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 Robin Alexander FBA
Culture, policy and pedagogy in primary education; dialogism in teaching and learning; comparative and development education.
Professor Josep Call FBA
Comparative work on the ecological and social intelligence of primates with the ultimate goal of elucidating how cognition evolves
