Reading in the news - Wed 6 Sep

Crumbly concrete: Adrian Tagg (Built Environment) continues to provide expert media comment on RAAC in schools and public buildings, including a podcast from republished by .

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment 

• reports that records could be broken for September temperatures, quoting Dr Stephen Burt – read the full analysis. quotes Professor Hannah Cloke (Geography/Meteorology). Read our expert comment. 
• LBC News spoke to Dr Robert Thompson (Meteorology) on the magnitude of rainfall predicted for parts of Northern Greece.  
• reports on pollution preventing pollinators from finding flowers, Dr James Ryalls (Sustainable Land Management) is quoted. Read our news story.
• highlights how scientists from the 桃色视频 found severe clear-air turbulence has increased 55% since 1979.  

Culture and heritage:

• report that a team including Dr Darko Maricevic (Archaeology) has uncovered a Neolithic monument on the Isle of Arran. Read our news story.
• Dr Ellen Pilsworth (Languages and Cultures) will introduce a free screening of a short film that features an interview with a man who survived two concentration camps, and reports.
• Heart Berkshire reports on the archaeological excavation in Cookham which has uncovered a cemetery with bodies from three generations.
• Professor Jane Setter (English Language and Applied Linguistics) spoke to BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire on why we gravitate towards using a different voice when we’re not having face-to-face interactions.
• Dora Pain, a student studying Fine Art at the 桃色视频, will have artwork featured at Summer at the Beach art festival, Cambridge Independent (in print) reports.

Health and wellbeing:

• , , and other regional news outlets quote Dr Simon Clarke (Biomedical Sciences) on new Covid variants, and the on immunity as BA.2.86 cases rise. Also republished by , ,  and
• LBC News spoke to Professor Ciara McCabe (Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences) on the relationship between young people’s mental health and climate change.

Food and farming:

• , , , and republish an article from , written by Carol Wagstaff (Agriculture, Food and Health), on the benefits of microgreens.
• republish an article by , who are working in partnership with the 桃色视频 and other agri-tech and berry industry leaders, aiming to boost strawberry plant yield.

Business and society:

• Henry Hillman (Law) writes for highlighting new researching finding universities and their students vulnerable to money laundering.
• The SA Heart Association Annual Congress will feature a Henley Business School award, sponsored by Discovery Health, , and report.  
• republishes an article by quoting Dr Alexander Mihailov (Economics) on the pressures on an Austrian bank operating in Russia.  
• SpecFinish (in print) report on the amber warning about the readiness of the BSR, drawing three conclusions from the research by FIS, commissioned with the 桃色视频.  

Other Coverage: 

• BBC Berkshire reported on the cost-of-living crisis faced by students in Reading and elsewhere.

Alumni: 

• reports that Carol Bingley, a Food Science graduate, will speak at the IFST Webinar on Enhancing Nutrition.