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Showcasing the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme

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31 January 20232 February 2023

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) offers students at the University of Reading the chance to gain hands-on research experience across all disciplines. Every November, UROP holds a showcase event…Read More >

Showcasing the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme

Mispronunciation: why you should stop correcting people’s mistakes

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30 June 202130 June 2021

A recent survey of 2,000 adults in the UK identified the top ten “mispronunciations” people find annoying. Thankfully the majority (65%) of annoyed people do not feel comfortable correcting a…Read More >

International Migrants’ Day 2020

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17 December 20205 July 2021

To celebrate International Migrants’ Day 2020, on its website the United Nations claims that ‘throughout human history, migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will to overcome adversity…Read More >

Going online during a global pandemic

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7 July 202012 November 2021

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our personal and professional lives in ways that we could not even have imagined just a few months ago. If someone…Read More >

Talk of war in COVID-19 coverage may be hiding testing failings

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21 April 202023 April 2020

Everyday we are bombarded with metaphors of war from the media reporting on COVID-19. Dr Sylvia Jaworska from the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, asks whether the differences…Read More >

Meghan Markle: reports of her ‘British accent’ sound like journalistic licence, say linguistics experts

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26 March 2019

Is Meghan Markle’s accent becoming more British? Not yet, according to Reading English Professor Jane Setter and colleagues Adrian Leeman and Sam Kirkham from the University of Lancaster, in a…Read More >

Meghan Markle: reports of her ‘British accent’ sound like journalistic licence, say linguistics experts

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