Reading in the news - Tues 18 Nov
18 November 2025
Business and society:
- Dr Ruvi Ziegler (Law, pictured) spoke to and on government changes to asylum seeking. From our expert comment: UK government asylum policy changes
- Dr Katie Gray (Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences) was quoted by on her study into detecting AI faces. From our story: Five minutes of training could help you spot fake AI faces
- spoke to Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova (Henley Business School) about the results of the most recent Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting.
Health and wellbeing:
- Professor Parveen Yaqoob (Food and Nutritional Sciences) was quoted by Olive Oil Times on links between high Oleic Acid intake and cancer resistance.
- Professor Ciara McCabe (Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences) was quoted by (republished by ) in response to a study linking depression to soft drink consumption.
- (republished by ) mentioned a study from Professor Gunter Kuhnle (Food and Nutritional Sciences) finding benefits to flavanol-rich foods. From our story: Low-flavanol diet linked to age-related memory loss
Food and farming:
- provided further coverage of an animal welfare scale developed by Professor Richard Bennett (Agriculture). From our story: UK shoppers would pay billions more for high-welfare meat
#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment
- Dr Jess Neumann (Geography, pictured) was interviewed by BBC 2 Politics Live on adapting housing to future flooding risks following large floods caused by Storm Claudia
- featured research from PhD student Flynn Ames (Meteorology) into the oceans of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
- and provided further coverage of Reading’s involvement with sea-level monitoring satellite Sentinel-6B.
Other coverage:
- reported on the Horizon Europe Cluster 6 Matchmaking event hosted by Reading.
- reported on reaction to the University’s Loddon Garden Village project. From our story: Planning application submitted for Loddon Garden Village
Alumni:
- Kristian Humer, who studied Accounting and Economics, has been appointed CFO of 4D Molecular Therapeutics, reports (republished by ).
- Nomvula Zeldah Mabuza, MBA candidate at Henley Business School Africa, wrote for and (republished by ) about South Africa’s democratic maturity.
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