Spotlight on Success - August 2019
Monday, 02 September 2019
Each month we publish a selection of key Teaching & Learning and Research achievements and developments. See August’s news below.
Awards & Prizes
- Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova (Henley Business School) and Dr Yota Dimitriadi (Institute of Education) were awarded National Teaching Fellowships. The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme raises the profile of teaching and learning at a national level, recognising and celebrating individuals who make an outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession
- Architects Journal announced the shortlist for their annual student prize, with University of Reading student Sam Bailey listed in the nominees
News
- Reading Festival 2019: Rock band Enter Shikari displayed a climate stripes visualisation by Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology) on the main stage on Sunday, and explained to their fans how important the research is. The animated graphic showed how average global temperatures have risen since 1850, and it was seen by tens of thousands of music fans. You can see the footage on BBC iPlayer here (with an account) - watch from 16:30
- Cindy Isherwood (CQSD) and Jess Johnson (CQSD) co-authored an article detailing Reading’s ‘sector leading’ Academic Tutor System, which was published on the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education’s blog
- Dr Sue Walsh (English Literature) took part in a conversation with author Frances Hardinge about Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 to coincide with a performance of Koechlin’s Les Bandar-Log at the Proms. She also wrote on the topic for The Conversation
- Dr Giles Harrison’s (Meteorology) 2015 textbook on meteorological measurements has been translated into Chinese in collaboration with Chengdu University of Information and Technology (CUIT), funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
- A paper by Professor Richard Ellis (Agriculture, Policy and Development) on the sensitivity of seed quality to unseasonal temperature extremes, and how this could be a future tipping point for food security and ecological diversity, is the most popular piece in the current issue of Seed Science
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