Sue Walker

📚 Book of the week: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Typography Edited by Aaris Sherin, Vaibhav Singh, Sue Walker 🔗 Get your copy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-bl…

Sue Walker’s Guardian obituary of Michael Twyman. Without Michael, my and Jo’s lives would have been very different

University of Reading's Art Collections and Lettering, Print & Graphic Design Collections have achieved Full Accreditation by Arts Council England (@ace_national), in recognition of their expert management and preservation for future generations. More: rdg.ac/4nwJPZS

This is also affecting access to @UniRdg_ArtCol, @ColeZoology, @uremuseum, @UniRdgTypoColls websites. Please bear with us while we get this sorted.

Last prep for #SHARP2024!

This is happening!!!! #SHARP2024 #cbcpReading @cbcp_UniRdg @SHARPorg

Next week over 300 delegates from all over the world will come to @UniofReading for the #SHARP2024 conference hosted by @cbcp_UniRdg on "Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access". Find out more at: reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Rese…

@drfredcooper Proud to have our chapter: ‘Testing, testing. What about the instructions? included! @eslacote @UniRdg_Research

'Over the past three years, scholars and practitioners have painstakingly built a pandemic humanities… creating the conditions for this work to thrive must, surely, constitute one of the best forms of crisis preparedness we have.' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/the-pan…

🌟It's publication day!!! 🌟 I'm really excited to share our new collection, Knowing COVID-19, edited with the brilliant @Des_Fitzgerald. The book brings together 8 fantastic essays on the epistemological work of the pandemic humanities: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526178640/…

Yet more of Typography papers now online! We are pleased to make available PDF files of articles from volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Typography papers: typography.network/typographypape…

Enormously proud to share this good news! The work of years is finally coming out! Edinburgh Companion to #Women in #Publishing, 1900–2020 is now available for pre order: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinb… @EdinburghUP @cbcp_UniRdg

Professor Sue Walker (@UniRdg_Typo) and her team visited Rwanda to tackle #AMR. They used design thinking to explore ways of explaining the dangers of drug-resistant bugs in the context of a community pharmacy. #WAAW2023 rdg.ac/2BQ1Lcw

Next week, @IrmiWachendorff will be exploring the significance of stickers as self-publishing in urban spaces at a seminar with @cbcp_UniRdg. 🏙️ Don't miss out! 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/…

Join our webinar 'Towards a Diverse REF Culture: Digital Datasets and Tools as Contribution to Knowledge', Wed 22 November, 12-1pm with Dr Arianna Ciula @ariciula from @kingsdigitallab & Prof Jane Winters from @DH_ResearchHub. Info: culturedigitalskills.org/webinars/webin… #CultureDigitalSkills

There's still time to catch 'Up in Arms', an exhibition from @cbcp_UniRdg @UniRdg_Typo exploring posters of protest, solidarity, engagement and action. ✊ The exhibition runs until 8 December 2023 - find out more 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-boo…

Handsetting the first ghazal of the Divan of Hafez around 250 years after its publication in London using the same hybrid Naskh-Nasta’liq type. (Still missing a few alternates)

Join Dr Abba Abba @UniRdg_EngLit @cbcp_UniRdg on 7 December to discover how unpublished materials can help reclaim rebel authors' perspectives. Find out more👇 research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/…

We are inviting applications for 3 funded Visiting Research Fellowships to scholars to conduct research & shape a new project drawing on the Reading University’s Archives & Special Collections relating to book & publishing cultures. More info here👇tinyurl.com/2fd5hhn6

We are excited to be collaborating with @typodiversity on a typography & type design event this Friday & Saturday. The full programme for this event is available here: typodiversity.net/typodiversity0…

Stickers are one of the smallest and yet most visually expressive and liberated forms of signs in urban space - so what do they tell us? 🏙️🎨 Join @IrmiWachendorff and @cbcp_UniRdg on 30 November to explore the significance of stickers in urban spaces. research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/…