The hermit problem: Autonomy’s role in liberating privacy from confidentiality’s grip
2022-04-07 17:00 (Europe/London) | JJ Thomson Ditchburn Lecture Theatre
Thursday 7 April 2022 at 17:00 – Doors open at 16:45 (JJ Thomson Ditchburn Lecture Theatre, Whiteknights Campus)
In this School of Law lecture, Professor Paul Wragg (Professor of Media Law, University of Leeds) will explore the relationship between privacy and confidentiality, and how these distinct concepts have been interpreted by the courts and scholars. In doing so, he will explain the role of autonomy in liberating privacy from the grip of confidentiality.
About the speaker: Paul Wragg is Professor of Media Law at the University of Leeds, a board member of Hacked Off, a member of the IMPRESS Code Committee, and is the co-host of The Media Law Podcast. Professor Wragg’s work has been published in leading journals in the UK and abroad, such as the Cambridge Law Journal, Public Law, Sydney Law Review, Industrial Law Journal, the Journal of Media Law, and the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly.
To book your free place please visit: https://www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-social-science/school-of-law/the-hermit-problem-autonomy%E2%80%99s-role-in-liberating-privacy-from-confidentiality%E2%80%99s-grip

10th International Conference on Polyphenols and Health
2022-04-20 - 2022-04-23 | Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
The 10th International Conference on Polyphenols and Health, organised by Professors Jeremy Spencer and Gunter Kuhnle (Department of Food & Nutritional Sciences), will be taking place on 20 – 23 April 2022 in London.
The meeting will update you on the latest trends, topics and developments in the field of polyphenols, food science and health. Topics covered will include:
• Analytical sciences – measurement of polyphenols
• Bioavailability, absorption and metabolism
• Brain and cognition
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular disease
• Clinical trials
• Epidemiology
• Gut microbiota
• Infectious diseases
• Mechanisms in action
• Other
For further information and to register to attend, please visit the conference website.

Digital Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities
2022-04-28 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
We invite you to attend our first discussion event to celebrate the establishment of the University of Reading’s Digital Humanities Hub.
Online (MS Teams): Link to join the Teams meeting on the day here.
Come along if you would like to:

Learn about what Digital Humanities (DH) is and what it can do for your research
Be inspired to do something new, or to seek out new collaborators, or to consider your previous or current work as DH
Be introduced to the debate on best practice for digital research, and why it’s important to your discipline even if you do not currently use digital tools yourself

Programme
Introduction: Digital Humanities work at UoR
Keynote – Pip Willcox
Panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities presented by digital research in arts & humanities disciplines, featuring a variety of perspectives from UoR colleagues:

Pete Bray – Research Fellow in Material Science, Department of Archaeology
Jenny Chamarette – Senior Research Fellow in Art and Co-I, ‘The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema’
Rhi Smith (Museums Studies Twitter) – Director of Academic Learning & Engagement, UMASCS (University Museums, Archives & Special Collections Services) and Director of Museums Studies courses
Nicola Wilson – Associate Professor of Book Cultures & Publishing and PI, ‘Modernist Archives Publishing Project’

All researchers, staff and PGRs from all subjects are most welcome.
About the Digital Humanities Hub
The Digital Humanities Hub supports researchers to enhance the quality and innovation of their research through engagement with digital tools and methodologies.
We can help you to find out how you might be able to apply digital approaches to areas of your research, build knowledge, skills and community, access training and networks, organise workshops or presentations on digital themes relating to your department or research project, develop research proposals and applications, undertake a research project and secure its legacy.
Visit our online portal to learn more about digital humanities, the support and resources available, and how to contact the team.
Consider also joining our Community of Practice, a friendly space for researchers to collaborate, share ideas and skills, and discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by Digital Humanities as a field.
If you have any questions, please contact the Hub team on digitalhumanities@reading.ac.uk

Political Voices - A thorn in the government's side
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Edith Morley Building, Van Emden Lecture Theatre, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Emily Thornberry, Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury
Thursday 28 April 2022
19:00- 20:00
Edith Morley Van Emden Theatre, Whiteknights Campus
Reading University Politics and International Relations Society (RUPIRS) and the Department of Politics & International Relations are delighted to welcome Emily Thornberry to the University of Reading for the latest in our series of ‘Political Voices’ events.
Emily Thornberry is the Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury. First elected in 2005, she has been re-elected four times. She is one of only two Labour MPs to have served continuously in the Shadow Cabinet since 2016, covering the Defence, Brexit, Foreign Affairs and International Trade briefs in that time, while also serving as Shadow First Secretary of State. Since November 2021, she has held the role of Shadow Attorney General.
The lecture presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session.
Admission is free. Booking is essential.
Register to attend – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/political-voices-a-thorn-in-the-governments-side-tickets-309370785347

Women in Mathematics Day
2022-05-11 10:30 - 16:30 | Edith Morley Building, Van Emden Lecture Theatre, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
11 May 2022, Edith Morley Van Emden Theatre, University of Reading
To coincide with the International Celebration of Women in Mathematics, the London Mathematical Society, and the Mathematics of Planet Earth Centre for Doctoral Training, and University of Reading present a day with invited guest speakers:

Renee Hoekzema (Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
Hua Lu (Research Scientist, Atmosphere Ice and Climate, the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge)
Celine Maistret (Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol)
Almut Veraart (Professor of Statistics, Imperial College London)
plus posters and talks from Early Career Mathematicians.

The hosts of the meeting are Jennifer Scott (Professor of Mathematics at University of Reading and Director at Reading, the Mathematics of Planet Earth Centre for Doctoral Training); and Rachel Newton (Reader in Number Theory and Future Leaders Fellow, King’s College London).
This celebration of Women in Mathematics event is sponsored by the London Mathematical Society and the EPSRC Mathematics of Planet Earth Centre for Doctoral Training.
This is a hybrid event (in person and online) with all contributed talks and posters in person.
Although celebrating Women in Mathematics, EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND (including undergraduate students) and the talks will be aimed at those with an interest in mathematics.
Call for Abstracts from Early Career Mathematicians who would like to give a talk or poster is now open and will close on midnight 24 April. To apply, complete the relevant section during registration and include an abstract of approximately one paragraph. Small travel bursaries will be available to those in need of support. To apply, complete the relevant section in registration.
More information about the event can be found here and here. Or by emailing j.e.fillingham@reading.ac.uk.
There is no registration fee, and refreshments and lunch will be provided free of charge.
Registration is now open and will close at 23.30 on 03 May 2022. Register on the Women in Mathematics Day event booking page.

Research frontiers in climate services: perspectives from the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP)
2022-05-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
Part of Met Office Climate Services Week
Please join us for a set of talks and lively discussion on advancing research frontiers in climate services. As part of Met Office Climate Services Week, this online event will showcase past and present collaborative work, reflect on priority research areas to support climate services, and highlight future opportunities to staff and students at MOAP partner universities and beyond.
Hosted by Joe Daron, Fai Fung and Verity Payne from the Met Office with contributions from:

Dr Marta Bruno Soares – University of Leeds
Prof Ros Cornforth – University of Reading
Prof Michael Davies – University College London
Dr Rachel James & Dr Francesca Pianosi – University of Bristol
Prof Richard Betts – University of Exeter
Prof Tim Woollings – University of Oxford

An introduction to open peer review
2022-05-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Online event
This Open Research Forum will provide an introduction to open peer review. Come along to learn about some different models and discuss their pros and cons.
Professor Stephen Pinfield of the Research on Research Institute will discuss its recent report on the future of peer review. Publishers F1000Research and eLife will present their peer review models, and Dr Remi Tailleux (Meteorology) and Professor Angelique Chettiparamb (Real Estate and Planning) will talk about their experiences from the perspectives of an author, reviewer, and journal editor. We will conclude with a panel discussion featuring our guest speakers.
Full details and booking are at https://research.reading.ac.uk/open-research-champions/event/open-research-forum-5/.

Maternal Well-Being, and the Conflict between Infant Feeding and Return to Work Decisions
2022-05-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Microsoft Teams
We are delighted to invite you to participate in our online launch workshop for the Nuffield Foundation funded project entitled Maternal Well-Being, and the Conflict between Infant Feeding and Return to Work Decisions.
The workshop will provide information about the project and how you can become involved with the project, and will introduce the project research team. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for you as stakeholders to feed into the project design and help build a shared understanding of challenges faced
by mothers and employers.
Attendance is free. Full details can be found on the Economics Research website.

Digital Humanities Community of Practice – Virtual Rome
2022-05-31 11:30 - 13:00 | Online event
We would like to invite you to this term’s meeting of the Digital Humanities Community of Practice, which will be taking place online, on Tuesday 31 May (11:30-13:00). You are welcome to join the Community of Practice via our MS Teams channel. More information can be found on the Digital Humanities Hub portal.
The meeting will include a presentation by Matthew Nicholls (Senior Tutor at St John’s College, Oxford and Visiting Professor, UoR Classics) on his 3D model of Ancient Rome. An abstract of the presentation is below.
The meeting will be taking place online in order to ensure ongoing accessibility for those especially vulnerable to Covid-19. From the autumn term, we hope to hold a mixture of online and hybrid events so that colleagues can meet each other in person. The Outlook invite for this meeting, which you can add to your calendar, will be posted in the Teams channel.
Please click here to join the Community of Practice MS Teams channel. This link will take you to the Teams channel. If you are not already a member, you will be presented with a dialogue box that says ‘Join’. Click this to send a request, which will be approved if you are a member of the University of Reading. If you are already a member of the Team, this link just takes you directly to the ‘General’ channel.
If you have any questions please contact the Digital Humanities Academic Champion, Mara Oliva (m.oliva@reading.ac.uk).
Joining link for the meeting: Click here
More information about the event and the COP: Click here
Digital Humanities Community of Practice – 31/5/2022 11:30-13:00 – MS Teams
Programme:
11:30-11:40: Welcome and DH Hub news – Mara Oliva (Academic Champion)
11:40-11:45: Introduction to 3D visualisations
11:45-12:30: Presentation: 3D model of Ancient Rome – Matthew Nicholls
12:35-12:55: Q&A
12:55-13:00: Next COP and Close

Abstract
Matthew Nicholls’ large scale 3D model of ancient Rome will be familiar to some Reading colleagues, not least those who have cause to walk down the Classics corridor in the Morley Building. This project grew initially out of research on ancient Roman buildings, and developed as a teaching innovation. Its ongoing uses include a public-facing online course (MOOC) which has now been taken by over 62,000 people and has generated significant revenue and course applications at Reading; there are also research uses and ‘impactful’ licensing to television documentaries, software firms, games studios, and others. The model itself and a Part 3 module deriving from it won a Guardian/HEA teaching innovation award, and were the basis of a successful application for a National Teaching Fellowship and two REF impact case studies. It was largely created in free or low-cost consumer software, without specialist training.
This talk will look at the creation of the digital model: the software and processes used to create it, the challenges and benefits of 3D visualisation of the ancient past, and some of its uses and applications.

Reading Emotions Symposium
2022-06-08 - 2022-06-09 | Online event
Welcome to the eleventh Reading Emotions meeting. This year, we focus on the topic of exposure and avoidance: from the brain to the clinic.
Learning to avoid potential threats is key to survival, but it can become maladaptive when the perceived danger is objectively low or even absent. Exposure-based therapies aim to counteract flawed associations between intrinsically safe situations and imagined dangerous outcomes by repeatedly exposing an individual to the objects or situations that elicit fear. Exposure therapy can be effective in alleviating symptoms, including safety and avoidance behaviours. However, it often does not lead to full remission, and relapse after treatment is common. This symposium brings together leading neuroscientists and researchers in psychopathology to discuss exposure and threat avoidance, from the brain to the clinic.
Confirmed speakers

Michelle Craske (UCLA)
Drew Fox (California)
Angela Roberts (Cambridge)
Karin Roelofs (Radboud)
Bram Vervliet (KU Leuven)
Polly Waite (Reading and Oxford)

Attendance is free, but early registration is recommended.
For more information please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/readingemotions/
To book your place please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-emotions-2022-tickets-306322949187

Future Storytelling
2022-06-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Minghella Building, Bulmershe Theatre, Whiteknights, RG6 6UR
You are warmly invited to attend Future Storytelling, with talks from three visiting speakers followed by discussion over drinks. This is the next installment of the Creative Entrepreneurship programme, postponed from last term.
Tim Powell, UoR Creative Entrepreneur in Residence, will be joined by Rachel Briscoe (and / or other speakers) from Fast Familiar and another exciting speaker from the creative industries (t.b.c.). They will be discussing how technology, data and audience expectations are changing the way we tell stories.
The event will be hybrid (and hopefully recorded) for those whose working patterns mean they can’t be there but if you can attend in person that would be ideal as the opportunity for conversation is an important part of the event.
Location: Bulmershe Theatre, Minghella Studios, Whiteknights.
Time: 4pm – 6pm

Summer Workshop in Videographic Research Methods
2022-06-20 - 2022-06-24 | Minghella Studios, Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
As part of our commitment to interdisciplinary research at the University of Reading, the Heritage & Creativity Research Theme and the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) are pleased to announce a Summer Workshop in Videographic Research Methods.
Context
The digital reworking of sound and image is a key academic approach in film and television studies. This workshop is designed to make these methods available to researchers at Reading, including those working in other disciplines. While we imagine some participants in the workshop will be conducting research in film or television, a major ambition of the workshop is to develop the skills of researchers in other discipline areas. We believe there are significant and underexplored opportunities in applying videographic approaches to other arts and humanities subjects.
The workshop
The workshop will take place in Minghella Studios, June 20th – 24th. It will involve:

technical training in non-linear editing and related technologies
producing and sharing feedback on a series of exercises in response to briefs designed to engage with different and videographic approaches
discussion of existing video essays and debates in the wider field of videographic scholarship
reflection on videographic analysis and archival material
planning a longer audiovisual essay, with opportunities for feedback later in the vacation
lunch and refreshments.

Participants will nominate and work with an item of audiovisual material or material object relevant to their research, as a means of ‘testing out’ how to develop critical ideas through editing. No prior experience or equipment is required (computers with appropriate software will be available at the workshop).
The workshop will be led by CFAC Co-Director Adam O’Brien and John Gibbs, an audiovisual essayist with several years’ experience of teaching videographic criticism. It will also draw on expertise from colleagues in Special Collections and the wider videographic field.
Applications
If you are interested in taking part, please complete the expression of interest. The form invites you to confirm your availability for the dates and duration of the workshop, to provide information about your research context, and to identify an object of study, indicating what potential there might be for working with it through audiovisual means. Please RSVP by March 25th.
Questions
Please contact CFAC Co-Director Adam O’Brien with any questions (adam.obrien@reading.ac.uk).

Explore videographic methods…
If you are not yet familiar with videographic work, these examples may help to illustrate the exciting potential and variety of the approach:
Pasta as prologue: the Spaghetti House siege on film (Charlie Shackleton): Two different dramatisations of the 1975 siege of a Knightsbridge restaurant by Black British radicals remind us that history also needs its agitators.
The Elephant Man’s Sound, Tracked (Liz Greene):A deep archival dive into sound design, David Lynch and creative-labour politics.
The Mighty Maestro on Screen (Evelyn Kreutzer): A study of gesture, movement and music, through the figure of the on-screen orchestral conductor.
‘Say, have you seen the Carioca?’ (John Gibbs): Moving between film, popular music, histories of dance and cinema exhibition practice; looking afresh at relationships between different historical periods and national cinemas.
Mediated Auscultation (Emilija Talijan): Stethoscopes, bodies, sounds, modernism, still and moving images.

IFNH Statistics and R Programme Workshops
2022-06-23 - 2022-06-24 | Hybrid
IFNH are delighted to announce FREE statistics and R training workshops to support our ECRs and PhD students with their research and for their professional development. The workshops will take place on Thursday 23rd June and Friday 24th June.
Hold the dates and register by simply clicking the registration link Statistics workshop by Friday 17th June. Please note that you will have two options for participation (classroom and online). The University of Reading email address is mandatory for your registration (do not register with your personal email address).
Please pass details on to your colleagues who may be interested in attending. The workshops are open to anyone with an interest in statistics and R training!

The Ends of Thirty Big Depressions
2022-06-23 14:00 - 17:30 | Hopkins Building, Room 101, University of Reading, Reading, RG1 6UR, United Kingdom
GEAR Quarterly Lecture organised by the Group for Economic Analysis at Reading, Department of Economics.
The Ends of Thirty Big Depressions, Professor Martin Ellison, University of Oxford.
We are delighted to invite you to participate in our upcoming GEAR Quarterly Lecture organised by the Group for Economic Analysis at Reading (GEAR) at the Department of Economics of the University of Reading. GEAR covers the core topics in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, as well as modern extensions, with particular application to policymaking at global, national or local level. This lecture will be presented by Professor Martin Ellison from the University of Oxford, who will be discussing his paper “The Ends of 30 Big Depressions”, exploring how countries recovered from the Great Depression.
Martin Ellison is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Nuffield College, a consultant at the European Central Bank and a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He has also recently finished a term as a member of the Finnish Economic Policy Council. His research interests cover many areas of theoretical and applied macroeconomics, with recent papers concentrating on the management of the UK National Debt and the economic value of increases in longevity.

Participatory Research Using Creative Methods
2022-07-01 11:00 - 17:00 | Chancellor’s Building, Room G01, University of Reading, Shinfield Rd, Whiteknights Rd, Reading, RG6 6BU, United Kingdom
Diaspora Woman, Community Centre Pueblito Paisa, the UK and Ireland Hub in support of the Colombian Truth Commission, the University of Reading.
Participatory Research Using Creative Methods
Historically an invisible migrant community, in recent years growing scholarly and public-policy attention has been paid to Latin American migration to the UK. This research has been paralleled by the increased visibility of community campaigns advocating for the rights of Latin American migrants, alongside the emergence of a rich creative and artistic field of diasporic cultural practices.
This one-day workshop will explore the use of creative participatory methodologies in conducting research with the Latin American community in the UK. Bringing together academic researchers, activists and representatives of community groups, the workshop will highlight examples of innovative research practices led by Latin American migrants, as well as explore how creative and collaborative methodologies can enable more ethical research engagements between academics and migrant groups.
The workshop will provide space for learning and experience-sharing about creative participatory methodologies between participants, as well as include an immersive memory-making activity. Funded by a grant from Research England, the workshop will also showcase the initial findings from a pilot participatory project, ‘Caminando hacia la paz: ciclo de talleres participativos’, led by Diaspora Woman, Community Centre Pueblito Paisa, the UK and Ireland Hub in support of the Colombian Truth Commission and the University of Reading, which brought together Colombian migrants and refugees to co-produce a series of creative outputs around the themes of conflict resolution, community and social transformation.
Speakers:

Marina Echeverría, Diaspora Woman, Martha Elsesser, Diaspora Woman
Jael de la Luz García, Community Organiser and Grassroots Educator
Marta Hinestroza, Director of Community Centre Pueblito Paisa; Interviewer for the Colombian Truth Commission in the UK
Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Professor of Geography, King’s College Lond
Work
Woron
Dr María Soledad Montañez, Lecturer in Spanish, University of Glasgow
Verónica Posada Álvarez, PhD Candidate, University of Westminster
Luis Fernando Sepúlveda López, UK and Ireland Hub in support of the Colombian Truth Commission

This event will take place in-person at the University of Reading and will be held in both English and Spanish. Lunch and refreshments provided.
Places are limited. If you are interested in attending, please contact Cherilyn Elston: c.elston@reading.ac.uk

Just Transitions Action Launch
2022-07-04
Just Transitions Action Launch, Department of Real Estate and Planning, Henley Business School.
Just Transitions Action is a PhD research lab that examines place-based behavioural, socio-cultural, and political factors driving competing claims as well as visions for more sustainable and resilient urban futures. The research of the lab spans several topical areas of relevance to urban policy and governance, exploring both human and non-human relations associated with the social, economic and environmental challenges facing cities globally.
The lab will be launching on July 4 with the aim to discuss how it will move forwards with the aim to co-produce a framework for interdisciplinary research collaboration across the University, and is open to contributions from PhD researchers. The launch will allow participants the opportunity to get involved, meet other PhD research students, and make a lasting contribution to how the lab moves forward. It will also include a guest talk from Professor Tom Oliver, Research Division Leader, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, on knowledge architectures for sustainability transitions.
Please email r.j.nunes@henley.reading.ac.uk to register your interest.

Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution 2022
2022-07-18 - 2022-07-20 | Henley Business School
The 8th edition of the Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution conference will be held at the University of Reading, UK from 18th July 2022 to 20th July 2022.
This University of Reading edition follows seven successful meetings held at the University of Sussex (2007), the University of Bristol (2009), the University of Groningen (2011), the University of York (2013), College de France in Paris (2015), City University of London (2017), and the University of Lyon (2019).
Similar to previous editions, MMEE 2022 aims at promoting the uses of mathematical approaches to answer a wide range of ecological and evolutionary questions. Researchers at any stage of their career are encouraged to attend. Early career and next generation of researchers such as PhD students postdocs are particularly encouraged to attend and present their results. MMEE 2022 is committed to promote diversity in its broadest sense, and so researchers from all under-represented groups are encouraged to attend and present.
Please visit the MMEE2022 website for programme and registration details.

Agriculture Food and Health Research Culture Cafe
2022-07-27 12:30 - 14:30 | Agriculture Building, Staff Common Room GU07, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 7BE
On behalf of Carol Wagstaff, you are warmly invited to the Agriculture Food and Health (AFH) Research Culture Cafe.
The AFH Research Culture Cafe is the first of a regular series of informal research events to be held on Wednesday 27 July at 12.30 pm in APD Staff Common Room GU07.
The aim of these informal sessions will be to build research culture by providing an environment where people can meet others, share ideas and explore collaborative opportunities.
Sandwiches and tea/coffee will be available at the event. Please confirm your attendance here.
We do hope that you will be able to join us and will very much look forward to welcoming you.

'Caring for young minds' at RSE Curious Summer Events Programme
2022-08-02 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker: Professor Stella Chan FRSE, Charlie Waller Chair in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment, University of Reading

A discussion on young people’s mental health and how to apply research knowledge to understand and support young people.

While mental health problems can affect us at any stage in our lives, 75% of people who experience mental health problems report that their problems first emerged before the age of 25. One in three children and young people in every classroom have a diagnosable mental health problem such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and self-harm. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised referral to NHS services to an unmanageable level. This group discussion event will provide an opportunity for attendees to discuss this important topic with a speaker with both research and clinical expertise on young people’s mental health.
Book your place here

Additional Info

Group discussion:
Grab a cuppa and engage with experts in a friendly, relaxed environment. There won’t be any slides, notes or formality here – just the chance to ask questions and listen to some of Scotland’s leading thinkers and practitioners on various subjects.
For group discussions on Zoom, the audience will be visible to others taking part in the event (unless you choose to turn off your camera). To encourage discussion and allow everyone an opportunity to ask questions, we have limited the number of spaces available.
To participate in a group discussion you MUST be aged 16+
Important points to note

This event is suitable for age 16+
This event will cover potentially distressing material related to mental health
Accessibility Statement: We aim to make events as accessible as possible. If you have any accessibility requirements or any questions about how we can support this event, please contact public_engagement@theRSE.org.uk

'Social Prescribing for Mental Health' at RSE Curious Summer Events Programme
2022-08-05 11:00
Speaker: Professor Stella Chan FRSE, Ruthanne Baxter, Janet Smyth
Chair: Professor John Gillies FRSE

The increasing use of arts, literature and culture to improve the public’s mental health.

NHS Scotland and England have both recognised social prescribing as a helpful way to improve the public’s health and mental health. Social prescribing is an approach that aims to connect people to access non-medical sources of support. The approach encompasses a wide variety of community activities, from book prescription to art, cultural activities, physical exercise etc. This event will bring together a panel of academics and professionals to discuss and debate the potential and limitations, as well as opportunities and obstacles, of social prescribing.
Book your place here

Additional Info

This event is suitable for age 16+
The discussion is not anticipated to be particularly triggering but nonetheless there will be some discussions on mental health
Accessibility Statement: We aim to make events as accessible as possible. If you have any accessibility requirements or any questions about how we can support this event, please contact public_engagement@theRSE.org.uk.

Sensory Supermarket by Sensory Street
2022-08-19 00:00 - 2022-08-20 00:00 | PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory, UCL), Yew Tree Avenue, Dagenham, RM10 7FN
Sensory Street is a research project from the Universities of Oxford and Reading, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Since 2021, we have been working with autistic people to learn more about their everyday sensory experiences and what environments they find either disabling or enabling, and why.
On Friday 19 and Saturday 20 August we are holding our Sensory Supermarket event at the PEARL building in Dagenham. This is an opportunity for you to discuss and learn from our research findings which are entirely informed by the autistic people’s sensory experiences and their perspectives.
At the Sensory Supermarket you can show your commitment to inclusivity and:

Take part in our immersive supermarket experience (designed in partnership with Sensory Spectacle) to see for yourself how supermarkets can be disabling sensory environments
Discover the small adaptations you could make to your business to create a more inclusive, accessible environment for people with autism and other disabilities
Find out how you can support people with autism in your business environment
Learn more about our research with the autistic community through videos, displays and more.

You can book free tickets for an allocated 45-minute time slot at sensorysupermarket.eventbrite.com. For more information on our research, please visit sensorystreet.uk.

AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2023 applicant webinar
2022-08-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online event
AHRC and the BBC have announced the latest call for their New Generation Thinkers scheme, which offers early-career researchers the opportunity to develop programmes for the BBC. Finalists in the competition will be able to workshop ideas with BBC producers, get media and public engagement training, and a platform for informing and influencing public opinion, policy and practice. 60 applicants will be invited to BBC workshops, from which 10 will be selected as New Generation Thinkers and will then experience a year of focused activity and development from the BBC and AHRC.
This webinar run by AHRC is for everyone interested in applying to the AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2023 scheme.
The webinar will cover:

an overview of the scheme and what to expect
some hints and tips for making your application
how to use the online application system
a chance to ask questions about applying, the scheme, and more.

To register please visit the AHRC New Generation Thinkers 2023 applicant webinar sign up page. Once you register, you will be sent joining instructions so you can take part in the webinar.
About AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2023
Eligible candidates are:

UK residents
Current PhD students who have made considerable progress on their research (e.g. within one year of submission)
Academics within 8 years of award of PhD (excluding career break)
Academics within 6 years of first academic appointment (excluding career break)

Your research does not have to be AHRC-funded but must have a primary focus in the arts and humanities. The main topic areas are: archaeology; classics; cultural and museum studies; development studies; history; information and communication technologies; law and legal studies; library and information studies; philosophy; political science and international studies; theology, divinity and religion; dance; design; drama and theatre studies; media; music; languages and literature; linguistics; visual arts.
The deadline for applications is 22nd September 2022.
If you are interested in applying, one-to-one advice and guidance on your draft pitch/submission is available from the Research Communications team. The Press Office will also provide bespoke media training and interview prep to potential applicants, plus a possible slot on BBC Radio Berkshire to talk about their work (as media/interview practice).
All applications must be made via the new UKRI Funding Service. You can find full information on the UKRI website

The Past as Nightmare
2022-09-06 - 2022-09-07
The Past as Nightmare
An interdisciplinary conference from the Centre for Health Humanities
6-7 September 2022, University of Reading (UK)
Keynote speakers: Dr Ailise Bulfin & Professor Laurence Talairach
The gothic has a complex relationship with the past, and with history as a discipline. Much of the early body of gothic fiction is set in the past, often in the form of ‘found’ historical documents, whilst the past also functions as an inescapable nemesis, returning to haunt modernity. How is the past as a concept and as haunting interpreted in gothic horror literature? How is the discipline of history itself, and the historian or antiquarian as an individual, portrayed in the gothic mode?
Registration is open.
For further details on the event, please contact a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk

Seminar: Religious contexts of women’s vulnerability to HIV in Ghana
2022-10-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Sorby Room, Wager Building
The seminar entitled ‘Religious contexts of women’s vulnerability to HIV in Ghana‘ will be delivered by Dr Yaw Adjei-Amoako on Thursday 6 October from 1-2pm. Join us at the Sorby Room in the Wager Building on Whiteknights Campus. This seminar is open to all University staff and students.
Abstract:
HIV continues to exact its toll in sub-Saharan African countries, including Ghana, distorting their demographics, and weakening their economies and institutions. Little is known about the role that religious denominations play in the spread or control of HIV in Ghana. Using semi-structured interviews and focus group discussion data collected in various Christian congregations in rural and urban areas in Ghana, this paper explores how women’s vulnerability to HIV are mediated by type of Christian denomination – ‘mainstream’ churches or ‘healing’ churches. The results point to differences in women’s exposure to HIV-related information, knowledge, attitudes and behaviour to the disadvantage of women who attended healing churches, particularly in the rural area. The study concludes that interventions aimed at initiating behavioural change and reducing women’s vulnerability to HIV must be comprehensive, broadly oriented in the communities and take into consideration the many complex personal and contextual factors, including religious affiliation and participation.

Reading Pathological Society and the University of Reading collaboration meeting
2022-10-06 18:15 - 21:00 | Meadow Suite, Park House, Meadow Suite, Park House, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
The Reading Pathological Society and the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Reading are pleased to announced a joint research meeting between the Royal Berkshire Health Trust and the University of Reading.
Venue: The Meadow Suite, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6AH.
Date: 6 October 2022
Programme
18.15-18.20 Welcome speech by Dr Carl Waldmann
President of Reading Pathological Society
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Royal Berkshire Hospital

18.20-18.50 ‘An alphabet of gut microbiology’ by Professor Glenn Gibson
Professor of Food Microbiology, University of Reading

18.50-19.20 ‘ProKIDNI Study: The use of machine learning to identify patients with rapidly declining chronic kidney disease’ by Dr Nitin Bhandary
Consultant Physician and Nephrologist, Berkshire Kidney Unit and University Department of Renal Medicine

19.20-19.50 The aetiology and treatment for common and rare complications following snakebite envenomation in humans by Professor Sakthivel Vaiyapuri
School of Pharmacy, University of Reading

19.50-21.00 Pizza and drinks

To reserve your place at this free event please contact Ketan Patel at ketan.patel@reading.ac.uk

Download the event poster

ID Seminar: Examining and supporting holistic management of risks by smallholder farmers
2022-10-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
The Department of International Development is pleased to have Doctoral Researcher, Nuru Kipato, delivering a hybrid seminar entitled: ‘Examining and supporting holistic management of risks by smallholder farmers’.
The seminar is taking place on Monday 10 October from 1-2pm in the Frank Parkinson Room, Agriculture Building. You can also join via Teams here.

A Room of One’s Own on the High Street: Women and Personal Bookshops, 1916-1939
2022-10-13 17:00 - 18:00
Dr Matt Chambers, CBCP Research Fellow

This research seminar is free and open to all. Join us in person in the Edith Morley Building, Room G74. To join via Zoom, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/423971097967

From 1916 onwards, a new form of bookselling became progressively more visible. Variously labelled “personal bookshops” or “bookshop salons,” small bookselling businesses, opened and operated often by women, offered a different kind of retail experience. Stock was tailored to fit a certain theme or vision; the shop was imagined as a social space and could hold events; the owners would publish books, periodicals, and pamphlets which became synonymous with the shop; and in general, the bookshop became the centre of a literary or political community. In reviewing The Sunwise Turn and the Harlem People’s Book Shop (New York City), as well as Bermondsey Books and Collet’s (London), and Shakespeare and Company and Les Maison des Amis des Livres (Paris), I will discuss how more than just a notable demographic shift, these women-led bookshops represented a change in what was possible in book retail, and permanently altered the bookselling landscape in the early twentieth century.

This research seminar is free and open to all.

ID Seminar: School feeding and the home grown in the Malawian context
2022-10-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Agriculture Building, Seminar Room 1L10
The Department of International Development is pleased to have Doctoral Researcher, Miki Gilbert, delivering a seminar entitled: ‘School feeding and the home grown in the Malawian context’.
The seminar is taking place on Monday 17 October from 1-2pm in the 1L10 Seminar Room, Agriculture Building.

‘Gender and the Archaeology of Medieval Nunneries’
2022-10-21 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Close to 30 years ago Prof Roberta Gilchrist published ‘Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women’. This influential book has been a cornerstone of gender and medieval archaeological research and studies of women religious more broadly. Its continued impact is evident in the recent book by Dr Tracy Collins, ‘Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology’, which is the first gender archaeology of medieval nunneries in Ireland. In this virtual event, we bring together these two scholars to speak to the context in which their books were created –both times of renewed feminist activism.
This talk is the first in a new series of virtual events by the Society for Medieval Archaeology.
Register your place for free here.

ID Seminar: Using evidence in policy and practice
2022-10-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
The Department of International Development is pleased to have Prof Ian Goldman from University of Witwatersrand, South Africa delivering an online seminar entitled: ‘Using evidence in policy and practice’.
The seminar is taking place on Monday 24 October from 1-2pm on Teams. You can join the seminar here.
