The Department of Typography and Graphic Communication has an international reputation for research in history, theory and practice of design for reading. We supervise projects in the history and technology of printing (including lithography and stencilling), colour printing and printed ephemera; and in letterforms and type such as designing type for cross-media publication; history and design of non-Latin typefaces (including Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Indian and south-east Asian); and the Influence of composing practices on type forms. In this course students are encouraged to present their work to non-academic audiences, at conferences or meetings, through exhibitions and social media. This course provides training, professional development, study space, advice and administrative support in a dedicated building for the postgraduate research community at Reading.