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Update: Improving COVID-19 Testing

At the beginning of June the University launched its latest fundraising and volunteering campaign to improve the effectiveness of COVID-19 home testing. We would like to thank everyone who has supported this campaign so...

Improving COVID-19 Testing

Given the current crisis, there is a pressing need to develop accurate and safe COVID-19 antibody tests that can be conducted at home. And that is why, last week, the University of Reading launched its latest...

The Power Of Smell

Do not underestimate your nose. This advice comes from Reading’s Dr Jane Parker who has joined a global team of experts to explore the potential link between loss of taste and smell with COVID-19. Dr Parker, an...

Our Volunteers

With the University committed to supporting the NHS during this time of crisis, CONNECTED speaks to one of our inspirational employees – Rachel Jeans – about her role as a Community First Responder. Rachel is usually...

Volunteering Opportunities & Initiatives

With the impact of COVID-19 growing by the day, the University has been working with local partners to set-up a range of volunteering opportunities and initiatives to support the NHS, current students and our local...

Creative Communities

Reading’s School of Art Associate Professor, Tina O’Connell, sets up widening participation initiative, ArtLab, to engage students, staff and the local community in what it means to be creative.  The initiative...

Helping Students THRIVE

Since 2014, THRIVE has helped hundreds of students to transition into graduate life through vital career mentoring partnerships.  THRIVE is a career mentoring scheme open to students in their penultimate year of...

Championing Gender Diversity

Reading alumna and THRIVE mentor, Charlie Leech, is celebrated in the 2019 HERoes Women Role Model List.  Reading graduate, Charlie Leech, was ranked 29th in the HERoes Top 50 Future Women Leaders 2019 announced on 11...

New Alumni Groups Launched

We were delighted to organise the launch celebrations for two new international alumni groups at the end of March, as senior staff from the University joined dozens of alumni to celebrate the formation of these...