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The true radicalism of the right to housing
Dr Jessie Hohmann was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2012. She is now Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
Earwitness evidence and the question of voice similarity
Article by Dr Kirsty McDougall, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.
The working life of models
Dr Erika Mansnerus conducted her research project on ‘Lifecycles of Modelling’ as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2012 at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics.
How Philosophers Die
Dr David Palfrey, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2003-06, examines some stories about the deaths of philosophers and asks whether, from a philosophical perspective, the manner of their death can tell us anything about the precepts they espoused.
Rhyming Pictures: Walter Crane and the Art of Reading
Dr Grace Brockington describes the educational, aesthetic and political ideals underpinning Walter Crane’s art, and illustrates his views on the importance of the visual in our first encounter with written language.
Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender, and Political Culture in Britain, 1815–1867
A new British Academy book provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of women’s involvement in British political culture in the first half of the 19th century. In these extracts, Dr Kathryn Gleadle describes how women often engaged with politics issues through a prominent male relative – in this case, …
Beggars, Blaggers and Bums? Media Representations of Homeless People
As part of her British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (1998-2001), Dr Rebekah Widdowfield has been examining media representations of homelessness and homeless people in the local, regional and national press. This has been a wide-ranging study examining the type of article, content, approach, language and, where possible, the use of photographs …
Name Labels in Late Antique Mosaics
Dr Ruth Leader was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (1998-2001) to work on visual culture in late antiquity. Here she describes the phenomenon of incorporating inscriptions and labelled figures personifying abstract concepts in the mosaics of the period, and considers their significance.
Discovering Signorelli
Dr Tom Henry, Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Painting at Oxford Brookes University, describes his work on a particular painting by Luca Signorelli, achieved during his term as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courtauld Institute, from 1997 to 2000.
Kabuki-cho Gangsters: Ethnic Succession in Japanese Organised Crime?
Dr Peter Hill held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Sociology Department, University of Oxford between 2001 and 2004 to work on the relationship between indigenous and immigrant criminal groupings in contemporary Japan. He describes here some of his research on gangsters in Tokyo.
Forging the Anglo-Saxon past: Beverley Minster in the 14th century
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr David Woodman reveals the steps that the Beverley clergy took to fill some awkward gaps in their legal records.
Faith, Fertility and the Field Economist
Dr Sriya Iyer was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000-2003) to work on ‘Religion, inequality and fertility in South India’. Here she describes one aspect of her research.
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