Reading in the news - Mon 23 Aug

COVID-19: expert comment on the pandemic 

• Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) is quoted by the Times, Mail Online, Yahoo News, Cosmos Magazine and The Girl Sun on rising infection rates in the UK and vaccine immunity; Business Telegraph about antibody treatments; and several German news titles, including Mannheim24 and Frankfurter Rundschau, about vaccinated people remaining contagious. He spoke to GB News; Talk Radio about booster jabs; BBC Radio Berkshire about infection rates in the UK and the return of students to university; and BBC Radio Berkshire about keeping safe at Reading Festival this weekend.
• Dr Alexander Edwards (Pharmacy) is quoted by al Khaleej Today on a study showing the Pfizer vaccine loses effectiveness quicker than others

Cookham monastery: Coverage of an excavation in Berkshire, led by Dr Gabor Thomas (Archaeology), which has located the remains of a monastery ruled over by Queen Cynethryth, continues in Mail Online, Smithsonian Mag, Archaeololgy.org, Yahoo News, Archaeology News Network, Business Fast and Express Digest. The discovery is also the subject of a column in the Telegraph. Read our news story.

#PlanetPartners: Reading’s global work for a sustainable future

• Professor Hannah Cloke (Geography/Meteorology) is quoted in an Interesting Engineering article on the worst flooding events ever seen.
• PhD student Jeff Da Costa (Environmental Science) is quoted in a Climate Home News article on flooding events becoming more common under climate change.
• A study co-led by Dr Tom Breeze (Biological Sciences), looking at the causes and impacts of pollinator decline worldwide, is covered by Bondebladet (Norway). Read our news story.

Other Coverage:

• Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) spoke to LBC Radio about an alpaca in the UK who has contracted Bovine TB and might therefore have to be put down.
• Frankfurter Allgemeine reports on new research investigating the impact of Covid infection on football players, co-led by Professor James Reade (Economics)
• A Reading graduate (French Studies) is interviewed by Connexion France about the wartime history of his hometown in France, which he discovered during his university studies.
• Wokingham Today reports on a new Henley Business School research project in partnership with Huawei, looking at the factors that impacted the rollout of 5G in Europe.
• al Khaleej Today reports on Henley Business School research into the benefits of a four-day working week.
• The Star Malaysia reports on Henley Business School research into the prevalence of ‘side hustle’ businesses in the UK.
• National Mirror Online previews an upcoming training programme ruin by Henley Business School and the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria.
• Security News Desk reports that Professor James Ferryman (Computer Science) will speak at a global security conference in October.
• The National reports that Professor David Thomson, Annandale Distillery owner and visiting professor in Reading’s School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, has been appointed an ambassador of the Robert Burns World Federation.