed project, how data will be managed, and how and where data will be preserved and made available to others after the project concludes. Whether a funder requires it or not, if you use data in your research, you should have a DMP for your project. Writing a DMP can help you plan and execute research effectively, curate data for maximum utility, identify and manage risks, and ensure resource needs are appropriately costed.
This 2-hour course will offer practical guidance on developing an effective DMP, and how to make best use of a DMP in your day-to-day research. Information about data management planning tools and resources to help you will be provided.

Research Impact (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-01 10:00 - 12:30
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.

Defence and Security Community of Practice: Industry Engagement Seminar
2019-05-01 10:30 - 13:30 | LO33 London Road Campus, Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX, United Kingdom
The University of Reading has a long-standing relationship with the Defence and Security Sector. Most recently, we were chosen to provide degree level education to army officers as part of the Army Higher Education Pathway, led by Henley Business School and the School of Politics, Economics, and International Relations; and on 1 April renewed our Memorandum of Understanding and partnership with the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. These existing relationships, and the sizeable network of possible partners in the Thames Valley, offer a unique opportunity to bring together researchers from all relevant disciplines and key stakeholders in the defence and security sector to network and build a Defence and Security Community of Practice, and to identify key challenges for research and innovation, and possible collaborative responses to them.
Join us for a seminar with representatives from four companies based in the Thames Valley to explore the challenges currently facing the Defence & Security sectors which artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data could potentially solve, followed by an informal networking lunch.
Speakers include:

Jonathan Read of Boeing’s Phantom Works International.
Darrell Jaya-Ratnam of DIEM Analytics.
Helen Muncie of Thales Cyber & Consulting Services.
Dick Hemsley of Vedette Consulting.

At the seminar, we will explore some defence and security challenges, explore some research approaches to meet these, from both an industrial and academic perspective.
If you are interested in attending this workshop then please email: workingwithbusiness@reading.ac.uk

ICMA Research Seminars - Keloharju Matti, Aalto University
2019-05-01 13:00 - 14:00 | 150 – LLT ICMA Centre
ICMA Research Seminars – Keloharju Matti, Aalto University

Writing for Non-Academic Audiences (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-01 13:30 - 16:00
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
Writing for public audiences can be incredibly rewarding and enriching. This workshop will explore what’s interesting for your intended audience and what to include. We will give you some top tips on structure, writing style and how to keep your audience’s attention. There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion and a couple of practical exercises.

An ethnographic study of culture in a post-acquisition institutional context in the U.K.: MacIntyrean practice struggling for survival
2019-05-02 | 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 Kleio Akrivou and Dr Yemisi Bolade Ogunfodun

PGR Student Presentations - Institute of Education Research Programme
2019-05-02 13:00 - 14:00 | L24, G06
Chuyi Wang followed by Mohammed Khalid Alduailej

Engaging with Policymakers (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-02 13:30 - 16:00
Research Staff Development Opportunities.
At some point in their career, many researchers will be asked to provide advice to policymakers in government, the public sector or the private sector. In this session, we will discuss some of the different ways that researchers can engage with Westminster and with Whitehall. We will look at how policymakers access information to help them make decisions and explore some of the different routes that researchers can use to engage in parliamentary processes. We will also discuss how to write an impartial summary of your research and situate your work in a wider policy context. We will work with practical examples with plenty of time for discussion.

Making Architecture, Making Communities (Architecture Lecture Series) - Roz Barr
2019-05-02 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.
Roz Barr, Roz Barr Architects
Admission free. No booking required.

School of Agriculture - Crops Research Seminars: He Joe & Sophia Bellamy
2019-05-07 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
School of Agriculture – Crops Research Seminar Series.
He Joe & Sophia Bellamy

The challenge to predict rainfall in West Africa
2019-05-07 12:00 - 12:50 | Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, Room GU01, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH
Monday Departmental Seminar Programme – Meteorology Department
Andreas Fink
Karlsruhe Institute of Technolo

Stakeholder Mapping for Research Staff (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-07 13:30 - 16:00
Understanding your key stakeholders and what they want from your research is a fundamental part of any successful communications or engagement plan. This session will introduce some simple tools to help you identify and prioritise potential stakeholders and to decide how best to work with them. We will use case studies from research teams across the University and live examples from participants to show how understanding your audiences can help you to improve your research and its impact. Led by the Research Communications and Engagement team.
This is a new session that is currently being developed. Please reserve the date and time if you think this may be of interest to you, as it is not yet available to book via Employee Self Service.

Researchfish (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-08 12:00 - 14:00
One to one surgery sessions will be available for research staff in using the Researchfish online outcomes reporting systems.

CentAUR and Open Access Surgery (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-08 12:00 - 14:45
This session is intended for researchers and those supporting them.
We can help you with queries about the open access policies that you must comply with, the gold and green options available to you and the processes to follow. We can also answer a wide range of questions about CentAUR (our institutional repository), or provide an overview of CentAUR for new users.
(See also SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING – REQUIREMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES for those needing a general overview and OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS POLICIES AND WHAT THESE MEAN FOR YOU for researchers who need to comply with REF and funder open access policies. There is some overlap between these two courses.)
12.00 – 12.45, 13.00 – 13.45, 14.00 – 14.45

Ghandhi Research Seminar - Professor Dino Kritsiotis, University of Nottingham
2019-05-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Foxhill House, Room G04
Ghandhi Research Seminar Series.
Professor Dino Kritsiotis
University of Nottingham
Chair: Professor James A. Green

ICMA Research Seminars - Raphael Markellos, University of East Anglia
2019-05-08 13:00 - 14:00 | ICMA G09, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BA, United Kingdom
ICMA Research Seminars – Raphael Markellos, University of East Anglia

Introduction to Bibliometrics (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-09 10:00 - 12:00
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.

Dr Emmanouil Karteris, Brunel University London - School of Pharmacy Research and Scholarship Seminars 2019
2019-05-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Hopkins Building, Room 101, University of Reading, Reading, RG1 6UR, United Kingdom
Dr Emmanouil Karteris, Brunel University London – School of Pharmacy Research and Scholarship Seminars 2019
