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Six academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

The University has been selected as the lead delivery partner for the British Academy’s new East of England Early Career Researcher Network (ECRN) cluster. Cambridge will work closely with the other delivery partners, Anglia Ruskin University and the University of East Anglia, to support early career researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences across the region.

Twelve academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social science

Six academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

The joint winner of the Early Career Researcher 2023 is Dr Barry Coughlan.

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan – from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult – that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age. 

Six academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

The handwritten inventories had lain largely untouched for centuries. Sand used to dry the ink still lay between the pages. Written neatly inside were thousands of lists that might hold the key to an enduring puzzle in economics – does education fuel economic growth?

One man’s quest to create a library of everything, 500 years before Google Books was conceived, foreshadowed the challenges of ‘big data’ and our reliance on search algorithms to make sense of it all.

Research by an expert in peacebuilding shows how international ideas, practices and language of conflict resolution are transformed when they meet African “realities and politics on the ground”.