Digital Society: social media and online data – a new resource

Supervisor: Professor Peter Grindrod

School: Mathematics, Meteorology and Physics
Department: Mathematics, Mathematics, Meteorology and Physics

There are now many online data resources. This project aims to develop data resources to support analysis of digital social activity and its consequences

How we adapt to reading different typefaces: exploring font tuning

Supervisor: Mary Dyson

School: Arts and Communication Design
Department: Typography and Graphic Communication, Arts and Communication Design

The research spans psychology and design, investigating typefaces through techniques applied to face perception

Identification of bacteriophages with potential application for the control and treatment of bovine mastitis.

Supervisor: Dr Rob Jackson

School: Biological Sciences
Department: Biological Science, Biological Sciences

Identification of bacteriophages with potential application as alternatives to antibiotics in the control and treatment of bovine mastitis.

Improve vaccine delivery using the co-drug approach.

Supervisor: Dr Wing Man Lau

School: Chemistry, Food BioSciences and Pharmacy
Department: Food BioSciences, Chemistry, Food BioSciences and Pharmacy

A laboratory-based project investigating a novel vaccine design incorporating a peptide and DNA in a co-drug format to enhance vaccination outcomes.

Kinetics and Thermodynamics of protein fibril assembly

Supervisor: Dr Adam Squires

School: Chemistry, Food BioSciences and Pharmacy
Department: Chemistry, Chemistry, Food BioSciences and Pharmacy

The project uses biophysical techniques to investigate the energetics of protein assembly in "amyloid" protein fibrils

Measurement of calcium flux and activation of single platelets to enable computational modelling of platelet function.

Supervisor: Dr Chris Jones

School: Biological Sciences
Department: Biological Science, Biological Sciences

This project will use novel microscopy techniques measure the activation of individual platelet over time with the aim of understanding the temporal components of platelet response to stimulus as part of a computational biology project.

Re-Writing 'Robinson Crusoe': Changing Ideas of Child Readers

Supervisor: Dr Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

School: English and American Literature
Department: English and American Literature, English and American Literature

This project considers how ideas change about what kinds of texts children should read and why through examining adaptations for children of Daniel Defoe's classic 'Robinson Crusoe' (1719). These adaptations are part of the unique University of Reading 'Crusoe Collection' of over a hundred editions and retellings of 'Robinson Crusoe', from 1747 to the present.