Editing University of Reading

{{Short description|University in Berkshire, England}}
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 | former_name            = University College, Reading
 | established            = 1892 – University College, Reading<br />1926 – university status
 | type                   = [[Public university|Public]]
 | endowment              = [[Pound sterling|£]]111.4&nbsp;million (2024)<ref name="Reading Financial Statement 23/24">{{cite web | url = https://www.reading.ac.uk/finance/-/media/project/functions/finance/documents/university-accounts-finance/university-accounts/b32517-23-24-year-end-accounts-ht-v12-screen.pdf?| title = Annual Report and Financial Statements 2023–2024 | access-date = 12 December 2024| publisher = University of Reading| page = 64}}</ref>
 | budget                 = [[Pounds sterling|£]]339.2 million (2023/24)<ref name="Reading Financial Statement 23/24"/>
 | chancellor             = [[Paul Lindley]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/governance/key-people.aspx|title=University of Reading Key Staff|publisher=University of Reading|access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref>
 | vice_chancellor        = [[Robert Van de Noort]]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/governance/key-people/professor-robert-van-de+noort.aspx|title=Professor Robert Van de Noort|website=University of Reading|access-date=2 July 2021}}</ref>
 | head                   = [[Jacob Rees-Mogg]]<br />{{small|(as [[Lord President of the Council]] ''[[ex officio]]'')}}
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 | city                   = [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]]
 | state                  = [[Berkshire]]
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The '''University of Reading''' is a public research university in [[Reading, Berkshire]], England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of [[Christchurch College, Oxford]], and became '''University College, Reading''' in 1902.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/0/university-of-reading-guide-open-days-2019-courses-rankings-student/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/0/university-of-reading-guide-open-days-2019-courses-rankings-student/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=University of Reading: a guide to the courses, rankings and student life|first=Telegraph|last=Reporters|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=31 July 2019|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The institution became a university with the power to grant its own degrees in 1926 by [[royal charter]] from King [[George V]], and was the only university to receive such a charter between the two [[world war]]s. The university is usually categorised as a [[red brick university]], reflecting its original foundation in the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/15/about/about-facts.aspx|title=Facts and figures|website=University of Reading|access-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925130238/http://www.reading.ac.uk/15/about/about-facts.aspx|archive-date=25 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Reading has four major campuses. In the United Kingdom, the campuses on [[London Road Campus|London Road]] and [[Whiteknights Park|Whiteknights]] are based in the town of Reading itself, and [[Greenlands, Buckinghamshire|Greenlands]] is based on the banks of the [[River Thames]] in Buckinghamshire. It also has a campus in [[Iskandar Puteri]], Malaysia. The university has been arranged into 16 academic schools since 2016. The annual income of the institution for 2023–24 was £339.2&nbsp;million of which £33.7&nbsp;million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £257.2&nbsp;million.<ref name="Reading Financial Statement 23/24"/>

==History==
[[File:University of Reading War Memorial.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[University of Reading War Memorial]] [[clock tower]], designed by [[Herbert Maryon]], on the London Road Campus]]
[[File:A Picture of a Southern Town- Life in Wartime Reading, Berkshire, England, UK, 1945 D25225.jpg|thumbnail|right|Students take notes at the museum in the Faculty of Science at Reading University in 1945]]
[[File:The ICMA Centre.jpg|thumb|right|The [[ICMA Centre]]]]
[[File:Sir David Bell.jpg|thumb|right|Sir David Bell faces student protests]]

===University College, Reading===
The university owes its first origins to the Schools of Art and Science established in Reading in 1860 and 1870. In 1892, the ''College at Reading'' was founded as an extension college by [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], a college of the [[University of Oxford]]. It opened in September of that year under the name of ''The University Extension College in Conjunction with the Schools of Science and Art, Reading'', which was soon shortened the following spring to ''The University Extension College, Reading''.<ref name="Parliamentary Report">{{cite book|title=Reports for the year 1909-10 from those Universities and University Colleges in Great Britain which participate in the Parliamentary Grant for University Colleges|date=1911|page=553|publisher=HMSO|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wFBMWTkP66AC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA553&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity#v=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=University College, Reading}}</ref> The first president was the geographer [[Sir Halford John Mackinder]], and the college's first home was the old [[Hospitium of St John the Baptist|hospitium building]] behind [[Reading Town Hall]]. The Schools of Art and Science were transferred to the new college by Reading Town Council in 1892.<ref name=uorhist>{{cite web |url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/about-history.asp |title=The University's History |publisher=University of Reading |access-date=30 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302203516/http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/about-history.aspx |archive-date=2 March 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=tui86>{{cite web |url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-357935.aspx |title=The University of Reading is 85 years old |publisher=University of Reading |date=16 March 2011 |access-date=21 March 2011 |archive-date=25 November 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125180507/http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-357935.aspx}}</ref><ref name=odonbwc>{{cite ODNB | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32402 | title = Childs, William Macbride (1869–1939), educationist | first = T.A.B. | last = Corley | year = 2004 | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/32402 | access-date =8 February 2010}}</ref><ref name=aqhosp>{{cite web |url=https://www.readingabbeyquarter.org.uk/hospitium |title=Hospitium |work=readingabbeyquarter.org.uk |date=15 February 2018 |publisher=Reading Borough Council |access-date=6 February 2020 |archive-date=6 February 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206130450/https://www.readingabbeyquarter.org.uk/hospitium}}</ref>

The new college was incorporated in 1896 and was approved to participate in the Parliamentary grant to university colleges by the Commissioners of the Treasury in 1901, resulting in it changing its name to ''University College, Reading'' in 1902.<ref name="Parliamentary Report"/> Three years later it was given a site, now the university's [[London Road Campus]], by the Palmer family (connected with the firm of [[Huntley & Palmers]]). The same family supported the opening of [[Wantage Hall]] in 1908 and of the Research Institute in Dairying in 1912.<ref name=uorhist/>

===University status{{anchor|University of Reading Act 1926}}===
The college first applied for a [[royal charter]] in 1920 but was unsuccessful at that time. However a second petition, in 1925, was successful, and the charter was officially granted on 17 March 1926. With the charter, the college became the University of Reading, the only new university to be created in the United Kingdom between the two world wars.<ref name=uorhist/> It was added to the [[Combined English Universities (UK Parliament constituency)|Combined English Universities]] constituency in 1928 in time for the 1929 general election.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

In 1947, the university purchased [[Whiteknights Park]], which was to become its principal campus. In 1984, the university started a merger with Bulmershe College of Higher Education, which was completed in 1989.<ref name=uorhist/><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/about-architecture.asp|title = Campus Architecture|access-date =24 July 2007|publisher = University of Reading}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1989/Uksi_19890408_en_1.htm |title=Statutory Instrument 1989 no. 408 |publisher=Opsi.gov.uk |access-date=28 May 2010}}</ref>

===2006–present===
In October 2006, the Senior Management Board proposed<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/news/details.asp?ID=712|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120525121403/http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/news/details.asp?ID=712|url-status=dead|title=Official statement about the Physics Department on the University website|archivedate=25 May 2012}}</ref> the closure of its Physics Department to future undergraduate application. This was ascribed to financial reasons and lack of alternative ideas and caused considerable controversy, not least a debate in [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.martinsalter.com/diary.asp?storyID=235&storyType=parliament |title=Information page of Labour MP for Reading West, Martin Salter |access-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621111619/http://www.martinsalter.com/diary.asp?storyID=235&storyType=parliament |archive-date=21 June 2008 }}</ref> over the closure which prompted heated discussion of higher education issues in general.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/news/details.asp?ID=719|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120525121403/http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/news/details.asp?ID=719|url-status=dead|title=Official Statement about University Senate vote from University website|archivedate=25 May 2012}}</ref> On 10 October, the Senate voted to close the Department of Physics, a move confirmed by the council on 20 November.<ref name=bbc>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6159106.stm |title=article concerning the confirmed closure of the Physics department |publisher=BBC News |date=21 November 2006 |access-date=28 May 2010}}</ref> Other departments closed in recent years include Music, Sociology, Geology, and Mechanical Engineering. The university council decided in March 2009 to close the School of Health and Social Care, a school whose courses have consistently been oversubscribed.<ref name=the1>[[Melanie Newman]], [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405430&c=1 "Institutions draw up plans for closures and job losses"], ''Times Higher Education'', 19 February 2009</ref><ref name=the2>[[Melanie Newman]], [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405929&c=1 "Alarm grows as jobs to go at four more institutions"], ''Times Higher Education'', 26 March 2009</ref>

In January 2008, the university announced its merger with the [[Henley Management College]] to create the university's new ''Henley Business School'', bringing together Henley College's expertise in MBAs with the university's existing Business School and [[ICMA Centre]]. The merger took formal effect on 1 August 2008, with the new business school split across the university's existing Whiteknights Campus and its new Greenlands Campus that formerly housed Henley Management College.<ref name=henmerge>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/PR11148.asp | title = World-class business school to be created as University of Reading merges with Henley Management College | publisher = University of Reading | date = 9 January 2008}}</ref><ref name=uofbrs8>{{cite news | title = Briefing News Update – Henley Business School | date = Summer 2008 | publisher = University of Reading}}</ref>

A restructuring of the university was announced in September 2009, which would bring together all the academic schools into three faculties, these being the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social sciences, and Henley Business School. The move was predicted to result in the loss of some jobs, especially in the film, theatre and television department, which has since moved into a brand new [[GBP|£]]11.5&nbsp;million building on Whiteknights Campus.<ref>{{cite news | first = Hannah | last = Fearn | url = http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=408112&c=2 | title = Reading plans restructuring | publisher = Times Higher Education | date = 11 September 2009}}</ref>

In late 2009 it was announced that the London Road Campus was to undergo a [[GBP|£]]30&nbsp;million renovation, preparatory to becoming the new home of the university's Institute of Education. The Institute moved to its new home in January 2012.<ref name="reading.ac.uk">{{cite web|title=Welcome to your new home – Institute of Education|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-432335.aspx|website=The University of Reading|access-date=16 June 2017|language=en-gb|date=10 February 2012}}</ref> The refurbishment was partially funded by the sale of the adjoining site of [[Mansfield Hall]], a former hall of residence, for demolition and replacement by private sector student accommodation.<ref name=ua30mr>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/PR258812.aspx | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121223123909/http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/PR258812.aspx | url-status = dead | archive-date = 23 December 2012 | title = University announces £30&nbsp;million development of historic London Road campus | publisher = University of Reading | date = 10 December 2009 | access-date = 21 March 2011 }}</ref>

The university is a lead sponsor of [[UTC Reading]], a new [[university technical college]] which opened in September 2013.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.utcreading.co.uk/partners | title = Partners – UTC | publisher = Utcreading.co.uk | access-date = 17 July 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130323011619/http://www.utcreading.co.uk/partners | archive-date = 23 March 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/reading/articles/2013/09/17/93164-hightech-education-at-readings-first-technical-college/ | title = High-tech education at Reading's first technical college | work = Reading Chronicle | date = 17 September 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20131211113029/http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/reading/articles/2013/09/17/93164-hightech-education-at-readings-first-technical-college/ | archive-date = 11 December 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

In 2016, a move to reorganise the structure of Reading University provoked student protests.<ref name="Hyde">{{Cite web|url=http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/university-reading-student-slams-multi-10974928 |title=Cost-cutting review slammed by University of Reading student |last=Hyde |first=Nathan |website=getreading |access-date=13 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310184906/http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/university-reading-student-slams-multi-10974928 |archive-date=10 March 2016 }}</ref> On 21 March 2016, staff announced a vote of no confidence in the vice chancellor [[David Bell (university administrator)|Sir David Bell]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/university-reading-vice-chancellor-faces-11070986|title=University of Reading vice chancellor faces vote of no confidence|last=Hyde|first=Nathan|website=getreading|date=22 March 2016|access-date=29 March 2016}}</ref> Eighty-eight per cent of those who voted backed the no confidence motion.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-36045536|title='No confidence' in University of Reading vice-chancellor|work=BBC News|date=14 April 2016|access-date=3 May 2016}}</ref>

In 2019, ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported the university was in "a financial and governance crisis" after recently reporting itself to regulators over a £121&nbsp;million loan. The university is sole trustee of the charitable [[National Institute for Research in Dairying]] trust, and after selling trust land had then borrowed the £121&nbsp;million proceeds from the trust, despite the potential conflict of interest in the decision making. Including this loan, the university has debts of £300&nbsp;million, as well as having an operating deficit of over £40&nbsp;million for the past two years.<ref name=guardian-20190209>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/feb/09/reading-university-in-crisis-amid-questions-over-121m-land-sales |title=Reading University in crisis amid questions over £121m land sales |author=Andrew McGettigan, Richard Adams |newspaper=The Guardian |date=9 February 2019 |access-date=9 February 2019}}</ref><ref name=readingchronicle-20190209>{{cite news |url=https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/17420953.university-of-reading-expected-to-cut-jobs-due-to-challenging-financial-times/ |title=University of Reading expected to cut jobs due to challenging financial times |last=Adams |first=Luke |website=Reading Chronicle |date=9 February 2019 |access-date=9 February 2019}}</ref>

In 2021, the university declared, in a statement reply to the student's union, that it would not refund tuition fees for its students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/essentials/-/media/essentials/files/university-executive-board-reply-to-rusu-open-letter--19-january-2021.pdf |title=UEB Response to RUSU Open Letter |publisher=University of Reading |date=19 January 2021 |access-date=19 July 2022}}</ref>

==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" />

==Organisation and governance==
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'''Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science'''
*School of Arts and Communication Design
**Department of Art
**Department of Film, Theatre and Television
**Department of Typography and Graphic Communication
*Institute of Education
*School of Humanities
**Department of Classics
**Department of History

*School of Law
*School of Literature and Languages
**Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics 
**Department of English Literature 
**Department of Languages and Cultures
*School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics 
**Department of Economics
**Department of Philosophy
**Department of Politics and International Relations
*International Study and Language Institute

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'''Faculty of Life Sciences'''
*School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
*School of Biological Sciences
*School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy
**Department of Chemistry
**Food and Nutritional Sciences
**The Reading School of Pharmacy
*School of Psychology and Clinical Language Science
**Department of Clinical Language Sciences
**Department of Psychology

'''Faculty of Science'''
*School of Construction Management and Engineering
*School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science
**Department of Archaeology
**Department of Geography and Environmental Science
*School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences
**Department of Mathematics and Statistics
**Department of Meteorology
**Department of Computer Science
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===Henley Business School===
[[Henley Business School]] is a highly selective, top-ranking business school, among only 58 institutions worldwide to be granted [[Triple accreditation]] by the three largest and most influential business school accreditation associations: [[EQUIS]], AMBA and the AACSB.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Accreditations|url=https://www.henley.ac.uk/why/accreditations|access-date=2021-06-24|website=Henley Business School|language=en}}</ref> It includes several academic areas:
*Marketing and Reputation<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.henley.ac.uk/school/marketing-and-reputation/|title=- Henley Business School|last=Kind|date=2 June 2018|website=Henley Business School|access-date=2 July 2017|archive-date=30 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130224824/https://www.henley.ac.uk/school/marketing-and-reputation|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Business Informatics, Systems and Accounting
*Leadership and Organisational Behaviours
*International Business and Strategy
*[[ICMA Centre]]<ref>Department of Finance associated with ICMA Centre</ref>
*Real Estate and Planning

===Doctoral and Researcher College===
The Doctoral and Researcher College was created in 2011 as the Graduate School to provide a range of support for doctoral researchers across the University. The College now additionally supports early career research staff.

===Governing bodies and roles===
The university is nominally led by a [[Chancellor (education)|chancellor]], who is the titular head of the university and is normally a well-known public figure. The day-to-day chief executive role is the responsibility of the [[vice-chancellor]], a full-time academic post. The senior management board of the university is headed by the vice-chancellor, assisted by a deputy-vice-chancellor, three pro-vice-chancellors, four deans and five heads of directorate. It is responsible for the day-to-day management of the university and meets fortnightly throughout most of the year.<ref name=govn>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/about-governance.asp | title = Governance of the University of Reading | publisher = University of Reading | access-date =24 July 2007}}</ref>

The senior management board reports to the university's Senate, the main academic administrative body. The senate has around 100 members and meets at least four times a year and advises on areas such as student entry, assessment and awards. Membership includes deans, heads and elected representatives of schools, as well as professional staff and students. The Senate in turn reports to the Council, which is the supreme governing body of the university, setting strategic direction, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and approving constitutional changes. The Council meets four times a year and comprises a broad representation of lay members drawn from commercial, community and professional organisations.<ref name=govn/>

On 24 March 2016, it was announced that [[Baron Waldegrave of North Hill|William Waldegrave]] was to be the new chancellor of Reading University.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-35890720 "Lord Waldegrave named as Reading University chancellor"], ''BBC News'', 24 March 2016</ref> Lord Waldegrave is the fourth Conservative politician to be appointed chancellor of the university, following [[Austen Chamberlain]], [[Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood|Sir Samuel Hoare]] and [[Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington|Lord Carrington]]. Waldegrave's predecessor, [[John Madejski|Sir John Madejski]] is also a supporter of, and contributor to, the Conservative Party.

===Finances===

In the financial year ending 31 July 2024, Reading had a total income of £339.2&nbsp;million (2022/23 – £321.9&nbsp;million) and total expenditure of £257.2&nbsp;million (2022/23 – £325.7&nbsp;million).<ref name="Exeter Financial Statement 23/24"/> Key sources of income included £198.8&nbsp;million from tuition fees and education contracts (2022/23 – £186.9&nbsp;million), £32&nbsp;million from funding body grants (2022/23 – £36.5&nbsp;million), £33.7&nbsp;million from research grants and contracts (2022/23 – £34&nbsp;million), £9.6&nbsp;million from investment income (2022/23 – £7.4&nbsp;million) and £4.1&nbsp;million from donations and endowments (2022/23 – £4.9&nbsp;million).<ref name="Reading Financial Statement 23/24"/>

At year end, Reading had endowments of £111.4&nbsp;million (2023 – £101.9&nbsp;million) and total net assets of £533.6&nbsp;million (2023 – £453.2&nbsp;million). It holds the [[List of UK universities by endowment|thirteenth-largest endowment]] of any university in the UK.<ref name="Reading Financial Statement 23/24"/>

Between 2009 and 2010, the university was beset by controversy, with the closure of departments and job losses among staff.<ref name=bbc/><ref name=the1/><ref name=the2/> The university lost 7.7% of its [[Higher Education Funding Council for England|HEFCE]] funding in fiscal year 2010–2011.<ref>[[Melanie Newman]], [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=410879&c=1 "Teaching and research escape 9% grant cut"], ''Times Higher Education'', 18 March 2010</ref> In 2016 a move to reorganise the structure of Reading University provoked protests.<ref name="Hyde"/>

==Academic profile==
===Reputation and rankings===
{{Infobox UK university rankings
| ARWU_N             = 
| ARWU_W             = 401–500
| QS_N               = 
| QS_W               = 172
| THE_N              = 26=
| THE_W              = 201–250
| LEIDEN_W = 90
| LINE_1             = 0
| Complete           = 35
| The_Guardian       = 35
| Times/Sunday_Times = 24=
| LINE_2 = 0
| TEF = Silver
}}
[[File:Reading 10 Years.png|thumb|upright=1.2|University of Reading's [[Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom|national league table]] performance over the past ten years]]
Departments in the university have been awarded the biannual [[Queen's Anniversary Prize]] for Higher and Further Education five times: in 1998, in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law category, for work on [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]; in 2005, in the Environment category; in 2008, again in Humanities, Social Sciences and Law; in 2011, for "teaching and design applications in typography, through print and new technologies" in Typography & Graphic Communication; and in 2021, again in the category of Environment And Conservation, for "connecting communities with climate change" through "new modelling work on the interaction between the Earth’s climate and local weather systems, enabling the development of risk assessment, community preparedness and action to tackle climate change."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.queensanniversaryprizes.org.uk/winners-archive/|title = Winners archive}}</ref>

Reading was ranked 35th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality (GPA) of its research<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/sites/default/files/Attachments/2014/12/17/k/a/s/over-14-01.pdf|title=Research Excellence Framework results 2014}}</ref> and 28th for its Research Power in the 2014 [[Research Excellence Framework]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2014/dec/18/university-research-excellence-framework-2014-full-rankings|title=REF 2014 results|work=The Guardian|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref> In total, 98% of the university's research is labelled as 'internationally recognised', 78% as 'internationally excellent and 27% as 'world leading'.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/research/AboutourResearch/res-aboutfacts.aspx|title=Research facts and figures|publisher=The University of Reading|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915054145/http://www.reading.ac.uk/research/AboutourResearch/res-aboutfacts.aspx|archive-date=15 September 2014}}</ref>

Its School of Agriculture Policy and Development was ranked top in the UK and 11th in the world, according to the QS classification of universities by subject.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2014/agriculture-forestry#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=|title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014 – Agriculture & Forestry|publisher=QS}}</ref>

Reading has been highly ranked in [[meteorology]] and [[atmospheric science]]. In the 2024 [[Academic Ranking of World Universities|Global Ranking of Academic Subjects]], it was ranked 5th in the world for atmospheric science.<ref>{{cite web |title=ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2024/RS0108 |website=www.shanghairanking.com}}</ref> It was ranked 15th in the world for Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' in 2024<ref>{{cite web |title=Best Global Universities for Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/meteorology-atmospheric-sciences |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=16 October 2024}}</ref> and 13th among global universities in atmospheric science in the 2024 [[SCImago Institutions Rankings]].<ref>{{cite web |title=University Overall Rankings - Atmospheric Science 2024 |url=https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?area=1902&sector=Higher%20educ. |website=www.scimagoir.com}}</ref>
It was ranked 2nd in the world in meteorology and atmospheric sciences by the Center for World University Rankings in 2017 (the most recent year subject rankings were published).<ref>{{cite web |title=Rankings by Subject - 2017 {{!}} CWUR {{!}} Center for World University Rankings |url=https://cwur.org/2017/subjects.php#Meteorology%20&%20Atmospheric%20Sciences |website=cwur.org}}</ref>
===Admissions===

{| class="floatright"
| 
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5px"
|+UCAS Admission Statistics
!
!2024
!2023
!2022
!2021
!2020
|-
| '''Applications'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC>{{cite web |title=UCAS Undergraduate Sector-Level End of Cycle Data Resources 2024 |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024 |at=Show me... Domicile by Provider |website=ucas.com |date=December 2024 |publisher=UCAS |access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>
| 26,080
| 24,785
| 21,865
| 20,920
| 20,320
|-
| '''Accepted'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC/>
| 4,825
| 4,970
| 4,415
| 4,185
| 4,035
|-
| '''Applications/Accepted Ratio'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}
| 5.4
| 5.0
| 5.0
| 5.0
| 5.0
|-
| '''Offer Rate (%)'''{{efn-lg|name=ukjune}}<ref name="UCAS Offer Rate">{{cite web|title=2024 entry UCAS Undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group|date=7 February 2025|url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024/2024-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group|publisher=[[UCAS]]|access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>
| 86.4
| 88.0
| 84.0
| 87.1
| 85.8
|-
| '''[[UCAS Tariff|Average Entry Tariff]]'''<ref name="CUG Entry">{{Cite web | url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards | title=University League Tables entry standards 2024 |work=The Complete University Guide}}</ref>
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| 131
| 129
|}
{| style="font-size:80%;float:left"
|{{notelist-lg|refs=
{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme|Main scheme applications, International and UK}}
{{efn-lg|name=ukjune|UK domiciled applicants}}
}}
|}
|}
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible mw-collapsible"; style="font-size:85%; text-align:right;"
|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition (2023/24)
|-
!Domicile<ref name="Table 1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1|title=HE student enrolments by HE provider, permanent address, level of study, mode of study, entrant marker, sex and academic year|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref> and Ethnicity<ref name="HESA ethnicity">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/whos-in-he/characteristics|title=Who's studying in HE?: Personal characteristics|date=3 April 2025|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
|[[White people in the United Kingdom|British White]]{{efn|Not be confused solely with [[White British]]}}
|align=right| {{bartable|50|%|2||background:red}}
|-
|[[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom#Collective terms for minority ethnic groups|British Ethnic Minorities]]{{efn|Includes those who indicate that they identify as [[British Asian|Asian]], [[Black British people|Black]], [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed Heritage]], [[British Arabs|Arab]] or any other ethnicity except White.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|31|%|2||background:green}}
|-
|[[European Union|International EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:blue}}
|-
|[[International students in the United Kingdom|International Non-EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|16|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate [[Widening participation|Widening Participation]] Indicators<ref name="Table 1"/><ref name="Times25">{{cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings/league-table |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[Feminism in the United Kingdom#Education|Female]]
|align=right| {{bartable|52|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
|[[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Independent School]]
|align=right| {{bartable|13|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
|Low Participation Areas{{efn|Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated from the [[Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation]] (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|8|%|2||background:black}}
|}
New students entering the university in 2020 had an average of 129 points (the equivalent of ABB at A Level).<ref name="CUG Entry"/> According to the 2023 ''Times'' and ''Sunday Times'' Good University Guide, approximately 13% of Reading's undergraduates come from independent schools.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://extras.thetimes.co.uk/gooduniversityguide/institutions/ |title= The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 |work= [[Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom|The Good University Guide]] |location= London |access-date= 16 February 2023 }}{{subscription required}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|fix-attempted=y <!--archive link found by IABot was a 404 page-->}}</ref>

===Affiliated institutions===
The [[Gyosei International College in the U.K.]] was established on property acquired from the University of Reading in 1989. The college, later renamed Witan International College, was acquired by the University of Reading in 2004.<ref name=UReading>"[http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR46.aspx The University of Reading and Witan International College]." ([https://archive.today/20140109165357/http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR46.aspx Archive]) University of Reading. 6 August 2004. Retrieved on 9 January 2014.</ref> Witan College closed in 2008.<ref>"[http://www.reading.ac.uk/witan/ Witan International College]." ([https://archive.today/20140109201808/http://www.reading.ac.uk/witan/ Archive]) University of Reading. Retrieved on 9 January 2014.</ref>

In 2009 the university partnered with the [[Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology]] to offer Chinese students courses taught by the department of chemistry.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/NUIST/nuist-about-us | title= About NUIST | publisher= University of Reading | access-date = 23 July 2022}}</ref> In 2015 this was expanded to form the NUIST Reading Academy which currently offers six degree programs and enrolls nearly 400 students annually.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://en.nuist.edu.cn/4201/list.htm | title= Reading academy | publisher= Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | access-date = 23 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/NUIST | title= NUIST Reading Academy | publisher= University of Reading | access-date= 23 July 2022}}</ref>

==Student life==
===Students’ Union===
Reading University Students' Union (RUSU) is the affiliated student organisation which represents the students' interests. The university also has a number of [[Junior Common Room]]s that are linked to the Students' Union. The Students' Union has been the launchpad for many successful careers including [[Penny Mordaunt]] (Former MP for Portsmouth North), who was the 1994–5 president of the Students' Union.

[[Student unionism in the United Kingdom|The Students' Union]] runs the student radio station. It broadcasts locally from the Whiteknights campus in university retail outlets and over an internet [[live stream]] on a full-time basis. The station was formed in 1997 and started broadcasting in 2001 on 1287AM and transferred to solely online in 2007. It also publishes the [[Spark (University of Reading Newspaper)|Spark]], a newspaper aimed at the student population of the university, which is published fortnightly during term-time only and student television station RU:ON.

The union provides a free advice service to students, and facilitates over 160 different activities for students to get involved in.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rusu.co.uk/student-activities/societies/|title=Societies|website=www.rusu.co.uk}}</ref> The Students' Union building on Whiteknights Campus contains a 2500 capacity venue called 3sixty (recently renovated in 2018), with seven bars, and a number of retail outlets. The retail outlets include an Asian supermarket, a Starbucks and a hairdressers.

===Halls and accommodation===
{{further|List of halls of residence at the University of Reading}}
[[File:Wantage Hall - geograph.org.uk - 2132117.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Wantage Hall]] gatehouse, built 1908, is the oldest hall at the university]]
[[File:SNV33481.JPG|thumbnail|[[St Patrick's Hall]], Pearson Court ]]
Student accommodation is provided in a number of [[hall of residence|halls of residence]] offering a mix of partially catered (19 meals per week) and self-catering accommodation, along with other self-catering accommodation. Following a major review the university is now proceeding with the integrated Halls and Catering Strategy, that will see several halls replaced as well as new ones created with social, catering & welfare facilities provided in hub areas.<ref name="Halls Redevelopment Information">{{cite web | url = http://www.rdg.ac.uk/about/about-localHallsRDPapp.asp| title = Halls Redevelopment Information | publisher = University of Reading | page = 1 | access-date =21 February 2009}}</ref> Most of the halls of residence lie close to the northern campus periphery and in residential areas close by.

Wantage Hall is the second oldest purpose-built hall in England outside of Oxford and Cambridge, opening a year after [[Hulme Hall, Manchester|Hulme Hall]] at the [[University of Manchester]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/buildings/hulme-hall-oxford-place-victoria-park-rusholme-manchester | title=Hulme Hall, Oxford Place, Victoria Park, Rusholme, Manchester - Building &#124; Architects of Greater Manchester }}</ref> and is built in the style of an 'Oxbridge' college.

St. Andrews Hall closed in 2000 and is now the home of the [[Museum of English Rural Life]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/merl/online_exhibitions/history/index.php | title = The History of St. Andrew's Hall | publisher = The Museum of English Rural Life | work = Online Exhibitions | access-date =11 January 2011}}</ref>

St. George's Hall and the Reading Student Village (renamed Benyon) are leased back to the university from [[University Partnership Programme (UPP)|UPP]]. The cost of leasing back the Student Village to the university, according to the university accounts, was £1.3&nbsp;million in 2002–03 and £1.5&nbsp;million for 2003–04.{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}}

In 2011 the management of the mature and international halls, Hillside and Martindale, was taken over by the "Estates management team", as was Bulmershe Hall in 2012, the sale of which was finalised in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-559306.aspx |title=University finalises sale of Bulmershe campus |publisher=University of Reading |date=21 January 2014 |access-date=26 October 2015}}</ref> In the same year the new Kendrick Halls were opened on the ground of halls which had not been in use for many years. These are not managed by the university.

==Working with business==
Reading hosts a number of private sector businesses on its campuses, either occupying dedicated buildings or in managed space at the Science & Technology Centre or Enterprise Hub.

[[File:University of Reading Science & Technology Centre 2.JPG|thumb|right|The Science & Technology Centre]]

===Science & Technology Centre===
The University of Reading Science & Technology Centre is situated on the eastern side of Whiteknights Campus. The Science & Technology Centre supports and accommodates technology companies from start-up through to larger [[Small and medium enterprise|SME]]s.<ref name=uorstcbz>{{cite web | url = http://www.rdg.ac.uk/STC/businesszone/businesszone.htm | title = Science & Technology Centre – Business Zone | publisher = University of Reading | access-date = 21 April 2007 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050901182737/http://www.rdg.ac.uk/stc/businesszone/businesszone.htm | archive-date = 1 September 2005 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ukspa.org.uk/science_parks/content/1090/university_of_reading_science_and_technology_centre_and_enterprise_hub | title = University of Reading Science and Technology Centre and Enterprise Hub | publisher = UKSPA | access-date = 29 October 2009 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091126225609/http://www.ukspa.org.uk/science_parks/content/1090/university_of_reading_science_and_technology_centre_and_enterprise_hub | archive-date = 26 November 2009 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Science Parks in Europe | url = http://www.unesco.org/science/psd/thm_innov/unispar/sc_parks/europe.html | publisher = [[UNESCO]] | access-date =29 October 2009}}</ref>

Notable companies currently or previously based at the Science & Technology Centre<ref name=uorstccl2007>{{cite web | url = http://www.rdg.ac.uk/STC/businesszone/companies.htm | title = Science & Technology Centre – Companies | publisher = University of Reading | access-date = 21 April 2007 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050323142126/http://www.rdg.ac.uk/STC/businesszone/companies.htm | archive-date = 23 March 2005 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=uorstccl2009>{{cite web | url = http://www.rdg.ac.uk/STC/businesszone/companies.htm | title = Science & Technology Centre – Companies | publisher = University of Reading | access-date = 23 September 2009 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091008165624/http://www.rdg.ac.uk/stc/businesszone/companies.htm | archive-date = 8 October 2009 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> include [[Reading Scientific Services]] Ltd.

[[File:Reading Enterprise Hub.jpg|thumb|right|The former Reading Enterprise Hub on Whiteknights Campus]]

===Reading Enterprise Hub===
Reading Enterprise Hub is a [[business incubator]] opened in 2003. The hub was jointly sponsored by the university and [[South East England Development Agency|SEEDA]], and sought to attract startup high tech companies, particularly those with interests in [[environmental technology]], information technology, [[life sciences]], and [[materials science]].<ref name=uorreh>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/businessdevelopment/property/hub.htm | title = Reading Enterprise Hub | publisher = University of Reading | access-date =7 April 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060925123906/http://www.reading.ac.uk/businessdevelopment/property/hub.htm | archive-date = 25 September 2006}}</ref>

The hub was originally situated in World War II-era temporary office buildings on the university's Whiteknights campus. During the summer of 2008, the hub was demolished, along with the neighbouring former agriculture buildings, and the remaining tenants relocated to a building on the London Road campus. As of April 2010, a new Reading Enterprise Centre is being constructed on the hub's original site.<ref name=uorec>{{cite web | title = Facilities for Business at the University of Reading | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.aspx?lID=42431&sID=104339 | publisher = University of Reading | access-date =7 April 2010}}</ref>

==Notable people==
===Notable alumni===
{{Main|List of University of Reading alumni}}

===Officers===
'''Principals of University College, Reading'''
*[[Halford Mackinder|Sir Halford John Mackinder]] (1892–1903)<ref name="odonbwc"/><ref>Ian Macrae, "The making of a university, the breakdown of a movement: Reading University Extension College to The University of Reading, 1892–1925", Journal International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume 13, Issue 1 January 1994, pages 3–18</ref>
*[[William Macbride Childs]] (1903–1926)<ref name=odonbwc/><ref name=willchild>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/bulletin/pdfs/447.pdf | title = University of Reading Bulletin (16 March 2006) | publisher = University of Reading | page = 4 | access-date =24 July 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080308143129/http://www.reading.ac.uk/bulletin/pdfs/447.pdf | archive-date = 8 March 2008 }}</ref>

'''Chancellors of the University of Reading'''
* [[James Herbert Benyon|J. H. Benyon]] (1926–1935)<ref name=bulletin475>{{cite news | title = Reading welcomes its new chancellor | work = Bulletin | publisher = University of Reading | date = 17 January 2008 | pages = 6–7}}</ref>
* [[Austen Chamberlain|Sir Austen Chamberlain]] (1935–1937)<ref name=bulletin475 />
* [[Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood|Sir Samuel Hoare]] (1937–1959)<ref name=bulletin475 />
* [[Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges|Lord Bridges]] (1959–1969)<ref name=bulletin475 />
* [[Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield|Sir Roger Makins]] (1970–1992)<ref name=bulletin475 />
* [[Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington|Lord Carrington]] (1992–2007)<ref name=bulletin475 /><ref name="madjchan">{{cite news | title = Football boss made uni chancellor | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/6292592.stm |publisher=BBC | access-date =24 July 2007 | date= 11 July 2007}}</ref>
* [[John Madejski|Sir John Madejski]] (2007–2016)<ref name=bulletin475 /><ref name="madjchan" />
* [[William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill|William Waldegrave]] (2016–2022)<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR670857.aspx | title = University of Reading selects new Chancellor 
  | date = 24 March 2016 | access-date = 10 October 2016}}</ref>
* [[Paul Lindley]] (2022–Present)<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2022/University-News/Graduation-reflections-by-Chancellor-Paul-Lindley | title = Graduation reflections by Chancellor Paul Lindley | date = 22 July 2022 | access-date = 22 July 2022}}</ref>

'''Vice-Chancellors of the University of Reading'''
* [[William Macbride Childs]] (1926–1929)<ref name=willchild/>
* [[Franklin Sibly|Sir Franklin Sibly]] (1929–1946)<ref name=hallbook>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/hallsbooklet.pdf | title = Halls Booklet | publisher = University of Reading | page = 12 | access-date =24 July 2007}}</ref>
* [[Frank Stenton|Sir Frank Stenton]] (1946–1950)<ref name=frankstent>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/bulletin/pdfs/489.pdf | archive-url = https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090207082855/http://www.reading.ac.uk/universitypublications/bulletin/up-bulletin.asp | url-status = dead | archive-date = 7 February 2009 | title = University of Reading Bulletin (20 November 2008) | publisher = University of Reading | page = 3 | access-date = 20 November 2008 }}</ref>
* [[John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden|Sir John Wolfenden]] (1950–1963)<ref name=johnwolf>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-wolfenden.asp | title = Papers of Lord Wolfenden | publisher = University of Reading | access-date =21 November 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Harry Pitt|Sir Harry Raymond Pitt]] (1964–1978)<ref name=harrypitt>{{cite web | url = http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/MJSewell/harry_pitt.pdf | title = Tribute to Sir Harry Raymond Pitt, F.R.S. | access-date =12 March 2008 | first = Michael | last = Sewell | date = 2 February 2006}}</ref>
* [[Ewan Stafford Page|Ewan Page]] (1979–1993)<ref name=ewanpage1>{{cite web | url = http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=94519&sectioncode=26 | title = Apply again, funding council tells universities | work = Times Higher Education Supplement | publisher = TSL Education Limited | access-date =5 October 2010 | date = 21 July 1995 }}</ref><ref name=ewanpage2>{{cite web | url = http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/2/98.full.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151019103527/http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/2/98.full.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-date = 19 October 2015 | title = First Vice-Chancellor for computer profession | work = The Computer Journal | publisher = Oxford Journals / Oxford University Press | access-date =5 October 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Roger Williams (professor)|Sir Roger Williams]] (1993–2002)<ref name=rogwillglam>{{cite web|url=http://www.glam.ac.uk/awards/1834 |title=Professor Sir Roger Williams |publisher=University of Glamorgan |access-date=6 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309073339/http://www.glam.ac.uk/awards/1834 |archive-date=9 March 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Gordon Marshall (sociologist)|Gordon Marshall]] (2003 – July 2011)<ref name=gordmar>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/people/about-marshall.asp | title = Professor Gordon Marshall | publisher = University of Reading | access-date =24 July 2007}}</ref><ref name=farewell>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-382122.aspx | title = Farewell Vice-Chancellor | publisher = University of Reading | access-date =29 July 2011}}</ref>
* [[Tony Downes]] (acting; July 2011 – January 2012)<ref name=davidbell>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-409562.aspx | title = Introducing our new Vice-Chancellor | publisher = University of Reading | access-date =17 October 2011}}</ref>
* [[David Robert Bell|Sir David Bell]] (January 2012 – September 2018)<ref name=davidbell/><ref name=bell-leave>{{cite web |url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR769686.aspx |title=Vice-Chancellor, Sir David Bell, to leave the University of Reading |publisher=University of Reading |date=9 July 2018 |access-date=15 August 2018}}</ref>
* [[Robert Van de Noort]] (August 2018 – Present)<ref name=VandeNoort1>{{cite web |url= https://archive.reading.ac.uk/news-events/2018/July/pr769686.html | title= Vice-Chancellor, Sir David Bell, to leave University of Reading | publisher = University of Reading | access-date =12 May 2022}}</ref><ref name=VandeNoort2>{{cite web |url=https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/17459793.new-vice-chancellor-university-reading/ | title= New vice-chancellor for University of Reading | publisher = The Reading Chronicle | access-date =12 May 2022}}</ref>

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* [[Stanislav Andreski]] – was a professor of [[Sociology]] at the University of Reading
* [[Malcolm Barber]] – Emeritus Professor of History, University of Reading
* [[Dianne Berry]] – Professor of Psychology and Dean of Postgraduate Research Studies at the University of Reading
* [[James Anthony Betts]] - inaugural Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Reading (1934-1963)
* [[Emily Black]] - Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading and a senior research fellow in National Centre for Atmospheric Science (Climate)
* [[Humphry Bowen]] – Reader in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Reading
* [[Nicola Bradbury]] – Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading
* [[William de Burgh (philosopher)|William de Burgh]] – Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
* [[Mark Casson]] – Professor of [[Economics]], University of Reading<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/economics/about/staff/mark-casson.aspx|title=Professor Mark Casson – University of Reading|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>
*[[Susanne Clausen]] – Professor of Fine Art, University of Reading
* [[Francis Cole]] – Professor of [[Zoology]], University of Reading
* [[Howard Colquhoun]] – Professor of [[Materials Chemistry]], University of Reading
* [[John Cottingham]] – Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
* [[Neil Crosby]] – Professor of Real Estate, University of Reading
* [[Jonathan Dancy]] – Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
* [[Michael Drew]] – Professor of [[Chemistry]], University of Reading
* [[Christopher Duggan]] – was Professor of Modern Italian History, University of Reading
* [[Antony Flew]] – was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
*[[Rosa Freedman]] – Professor of law, conflict, and global development<ref>{{cite web|date=|title=Professor Rosa Freedman - University of Reading|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/law/about/staff/r-a-freedman.aspx|website=Reading.ac.uk|accessdate=2018-12-06}}</ref>
* [[Terry Frost|Sir Terry Frost]] – was Professor of Fine Art, University of Reading
* [[Michael Fulford]] – Professor of [[Archaeology]] and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading
* [[Colin S. Gray]] – Professor of [[International Relations]] and [[Strategic Studies]], University of Reading
* [[Edward Guggenheim]] – was a [[thermodynamicist]] and professor of chemistry at the University of Reading
* [[Andrew Gurr]] – was a professor of English at the University of Reading until his retirement and is a leading authority on Shakespeare
*[[Katherine Harloe]] - Professor of Classics, expert on classical reception, in particular the classicist and art historian [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]]
* [[Beatrice Heuser]] – Professor of [[International Relations]], University of Reading
* [[Gustav Holst]] – former lecturer in Music at University College, Reading
* [[Brad Hooker]] – Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
* [[Harold Hopkins (physicist)|Harold Hopkins]] – was a professor of [[Applied Physical Optics]] at the University of Reading
* [[Brian Hoskins|Sir Brian Hoskins]] – Professor of [[Meteorology]], University of Reading and Director of the [[Grantham Institute for Climate Change]], [[Imperial College London]]
* [[Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy]] – Professor of Formulation Science and Royal Society Industry Fellow
* [[Mary Lewis (archaeologist)|Mary Lewis]] – Professor of Bioarchaeology, University of Reading
* [[Michael Lockwood (physicist)|Michael Lockwood]] – Professor of Space Environment Physics, University of Reading
* [[William Burley Lockwood]] – Professor of Germanic and Indo-European Philology 1968–1982
* [[J-P Mayer]] – Professor Emeritus, editor of the works of [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] and founder of the Tocqueville Research Centre at the university
* [[Roger W. Mills]] – Emeritus Professor of Finance, University of Reading
* [[Edith Morley]] – Professor of English, University College, Reading: the first woman appointed (1908) to a chair at a British university-level institution.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Cheryl|last=Law|title=Morley, Edith Julia (1875–1964)|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/48617 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48617|access-date=14 February 2011}} </ref>
* [[Helene Muri]] – Norwegian [[Climatology|climate scientist]]
* [[Crispin St. J. A. Nash-Williams]] – was a professor of [[Mathematics]] at the University of Reading
* [[David S. Oderberg]] – Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
* [[Frank R. Palmer]] – Emeritus Professor of the Linguistic Science, University of Reading
* [[Richard Rado]] – was a professor of [[Mathematics]] at the University of Reading
* [[Peter Robinson (poet)|Peter Robinson]] – poet, poetry editor at [[Two Rivers Press]], and Professor of English and American literature at the University of Reading
* [[Michael N. Schmitt|Michael Schmitt]] – Professor of International Law, University of Reading
* [[Ted Shepherd]] – Grantham Professor of Climate Science, elected Fellow of the Royal Society
* [[Hugh Macdonald Sinclair]] – pioneer of human nutrition and visiting professor in Food Science at the University of Reading
* [[Keith Shine]] – Professor of [[Meteorology]], University of Reading
*[[Jeremy Paul Edward Spencer]] - Professor of Molecular Nutrition, University of Reading
* [[Frank Stenton|Sir Frank Stenton]] – was a professor of History at the University of Reading
* [[Galen Strawson]] – Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
* [[Percy Ure|Percy]] and [[Annie Ure]] – husband and wife team. Percy was the first professor of classics at Reading and Annie was the curator of the [[Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology]]
*[[Magdalen Dorothea Vernon]] – Professor of psychology, first woman to head the department
* [[Andrew Wallace-Hadrill]] – Director of the [[British School at Rome]] and professor of [[Classics]], University of Reading
* [[Kevin Warwick]] – former Professor of [[Cybernetics]], University of Reading
* [[Stuart Woolf]] - Reader in Italian from 1965 to 1974

== See also ==
* [[Early Modern Research Centre (University of Reading)]]
* [[International Cocoa Quarantine Centre]], a project of the university
* [[List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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