Meet Mara Oliva and the people behind Digital Humanities at the University of Reading.
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What your fruit bowl reveals about climate breakdown
Spring arrived in style on March 26 2021 in Kyoto, Japan, as cherry trees reached the peak of their bloom. This marked the earliest recorded date when most flowers have opened…Read More >
Making Fields: Women in Publishing
The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020 highlights the long history of women’s work as editors and publishers, designers, booksellers, type drawers, illustrators, agents, and more. With thirty-three deeply-researched…Read More >
Poems for World Poetry Day
Poems for World Poetry Day Presented by Peter Robinson Having spent most of my life studying literature and attempting to write and publish poetry, I feel especially fortunate to find…Read More >
Future health: can nutrition and lifestyle combine to make a global impact?
Can new developments in nutrition and its interaction with lifestyle help reduce the massive burden of some key non-communicable diseases including dementia, diabetes, and obesity? This year’s 6th annual Institute for…Read More >
Side-effects of expanding forests could limit their potential to tackle climate change – new study
Tackling climate change by planting trees has an intuitive appeal. They absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without using expensive technology. The suggestion that you can plant…Read More >
Meet Esther Oenga – researcher profile for National Careers Week
Dr Esther Oenga is Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) Fellow at the University of Reading and specialises in participatory, community-led research which empowers communities. Esther has previously facilitated a partnership…Read More >
Maternal wellbeing, infant feeding and return to paid work: project updates
In November 2022 I wrote a blog about our research on maternal well-being, infant feeding and return to work funded by the Nuffield Foundation, as we launched our project’s mother’s…Read More >
Meet Sarah Jewell – researcher profile for National Careers Week
Sarah Jewell is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading. She is a principal investigator for a Nuffield Foundation project on ‘Maternal Well-Being, Infant Feeding and Return to Paid…Read More >
