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 Michael Alexander Hogg FBA
The social psychology of group processes and intergroup relations, influence and leadership, and self and identity; as well as social conflict, societal extremism and social identity-framed language and communication
Professor Susan Golombok FBA
Parenting and child development in new family forms including same-sex parent families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, gamete donation and surrogacy
Professor Susan Gathercole FBA
The cognitive mechanisms of memory and learning in typical children and adults, their impairments in developmental disorders of learning, and methods of remediation
