Reading in the news - Wed 6 Sep

Crumbly concrete: Adrian Tagg (Built Environment) continues to provide expert media comment on RAAC in schools and public buildings, including a podcast from Sky News republished by Banoyi. Read his expert comment.

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment 

• Reading Today reports that records could be broken for September temperatures, quoting Dr Stephen Burt – read the full analysis. i News quotes Professor Hannah Cloke (Geography/Meteorology). Read our expert comment. 
• LBC News spoke to Dr Robert Thompson (Meteorology) on the magnitude of rainfall predicted for parts of Northern Greece.  
• Time News reports on pollution preventing pollinators from finding flowers, Dr James Ryalls (Sustainable Land Management) is quoted. Read our news story.
• Popular Mechanics highlights how scientists from the University of Reading found severe clear-air turbulence has increased 55% since 1979.  

Culture and heritage:

• The Guardian report that a team including Dr Darko Maricevic (Archaeology) has uncovered a Neolithic monument on the Isle of Arran. Read our news story.
• Dr Ellen Pilsworth (Languages and Cultures) will introduce a free screening of a short film that features an interview with a man who survived two concentration camps, Reading Today and Wokingham Today reports.
• Heart Berkshire reports on the archaeological excavation in Cookham which has uncovered a cemetery with bodies from three generations.
• Professor Jane Setter (English Language and Applied Linguistics) spoke to BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire on why we gravitate towards using a different voice when we’re not having face-to-face interactions.
• Dora Pain, a student studying Fine Art at the University of Reading, will have artwork featured at Summer at the Beach art festival, Cambridge Independent (in print) reports.

Health and wellbeing:

• Daily Star, BristolLive, TeessideLive and other regional news outlets quote Dr Simon Clarke (Biomedical Sciences) on new Covid variants, and the Daily Mail on immunity as BA.2.86 cases rise. Also republished by Express Digest, Web Times, MSN and TodayHeadline.
• LBC News spoke to Professor Ciara McCabe (Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences) on the relationship between young people’s mental health and climate change.

Food and farming:

• 702, CapeTalk, Food Stuff SA, 947 and KFM republish an article from The Conversation, written by Carol Wagstaff (Agriculture, Food and Health), on the benefits of microgreens.
• HortiBiz Daily republish an article by Vertical Future, who are working in partnership with the University of Reading and other agri-tech and berry industry leaders, aiming to boost strawberry plant yield.

Business and society:

• Henry Hillman (Law) writes for The Conversation highlighting new researching finding universities and their students vulnerable to money laundering.
• The SA Heart Association Annual Congress will feature a Henley Business School award, sponsored by Discovery Health, The Bulrushes, South Africa Today and NGOConnectSA report.  
• Teller Report republishes an article by France24 quoting Dr Alexander Mihailov (Economics) on the pressures on an Austrian bank operating in Russia.  
• SpecFinish (in print) report on the amber warning about the readiness of the BSR, drawing three conclusions from the research by FIS, commissioned with the University of Reading.  

Other Coverage: 

• BBC Berkshire reported on the cost-of-living crisis faced by students in Reading and elsewhere.

Alumni: 

• IFST reports that Carol Bingley, a Food Science graduate, will speak at the IFST Webinar on Enhancing Nutrition.