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"You told me it would be OK"
Supervisor:
Carien van Reekum
School:
School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences
Department:
Psychology
This project aims to investigate how instructions modulate psychophysiological responses to potentially threatening stimuli.
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A Fine Line: J. A. Betts and the Study of Drawing at the University of Reading
Supervisor:
Dr Naomi Lebens
School:
Library
Department:
University Museums and Special Collections Services
This UROP placement will provide essential support for preliminary research on an exhibition project, provisionally titled ‘A Fine Line: Master Drawings from Rubens to Sickert’, set to be hosted in the Madejski Gallery in Reading Museum. The exhibition will unveil the hidden history of University’s collection of master drawings.
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Anxious perception
Supervisor:
Dr Katie Gray
School:
School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences
Department:
Clinical Language Sciences
This project aims to investigate how individual differences in anxious disposition can influence the categorisation of ambiguous visual stimuli.
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Armchair Travellers: Collecting Travel Books in the Seventeenth Century
Supervisor:
Chloë Houston and Michelle O’Callaghan
School:
School of Literature and Languages
Department:
English Literature
Books of travels to foreign lands became increasingly available to readers from the early seventeenth century. Special Collections holds important examples of these works that were often published with carefully crafted illustrations and including maps . Since many buyers would not experience foreign travel first hand, travel books were crucial in fashioning armchair travellers and practices of book-collecting.
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Biomarker evidence for human impacts in past environments
Supervisor:
Dr Stuart Black
School:
School of Archaeology Geography & Environmental Science
Department:
Geography & Environmental Science
This UROP placement will investigate the application of detecting organic biomarkers directly from human waste products in environment. This could lead to accurate a better understanding of where and when humans were in landscapes in the past and be able to tie climate records and human occupations of remote landscapes together for the first time.
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