27 March 2026
Centenary celebrations: BBC Radio Berkshire presenter Kirsten O’Brien hosted her mid-morning show from campus to celebrate the University’s centenary.
Interviewees included Emeritus Professor Kevin Warwick (Biomedical Engineering) and Dr George Boulos, alumni and author Michael Rosen, who studied Children's Literature, olympic rowers and Reading graduates Natasha and Sam Townsend, Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Van de Noort, Dr Stephen Burt (Meteorology), Bagelman, past international students, film critic and graduate Rhianna Dillon, graduate David Betts, and PhD student Hardeep Kaur Joginder Singh (Food and Nutritional Sciences).
Health and wellbeing:
#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment
Professor Tom Oliver (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) wrote for Green Alliance about solutions to solve the nature and climate crisis.
GB News (republished by Europe Says and BYTESEU) featured comments from Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) on links between ancient climate shifts, greenhouse gases, and ocean warming.
Research from Dr Jamie Thompson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) is aiming to create a cactus database to help conservation, reports Floral Daily.
Energy In Demand republished an article written by Dr Luke Elson (Philosophy) in The Conversation about the difficulty of deciding how to tackle climate change.
Heritage and culture:
Other coverage:
Alumni:
Victoria Cope, Commercial Director at the Ministry of Defence, who has an MBA from Henley Business School, will be a speaker at an upcoming event for WIG.
Agricultural Economics graduate and farmer Marek Stefun has won the Brian Chambers Trophy Award, reports Farming Online.
We are in the process of finalising our postgraduate taught courses for 2027/28 entry. In the meantime, you can view our 2026/27 courses.
