Reading in the news - Fri 9 Apr

Antarctic ice: A study by Dr Ella Gilbert (Meteorology) showing the vulnerability of Antarctic ice sheets to collapse under different scenarios of global warming is covered by The Times, Economic Times (India), iPaper, Daily Express, Metro, Sky News, Yahoo News, New Scientist, the Guardian, Science Daily, Irish News, CNN, and multiple other outlets via agencies Press Association and UPI. Dr Gilbert write a guest blog for Carbon Brief on the research behind the findings. The story has been shared widely – including by editor in chief of Elle magazine, Nina Garcia, on Twitter. Read our news story.

COVID-19: expert comment on the pandemic

• Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) comments in The Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Manchester Evening News and spoke to BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio West Midlands, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Jersey, BBC Radio Oxford and Heart Berkshire about the Oxford/AZ vaccine blood clot risks and the rollout of the Moderna vaccine in the UK; The Times about lower risks of Covid transmission outdoors; and answered listeners’ questions on LBC Radio.

#WeAreTogether: Reading’s work to help fight the coronavirus pandemic

• Get Reading lists the University’s Great Hall as one of Berkshire’s Covid test centres.
• Mail and Guardian (South Africa) quotes Henley Business School Africa Dean Jon Foster-Pedley on how the pandemic has helped to improve business education.

COP26: coverage connected with the University’s campaign around the 2021 international climate change conference in Glasgow

• Dr Ella Gilbert (Meteorology) spoke to Sky News’ new Daily Climate Show about global CO emissions and concentrations in a segment looking ahead to COP26.

Housing market: Prof Michael Ball (Urban and Property Economics) spoke to BBC Radio 4 about interest rates and housing prices in the UK.

Other coverage

• The Times quotes Dr Paul Jenkins (Psychology) on proposals to scrap the use of Body Mass Index (BMI) as a measure of obesity.
• Continued coverage in regional UK media, via Press Association, of the study by Professor Nigel Arnell (Meteorology) on increased risks of wildfires in the UK due to climate change. Read our news story.
• The Street (and others) announces appointment of Reading law graduate Gabi Seligsohn as chair of Augwind.
• The Digest of the British Psychological Society highlights a study on regret by Dr Lily FitzGibbon (Psychology)
• The News Portsmouth (in print) features Reading psychology graduate and rugby star Vickii Cornborough.