Research Data Management: An Introduction (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2019-05-15 10:00 (Europe/London)
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.

Chemistry in Action - Pint of Science
2019-05-20 19:30 - 21:30 | The Outlook, 76-78A Kings Road, Reading RG1 3BJ
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.
Science is evolving – fast! Come along to find out how advances in scientific technologies, some of which were conceived right here in Reading, have revolutionalised our world so far. The ultimate goal is to use clever chemistry to build a more sustainable future for us all to live in; we challenge you to get involved.

How Did I Get Here? - Pint of Science
2019-05-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Smoking Billy’s, 61 St Mary’s Butts, Reading RG1 2LG
It’s a simple question, but to answer it properly we need to look back, way back. Back through the fascinating history of our species, back through the entire evolutionary history of life on earth, back to the formation of our planet and the solar system and back still to the dawn of time itself. So join us as we look at the complicated answers to the simple question ‘How did I get here?’
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.

Nancy Astor Exhibition at the University of Reading Library
2019-05-21 08:00 - 2019-05-28 17:00
A small, free, public exhibition celebrating Nancy Astor, the first female member of parliament in the UK to take her seat, is now on display on the University Library building’s ground floor. Kindly funded by the Friends of the University, this exhibition reflects the work on Nancy Astor that Dr Jacqui Turner curated for Parliament’s Vote100 ‘Voice and Vote Exhibition’ in Westminster Hall in 2018 celebrating the centenary of the first women to gain the vote in 1918.
Find out more at: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/librarynews/2019/05/nancy-astor-exhibition-at-uor-library/

Testing historical reconstructions of global sea surface temperature using early satellite data​
2019-05-21 13:00 - 13:50 | Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, Room GU01, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH
Tuesday Seminar Programme – Meteorology Department
Thomas Hall

Macrophage inflammation and imaging atherosclerotic plaques (School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series)
2019-05-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
Dr Steven Gieseg, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Fairbrother Lecture: Women's Voices: From Slavery to the #MeToo Movement
2019-05-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Henley Business School, Room G11, Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Graduate School Annual Fairbrother Lecture, presented by Elizabeth Barnes (History)
In October 2017 following sexual abuse allegations against the film producer Harvey Weinstein, the viral spread of the #MeToo hashtag on social media sparked an unprecedented global wave of women disclosing their own experiences of sexual assault and harassment.
Within a 24 hour period the #MeToo hashtag was tweeted more than 500,000 times and featured in 12 million Facebook posts. For many, this represented a watershed moment of social progress. But what lessons does history hold for the #MeToo movement?
The end of the American Civil War offered emancipated African Americans equal protection under the law for the first time – including granting black women the right to bring rape charges against white men. Similarly to #MeToo, the period saw an escalation of disclosures of sexual violence, with black women seizing upon the opportunity to redefine their past abusive relationships with white men.
Join Elizabeth Barnes as she recounts her research journey through the history of this wave of revelations and explores how the pattern of progress followed by sustained backlash continues to be felt today.
Please note, this event is not suitable for children. Admission is free. Booking is required.

The Heroes and Villains in our Veins - Pint of Science
2019-05-21 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.
What are the components that flow through our vessels? What causes the risk of cardiovascular disease? Why is snake venom so dangerous when it gets into our blood? Our speakers will look at some of these questions, talking about this complex system and how it comes under attack from ‘villains’. We will see how all the components work together to save the day.

Brain Cells and Worms v. Dementia and Parkinson's! - Pint of Science
2019-05-21 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 brain cells are lost in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s is a real puzzle, being tackled by many scientists in lots of different ways. In these talks, Selina will explain how we can better understand dementia, through growing brains cells in the lab, while Rachael will talk about what we can learn about brain cell loss in Parkinson’s, from genetically engineered, microscopic worms. Suitable for all audiences- no science knowledge needed.
