Research activities

Research Themes

Our cross-disciplinary research addresses three key strategic themes:

• Soil & Environment
• Soil & Food Security
• Soil & The Past

Research Groups

Our research is operationally delivered through a range of focused research groups:

• Soil Biogeochemistry Group
• Land Surface Processes Group
• Water@Reading
• Urban Hydrology Group
• Centre for Agri-Environment Research
• Microbiology Research Group
• Tropical Paleoecology Research Group
• Centre for Past Climate Change

Research Platforms

We provide state-of-the-art research infrastructure and services to support field, laboratory and modelling work:

• Crops Research Unit
• Chemical Analysis Facility
• Quaternary Scientific (QUEST)
• Institute for Environmental Analytics
• Centre for Agricultural Informatics and Metrics of Sustainability (AIMS) (under development)
• Loddon Observatory (under development)