Professor Bencie Woll FBA
Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Education, Linguistics, Psychology
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology , Psychology , Education
Current post
Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies, University College London
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Anke Ehlers FBA
Psychopathology and psychological treatment of anxiety disorders and psychosomatic disorders; posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobia, panic disorder, atopic dermatitis
Professor Lynne Murray FBA
The functional architecture of early parent-infant relationships; their role in child development in clinical contexts and conditions of adversity; the development of parenting interventions to prevent adverse child outcome
