Reading in the news - Tue 2 Feb
02 February 2021
COVID-19: expert comment on the pandemic
- Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) appeared on BBC News’s Outside Source regarding the new evidence about the South African variant in the UK, which was also syndicated on PBS in the US; and also spoke to BBC Berkshire answering listeners’ question. He is quoted in Sky News online, Financial Times, Mail Online, Independent. The Sun, and on ABC News Australia and Yahoo! News via Reuters.
- Dr Clarke also spoke to ITV News about the effect of vaccinations on case numbers, and appeared on LBC News, BBC Berkshire, BBC Surrey, and Heart Berkshire.
Scrap loan interest: Vice Chancellor Prof Robert Van de Noort is among seven VCs calling on the Government to drop interest payments on student loans for the period during the pandemic, in an open letter reported on by BBC News.
Climate communications: Financial Times report on a graphic showing that 2020 was the busiest North Atlantic storm season on record. Dr Alex Baker (Met) is quoted.
Other coverage
- Prof Flora Samuel (Architecture) spoke to BBC Berkshire about her RIBA award winning research about the Orts Estate in Reading.
- BBC Berkshire interviewed Prof Carol Wagstaff (Food) about a new funded project to co-create solutions to problems in the food system alongside disadvantaged communities. Read our news story here.
- Further coverage of new research by Prof Paul Williams (Met) into air flight and reducing its emissions is covered in Digital Journal.
- A new project involving Reading scientists, assessing the health of the UK’s insect populations in order to propose policies to protect them post-Brexit, is reported by India Education Diary.
- Further coverage of the announcement that a planning application has been submitted by the University to build TV studios at Thames Valley Science Park, in Reading Chronicle and Planet Radio.
- An article for Hoover Institute looks at a mystery about a lost Roman legion in Britain, and quotes Prof Michael Fulford (Archaeology).
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