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Death Tolls and our Perception of Human Fatalities
The news coverage of the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile has been dominated by reports of ever increasing death tolls. One of the British Academy-funded Newton International Fellows, Dr Christopher Olivola, offers an explanation of why as individuals we react in such contrasting ways to different mortality rates.
When Homer met Phantasia: fiction, epic poetry and entertainment literature in Byzantium
Dr Aglae Pizzone is one of the British Academy’s Newton International Fellows.
Time out!
Ayşe Üskül and Michelle Ryan applaud the transformative impact of the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship scheme
The book that has influenced me most in the last 12 months
Ten British Academy-supported early career scholars reveal the books that made the greatest impact on them in 2016
Identities in ‘Greater Senegambia’ and beyond: History and music in dialogue
Dr Toby Green is Lecturer in Lusophone African History and Culture, at King’s College London. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow between 2007 and 2010. He currently holds a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award for his project on ‘Identities in Greater Senegambia and beyond: Interdisciplinary Approaches through History …
Rewrite the headlines! Helping young people evaluate how academic research is reported in the media
Dr Alan Gow, is Associate Professor in Psychology at Heriot-Watt University. He received a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award that helped launch a competition designed to engage young people in evaluating the coverage of research in the media. His project colleague, Dr Sinead Rhodes, is a Senior Lecturer in …
Five ways in which the medieval is relevant today
Dr Conor Kostick is Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham. In 2015 he received a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award for his project on ‘Making the Medieval Relevant’.
The history of Arabic books in the digital age
Sarah Bowen Savant reveals how computer algorithms can aid the comparison of medieval Arabic texts.
Leopold Schweich and his Family
Though established by Royal Charter in 1902, the fledgling British Academy had no financial resources beyond the subscriptions of its first Fellows: a bid to the Treasury for ‘assistance from public funds’ was rebuffed in 1904. To remedy the situation, the Secretary of the Academy, Israel Gollancz, turned to a …
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (British Academy Review article)
December 2013 saw the publication of the final fascicule (part) of the British Academy’s Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, an undertaking first proposed in 1913. Its current editor, Richard Ashdowne, reflects on bringing a hundred years of research to a close.
Digital visualisation: Ancient Rome, and beyond
Dr Matthew Nicholls has been awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award for his project on ‘Digital Visualisation in the Humanities’. On 9 October 2015, he attended the British Academy Early Career Research Showcase event to give a presentation of his own digital visualisation of Ancient Rome, and he …
‘Big Society’, ‘good culture’, and aspiration
Dr Matthew Johnson is Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow from 2011 to 2014. He currently holds a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award. His project explores social and political concepts through an innovative form of community-oriented participatory research.
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