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 Devyani Sharma FBA
Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception
Professor Andrew Steptoe FBA
Social and psychological factors related to physical health outcomes; epidemiology of ageing, cardiovascular disease, and dementia; health psychology and positive wellbeing
