Universities Week 2014 - 9-15 June
Release Date 09 June 2014
The University of Reading is delighted to be part of Universities Week, a national campaign organised by Universities UK, that is focused on raising the profile of university research and its impact on our everyday lives.
Events and activities will be taking place at institutions all over the country and here at Reading we are proud to host a special showcase programme.
For the whole of next week, a team of staff will be exhibiting ‘Bees, berries and bicycles' at the Natural History Museum in London, alongside many other UK universities.
Find out about all of our Universities Week events >>>
#PeoplesQs - tweet your questions
Fourteen of our academics are taking part in the national #PeoplesQs twitter chat for #uniweek, giving you, and people all over the world, the opportunity to ask researchers and academics about their work.
So just tweet them, and academics from many other universities, using #PeoplesQs and #uniweek, to get answers to any burning questions you might have!
Name |
Topics |
Twitter handle |
Paul Almond |
Criminal law, criminology, health and safety |
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Andrew Barrett |
Storms, clouds, weather forecasting |
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Bhisma Chakrabarti |
neuroscience of emotion and autism |
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Alistair Culham |
Biodiversity, botany, plants |
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Ed Hawkins |
Climate science |
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Agatha Herman |
Food, wine, Fairtrade, ethics, farmers, agriculture |
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Gerry Leonidas |
Typography, typeface design; on paper and screen, desktops and mobiles |
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Jonathan Mitchley |
Botany, plants, ecology |
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Shirley Reynolds |
General mental health, depression, anxiety in children/adolescents, cognitive behavioural therapy |
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Jess Sage |
Why does literature matter, digital humanities, archives |
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Jane Setter |
English language - punctuation, pronunciation, grammar, Global Englishes |
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Becky Thomas |
Wildlife/nature (and its relationship with people), urban ecology, domestic cat predation |
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Rob Thomson |
Storms, clouds, weather forecasting |
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Shirley Williams |
Massive Open Online Courses |