Reading in the news - Thu 20 Jun
20 June 2024
Shinfield Studios work complete: ITV News, The Reading Chronicle, Bracknell News, Basingstoke Gazette, BBC Radio Berkshire and Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group report on news that construction works at Shinfield Studios, based at the University of Reading’s Thames Valley Science Park, have completed. Read our news story.
Business and society:
- FE News reports on the success of Project Olivia – a project in which 70 female students from local schools in Berkshire received a glimpse of what the world of business, finance and accounting is like, hosted by Henley Business School. Dr Miriam Marra (Henley Business School) is quoted.
#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment
- The University of Reading’s climate stripes will appear on landmarks around the world and across social media as part of Show Your Stripes Day 2024, Greatest Hits Radio and Reading Today reports. Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology), creator of the stripes, is quoted. Read our news story.
- Professor Chris Hilson (Law) is quoted by Ends Report, discussing the necessity of landfill taxes.
#UniForReading: Our role as a civic university
- BBC News mentions that homeless charity Launchpad started out as a soup kitchen at the University of Reading in 1979.
- Chairman of Reading Amateur Regatta Nick Haskins thanked the University’s Boat Club in a Reading Today report.
Other Coverage:
- Professor Marko Milanovic (Law) discusses the law of armed conflict for DNYUZ.
- Dr Kyriaki Noussia (Law) was a presenter at the 10th AIDA Europe Conference, British Insurance Law Association reports.
- Visiting Professor M Niaz Asadullah (Economics) writes for The Daily Star on if the ‘budget’ is just another attempt at ‘youthwashing’.
- BBC Four’s Great British Railway Journeys visited the University of Reading’s London Road Campus to find out how Reading educated its workers, as well as University students.
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