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Motivation and global justice: Philosophy and practice

Dr Kerri Woods is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of York.

Witness Accuracy

Dr Mark Kebbell, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, describes his research on jurors’ perceptions of eyewitness evidence.

Life on the Amazon (BAR)

Dr Mark Harris, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, uses two forms of ethnographic writing to explore the historical and social identity of a village of fisherpeople who live in Parú on the banks of the Amazon. He intersperses analytical chapters with narrative sections that describe …

The Death of Queen Victoria

In edited extracts from his book ‘Great Deaths’, Dr John Wolffe, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the Open University, describes the demonstrations of public grief and mourning following the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.

Where We Live Now: An approach to policy and growth that is centred on place

Jamiesha Majevadia reports on the progress of a British Academy project

Broadbrows and book clubs

Nicola Wilson introduces us to the Book Society and its cultural influence

Mobilising the law: Environmental NGOs in court

Dr Lisa Vanhala was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2012 at the University of Oxford and at University College London. She is now Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, University College London. Her research on legal mobilisation in the UK was published …

The Victorians and French novels

Juliette Atkinson introduces us to the Victorians’ conflicted relationship with the French novel.

Neural plasticity: don't fall for the hype

Mirko Farina warns us not to get over-excited by claims for brain improvement.

Imagining new worlds: forging 'non-western' International Relations in late colonial India

Martin J. Bayly reveals an Indian dimension to the development of International Relations studies.

Where ants dig up gold: 'India', selfhood and the myths manufacturing a nation

As India seeks to define its identity in its 70th anniversary, Bihani Sarkar reveals that it has always been the subject of myth-making.

'It really changed my life completely': Thirty years of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

Five personal accounts of this ‘early career’ support.

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