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  • Ancient History
  • Animal Science
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Architectural Engineering
  • Architecture
  • Art
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  • Biomedical Engineering
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  • Building and Surveying
  • Business and Management, Accounting and Finance

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  • Chemistry
  • Classics and Classical Studies
  • Climate Science
  • Computer Science
  • Construction Management
  • Consumer Behaviour and Marketing
  • Creative Writing
  • Drama
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  • Economics
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • English Language and Applied Linguistics
  • English Literature
  • Environment

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  • Food and Nutritional Sciences
  • Foundation programmes
  • French
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  • German
  • Graphic Communication and Design

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  • Healthcare
  • History
  • International Development
  • International Foundation Programme (IFP)
  • International Relations
  • Italian
  • Languages and Cultures
  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Marketing
  • Mathematics
  • Medical Sciences
  • Meteorology and Climate
  • Museum Studies

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  • Pharmacology
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  • Philosophy
  • Physician Associate Studies
  • Politics and International Relations
  • Psychology
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  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Surveying and Construction
  • Teaching
  • Theatre

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  • Wildlife Conservation
  • Zoology

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  • Agriculture
  • Ancient History
  • Animal Sciences
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Biological Sciences
  • Biomedical Sciences
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  • Chemistry
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  • Climate Science
  • Computer Science
  • Construction Management and Engineering
  • Consumer Behaviour
  • Creative Enterprise

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  • Data Science
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Energy and Environmental Engineering
  • Engineering
  • English Language and Applied Linguistics
  • English Literature
  • Environmental Science
  • Film, Theatre and Television
  • Finance
  • Food and Nutritional Sciences
  • Geography and Environmental Science
  • Graphic Design

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  • Healthcare
  • History
  • Information Management and Digital Business
  • Information Technology
  • International Development and Applied Economics
  • Languages and Cultures
  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Management
  • Medieval History
  • Meteorology and Climate
  • Microbiology
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Pharmacy
  • Philosophy
  • Physician Associate
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  • Project Management
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy

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  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Strategic Studies
  • Teaching
  • Theatre
  • Typography and Graphic Communication
  • War and Peace Studies
  • Zoology

About us

COVID-19 AND 2020/21 ACADEMIC YEAR

Plans for safe university activity and support for student tenants

Covid-19 community support

The University is working to support the Berkshire community during this challenging time.

To ensure that staff, students, parents and the local Reading community have accurate and up-to-date information about how the University is responding to COVID-19, we are launching a COVID-19 Support Hotline. It will operate seven days a week, launching at 10.30am on Monday 2 November. From that time, people can call 0118 214 7813 from 9:00–17:00 on weekdays and 11:00–16:00 at weekends.

Another way we are helping is through a new volunteering scheme, YUoR Community Champions, which matches student volunteers to local community organisations so they can assist remotely with technical, digital and admin requirements. Find out more about YUoR Community Champions, including how you can join the scheme as a volunteer or as a community organisation.

You can find out all the other ways the University is working with partners during the pandemic on our #WeAreTogether webpage.

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We're ready to welcome you

The University of Reading is an integral part of the town and makes a valuable contribution to the local area.  Positive engagement with the local community is important to us and we offer a wide range of events and activities open to all. We also work in close partnership with many community organisations.

Campus and community

Each term we offer an exciting variety of public events including lectures, music concerts, exhibitions and arts events. We also screen a range of independent films at the Reading Film Theatre.

You can visit the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) at London Road campus and enjoy our museums and collections on Whiteknights campus, including the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology and the Cole Museum of Zoology.

Improve your health and wellbeing at our SportsPark, or enjoy walking or cycling in our 123 hectares of award-winning parkland. Find secret treasures in the Harris Gardens including historical trees and a jungle garden.

You can find out more about our business engagement and our research impact by following the links at the top of the page.

Students and the local community

All students, whether living in University or privately rented accommodation, are part of the local community. The University takes pride in the value that our students bring to Reading but also recognises the challenge of integrating students with the wider population. We work closely with local authorities, including Reading Borough Council, Wokingham Borough Council and local police teams, to put in place a range of measures to help students settle into local neighbourhoods.

Hello Neighbour campaign

The University delivers information and advice to students renting private housing in local neighbourhoods. This includes advice on being a good neighbour such as introducing themselves to their neighbours, being considerate about noise, and advice on waste, recycling and parking. You can review these materials in the Hello Neighbour campaign resources section and use some of them yourself, if your student neighbour needs some advice.

University of Reading Street Support Team

The University Street Support Team (Street Wardens) provides advice to students socialising late at night, encouraging them to be responsible, respectful and safe when travelling through residential areas.

The highly trained and highly visible team patrols residential streets around the edges of campus in Redlands and Park wards between 10pm and 4am on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. At busy bus stops the team encourages students to queue in an orderly manner, and keep noise volumes down. They also encourage students to recycle any bottles/glass before they board the bus or to take empties home with them.

The team will also support any vulnerable students who may have lost their friends, or are having trouble getting home late at night.

The University Street Support Team works in the following areas:

  • Residential streets around Erleigh Road.
  • Residential streets close to St Patrick's Hall, including Christchurch Green bus stop.
  • Residential streets close to Wessex and Bridges Halls, including Melrose Avenue bus stop.
  • Residential streets by Foxhill Gate entrance/exit to campus, including Eastern Avenue.

If you see the team patrolling, please do stop and speak to them - they will listen to any concerns about poor behaviour on residential streets, and attend to issues if possible. Please note the team does not have police powers and cannot caution, arrest or disperse crowds. They also have no powers to close down excessively noisy house parties. If you experience these issues you should call the Thames Valley Police on 999 for an emergency or 101 for non-emergency issues.

The University Street Support Team was trialled between April 2018 and June 2019, as part of the University’s plans to promote positive community relationships between students and non-student neighbours. In September 2019 we committed to continue and expand the scheme based on feedback from the local police, council, local residents and students.

We review the scheme regularly to make sure the team are working in the best way possible. Please do send any feedback or questions you may have to the Community Relations Team at community@reading.ac.uk.

Contact Us


If you have any questions about our community activity, or ideas around community engagement, please contact our Community Relations Team at:
 community@reading.ac.uk.

If you have a neighbourhood complaint please use the same email or call us on 0118 378 6813.

Hello Neighbour campaign resources

Good neighbour advice (PDF)

Waste and recycling advice (PDF)

Introduce yourself to your neighbour postcard (PDF)

Community meetings reports

Download reports from community meetings including University Community Forums.

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