Reading in the news - Mon 3 Aug
03 August 2020
COVID-19: expert comment on the coronavirus outbreak
- Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) is quoted in the Observer, Financial Times and Yahoo! News about delaying the relaxation of some lockdown rules and spoke to LBC Radio and talkRADIO. Dr Clarke is also quoted in the Independent and Head Topics about concerns over a winter second wave, and in Daily Hunt about antibodies.
- Further coverage of a paper by Professor Uma Kambhampati (Economics) about women political leaders handling the pandemic better than male peers is reported in the Guardian and Yahoo! News.
- Raconteur quotes Dr Nikolaos Antypas (Henley Business School) about tech-enabled finance and its potential in the economic impact of the pandemic.
- BBC Radio Berkshire spoke to Dr Mark Shanahan (Politics and International Relations), who was lucky enough to get a ticket to attend a lower-capacity cricket match, about the Prime Minister’s decision to ban fans from attending such events due to the recent rise in COVID-19 cases.
#WeAreTogether: how Reading is helping in the pandemic
- TV Tokyo interviewed Prof Gary Stephens (Pharmacy) about Fifi the llama and her role in producing antibodies to understand how to neutralise SARS-CoV-2. Read our news story here.
Climate report: Further coverage of comments about a new Met Office report about the effect that climate change is having on UK weather. Prof Hannah Cloke (GES and Met) is quoted on articles on BBC Newsround, and Prof Rich Allan (Met) is quoted in the Independent and MSN News.
Other coverage
- Further coverage of new research which revealed that the large stones that make up Stonehenge were sourced from local woods in Wiltshire, in The Smithsonian Magazine and Reading.co.uk. BBC Radio Berkshire spoke to Katy Whitaker (Archaeology) about the origin of Stonehenge’s sarsen stones being revealed by new research. Read our news story.
- BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s Naked Scientists programme spoke to Dr Jane Parker (Food and Nutritional Sciences) about the science behind taste.
- The National Interest have republished a blog by Professor Bryan Cheyette (English Literature) in The Conversation about rapper Wiley who was banned from Twitter for anti-Semitic posts.
- New research by Prof Valerio Lucarini (Maths) which could improve climate modelling is reported in Phys.org and WUWT.
- BBC Wildlife magazine mentions a UoR study about hedgehogs looking at whether holes in fences ‘save’ hedgehogs.
- PhD researcher Akshay Deoras (Met) about highest July rainfall in Mumbai on record in Hindustan Times.
- Independent Nigeria spoke to the founder of African Fashion Week London, Ronke Ademiluyi and the interview notes that the Fashion Week is launching a course with Henley Business School.
Alumni coverage
- An obituary published in the Times looks back at the life of Clive Ponting OBE, a former civil servant who was tried and acquitted under the official secrets act. Ponting studied History at Reading.
- Sunday Observer Sri Lanka reports on a new book of archaeological sites in the country, written by former student Dr P.G. Punchihewa.