SEE & EAT will be at the Community Festival to show visitors how picture books, games and activities can be used to get young children to eat their veggies. 🥕🥦

Find Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences at Reading's SEE & EAT team at the Research Zone on Saturday 18 May!

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Congratulations to Richard Allan Reading Meteorology who has been shortlisted in this year’s Uni of Reading Research Awards for the project:

‘Communicating climate research to inspire positive action’

Find out about who else made the shortlist: research.reading.ac.uk/engagement-and…

Congratulations to Sarah Duddigan Geography and Environmental Science @ UoR & Grady Walker Global Development who have been shortlisted in this year’s Uni of Reading Research Awards for their project:

‘Understanding Zero Budget Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh’

Find out more about the shortlist: research.reading.ac.uk/engagement-and…

We're delighted to announce the shortlisted entries for the Uni of Reading 2024 Research Awards!

The projects demonstrate excellent research that addresses real-world problems, is built on partnership & collaboration and engages a wide range of audiences.

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From farm to plate: where does our seafood come from? 🍤

Join SAPD at Reading Uni researchers at the Community Festival to explore the development of a new, sustainable and environmentally friendly king prawn farming sector using renewable energy technology.

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A pair of papers stemming from a project  that TAMSAT undertook with the Start Network, developing a drought forecasting tool for disaster management in semi-arid, arid and hyper-arid regions of Pakistan (startnetwork.org/funds/disaster…) Connecting Research Start Network National Centre for Atmospheric Science 1/3

Discover the World of Stonehenge with Professor Duncan Garrow's (@UniRDG_Arch) talk at Uni of Reading's Community Festival.

Learn more about the highly acclaimed British Museum exhibition that explored the travel and technologies of prehistoric people.

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Today we unveiled #FarmingForNature 🚜 committing to our 2,000+ British Farmers to support them in moving to, nature-friendly farming 🌾& collaborating with LEAF and Uni of Reading, we'll be supporting our #WaitroseFarmers every step of the way…

Professor Simon Potts from SAPD at Reading Uni explains how Uni of Reading will play an important role in the ambitious new Farming for Nature scheme from @Waitrose.

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Waitrose and Uni of Reading will establish a three-year partnership to bridge the gap between cutting-edge agricultural research and practical farming as part of a new Farming for Nature scheme announced by @Waitrose today.

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Beans IN toast?! IFNH's Raising the Pulse team will be at the Community Festival's Research Zone!

Come along to taste test some fava bean bread and learn how pulses have an important part to play in improving our diets and environment. 🫘🍞

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Professor David Oderberg from Philosophy @ Reading spoke on the Purpose Podcast about why he got into philosophy, why it's important for the study of living things and the theory of mistakes he's developing with the Mistakes in Living Systems team.

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Don't miss this! Join University of Reading History & Reading Meteorology
for a panel discussion with academics from across globe on the links between colonialism and climate science.

📅 Fri 10 May 13:30-15:00 GMT
🌍 JJ Thomson Building, or ONLINE

Open to all!

Register now: bit.ly/3UvCqfJ

Today, we are formally launching the CoCentre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.

This CoCentre involves 60+ researchers exploring solutions for climate, biodiversity & water issues on islands of Ireland & GB.

Co-Directors: Yvonne Buckley & Mark Emmerson
Deputy Director: Ed Hawkins

Help climate scientists learn about how global lightning activity varies by transcribing measurements about atmospheric electricity taken at Lerwick on the Shetland Isles from the 1920s-1980s.

Anyone can help!

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A team from SAPD at Reading Uni incl John Hammond Dr Alice Haughan, Chris Wyver & I, had our 1st day of formal GVC training to learn to fly drones. Looking fwd to all the ways we can use this in our research & teaching especially in Env Man @ Rdg. Watch this space Connecting Research

Join us on 18 May for the Uni of Reading Community Festival - a FREE one day celebration for the whole #RdgUK community.

Taking place from 11am-5pm, there's music, talks, sport activities, street food and much more.

Check out the full line-up at rdg.ac/communityfest

We're delighted that the University has been awarded over £3.3 million over the next five years for The Museum of English Rural Life and its University of Reading Special Collections by the Research England Higher Education Museum, Galleries and Collections Fund.

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Research England UK Research and Innovation

Prof. David Oderberg was recently interviewed by Siddhant Pusdekar for The Purpose Podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6vlXiB…

Congratulations Ed Hawkins 👏👏👏