Editing University of Reading (section)

==Campuses==
[[File:The University of Reading.jpg|thumb|right|[[Whiteknights Park|Whiteknights Campus]]]]
[[File:University of Reading Great Hall 1.JPG|thumb|right|The University Great Hall, on the [[London Road Campus]]]]
[[File:Henley Management College.jpg|thumb|right|[[Greenlands, Buckinghamshire|Greenlands Campus]], used by the Business School]]
[[File:Foxhill from the west.jpg|thumbnail|[[Foxhill House]], home of the School of Law]]
The university maintains over {{convert|1.6|km2|acre|0}} of grounds, in four distinct campuses:

===Whiteknights===
[[Whiteknights Park|Whiteknights Campus]], at {{convert|1.3|km2|acre|0}},<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/about-campusstudents.asp|title = Campus life for students |access-date=17 November 2010 | publisher = University of Reading }}</ref> is the largest and includes Whiteknights Lake, conservation meadows and woodlands as well as most of the university's departments. Though within the Reading urban area, most of the campus actually falls within [[Wokingham District]] (parish of [[Earley]]). The campus takes its name from the nickname of the 13th century [[knight]] John De Erleigh IV or the 'White Knight', and was landscaped in the 18th century by the [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|Marquis of Blandford]]. The main university library, in the middle of the campus, holds nearly a million books and subscribes to around 4,000 periodicals. The URS building, designed by Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis in concrete [[brutalist]] style in the 1970s is Grade II listed.<ref name="De Castella2019">{{cite web |last1=De Castella |first1=Tom |title=Reading Uni shelves Hawkins\Brown's 'Lego Building' overhaul |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/reading-uni-shelves-hawkinsbrowns-lego-building-overhaul |website=Architects' Journal |date=8 July 2019 |access-date=9 December 2020}}</ref> The Whiteknights campus was voted one of the best green spaces in the United Kingdom for the seventh year running in the 2017 [[Green Flag Award|Green Flag People's Choice awards]].<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Reading|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR733305.aspx|website=University of Reading|access-date=14 December 2017|language=en-uk}}</ref>

===London Road===
The smaller [[London Road Campus]] is the original university site and is closer to the town centre of Reading, sited across from the [[Royal Berkshire Hospital]]. The London Road site is home to The Institute of Education – a major provider of teacher training in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Smithers|first1=Alan|last2=Bungey|first2=Mandy-D|title=The Good Teacher Training Guide 2017|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/GTTG17fin.pdf|website=University of Buckingham|publisher=Centre for Education and Employment Research|access-date=16 June 2017}}</ref> The Institute moved to its new home in January 2012 after the campus was refurbished at a cost of £30&nbsp;million.<ref name="reading.ac.uk"/> The London Road site also plays host to the university graduation ceremonies twice a year, in the Great Hall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/education/about/ioe-about.aspx|title=University of Reading|website=University of Reading}}</ref>

===Greenlands===
The [[Greenlands Campus]], on the banks of the [[River Thames]] in Buckinghamshire. Once the home of [[William Henry Smith (1825–1891)|William Henry Smith]], son of the founder of [[WH Smith]], and latterly the site of the [[Henley Management College]], this campus became part of the university on 1 August 2008, with the merger of that college with the university's Business School to form the ''Henley Business School''. The school's [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]] and corporate learning offerings will be based at Greenlands, with undergraduate and other postgraduate courses being based at Whiteknights.<ref name=uofbrs8/>

===Malaysia===
An Asian campus at [[Iskandar Malaysia|Iskandar]], [[Malaysia]] was formally opened in February 2016.<ref>{{cite news | title = University of Reading's £25m Malaysia campus officially opens | publisher = [[BBC News Online]] | date = 25 February 2016 | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-35658862 | access-date = 2 March 2016}}</ref> It offers a range of professional programmes at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels including the [[Henley Business School]] [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.edu.my/about-us | title = The University of Reading Malaysia – about us | website = The University of Reading Malaysia | access-date = 2 March 2016 }}</ref> First announced in October 2012, it is the university's first overseas campus. The project was overseen by [[Tony Downes]].<ref>{{cite news|title=University of Reading Malaysia appoints Provost|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR470691.aspx|publisher=reading.ac.uk|date=23 October 2012|access-date=26 October 2012|archive-date=21 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221173046/http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR470691.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=University of Reading Malaysia|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/malaysia/about/uorm-about.aspx|publisher=reading.ac.uk}}</ref> Professor Wing Lam took over as Provost in May 2018 after the retirement of Tony Downes<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.reading.ac.uk/staff-news/spsn-759177.html|title=Tony Downes to retire; Wing Lam appointed new UoRM Provost|website=archive.reading.ac.uk|access-date=2019-11-26|archive-date=5 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205110155/https://archive.reading.ac.uk/staff-news/spsn-759177.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and restructured the campus to enable it to focus on core professional disciplines that were aligned with the region's need for talent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-797987.aspx|title=Changes at University of Reading Malaysia - University of Reading|website=www.reading.ac.uk}}</ref>

===Other sites===
The former [[Bulmershe Court|Bulmershe Court Campus]] in [[Woodley, Berkshire|Woodley]] was the site of the former Bulmershe Teaching College, which merged with The University of Reading in 1989. The campus was sold in January 2014 as the university decided to concentrate its activity on its three other campuses. It had previously moved all teaching and research at Bulmershe either to Whiteknights or to London Road, and closed the student accommodation.

The university also owns {{convert|8.5|km2|acre|0}} of farmland in the nearby villages of [[Arborfield]], [[Sonning]] and [[Shinfield]]. These support a mixed farming system including dairy cows, ewes and beef animals, and host research centres of which the flagship is the Centre for Dairy Research.

As part of the proposed Whiteknights Development Plan in Autumn 2007, the university proposed spending up to £250&nbsp;million on its estates over 30 years, principally to focus academic activities onto the Whiteknights site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/whiteknights/consultation.pdf|title=Whiteknights development plan|publisher=University of Reading|access-date=9 March 2008}}</ref> The university also announced its intention to site some functions on the London Road site, and proposed a complete withdrawal from Bulmershe Court by 2012, which was accomplished.

===Museums, libraries and botanical gardens===
[[File:Reading University Main Library on Whiteknights Campus.JPG|thumb|right|The University Library on the Whiteknights Campus]]
Reading University maintains four museums, the main campus library, a range of inter-departmental libraries, and a [[botanical garden]]. The largest and best known of these museums is the [[Museum of English Rural Life]], which has recently relocated from a location on Whiteknights Campus to a site nearer the town centre next to the London Road Campus. The [[Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology]], the [[Cole Museum of Zoology]], the [[University of Reading Herbarium]] and the [[Harris Garden]] are all on the Whiteknights Campus. The Department of Typography and Graphic Communication holds a number of lettering, printing and graphic design collections<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collections and archives – Department of Typography & Graphic Communication |url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/typography/collections-and-archives |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=www.reading.ac.uk}}</ref> including those of Isotype, Ephemera, printing presses, Twentieth-century posters, non-Latin typefaces and the archive of partners Banks and Miles.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Alexander |first=James |date=2002-04-04 |title=Colin Banks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/apr/04/guardianobituaries |access-date=2024-01-09 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

The University Library at Whiteknights makes available over 1&nbsp;million physical resources, as well as a range of electronic online resources, from 14,000 square metres of space across seven floors. The secondary site library at the university's Bulmershe campus closed in 2011 and its operative collections were transferred. There is also a library in the university's Meteorology department.

The library underwent refurbishment costing £40&nbsp;million starting in 2016<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Reading|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/library/about-us/lib-news-refurbishment.aspx|website=University of Reading|access-date=14 December 2017|language=en-uk}}</ref> and was re-opened in autumn 2019.<ref name="Redrup2019">{{cite web |last1=Redrup |first1=Rachel |title=Library open following major refurbishment |url=https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/librarynews/category/refurbishment/ |website=University of Reading |access-date=9 December 2020}}</ref> The redevelopment aimed to improve the energy efficiency of the building with the installation of new windows, cladding and roofing. New lifts, additional study seating capacity, a larger Library cafe with an outside seating area, more toilets (including disabled and gender-neutral provision) and card-access security barriers were also part of the refurbishment programme.<ref name="Redrup2019" />