Teaching & Learning and Research highlights - January 2019
Friday, 08 February 2019
Each month we publish a selection of key Teaching & Learning and Research achievements and developments, titled 'Spotlight on success'. See below for what’s been happening in January.
Awards & Prizes
- Mark Nixon (English Literature) has won a share of The Modern Language Association of America’s Modern Language Association Prize for a Bibliography, Archive, or Digital Project for the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
- The 10 winners of the 2018/2019 Partnerships in Learning & Teaching Projects Scheme (PLanT) have been announced by CQSD.
- Richard Blakemore (History) has been nominated for Military History Matters Book of the Year for The British Civil Wars at Sea 1638-1653.
- Professor Paul Williams (Meteorology) has won a £5000 runner-up prize in the NERC Impact Awards for his work on better forecasting of aviation turbulence.
- The achievements of 2018’s highest performing students were recognised at the Chancellor’s Awards ceremony, hosted by the Chancellor, Acting Vice-Chancellor and RUSU’s President.
- Avril Maddrell (Global Development) has been awarded a grant of EUR 210,000 HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) grant under its Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe (2019-2022) research programme, for her project on cemeteries and crematoria as public spaces of belonging.
Click here to see information on all recent research grants and awards.
Strategic Project Updates
The University and Royal Berkshire Hospital Joint Academic Board has awarded £115,000 to support eight health innovation projects in both teaching and research. [link to anchored text]
The first Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) integration is now live, which marks an important step in improving the efficiency of our assessment systems.
News
- This year’s Teaching & Learning conference on ‘Building an Academic Community’ was a great success, with more than 100 colleagues and students in attendance. Find further information and slides here.
- A crowd-funder campaign to raise a statue of Nancy Astor in Plymouth, on which Dr Jacqui Turner (History) is historical consultant, has met its £110,000 target. Learn more about #Astor100
- Dr Sakthi Vaiyapuri (Pharmacy) has reached over 40,000 people in India with a public health campaign to reduce death and disability from venomous snakebites.
- Dr Vladimir Rauta (Politics & International Relations) was part of an international delegation of experts who addressed NATO Generals in January.
- A paper by Dr Alejandra Perotti (Biological Sciences) on how headlice and nit analysis can provide evidence of neglect has been named Paper of the Month by the journal Parasitology. See our news story on the research.
Click here to see all recent University of Reading research publications.
The University and Royal Berkshire Hospital Joint Academic Board has awarded £115,000 to support eight health innovation projects
The first awards have been made for projects from the Collaborative Innovation Fund. Over £115,000 was allocated to support eight projects in both teaching and research, including the development of an educational programme for Physician Associates; recovery of motor coordination with improved Virtual Reality visual feedback; using dance to improve balance and strength in the elderly; and Validation of 3D dynamic models of blood vessels.
These new collaborations bring together teams from diverse clinical specialisms with academics across the University to generate pilot data ahead of major grant proposals or course developments. The second call for projects will launch later this month.