Reading in the news - Wed 27 Mar

Health and wellbeing

• Forbes quotes Professor Nazanin Derakhshan (Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences) on the need to understand how cancer affects younger women, following the announcement by the Princess of Wales that she is being treated with chemotherapy. Read her full comment.
• Professor Ian Jones and Dr Simon Clarke (Biomedical Sciences) discusses case trends of hMPV in the UK for The Sun, The U.S. Sun,  
• Dr Simon Clarke provides advice on treating colds for The Telegraph. Republished by Yahoo! News, MSN and Aol..  
• Singapore Tech mentions that SIT senior lecturer Angela Ng is pursuing a PhD in Applied Psychology at Reading.  

Business and society:

• Professors Nada and Andrew Kakabadse (Henley Business School) discuss why CEO pay packets will not fix underperforming organisations for Board Agenda.  
• Dr Russell Buchan (Law) notes that Israel must comply with a demand for a ceasefire in Gaza under Article 25 of the UN Charter, for i news. Republished by MSN.
• Dean of Henley Business School Africa, Professor Jon Foster-Pedley, reacts to the  de-registration of private colleges under the Education Investment Corporation Limited (Educor), in IOL News and VNExplorer.
• BBC Radio Oxford and BBC Radio Berkshire spoke to Dr Scott Edwards (Politics and International Relations) about cyber security and relations between the UK and China, following the announcement of new sanctions by the UK government. Read our expert comment.

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment 

• ScienceDaily and Prensa Latina cover research by Dr Andrea Dittus (Meteorology) on the link between droughts in Europe and climate change. Read our news story.
• Professor Hannah Cloke (Geography/Meteorology) has been confirmed Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) by ECMWF and Alpha Galileo.
• Irish News uses comment by Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology) on the high level of rainfall in Ireland.