We are delighted to announce the two successful candidates for our Visiting Research Fellowship awards for 2022-23: Dr Silke Körber and Dr Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz.

Applications were invited from scholars looking to conduct research and shape a new project drawing on the University of Reading’s Archives and Special Collections relating to book and publishing cultures. Priority was given to projects focussed on collections in the Archive of British Printing and Publishing, the East German Studies Archive, or the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collections.

Fellows are expected to develop their research into an application for an externally funded grant or fellowship, using UoR collections, supported by CBCP members of staff.

Dr Silke Körber joins us from the Vienna Circle Institute and will be working on a project using the Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype collection, entitled ‘Visual Thinking for a Modern Knowledge Transfer: Epistemic Status, Aesthetic Value and Historical Development’. For more information on this project please visit Dr Körber’s profile.

Dr Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz is a researcher in a Polish National Science Centre project (Half a Century of Children’s Literature in Poland and will be drawing upon the children’s collections to work on a project entitled ‘Translator’s Own Paper? Translated Literature in British Children’s Periodicals of the Victorian Era’. For more information on this project please visit Dr Wieczorkiewicz’s profile.