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British Academy announces new Senior Research Fellowships
Eight major new Senior Research fellowships for the academic year 2008/09 were announced today (15 April 2008) by the British Academy.
The Academy's Research Fellowships – seven funded by the Leverhulme Trust and one by the Thank-Offering to Britain Fund – allow established scholars to take a full year’s research leave. This enables them to complete a major piece of research while their day-to-day teaching and administrative responsibilities are covered by a full-time replacement.
The Awards - each worth around £35,500 – will be supporting research in a diverse range of humanities and social science disciplines, including:
- Professor Alvin Jackson (University of Edinburgh) will be making a comparative study of the two foundation charters of the UK - the Anglo-Scots Union of 1707, and the British-Irish Union of 1801 and will explore the agencies, institutions and people in Ireland and Scotland that have contributed to the longevity of the two unions.
- Dr Lia Kvavilashvili (Hertfordshire University) will be exploring the mechanisms of prospective memory (how we remember to do things in the future like taking medicine or paying bills on time) as well as the long-term effects of penetrating head injury on these functions, including analysis of a large dataset on Vietnam veterans.
- Stephen Tierney (University of Edinburgh) will be undertaking the first detailed study of the role of Referendums and “direct democracy” and how they are used today to settle matters of the highest constitutional consequence.
- Dr Patricia Clavin (University of Oxford), who has been awarded the Thank-Offering to Britain Fellowship, will examine the League of Nations’ role in fostering international economic, financial and social co-operation in the twentieth century.
The other Leverhulme award winners are:
- Dr Hakim Adi (Middlesex University) – The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers 1928-1939
- Dr Roger Brock (University of Leeds) – Greek Political Imagery from Homer to Aristotle
- Professor Tim Hayward (University of Edinburgh) – Global Justice, Human Rights and Ecological Debt
- Dr William Mander (Oxford University) – A History of British Idealism
Professor Bob Bennett, Chairman of the British Academy’s Research Committee, said: “The Senior Research Fellowship scheme is a critically important support for senior researchers to release the time for considered thought and to build new intellectual capital around an exciting new research project. The sponsorship which the Academy receives for these schemes is distinctive in making possible research which otherwise would go unfunded on this scale.”
NOTES TO EDITORS
Published:
15 April 2008
- Full details of this year's successful candidates are available from http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/awards/posts/srf2008.html
- For further details about these Fellowships and the full range of research funding opportunities offered by the British Academy, please visit www.britac.ac.uk/funding
- For media enquiries please contact, Michael Reade, External Relations: m.reade@britac.ac.uk/ 020 7969 5263.