On 17 May we welcomed the local community to the
@uniofreading.bsky.social's Whiteknights Campus to celebrate and engage with the wide range of research we do.
Watch our film to see just a handful of highlights from this year’s festival. #CommunityFestival2025
Discover how plant-based oils offer sustainable alternatives to fish oil!
At the #CommunityFestival2025 Dr Atefeh Amiri Rigi will share how camelina oil is used to enrich chocolate milk with essential fatty acids.
📍 Palmer 109
📅 12.30pm, 17 May
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AI tech is transforming the way we work!
This Saturday at #CommunityFestival2025 Dr Fabio Oliveira from Henley Business School will demonstrate how #AI avatars train essential skills in multiple languages.
Come to Palmer 109 at 13.15 and see the potential!
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Don't miss this fascinating talk from our very own Dr Thomas Nyman at our #CommunityFestival2025 #psychology #AcademicSky
Does your child attend a Heritage Language School?
Sharon McIlroy will explore the crucial role these little-known schools play in our increasingly diverse communities.
Come to the #CommunityFestival2025 and hear Sharon's talk at 16.15 in Palmer Building 109.
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How reliable is eyewitness evidence? What are the conditions that impact our ability to identify faces?
Dr Thomas Nyman from @unirdg-psych.bsky.social
will explore these questions at the #CommunityFestival2025.
Come to his talk “Faces in the dark” at 14.45, Palmer Building, 109.
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Did you know that early humans hunted woolly mammoths?
Join us at the @uniofreading.bsky.social #CommunityFestival2025 this Saturday (15.30, Palmer Building, room 109) to hear archaeology PhD students Frankie Tait & Anna Wagner reveal the secrets we learn from bones.
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Get involved in the UoR Bioblitz stand at the @uniofreading.bsky.social #CommunityFestival2025! Take a stroll around our gorgeous award-winning campus, search out and identify various plant species and you could even win a prize!
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fossils embedded in rock
Can you sift through the sands of time to find tiny fossils? Come along to the Natural History Museum's (@nhm-london.bsky.social) stand at the #CommunityFestival2025 to get hands on with history!
Learn more about our partnership with the NHM research.reading.ac.uk/uor-nhm-part...
Visit Alice Pollitt at the #CommunityFestival2025 to learn all about the crucial role platelets play in healing.
Look at cells through a microscope, participate in a pipetting competition and play our ‘Friend or Foe’ game.
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Can you trust your eyes?
Join researchers from @unirdg-psych.bsky.social to test your eyewitness memory in virtual reality at the #CommunityFestival2025.
Experience the challenges eyewitnesses face & understand what might affect the reliability of eyewitness evidence.
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We who are about to roll the die, salute you! Unwind like a Roman by playing some Ancient Board Games at #CommunityFestival2025. It’s far less stressful than being a gladiator.
🎲Alea iacta est🎲
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What do crystals, worms and poo have to do with healthy ageing?
Come and see how we use various research tools to understand and affect links between diet, gut microbiome and health! You could even grow your own crystal!
#CommunityFestival2025
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How can a soil be healthy and how does soil health
influence food production and carbon storage?
Learn about the science of soils by soil testing, worm hunting and the “bokashi” method - a way to turn food waste into soil food! 🪱
#CommunityFestival2025
🔗http://rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
Could *you* construct an ideal society? 🛠️ 🌇
Craft your perfect world using past visions of utopias in art & literature at @chloehouston.bsky.social's stand The Utopia Experiment at the #CommunityFestival2025
Find out more about the festival! 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
Make a splash at the #CommunityFestival2025 with our flood simulator table and flood prediction fruit machine.
Join Professor Hannah Cloke @hancloke.bsky.social and learn how flood defences and the choices we make about building houses can reduce the impact of floods!
Book now: rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
Step into the past with us at the #CommunityFestival2025! Celebrate Jane Austen’s local ties in our pop-up schoolroom with period dress-up and playful learning for all ages, brought to you by students in English Literature &
@readingmuseum.bsky.social. #JaneAusten250
Book now: rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
Join us at the #CommunityFestival2025 to see live images of the #Sun through a solar telescope (weather permitting!).
Learn how solar activity drives auroras, disrupts technology and impacts other planets.
Book now: rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
@interplanetary.bsky.social @unirdg-met.bsky.social
(Image: NASA)
In the run-up to the big day, we’ll take a closer look at some of the fascinating hands-on activities and research talks happening across the festival zones.
So book your place now and stay tuned for more details!
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#CommunityFestival2025
📢Our annual Community Festival is fast approaching on Saturday 17 May!
Register now to be the first to receive the festival programme and gain access to bookable workshops and activities taking place across the 4 festival zones.
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#CommunityFestival2025
