Reading in the news - Wed 23 Sep
23 September 2020
COVID-19: expert comment on the coronavirus pandemic
- Newsweek, Mail Online, Evening Standard, Yahoo! News and around a hundred regional titles quote Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) about a new study on numbers of asymptomatic patients.
- Dr Clarke spoke to Sky News on Monday following the presentation by Chief Scientific and Medical Officers. He was also interviewed by ITV News at Ten, Russian Today, BBC South Today, and BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire.
- Mail Online include comments by Dr Rachel McCloy (Psychology) about the announcement of curfews which will see pubs and restaurants close at 10pm.
#WeAreTogether: Reading’s work to tackle the coronavirus crisis. Read our round-up.
- Sky News spoke to the Chloe Fleming, President of RUSU’s Politics and International Relations Society about how changes due to the pandemic have resulted in a different start of the academic year.
- Further mention of a new testing site the University hopes to open on campus is mentioned on Heart Berkshire.
Weather in the classroom: An article in Times Educational Supplement about how the weather can be a useful topic for primary teaching includes a mention of a partnership between children’s author Nicola Davies and Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology) to produce poetry about extreme weather.
Other coverage
- Independent and MSN News look at what negative interest rates mean for consumer finances, and quotes Dr Nikolaos Antypas (Henley Business School).
- Gurinder Singh Purewal (Pharmacy) is quoted in Chemist and Druggist about how pharmacists have been helping to reach minority communities to encourage flu jabs in response to a challenge from a Conservative peer that south Asian communities are resistant to receive the flu vaccination
- Digital Journal carry comments from Professor Yipeng Liu (Henley Business School) about the restructuring of TikTok.
- An article about motivation in Forbes cites research by former Psychology Professor Kou Murayama conducted while he was based at Reading.