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Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Bravo, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-8412, Edwards, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-989X, Hart, J. and Little, G. (2022) Instructions for COVID-19 self-tests: what parts of the test are the most difficult to get right and how can information design help? Information Design Journal, 27 (1). pp. 126-139. ISSN 1569-979X doi: 10.1075/idj.22011.wal

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Halai, M., Warner, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8857-5084 and Bravo, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-8412 (2021) Beat bad microbes: raising public awareness of antibiotic resistance in Rwanda. Information Design Journal, 26 (1). pp. 17-32. ISSN 0142-5471 doi: 10.1075/idj.20023.wal

Needs, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3407-9637, Bull, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5129-1731, Bravo, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-8412, Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Little, G., Hart, J. and Edwards, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-989X (2020) Remote videolink observation of model home sampling and home testing devices to simplify usability studies for point-of-care diagnostics. Wellcome Open Research, 5 (174). ISSN 2398-502X doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16105.1

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Hignett, S., Lim, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1705-1480, Parkhurst, C. and Samuel, F. (2020) Explaining drug-resistant infection in community pharmacies through effective information design. Design for Health, 4 (1). pp. 82-104. ISSN 2473-5132 doi: 10.1080/24735132.2020.1731201

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2019) Effective antimicrobial resistance communication: the role of information design. Palgrave Communcations, 5. 24. ISSN 2055-1045 doi: 10.1057/s41599-019-0231-z

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2018) Modernity, method and minimal means: typewriters, typing manuals and document design. Journal of Design History, 31 (2). pp. 138-153. ISSN 1741-7279 doi: 10.1093/jdh/epx018

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Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2012) Describing the design of children’s books: an analytical approach. Visible Language, 46 (3). ISSN 0022-2224

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Kindel, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-5891 and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2010) Isotype revisited. Il progetto sugli aspetti meno conosciuti di Isotype. Progetto grafico, 18. pp. 48-57. ISSN 1824-1301

Reynolds, L., Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 and Duncan, A. (2006) Children's responses to line spacing in early reading books or "Holes to tell you which line you're on". Visible Language, 40 (3). pp. 246-267.

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2005) 'The books nobody sees': typography in children's reading books. Baseline, 48. pp. 25-32.

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2005) The books that nobody sees: typography in children's reading books. Baseline (48). pp. 25-32. ISSN 0954-9226

Reynolds, L. and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2004) 'You can't see what the words say': word spacing and letter spacing in children's reading books. Journal of Research in Reading, 27 (1). pp. 87-98. ISSN 0141-0423 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2004.00216.x

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 and Reynolds, L. (2003) Serifs, sans serifs and infant characters in children’s reading books. Information Design Journal, 11 (2/3). pp. 106-122. ISSN 1569-979X doi: 10.1075/idj.11.2.04wal

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2003) The manners of the page: prescription and practice in the visual organisation of correspondence. Huntington Library Quarterly, 66 (3 & 4). pp. 307-329. ISSN 1544-399X

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 and Reynolds, L. (2000) Screen design for children’s reading. Journal of Research in Reading, 23 (2). pp. 224-234. ISSN 1467-9817 doi: 10.1111/1467-9817.00116

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Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Bravo, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-8412 and Edwards, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-989X (2024) Testing, testing – what about the instructions? In: Cooper, F. and Fitzgerald, D. (eds.) Knowing COVID-19: The Pandemic and Beyond. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 60-85. ISBN 9781526178640 doi: 10.7765/9781526178657.00009

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2024) Marie Neurath: designing and publishing Isotype books for children. In: Wilson, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4843-840X, Battershill, C., Heywood, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6641-2065, Joseph, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3045-9897, La Penna, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4197-0041, Southworth, H., Staveley, A. and Gordon, E. W. (eds.) Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2000. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781399500340

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2022) Reading information: using graphic language to enhance engagement with children's books. In: Hagen, A. M. (ed.) Mediation and children's reading: relationships, intervention and organization from the eighteenth century to the present. Lehigh University Press, Lanham, Maryland, pp. 125-145. ISBN 9781611463262

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Black, A., Bessemans, A., Bormans, K., Renckens, M. and Barratt, M. (2018) Designing digital texts for beginner readers: performance, practice and process. In: Barzillai, M., Thomson, J. M., Schroeder, S. and Broek, P. W. v. d. (eds.) Learning to read in a digital world. Studies in written language and literacy (17). John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 31-56. ISBN 9789027201225 doi: 10.1075/swll.17.02wal

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2017) The contribution of typography and information design to health communication. In: Cooper, R. and Tsekleves, E. (eds.) Design for health. Routledge, pp. 92-109. ISBN 9781472457424

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2017) Marie Neurath: designing information books for young people. In: Black, A., Lund, O., Luna, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-1217 and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (eds.) Information design research and practice. Routledge, pp. 117-126. ISBN 9780415786324

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2013) Graphic explanation for children, 1944-71. In: Burke, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0391-3740, Kindel, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-5891 and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (eds.) Isotype: design and contexts, 1925-1971. Hyphen Press, London, pp. 390-437. ISBN 9780907259473

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2007) Letterforms for handwriting and reading: print script and sanserifs in early twentieth-century England. In: Typography papers. Typography papers (7). Hyphen Press, pp. 81-114. ISBN 9780907259336

Archer, C., Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 and Reynolds, L. (2004) Typography in nineteenth-century children's readers: the Otley connection. In: Mckay, B., Hinks, J. and Bell, M. (eds.) Light on the book trade: essays in honour of Peter Isaac. Print Networks (6). British Library and Oak Knoll Press, London, pp. 118-129. ISBN 9780712347976

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2000) Leading the field or behind the times? Doctoral education in typography and graphic communication. In: Durling, D. and Friedman, K. (eds.) Foundations for the future: doctoral education in design. Staffordshire University Press, pp. 337-344.

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (1998) Handwriting skills. In: Corson, D. and Edwards, V. (eds.) The encyclopedia of language and education. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 97-105. ISBN 9780792345954

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Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Bravo, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-8412 and Edwards, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-989X, (2022) User-friendly point-of-use instructions for home use diagnostic tests. Other. University of Reading doi: 10.17864/1947.000419

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Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Hignett, S., Lim, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1705-1480, Parkhurst, C., Samuel, F. and Mole, M. C. (2018) Design, architecture, pharmacy: making a difference to understanding anti-microbial resistance (AMR). In: Design4Health2018, 4-6 September 2018, Sheffield. (ISBN: 9781843874218)

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Luna, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-1217, Ross, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1094-2961, Sherin, A., Singh, V. and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, eds. (2025) The Bloomsbury handbook of global typography. Bloomsbury, London. (In Press)

Schilhab, T. and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, eds. (2020) The materiality of reading. Aarhus University Press, pp154. ISBN 9788771849585

Black, A., Luna, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-1217, Lund, O. and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, eds. (2017) Information design: research and practice. Routledge, London, pp600. ISBN 9780415786324

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2013) Book design for children's reading: typography, picture, print. St Bride Foundation, London, pp224. ISBN 9780950416137

Burke, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0391-3740, Kindel, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-5891 and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, eds. (2013) Isotype: design and contexts 1925–1971. Hyphen Press, London, pp554. ISBN 9780907259473

Walker, S. F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2005) The songs the letters sing: typography and children's reading. National Centre for Language and Literacy, Reading, pp23. ISBN 9780704998469

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2000) Typography and language in everyday life: prescriptions and practices. Language in social life. Longman, Harlow, pp224. ISBN 9780582357556

Burke, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0391-3740 and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, eds. (1998) Typography papers, 3. Typography papers, 3. Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, Reading, pp148. ISBN 0-7049-1123-x

Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 and Edwards, V. (1995) Building bridges: multilingual resources for children. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, pp130. ISBN 9781853592904

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Kindel, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-5891, Minns, E., Nairne, K., Odling-Smee, A. and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2019) Marie Neurath: Picturing Science. [Show/Exhibition]

Burke, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0391-3740, Kindel, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-5891 and Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836 (2010) Isotype: international picture language. [Show/Exhibition]

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Walker, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Connare, V. and Scaglione, J. (2005) Fabula: type design. University of Reading.