The British Academy
2008 Postdoctoral Fellowships
Forty-nine 2008 Postdoctoral Fellowships have been awarded by the British Academy across the humanities and social sciences, of which twelve are listed below. The fellowships are worth an average of ?220,000 each over a three-year period and allow outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment.
Award winner: Anna Akasoy
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?233,054
Al-Andalus in exile: regional identities of Andalusian scholars in the eastern Mediterranean (11th-14th centuries)
Award winner: Katherine Brickell
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: ?243,652
Geographies of transition in the Mekong region: gender, labour and domestic life in Cambodia and Vietnam
Award winner: Nandini Chatterjee
Institution: King’s College London
Value: ?234,044
Personal laws in the British Empire: a comparative history
Award winner: Karina Croucher
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: ?229,616
Being in the world: perceptions of the body and identity from the earliest villages to state societies
Award winner: Philip Derbyshire
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Value: ?195,502
“The Andean” in Argentina: a region in representation and cultural imaginaries
Award winner: Ranji Devadason
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: ?211,961
Transnational moral and market entrepreneurs: carriers, drivers and products of globalisation
Award winner: Leif Dixon
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?192,284
William Perkins and the theological culture of Calvinism in early modern England
Award winner: Hugh Doherty Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?239,712
The impact of Angevin rule in the English kingdom, 1174-1194
Award winner: Brandon Dotson
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?229,348
Narrative, orality and sacred kingship in Tibet’s first epic history
Award winner: Rosie Ensor
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?219,476
The good, the bad and the socially busy: children’s prosocial and antisocial acts with friends
Award winner: Rita Floyd
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: ?217,638
Consequentialist evaluation of security for cooperative international society
Award winner: Camilla Gilmore
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: ?208,780
The roots of arithmetic: linking numerical cognition with mathematics education
Award winner: Vanessa Grotti
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?228,974
Bodies of kin: changing relations of wellbeing in northeastern Amazonia
Award winner: Susanna Harris
Institution: University College London
Value: ?229,828
Cloth cultures in prehistoric Europe
Award winner: Katja Haustein
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?192,600
Cultures of distance: visualising the place of women in Weimar Germany
Award winner: Alicia Hinarejos
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?234,422
Legal problems arising from European Union action against terrorism
Award winner: Oliver Johnson
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: ?206,094
A critical analysis of the postwar Soviet art establishment, 1946-1956
Award winner: Man Yee Kan
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?230,300
Time together: impacts of desynchronized work schedules on family life in Britain and France, 1960s - 2000s
Award winner: Anna Kibort
Institution: University of Surrey
Value: ?199,784
Syntactic government
Award winner: Adrian Lashmore-Davies
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?186,526
Bolingbroke’s unpublished letters
Award winner: Nivedita Mani
Institution: University College London
Value: ?236,396
Investigating phonological priming in infancy
Award winner: Fabienne Marchand
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?234,414
Crossing political borders: social and cultural interactions between Euboia and Boiotia (c 700-171BC)
Award winner: Anna Marmodoro
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?234,720
Causal powers in Aristotle’s philosophy of mind
Award winner: Ralf Martin
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: ?6,497
How to induce innovation to address climate change?
Award winner: Carys Moseley
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: ?206,908
Karl Barth in critical conversation with social scientific readings of religion, nationalism and gender relations
Award winner: Matilda Mroz
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?192,530
Configurations of time and space in Polish cinema from 1945 to 1989
Award winner: Katharine Olson
Institution: Bangor University
Value: ?212,451
Local contexts of change: popular religion, community, and the development of confessional identity in Wales, c1500-1640
Award winner: Richard Pettigrew
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: ?187,817
Finding the foundations for natural and real number arithmetic in a theory of finite sets
Award winner: Eyal Poleg
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: ?222,424
The material culture of the Bible in England, c1230–c1700
Award winner: Marina Popescu
Institution: University of Essex
Value: ?203,709
Explaining when and why media influence citizens: a multi-method cross-national analysis
Award winner: Roberta Roberts
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: ?267,380
The feeling hand: an exploration of tactile perception contrasting whole-hand and single-finger exploration
Award winner: Darrell Rowbottom
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?235,371
Group rationality and the dynamics of inquiry
Award winner: Tali Sharot
Institution: University College London
Value: ?266,617
How emotion biases choice: the neural mechanism mediating affective forecasting errors
Award winner: Marco Simoni,
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: ?258,290
The low inflation left: converging policies and diverging outcomes during globalisation
Award winner: Niketas Siniossoglou
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?183,362
Platonic philosophy and Hellenic idenitity in Gemistus Plethon
Award winner: George Southcombe
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?225,577
The dissenting uses of history in the Restoration
Award winner: Marie Suetsugu
Institution: University of Aberystwyth
Value: ?174,184
Postcolonial relations and responsibility in Japan and East Asia: the writings of Haruki Murakami
Award winner: Shzr Ee Tan
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: ?252,666
Virtual sounds: new music-scapes in the Chinese diaspora
Award winner: Justice Tankebe
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?187,645
Policing and legitimacy in a multicultural society: the case of London
Award winner: Robert Truswell
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: ?202,262
Reconstruction without movement
Award winner: Jelle Van Lottum
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?193,025
In search of work: labour migration and economic performance in England and the Netherlands, 1600-1900
Award winner: Bettina Varwig
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?199,980
Imagining Heinrich Schütz: early modern culture and German historiography
Award winner: Michael Waibel
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?194,406
The insolvency of states in international law
Award winner: Alexander Watson
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?192,979
National minorities at war: Polish identity and combat motivation in the armies of the Central powers, 1914-1918
Award winner: Mark Weeden
Institution: Soas
Value: ?225,187
Studies in the Akkadian of Alalakh
Award winner: Michèle Wollstonecroft
Institution: University College London
Value: ?229,892
Diet and subsistence choices of Southwestern Europe’s last hunter-gatherers: an archaeobotanical and interdisciplinary investigation into the role of plants in the Muge (Portugal) Final Mesolithic
Award winner: David Woodman
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?192,475
The Historia Regum: a critical edition
Award winner: Kerri Woods
Institution: University of York
Value: ?211,613
Solidarity with distant others: motivation and justification in contemporary cosmopolitan political philosophy
Award winner: Jidong Zhou
Institution: University College London
Value: ?229,455
Behavioral industrial organisation