For World Autism Awareness Day, Dr Fang Liu, Associate Professor in the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences writes about how researchers at the University of Reading designed an…Read More >
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Why it’s time for new approaches to environmental and health issues in the EU
An article recently published in Environmental Science & Policy suggests that current economic approaches to addressing environmental and health issues in the European Union suffer from a lack of imagination,…Read More >
The life and work of Zoologist Nellie B. Eales
In this blog for Women’s History Month, Claire Clough, University Museums and Special Collections Services Librarian, shares her research on the life and work of Nellie B. Eales (1889–1989). Eales…Read More >
How fish evolved to walk – and in one case, turned into humans
When you think about human evolution, there’s a good chance you’re imagining chimpanzees exploring ancient forests or early humans daubing woolly mammoths on to cave walls. But we humans, along…Read More >
Deciding what to wear to work isn’t getting any easier for women, even as business dress codes relax
HSBC has recently introduced what it calls a “more casual” uniform for its branch staff, including jumpsuits and jeans, “menopause-friendly” clothing, as well as “ethnic wear”. The uniforms aim to make staff…Read More >
‘Piety, Sobriety and Variety’: the first three female MPs to arrive at Westminster
Much has been written about Constance Markievicz, the first woman elected to parliament at the general election 1918 and Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat in parliament…Read More >
Testing, testing: think about the instructions
When the Covid-19 pandemic started, few had heard of lateral flow tests or imagined they would become part of everyday life. An initial scale-up of centralised mass-testing was followed by…Read More >
How the pandemic has brought equality of access to healthcare into sharp focus
On the third anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic, Rachel Horton – Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of Reading – considers how the pandemic…Read More >
Why we need more women judges in the UK
Law-making was an entirely male activity in the UK until just over a century ago and has been dominated by men ever since. Barred from both standing and voting for…Read More >
Win. Don’t Bin: WRAP’s Food Waste Action Week
If food waste were a country, estimates are that it would have the third highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after China and the US. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12.3…Read More >
