The British Academy and the Wolfson Foundation have awarded funding to six outstanding early career researchers to promote and facilitate high-quality research in the humanities and social sciences across the UK.
Designed to support early-career researchers who show exceptional talent in both research and public engagement, the British Academy/Wolfson Fellowships, worth up to £130,000 over three years, provide researchers with time away from some of their administration and teaching duties to pursue outstanding research, along with funding for public engagement and travel, to ensure the work reaches a global audience.
Paul Ramsbottom, Chief Executive of the Wolfson Foundation, said:
“There are many pressures on early career researchers at the moment. We are delighted and excited to be able to support these outstanding researchers to pursue imaginative research projects, with a range and quality that will have a significant impact on their fields of study.”
Hetan Shah, Chief Executive of the British Academy, said:
“We are very pleased to award our prestigious British Academy Wolfson Fellowships to this latest group of exceptional scholars. Their bold and important research will not only yield unique insights on crucial topics such as the determinants and implications of poverty and how past energy shifts have impacted communities, but will also demonstrate the value of SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts) research and public engagement. We wish our British Academy Wolfson Fellows the best of luck with their projects and look forward to seeing the fruition of their research.”
Award holders are:
- Lloyd de Beer, Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, The British Museum – The Age of Copper, Ivory and Gold: England and West Africa in the Middle Ages
- Daniel Edmiston, Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds – Plumbing the Depths: The Determinants, Dynamics and Policy Implications of Deep
- Ewan Gibbs, Lecturer in Global Inequalities, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow – Decarbonising the Economy and Society: Policy, Labour and Community in Energy Transitions
- Jake Hodder, Assistant Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham – Internationalising race: The League of Nations and the struggle for racial equality in the United States, 1919-1939
- Julia Huang, Lecturer in Anthropology of Development, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh – The New Data Economies of Social Enterprise
- Sneha Krishnan, Associate Professor in Human Geography, School of Geography and the Environment, Brasenose College, University of Oxford – Errant Girls: Intimate Internationalisms in Twentieth Century South
For further information on the new Fellowships visit the British Academy website.
