Prosperity & Resilience

19 April 2024

Macron won’t rule out using western ground troops in Ukraine – but is Nato prepared for war with Russia?

8 March 2024

Meet Esther Oenga – researcher profile for National Careers Week

8 March 2024

Maternal wellbeing, infant feeding and return to paid work: project updates

6 March 2024

Meet Sarah Jewell – researcher profile for National Careers Week

4 March 2024

Meet Marta O’Brien – researcher profile for National Careers Week

30 January 2024

Cost of living crisis: community researchers investigate impact in South East England

22 January 2024

Drone incidents and misuse: legal considerations

21 December 2023

Ukraine war: with stalemate on the battlefield Nato needs unity and commitment more than ever

14 December 2023

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme – showcase winners 2023

11 December 2023

How big UK housebuilders have remained profitable without meeting housing supply targets

4 December 2023

A year in the life of a researcher: from community engagement to Buckingham Palace

24 November 2023

Russia’s decision to ditch cold war arms limitation treaty raises tensions with Nato

31 October 2023

Changing UK skies: professional, responsible and considerate commercial drone use

18 October 2023

Policing with drones and policing drone misuse

4 October 2023

Introducing the LGBTQ+ Travel Tool – for organisational policy development and individual advice

30 September 2023

City watchdog finds no evidence for recent political ‘debanking’ – but private banks have been picky for centuries

18 September 2023

Universities and their students are vulnerable to money laundering – new research

14 September 2023

Unlocking excellence in end-of-life care: making better memories

24 July 2023

Why banks once flocked to Canary Wharf’s high-tech superstructures, but are now starting to return to the City

20 July 2023

What works for teaching children whose home languages are not English?

3 July 2023

Participatory Action Research: A Toolkit

26 June 2023

US regulators continue crypto crackdown – but here’s why the latest charges are different

13 June 2023

How can repetitions be used by teachers to facilitate second language vocabulary learning through listening?

16 May 2023

Hear me: young people’s experiences of exclusion from school

11 May 2023

Surrogacy – what’s it all about?

17 April 2023

What Binance’s US lawsuit says about the future for cryptocurrency regulation

3 April 2023

Silicon Valley Bank: 19th-century financial crises show how today’s regulators could help repair the economy

16 March 2023

Deciding what to wear to work isn’t getting any easier for women, even as business dress codes relax

11 March 2023

How the pandemic has brought equality of access to healthcare into sharp focus

10 March 2023

Why we need more women judges in the UK

24 February 2023

The UK’s four-day working week pilot was a success – here’s what should happen next

17 February 2023

Developing a toolkit for Participatory Action Research in Reading and beyond

30 January 2023

Celebrating National Storytelling Week with mathematical stories

23 January 2023

How workplace wellness initiatives conflict with real wellbeing – and how art challenges this

13 January 2023

Making cemeteries and crematoria more inclusive

10 January 2023

Money matters: what if we told you that everything you knew about money wasn’t quite as it seems?

21 December 2022

Our most talked about publications of 2022

9 December 2022

Gender and the creative labour market in Australia and the UK

1 December 2022

On the Disability History Month theme of health and wellbeing

22 November 2022

Maternal wellbeing, infant feeding and returning to work: launch of UK-wide survey

18 November 2022

Tackling health inequalities in Reading: Community Participatory Action Research 2021–2022

14 November 2022

Cryptocurrencies: why Binance’s failed FTX rescue deal could mean ‘crypto winter’ is coming

7 November 2022

Iran: hijab protests reflect society-wide anger at regime which trashes rule of law and human rights

7 November 2022

Transforming classroom language teaching through multimedia

2 November 2022

Corporate rescue: what happens when companies fail?

31 October 2022

Accommodating diversity in the workplace – first workshop on 8 December 2022

18 October 2022

This World Menopause Day remember to share a positive menopause story

17 October 2022

Ukraine war: why the world can’t afford to let Russia get away with its land grab – lessons from history

5 October 2022

Valuing teachers: why career development opportunities must reflect the pressing issues of our time

4 October 2022

Why housing programmes the world over must recognise migrant populations

21 September 2022

The key to building lasting peace is engaging different groups of people in the process

5 August 2022

Why changing the law is not needed to support parents like Archie’s

13 July 2022

Climate activism has so far been fairly peaceful: here’s why that might change

8 July 2022

Northern Ireland: Paramilitary groups using cultural celebrations to assert control and challenge peace

22 June 2022

Crypto crash: market volatility is testing investors will but crypto-enthusiasts still see a future for the asset class

6 June 2022

Islamic State: how western European states are failing to protect 28,000 children born to foreign fighters

1 June 2022

Is it wrong to steal from large corporations? A philosopher debates the ethics

25 May 2022

Between Unfreedoms: How caste was a major determining factor in deciding return migration of indentured workers

20 May 2022

Beyond the Numbers: Reflections on REF 2021

11 May 2022

On International Legal Academia in the UK (Part II) – Navigating the Expectations Placed on ECRs

10 May 2022

Ukraine: boosting European defence spending now won’t make up for decades of underinvestment

6 May 2022

On International Legal Academia in the UK (Part I) – Securing Your First Academic Post

29 April 2022

How we are pioneering climate and sustainability education for teacher training programmes

28 April 2022

Why Bulgaria and Poland can withstand Russia cutting off their gas supply

22 April 2022

How a new GCSE in natural history can help us towards a greener future

13 April 2022

Ukraine: Nato exercises a happy coincidence ‘just in case’ of escalation

8 April 2022

Providing a space for local people to shape Reading’s future

6 April 2022

Why Russia has put the rouble on a gold standard – but it’s unlikely to last

1 April 2022

Getting to net zero will require inclusive landscape decisions

30 March 2022

Accessible research for all: what UKRI’s new Open Access policy means for us

29 March 2022

From elite bargains to more inclusive politics?

23 March 2022

Diverse cemetery and crematoria needs during Covid-19

22 March 2022

Ukraine: what might happen if the war spreads to a Nato country

18 March 2022

Teaching Climate and Sustainability in Primary Schools: An Outdoor Learning Approach

17 March 2022

Ukraine: Putin’s vision of ‘Russian Ukraine’ misunderstands how borders came about

16 March 2022

Putting quality of life at the heart of planning

7 March 2022

#BreakTheBias: Not just Numbers, but Effective Women’s Power in Corporations

4 March 2022

Ukraine: how Putin used a long proxy conflict to justify invasion

23 February 2022

Breaking the ice: The power of networks

22 February 2022

Time for the UK to say goodbye to drive-throughs: for the sake of our environment, our health – and our culture

21 February 2022

Reimagining Social Justice in Speech and Language Therapy

18 February 2022

Ukraine: the problem with copying Finland’s strict cold war neutrality

14 February 2022

Ukraine: the economic impact of tension with Russia is part of Putin’s long-term plan

11 February 2022

CentAUR in 2021

4 February 2022

How tiny living spaces affect our wellbeing – individually and societally

2 February 2022

Mapping the Open Research landscape at the University of Reading

26 January 2022

“My father was a wandering European”: Triple loyalties in Brexit Britain – British, Jewish, European?

24 January 2022

Climate education – global change through local action

24 December 2021

Our most popular papers of 2021

8 December 2021

Collaborating with Industry: A Knowledge Transfer Partnership could be the answer

3 December 2021

Ten years of financial fair play: has it been good for European football?

24 November 2021

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme Showcase 2021

22 November 2021

India’s terrible roads: how to build a world-class network and still reach net zero

8 November 2021

The Maldives is threatened by rising seas – but coastal development is causing even more pressing environmental issues

5 November 2021

Slapps: the rise of lawsuits targeting investigative journalists

3 November 2021

Bitcoin: why its value has rocketed once again

1 November 2021

Sorry Boris Johnson, the UK will not become the Qatar of hydrogen

25 October 2021

Planning reform: an opportunity to ground the planning system in public involvement

18 October 2021

New research network to explore future blood testing solutions

29 September 2021

Research engagement – how does your network grow?

27 September 2021

Research engagement – the importance of listening

22 September 2021

Research into action: learning from REF2021

17 September 2021

Electricity prices have reached record highs – and the time-poor could suffer most

13 September 2021

9/11 twenty years on: al-Qaida is defeated – but jihadism is here to stay

28 July 2021

The future of auditing: why plans to sharpen up the industry could actually make it worse

23 July 2021

Tokyo Olympics without crowds: will the home nation’s medal chances suffer?

2 July 2021

House prices: the risks of a fall are higher than most people think

11 June 2021

Why politicians should be wary of publicly pursuing the Wuhan lab-leak investigation

19 May 2021

Understanding why people behave sustainably

11 May 2021

Trips waiver: there’s more to the story than vaccine patents

30 April 2021

India COVID crisis: four reasons it will derail the world economy

23 April 2021

Navigating the industry route for successful policy engagement

21 April 2021

Global Development workshop: Conceptualising historical legacies

20 April 2021

European Super League: why punishing the breakaway 12 could backfire badly

19 April 2021

Coinbase is listing for US$100 billion on NASDAQ, but you might be better buying bitcoin instead

9 April 2021

University Research Fellowships: how has the year been?

29 March 2021

Oil: why higher prices will complicate the energy transition

24 March 2021

How are gender equality norms implemented in peacekeeping?

17 March 2021

Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power

8 March 2021

International Women’s Day 2021

1 March 2021

COVID stamp duty holiday reveals big problems in the housing market

8 February 2021

Cocaine: falling coffee prices force Peru’s farmers to cultivate coca

5 February 2021

Beyond COVID-19 – the importance of ‘urban futures’ thinking for our towns and cities

22 January 2021

Gaming for Grammar

18 January 2021

Four-day week: how workplaces can successfully establish it

13 January 2021

Bitcoin: why the price has exploded – and where it goes from here

10 December 2020

COVID-19 exposes the UK: Rights for All means Rights for Some

10 December 2020

Human rights around the world – here’s what we need to do.

24 November 2020

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme Showcase 2020

27 October 2020

Decolonising the history curriculum

20 October 2020

The ‘crazy uncle’ in the Oval Office: how Donald Trump’s social media use changed US politics

12 October 2020

Widening access to shared ownership is not enough to solve England’s housing crisis

8 October 2020

Why England’s Premier League should bail out the lower leagues

5 October 2020

How to prevent disruptions in food supply chains after COVID-19

2 September 2020

Leading entrepreneurship ecosystems research in East Europe and Central Asia

1 September 2020

Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up

21 August 2020

Understanding Equality: From Distribution to Relationships

7 July 2020

Going online during a global pandemic

30 June 2020

Combating climate change – why investors should keep their shares in fossil fuel companies

26 June 2020

COVID-19 and grappling with the uncertainties of a ‘new normal’ for researchers

9 June 2020

What future do airlines have?

4 June 2020

Tackling the economic and social challenges caused by COVID-19

2 June 2020

Peru’s war on drugs is an abject failure – here’s what it can learn from Bolivia

27 May 2020

COVID-19: The paradox of scientific advice which is not scientific

22 May 2020

Should there be a phased reopening of schools from 1st June? Let the teachers have their say

12 May 2020

Coronavirus: learning from the second world war’s industrial pioneers

6 May 2020

The whole idea of global value chains will be reconsidered after coronavirus

23 April 2020

Forget the Premier League, it’s grassroots football that we need to preserve!

22 April 2020

Business as usual post-pandemic? Reshaping relations between the state and the private sector in light of COVID-19

8 April 2020

Diverse funerary needs at a time of crisis: reflections on Covid-19 in multicultural Europe​

8 April 2020

Coronavirus: just letting children play will help them, and their parents, cope

6 April 2020

How reading can help with your home-schooling worries

3 April 2020

How will football return after this unplanned hiatus?

27 March 2020

Why coronavirus lockdown rules will not be obeyed by everyone

18 March 2020

Prizes for outstanding early career research

4 March 2020

What can the Black Death tell us about the global economic consequences of a pandemic?

25 February 2020

Patchwork EU Member State laws hamper free movement for ‘rainbow families’

20 January 2020

Fish, sausage, even honey: Food fraud is hidden in plain sight

15 January 2020

REF is coming – grab every chance to promote your research

8 January 2020

What next for Iran’s proxy network after killing of Qassem Soleimani?

20 December 2019

Our most popular papers of 2019

4 December 2019

RBS’s Bó: the fightback against Monzo and Revolut is about much more than market share

16 November 2019

Economics of a four-day working week: research shows it can save businesses money

7 November 2019

How business misrepresented evidence: the South African sugar tax story

18 October 2019

Children challenging world leaders for inaction on climate change won’t win, but they will put the spotlight on climate justice

7 October 2019

Work less to save the planet? How to make sure a four-day week actually cuts emissions

5 October 2019

Nuclear powers once shared their technology openly – how Iran’s programme fell on the wrong side of history

27 September 2019

In pictures: stimulating senses at the Berkshire show

26 September 2019

Who is a mother? Is a person’s gender inextricably tied to their status as a parent?

24 September 2019

Superblocks: Barcelona’s car-free zones could extend lives and boost mental health

18 September 2019

Schools are failing pupils with special needs, despite best efforts of dedicated staff

10 September 2019

Why don’t local people have a greater say in their neighbourhoods?

3 September 2019

Bury FC: the economics of an English football club’s collapse

31 July 2019

Doing business better: can we create a more ethical Reading?

3 July 2019

In pictures: researchers at work

18 June 2019

England’s history of defaulting on European lenders shows repercussions of not paying Brexit bill

11 June 2019

Is anyone asking who young Conservatives want as their leader? It’s probably not Boris Johnson

3 June 2019

Female military peacekeepers left feeling overwhelmed after inadequate training

10 May 2019

How Sudan’s economic crisis had a role in protests that toppled al-Bashir

9 May 2019

How will technology shape the future of humanity?

3 May 2019

Nuclear weapons might save the world from an asteroid strike – but we need to change the law first

2 May 2019

Three lessons for leadership from the Brexit mess

1 May 2019

Populism, imperial insects and Cold War era children’s books – new University Research Fellowships awarded in arts, humanities and social sciences

24 April 2019

Trump’s crackdown on Iran’s oil exports could backfire badly – with serious risks to global economy

20 March 2019

How did Reading get so prosperous – and how can smart town planning keep it that way?

19 March 2019

Prizes awarded to outstanding early career researchers

8 March 2019

British Science Week round-up

5 March 2019

What rights do the children of Islamic State have under international law?

1 February 2019

Hydrogen trains are coming – can they get rid of diesel for good?

1 February 2019

Stronger justice to keep children safe

22 January 2019

Warmer winters, drier summers: how will Reading handle climate change?

21 January 2019

Urban rooms: where people get to design their city’s future

28 December 2018

Our most popular papers of 2018

17 December 2018

Why Brexit is causing turmoil for the pound and other markets

10 December 2018

Human rights, global wrongs

6 December 2018

Time is running out on climate change, but geoengineering has dangers of its own

29 November 2018

Arctic cold war: climate change has ignited a new polar power struggle

29 November 2018

Beards, business and a history of facial hair in the workplace

27 November 2018

‘Limited evidence’ smart meters would save consumers money

15 November 2018

Parliament week 2018: Top tips for engaging policy-makers with your research

12 November 2018

Putting LGBTI issues in the school curriculum goes far beyond ‘political correctness’

8 November 2018

How we’ll sit less and move more in Reading, 2050

19 October 2018

Opening up new opportunities with Open Access

8 October 2018

We want your views on public engagement with research

3 October 2018

‘Imprints’ egalitarian theory journal now available to all

26 September 2018

Giving up on language learning? It doesn’t have to be this way!

21 September 2018

Sleepwalking towards the next financial crisis? Here are the five biggest risks

14 September 2018

Lehman Brothers anniversary: A philosopher’s view on avoiding another financial crash

11 September 2018

Five charts to help you understand London’s falling house prices

7 September 2018

A simple way to inform parliamentary debate – submit your research to POST now!

14 August 2018

Could ‘grey power’ affect world economies?

9 August 2018

Development agencies need to improve their language

6 August 2018

How a moral philosopher justifies his carbon footprint

2 August 2018

Forecasting Football (scores)

31 July 2018

Minister’s quest for ‘simple solutions’ to social mobility misses the point

29 June 2018

Why Japan is reluctant to retry the world’s longest-serving death row inmate

28 June 2018

Why the US left the UN Human Rights Council – and why it matters

27 June 2018

If we want equal life chances for all we must stop focusing on exam results

14 June 2018

Asylum seekers are now political pawns in a disharmonious EU

14 June 2018

Life-changing research: shortlist announced for Research Engagement and Impact Awards 2018

12 June 2018

More clarity and resources needed from government, say neighbourhood planning volunteers

11 June 2018

Global projects win funding among latest research awards

7 June 2018

Rights for same-sex married couples to move around the EU confirmed in landmark ruling

23 May 2018

12 years without an execution: Is Zimbabwe ready to abolish the death penalty?

21 May 2018

How Britain’s colonial legacy still affects LGBT politics around the world

10 May 2018

There will be another Alfie Evans. Experts need to engage

1 May 2018

‘Engage openly’ during elections, academics urged

23 April 2018

Reading researchers excel in O2RB Impact Awards

19 April 2018

Five ways artificial intelligence will shape the future of universities

12 April 2018

Benjamin Netanyahu’s U-turn: no redemption for asylum seekers in Israel

28 March 2018

Changing lives

23 March 2018

Aum Shinrikyo subway sarin attack: Japanese cult members await execution two decades on

22 March 2018

Have your say on Open Research: the future, or fool’s charter?

21 March 2018

Global warming, light switch molecules and malaria – early career researchers net prizes

15 March 2018

Reading research near you: British Science Week

8 March 2018

On International Women’s Day, female academics are among research funding winners

20 February 2018

Climate justice: a new civil rights movement?

13 February 2018

Italian General Election 2018: The Phantom Menace

12 February 2018

Bonding over books could help children across the globe

12 February 2018

Promoting educational equality: from the bottom to the top – Westminster Symposium 27 February

24 January 2018

PFI has been a failure – and Carillion is the tip of the iceberg

11 January 2018

Advice for the new education secretary: it’s time to get bold on inequality

10 January 2018

Smart cities: top tips for mayors

12 December 2017

Brexit and Big Social Data

2 November 2017

Can fairness create a green future?

1 November 2017

Research shows reform can end abuse by UN peacekeepers

31 October 2017

Bringing death to life through games and discussion

17 October 2017

News from Prosperity and Resilience: Global Development

16 October 2017

Neighbourhood Planning HIVE coming soon

9 October 2017

Why are languages missing from the Sustainable Development Goals?

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Mike Goodman

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Henny Osbahr and Walker Institute

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Dr Stefania Lovo

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Dr Avril Maddrell

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Dr Zahra Siddique

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Participation Lab

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Alex Arnall

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Peter Dorward

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Sally-Lloyd Evans

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity and Resilience: Walker Institute and Marie Aronsson-Storier

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity and Resilience: Dr Hilary Geoghegan

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity and Resilience: Sam Rawlings

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity and Resilience: Dr Eleanor Fisher

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity and Resilience: Andrew Ainslie

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity and Resilience: Chuks Okereke

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity and Resilience: Rosa Freedman

6 October 2017

News from Prosperity and Resilience: Sarah Cardey

3 October 2017

Deep Space Gateway, Trump, and the space race sixty years on

13 September 2017

Top UN expert’s resignation spells trouble for defenders of LGBT rights

21 August 2017

Armed drones in the ‘right hands’

3 August 2017

Ethnic pay disparity – a closer look at differences across groups

13 June 2017

CollectiVoX

17 May 2017

NHS cyber attack: Change needed to protect valuable yet vulnerable hospital IT systems

9 May 2017

The four Alternative Food Network trends, and how they are changing the way we eat

28 April 2017

Talking about Open Research at the University of Reading

27 April 2017

Neighbourhood Planning amended as Reading research influences government legislation

25 April 2017

Research Engagement and Impact Awards 2017: Enter now!

28 March 2017

Prizes awarded for outstanding research outputs

15 March 2017

Reading wins £3.3m in research grants in January

28 February 2017

What reproducibility crisis? Open research may have the answers

8 February 2017

UK government housing plan ‘alarming’ – and falls short of decisive action

6 February 2017

Reading secures £3.9m in research awards in December

23 January 2017

Supreme Court Brexit ruling: What will the judges’ decision mean?

19 January 2017

Mexican standoff? The paradox of President Trump’s policies on Mexico

19 January 2017

Obama’s final days: Regrets – he’s had a few

16 January 2017

What is wrong with Donald Trump’s denial of climate change?

12 November 2013

Trade liberalization, rural development, and the future of Colombian peasantry

30 October 2013

Off with their head(scarves)! Should Britain ban the veil?

7 November 2012

Measuring the social sustainability of new housing developments

30 October 2012

Why has Obama failed to knock ‘47’ bells out of Romney?

18 September 2012

Fate of pre-nups and divorce matters to more than just celebs

31 July 2012

The invisibility of language intermediaries

4 April 2012

Reforming planning and the twin agendas of localism and growth in England

22 March 2012

Empowering judges to speak outside the courts

2 March 2012

The Ballerina and the Bull toward Transition

23 February 2012

Justice, security and secrecy

30 January 2012

A Road to Salvation or Fiscal Authoritarianism?

30 January 2012

Understanding Young People’s Aspirations

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