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When we started studying body image, between 14 and 20 years ago, we had a personal interest in the topic. In some ways, the work has become less personal across time and in some ways it has become more...
As the temperature rises and the days get longer, I am reminded that many researchers have demonstrated the advantages of experiencing the outdoors. For example, Bratman, Daily, Levy, and Gross (2015)...
Did we, as intellectuals, perhaps unwittingly, play a role in preparing the ground for what is now called “Post-truth Culture”?
The outcry over the Trump Administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents has been overwhelming. The widespread criticism led to the President’s executive order halting the...
Cambridge author Stanley Gaines, Jr. discusses how much of an influence your partner can have on your own personality.
I’ve been teaching undergraduates for almost 25 years, and every year one of my lectures holds my students’ attention more than any other. My students are rapt, at times laughing, at times seemingly...
Jim Kozubek, author of "Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9" talks about the infamous Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The magnificent collection of Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts, notebooks, letters and other material held here at Reading was fundamental to the research for my new book Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts,...
On 1st June, Professor David Fastovsky, co-author of Dinosaurs, hosted in an exciting Reddit IAmA session. Users had the opportunity to ask palaeontology and dinosaur-related questions in a live Q&A. Here are the best questions and answers...
David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter.
What determines the ultimate balance in the inner conflict between the truth-seeking motive on the one hand [...] and on the other hand our obvious tendencies to systematically distort reality?
Following moving to partial retirement from my full time position at the University of Waikato, I decided to undertake a range of “extracurricular” activities. These included participating in a Board...
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