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COVID-19 tests available to all University of Reading students

With the Christmas holiday approaching, all University of Reading students and staff can now get a r...
Life hacks: How to have a better work-life balance

Daisy has been kind enough to give us some advice from the other side. Having graduated from Univers...
The Upside of Lockdown

With the dark side of COVID-19 we turn to the light of crocheting. Ewura-ama tells us how she's surv...
#UniForReading: Reading Students help vulnerable young people in the local area.

University of Reading students have been helping some of the most vulnerable young people in the loc...
Ethics and aesthetics- how to save the world whilst shopping

‘Sustainable fashion is not a trend but the future’- Antonia Böhlke ...
Coming Out In Lockdown

Will has given us the exceptional honour of letting us peer into his personal experience of coming o...
Reading University scientist volunteers to boost Coronavirus lab tests.

Dr Susanne Herbst, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Reading is helping NHS frontline s...
How the environment has improved since Covid-19

Amrit looks at the positive impacts of COVID-19 on the environment- It’s not what you expect! ...

News

Sport

Motorsport Society and coronavirus chaos for championships

May 5, 2020

Checkmate – Chess Society Blitz Royal Holloway

May 4, 2020

Swimming- A round up of the year

May 1, 2020

Societies

Korfball litter picking with RAYS

May 1, 2020

“For the first time I felt truly British”- local woman proves age and ethnicity aren’t obstacles for falling in love with sport.

February 6, 2020

Give something new a go (and not alone!) this term with the Buddy Scheme.

January 6, 2020