Connecting Research

Institute of Education Research: Democracy and the Early Years (Dr Diana Sous)
2019-11-21 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | L24, G06
Institute of Education Research Programme
Democracy and the Early Years
Dr Diana Sous

The Hamlyn Lecture: The Age of Common Law and the Age of Statute
2019-11-21 18:00 | Palmer Building, Room 109, Palmer Building room 109, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH, United Kingdom
The Hamlyn Lecture will be delivered by Professor Sir John Baker (St Catherine’s College Cambridge) on the subject of the history of English Law. It will be followed by a wine reception.
Admission free.

Digital Humanities and Print Culture workshop
2019-11-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Edith Morley, Room 128, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Led by Pip Wilcox Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
With colleagues’ sharing current practice from across the Centre.
A Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing Event

Ninth Annual Percy Ure Lecture: Reconceiving the Greek Renaissance
2019-11-22 17:00 | Edith Morley Building, Van Emden Lecture Theatre, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
The Percy Ure Lecture is an annual academic highlight in the Department of Classics. This year’s lecture, the ninth in the series, will be delivered by Professor Lin Foxhall, MBE (Hon.), FSA, the Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.
This lecture will investigate how scholars have built narratives of the birth of the polis (city-state) from the available textual, archaeological and landscape evidence and how the process of constructing them has continued to change.
Admission free. Booking advisable.

Morley Distinguished Lecture: The Beauty of Fractals (Gwyneth Stallard, OBE)
2019-11-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Slingo Lecture Theatre, JJ Thompson Building
Morley Distinguished Lecture
The Beauty of Fractals
Gwyneth Stallard, OBE, Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University

Meteorology External Seminar: Overturning the deep circulation of the ocean?
2019-11-25 12:00 - 12:50 | Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, Room GU01, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH
Meteorology External Seminar
Overturning the deep circulation of the ocean?

Chemistry Seminar: TBC (Dr Philip Dyer, Durham University)
2019-11-25 15:30 - 16:30 | Chemistry LTG, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Seminar
TBC
Dr Philip Dyer, Durham University

School of Biological Sciences Seminar: Dr Felino Cagampang - University of Southampton
2019-11-26 13:00 - 13:50 | Chemistry LTG, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
School of Biological Sciences Seminar
Title TBC
Dr Felino Cagampang – University of Southampton
Hosted by Dr Dyan Sellayah

ICMA Research Seminar: George Wang, Lancaster University
2019-11-27 08:00 - 17:00 | ICMA G09, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BA, United Kingdom
ICMA Research Seminar
George Wang, Lancaster University

Economics External Seminar: Climent Quintana-Domeque
2019-11-27 12:15 - 13:30 | Edith Morley, Room 406
Economics External Seminar
Climent Quintana-Domeque

Engaging audiences online: Is it an art and a science?
2019-11-27 12:30 - 14:00 | Palmer Building, Room 106
Public Engagement with Research network
Join us for an informal gathering of like minds as we explore the myriad of ways we can engage people online and discuss what works and how we can stay ahead of the curve as audiences preferences change.
Speakers include Vince Trakulphadetkrai (Institute of Education), Tim Watkins (Social Media Manager, MCE), Erinma Ochu (WT digital society fellow working with Dr Hilary Geoghegan on NERC Engaging Environments project) and Amy Smith (Ure Museum, Classics)
Tea and coffee provided
Themes for future meetings will include working with children and young people, and co-creating research.
Email c.e.cross@reading.ac.uk if you have an idea for a discussion topic or if you’d like to speak about your own activities.
Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested and join the PER network list here.

Soil Biogeochemistry Group Seminar: The influence of mycorrhizal symbioses on soil carbon cycling processes under cadmium stress
2019-11-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
Soil Biogeochemistry Group Seminar
The influence of mycorrhizal symbioses on soil carbon cycling processes under cadmium stress
Gilka Da Silva

Real Estate & Planning Research Seminar: Professor Jonathan Metzger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2019-11-27 13:00 - 14:00
Real Estate & Planning Research Seminar
Professor Jonathan Metzger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Doing Business Better: Should Reading Firms Have a Social Purpose?
2019-11-27 19:30 | Palmer Building, Room G10, Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
University Public Lecture
Business delivers society’s wants and needs: from goods and services, to wealth creation and employment. But businesses also enjoy a range of benefits from society: access to an educated workforce; reliable transport links; and the protections of the legal system.
This lecture will explore the nature of this complex relationship between business and society from the perspective of what is called ‘social contract theory’ in philosophy.
Using evidence from her own research, Professor Emma Borg will ask what a ‘social purpose’ is, and whether companies should specify and fulfil such a purpose to earn their place in society.
She will explain how ethical business behaviour can result in happier, healthier and more productive employees, greater loyalty from customers and suppliers and ultimately boost a company’s bottom line.
Emma Borg is a Professor of Philosophy and leads the University of Reading’s Centre for Cognition Research. She specialises in the philosophy of language and the mind, and the study of the relationship between business and society.
Admission free. Booking advisable.

MERL: Poultry Mania Past and Present
2019-11-28 10:00 - 17:00 | Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL), Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX, United Kingdom
Museum of English Rural Life
Poultry Mania Past and Present

Institute of Education Research: PGR Presentations – Meilun Yan followed by Zeynep Bütün
2019-11-28 13:00 - 14:00 | L24, G06
Institute of Education Research Programme
PGR Presentations – Meilun Yan followed by Zeynep Bütün

Meteorology External Seminar: Climate extremes at 1.5°C vs 2°C of global warming: The role of land processes
2019-12-02 12:00 - 12:50 | Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, Room GU01, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH
Meteorology External Seminar
Climate extremes at 1.5°C vs 2°C of global warming: The role of land processes
Sonia Seneviratne
ETH Zurich

School of Biological Sciences Seminar: TBC
2019-12-03 13:00 - 13:50 | Chemistry LTG, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
School of Biological Sciences Seminar
TBC

Books by Mail: Britain’s first celebrity book club
2019-12-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Palmer Building, Room G06
Dr Nicola Wilson, Department of English Literature
A Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing Event

ICMA Research Seminar: Carol Padgett
2019-12-04 08:00 - 17:00 | ICMA G09, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BA, United Kingdom
ICMA Research Seminar
Carol Padgett

CCLFR Research Seminar: Securitisation and Capital Markets Union
2019-12-04 11:00 - 13:00 | Chancellor’s Building, G13
CCLFR Research Seminar
Securitisation and Capital Markets Union
Dr Vincenzo Bavoso, Senior lecturer, University of Manchester, School of Law
Chair: Dr Andrea Miglionico

Economics External Seminar: Sandra McNally
2019-12-04 12:15 - 13:30 | Edith Morley, Room 406
Economics External Seminar
Sandra McNally

Soil Biogeochemistry Group Seminar: The effect of a flooding event on the mobility of potentially toxic elements from the Loddon floodplain
2019-12-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 102A, Russel Building
Soil Biogeochemistry Group Seminar
The effect of a flooding event on the mobility of potentially toxic elements from the Loddon floodplain
Jess Ponting

Real Estate & Planning Research Seminar: Professor Jan Rouwendal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2019-12-04 13:00 - 14:00
Real Estate & Planning Research Seminar
Professor Jan Rouwendal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Institute of Education Research: Dr Alan Floyd – Research Paper and Social
2019-12-05 13:00 - 14:00 | L24, G06
Institute of Education Research Programme
Dr Alan Floyd – Research Paper and Social

Meteorology External Seminar: Recent trends and future prospects for the assimilation of observations in Earth System prediction
2019-12-09 12:00 - 12:50 | Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, Room GU01, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH
Meteorology External Seminar
Recent trends and future prospects for the assimilation of observations in Earth System prediction
Stephen English
ECMWF

Chemistry Seminar: Designing better household products using the computer modelling skills that make graduates very employable (Dr Ian Stott, Unilever)
2019-12-09 15:30 - 16:30 | Chemistry LTG, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Seminar
Designing better household products using the computer modelling skills that make graduates very employable
Dr Ian Stott, Unilever

Spatial variation in phenology and its impact on trophic interactions
2019-12-10 13:00 - 13:50 | Chemistry LTG, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
School of Biological Sciences Seminar
Dr Ally Phillimore, University of Edinburgh: Spatial variation in phenology and its impact on trophic interactions
Hosted by Prof Tom Oliver

ICMA Research Seminar: Ding Rong University of Warwick
2019-12-11 08:00 - 17:00 | ICMA G09, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BA, United Kingdom
ICMA Research Seminar
Ding Rong University of Warwick

Economics External Seminar: Mauro Costantini
2019-12-11 12:15 - 13:30 | Edith Morley, Room 406
Economics External Seminar
Mauro Costantini
