UNIVERSITY OF READING

The UK government has abandoned promises to transform the national food system after just a year, and will struggle to meet its own targets on health, climate and nature, food system experts have said.Writing in Nature Food, academics…

The University of Reading has been awarded Silver in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), recognising that its student experience and outcomes are very high quality with some outstanding features.   TEF is a national scheme run by…

Repurposing the lights commonly found in TV remotes for invisible channel switching could improve pioneering new experiments to encourage rainfall. A new application for light-emitting diodes (LED) will make it simpler for scientists to…

The results of the latest Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) show the strengths of the University of Reading in sharing knowledge for the benefit of the wider economy and society. In the latest KEF results, published on 27 September,…

Screen Berkshire was today officially launched to support the ongoing growth of the film and high end television (HETV) production industry in the region. The partnership will provide opportunities for work and training to build on the…

This year’s Celebrating Teaching and Learning Success event was a reminder of the ‘spectacular’ range of innovative projects and the ‘breadth of talent, expertise and enthusiasm’ of University of Reading staff. These were the reflections…

Making energy bills cheaper for small businesses is the goal of a University expert recruited to help a government research project.Dr Rory Jones, an Associate Professor in the University of Reading’s School of the Built Environment, and…

Community projects run by staff volunteers across the region have won more support from the University of Reading’s Community Fund initiative.A total of 18 community projects have been granted more than £67,000, an increase on previous…

Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the skin of this dangerous carnivore, a new study has shown for the first time. Excavations at Einhornhöhle (Unicorn Cave) in the Harz Mountains (Lower Saxony, Germany) in 2019 uncovered abundant Ice…

A single personality trait alone – innate happiness – accounts for 24% of student-satisfaction scores in higher education, according to a new international study in the peer-reviewed journal Assessment & Evaluation in Higher…