Preventing A Clotting Catastrophe: The COVID Connection Professor Jon Gibbins, Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research University of Reading Public Lecture Our blood needs to clot quickly when we injure…Read More >
Covid-19
Sport and COVID: What do we know?
Sport and COVID: What do we know? University of Reading Public Lecture by Professor James Reade (Economics) Sport, like most aspects of our lives, has been heavily disrupted by Covid-19….Read More >
Learning to cope with uncertainty during COVID-19
Over the past nine months, the word “uncertainty” has cropped up time and time again across the news and social media worldwide. The pandemic has created uncertainty in nearly every…Read More >
Why COVID-19 has left the UK especially vulnerable to flooding this winter
Winter is here and, as a researcher who monitors flooding, I find it more daunting than ever. The UK faces a formidable trend of warmer and wetter winters, which already increase the…Read More >
How to prevent disruptions in food supply chains after COVID-19
Almost all businesses involved in the food supply chain have experienced effects ranging from a mild shock to severe disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and further disruptions may be ahead…Read More >
ROSES Sport Economics Research Seminars
Below is a list of the Reading Online Sport Economics Seminars (ROSES). All Seminars take place on Fridays at 2:30-4pm, UK time, on Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade (j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk) for…Read More >
How to reset your relationship with your body if lockdown worsened an eating problem
As the coronavirus pandemic has spread, a growing number of people have been negatively affected not so much by the virus itself as by the response to it. One such…Read More >
Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up
Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes good leadership? Who has performed better and which countries have been worse? One…Read More >
Pandemic landscapes
In the last few weeks many people have ventured out into the countryside who would never normally do so. Historian Jeremy Burchardt has noticed that walking over the usually deserted…Read More >
COVID-19 and grappling with the uncertainties of a ‘new normal’ for researchers
The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing significant changes to the ways in which we operate as global development academics and practitioners. This new context requires both creative research methods and a…Read More >
