News Archive

Spotlight on Success - February 2019

Each month we publish a selection of key Teaching & Learning and Research achievements and developments. See February’s news below.

Awards & Prizes

• Dr Dina Rezk (History) has been selected as one of the BBC Radio 3 AHRC’s New Generation Thinkers for 2019, which includes the chance to contribute to BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programmes throughout the year.
• Dr Yota Dimitriadi (Institute of Education), Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova (Henley Business School) and Dr David Carter (International Study & Language Institute) announced as the University’s National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) scheme nominees for 2019
• Celebrating 50 years of masters botany teaching: Reading’s team won this year’s Botanical University Challenge, held on campus last month. The success helps launch the department’s Reading Botany 2019 series of events
• Professor Tim Duff (Classics) has been appointed as an International Advisor for ‘Rome our Home: (Auto)biographical Tradition and the Shaping of Identity(ies)’ (BioRom); a project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
• Professor Frank Mayle (Archaeology) has been awarded a grant co-funded by AHRC and FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation) for the project 'Human Environment Relationships in pre-Columbian Amazonia (HERCA)', also involving Dr Gundula Mueldner (Archaeology) and Rhi Smith (MERL).
• The Centre for Dairy Research (CEDAR) won the High Feed Efficiency Award at the UK Dairy Industry Cream Awards on 6 February, picked up on behalf of CEDAR by Professor Richard Ellis and Dr Nicola Lancaster (Agriculture Policy and Development).

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News

• Professor Rosa Freedman (Global Development) has been invited to serve on the newly established United Nations Civil Society Advisory Board on prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.
• The University’s Understanding Anxiety, Depression and CBT MOOC has been approved for distance-learning continuing professional development by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)
• The British Science Association have selected Operation Weather Rescue, a citizen science project run by Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology), as a flagship project for British Science Week (8 – 17 March).
• Dr Matthew Scott (English Literature) delivered the 2019 Keats Foundation Annual Lecture at Keats House in London, entitled ‘How Much Did Keats Really Know?' on 9 February. 

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