Reading in the news - Wed 8 Oct

The Witches of Windsor: Dr Helen Parish (History) spoke to BBC Radio Berkshire for their ‘Secret Berkshire’ series about the history of the Witches of Windsor.

Health and wellbeing:

• Professor Ian Jones (Biomedical Sciences) was quoted by (republished by ) about the new UK Covid vaccine criteria.
• , and highlighted research from Professor Julie Lovegrove (Food and Nutritional Sciences), which found eating two apples a day lowers cholesterol.

Food and farming:

• included comments from Professor Chris Hilson (Law) about the impact on food systems from climate change.

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment

• Professor Robert Van de Noort, Vice Chancellor, was quoted by about increasing flood risks to riverside communities.
• quoted Dr Akshay Deoras (Meteorology) about climate change-driven monsoon activity in India.
• Professor Paul Williams (Meteorology) was quoted by about how climate change is increasing air turbulence. From our story: Turbulent flights to continue as warming world shakes skies
• Dr Matthew Pritchard (Ecology) wrote for about how the UK’s house building sector can become more nature centric.

Business and society:

• Professor Lucy Newton (Henley Business School) was interviewed by BBC Radio Berkshire about changes to clothes in the workplace.

Heritage and culture:

• , , and provided further coverage of research from Professor Adrian Bell (Henley Business School), unveiling a 490-year-old survey commissioned by Henry VIII. Professor Bell also spoke to Greatest Hits Radio about the research. From our story: Henry VIII’s ‘Tudor Domesday Book’ to open to the public

#UniForReading: our role as a civic university

• highlighted the University’s Black History Month events, including a talk from author Bernardine Evaristo and the Black History Month Community Fete.

Other coverage:

• mentioned that Henley Business school has become a silver partner of the 2025 HR Indaba.
• An article about Sir John Madejski in the mentions that he was previously Chancellor of the University.
• and report on the trial of former CEO of Natural Bioscience, who is accused of fraud. The articles mention that some research for the company took place at the University.

Alumni:

• CEO of Paynet, Anvar Isamukhamedov, who studied Economics and Sustainable Development, spoke at an event about AI and global development, reports .
• , , and reported on the sudden death of Georgia Taylor, a 24 year-old Reading Business and Marketing graduate.
• reported that artwork from painter Annabel Hill, who studied Fine Art and History of Art at Reading, was featured in their autumn art & photography exhibition 2025.
• and highlighted that Cybernetics graduate Geoff Barrall is the new CPO of Quantum.
• profiled CEO of JP Morgan Chase, Marianne Lake, who studied Physics at Reading.
• Bjørn Andersen, Henley Business School graduate, has been appointed COO of Brenntag, reports .