Inspiring Excellence

Review of the year 2013/14

British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 1 CoNTENTS

02 INTRODUCTION 15 Strengthening Policymaking  Providing independent contributions 04 THE YEAR IN NUMBERS to public policy development, enhancing the policymaking process.  The following sections reflect the six strategic priorities set 17 Engaging with the public out in the Academy’s Strategic  Stimulating public interest in and Framework 2013–2018: understanding of the humanities and social sciences, and contributing 06 Championing the Humanities to public debate. And Social Sciences Taking a lead in representing the 19 Promoting Internationalism humanities and social sciences, Promoting UK research in promoting their interests and international arenas, fostering a global vigorously upholding their value. approach across UK research and providing leadership in developing 09 Advancing Research global research links and expertise.  Providing distinctive and complementary funding opportunities 22 About The ACADEMY for outstanding people and innovative research.

13 FOSTERING EXCELLENCE  Strengthening, extending and diversifying ways of recognising and celebrating high achievement in the humanities and social sciences.

British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 1 Introduction

Welcome to the British Academy’s first postgraduate students, led major initiatives of disciplines to work. Alongside them, our including China and India, giving advice Review of the Year. Each year we plan to to help ensure the UK develops sustainable public programme of lectures, talks and on the EU’s role in funding research, present an overview of the highlights of ‘open access’ publication policies and conferences continued to grow. and supporting the Academy’s unique promoted the importance of studying network of research institutes overseas. A The humanities and social sciences the past year, showing how the Academy foreign languages and strengthening new international prize in transcultural account for half of active research staff works to support outstanding humanities researchers’ quantitative skills. Public policy understanding extended the Academy’s in UK universities. They are studied by and social science research, and acts reports covered the referendum on Scottish portfolio of prizes and medals, which a million undergraduates – and by a independence (including perspectives from recognise both scholarly achievement as a champion for its disciplines – quarter of a million international students Wales), health inequalities, underwater and non-scholarly contributions to the from psychology to the history of art (some 60% of the total), who make cultural heritage, and the disposal of humanities and social sciences. Many and music, and from economics to important contributions to the future of radioactive waste. of these awards are made possible by the our international relationships and our archaeology. It complements the more generosity of donors. detailed Annual Report, containing In February the Academy launched a major economy. The Academy puts excellence full financial accounts, which is multimedia project, Prospering Wisely, setting in research and scholarship to work, and The Academy welcomes partners who out the many ways in which the humanities fosters excellence for the future. It will share its aim of supporting excellence in published online. and social sciences contribute to our social, continue to build its links across the UK the humanities and social sciences. Thanks cultural and economic well-being, with the wider academic community, and are due to our many supporters, notably The Academy invested some £29m during individually and collectively. The project a strategic priority is to strengthen support the Leverhulme Trust and the Wolfson the financial year 2013/14 to support included interviews with a range of for early career scholars, building on the Foundation. We are very grateful to the excellent and innovative research across the Academy Fellows (accessible on our success of our postdoctoral fellowship elected Officers, Council, Committee humanities and social sciences, nationally website), which illustrate how humanities scheme. members and Fellows for their pro bono and internationally, including research and social science research and expertise work in support of the Academy over the International leadership is a further vital fellowships for early and mid-career feed into our national life. past year – and last but certainly not least part of the Academy’s work. This year’s scholars, and a wide-ranging programme to our dedicated staff. of Small Research Grants in partnership One of the duties of an Academy based on activities included publishing a report on with the Leverhulme Trust and others. excellence is to show its subjects ‘at work’ the value of the UK’s ‘soft power’ assets, Across the board these funding schemes tackling major issues of the day. A new strengthening links with emerging powers, JULY 2014 attracted increased demand. flagship series of ‘British Academy Debates’ was launched this year, in London, Sheffield The Academy increasingly works in and Edinburgh, together with backup Professor Nicholas Stern Dr Robin Jackson CBE partnership with the UK’s other national digital content. In this first series, leading Kt, FBA, FRS Chief Executive academies to emphasise the value of the (Lord Stern of Brentford) and Secretary academics and public figures discussed some President country’s world-class research base. As of the key challenges – and opportunities – the national voice of the humanities and posed by a steadily ageing population, with social sciences, it drew attention to the substantial audiences and media attention. increasingly serious funding needs of These Debates put the Academy’s full range

2 British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 3 total income £27m the year Department for Business, Innovation & Skills in numbers £31.7m £1.6m Clio Enterprises Ltd total distributed Over the past three years the Academy’s £31.7m £1.4m Other grants financial position has strengthened Where the money considerably. The Department for came from £0.6m £29.1m Trading activity through the Grants returned Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Academy’s wholly owned again provided the majority of the £0.4m subsidiary (‘Clio’) generated Donations, subscriptions Academy’s income (85% this year) welcome surplus for the through its £27m grant, but there were third year running. £0.4m Investment income welcome increases in grants from trusts, foundations and other bodies, from £0.3m Publications income publications and investment income, and from the Academy’s wholly owned sub- sidiary, Clio Enterprises, which produced gross trading income of £2.2m. Overall, 92% levels of activity have expanded, despite value of the academy 13/14 £5.6m development fund (ADF) the tough economic climate. 2010–2014 12/13 £5.1m 11/12 £4.0m This Review covers the financial year The ADF enables the Academy April 2013 to March 2014. to take new initiatives at its 10/11 £3.1m For more detailed information visit our distributed to support excellence across unfettered discretion. The Fund Annual Report and accounts online at the humanities and social sciences has grown significantly in recent www.britishacademy.ac.uk/annualreport years, strengthening the Academy’s INcluding: £ overall financial position. Early career fellowships 10.8m International engagement 6.7m £5.6m +81% Mid-career fellowships 4.5m Small Research Grants 2.4m Public policy and public engagement 2.4m Languages and Quantitative Skills programme 1.5m Other grants 0.8m

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As the UK’s national champion of the New policy reports published by the detailed research into aspects of open Postgraduate students humanities and social sciences the Academy highlighted two significant issues: access, including the effect that different Following its position statement British Academy takes the lead in how deficits in language skills undermine academic journal embargo periods will Postgraduate Funding: The Neglected the UK’s security and its capacity for global have on library acquisition policies, and Dimension, the Academy has continued to promoting their interests and making influence, and the importance of language the degree to which different disciplines highlight the importance of improving the case for their role and value skills to UK commerce (see page 16). are involved in non-UK publishing. The the funding of postgraduate study. This in our individual, community and report, Open Access Journals in Humanities has included discussions with HEFCE, national lives. Open access and Social Science, published in April 2014, Research Councils and other funders The Academy has provided leadership has been widely noticed around the world. and stakeholders to investigate sustainable to the humanities and social science It provides important new evidence and funding solutions. The Academy also communities, by helping to articulate ways insights into these issues, and has already The importance of language learning commissioned the National Union of in which policy for open access publishing informed HEFCE’s consultation on how Students to undertake a large scale analysis The Academy has been especially active in should best be developed. In July 2013, the open access will be implemented in the of students’ attitudes to undergraduate promoting the study of languages. In 2013 Academy launched a series of essays, Debating next Research Excellence Framework debt and its impact on postgraduate study a two-year partnership was launched with Open Access – analysing the challenges and (likely to be in 2020). intentions, to address current evidence The Guardian, including a Public Language opportunities which open access poses for gaps on the impact of the changes to Champion Award (won by Arsene Wenger, humanities and social science disciplines undergraduate funding in England, and Arsenal FC’s manager), a month-long assist in developing a holistic national Language Festival, and the Schools The Higher Education Funding Council funding strategy for postgraduates. Language Awards, hosted this year by the for England (HEFCE) subsequently actor Larry Lamb. commissioned the Academy to carry out

prospering wisely The Academy launched a multimedia Combining a booklet, a series of video project, Prospering Wisely, in interviews, a multimedia website and a February, which argued that the special edition of the British Academy notion of ‘prosperity’ extends Review, it shows the Academy’s disciplines well beyond its purely financial ‘at work’, and the role that high level meaning, and illustrated some expertise plays in fostering a flourishing of the many ways in which the society and tackling its multiple challenges. humanities and social sciences The project was launched with a reception Lo-res picture from Google – actively contribute to well-being, at the House of Lords followed by an British Academy to supply to a healthy, open democracy and evening public panel discussion chaired to fuelling growth and innovation. by Melvyn Bragg.

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pathways for Early career researchers Working together The Academy invested over £29m in Their research spans a very broad range In partnership with the Arts and Humanities The Academy works closely with the other 2013/14 in support of humanities and of topics across the humanities and social Research Council, the Academy has national academies (the Royal Society, the social science research. The largest sciences – from Dr Laure de Preux commissioned a study to explore the Royal Academy of Engineering and the (Imperial College London) evaluating the pathways that exist for early career researchers Academy of Medical Sciences) to make share of this funding was allocated to effects of weather variation on people’s in the years immediately following completion the case for the importance of academic outstanding early and mid-career health in the UK to Dr Evrim Altintas of their doctorates. This report will provide research to growth and innovation. This scholars and through grants to support (University of Oxford) examining the important evidence on the barriers they included a joint publication, Fuelling a wide variety of research projects and extent to which the daily activities and face in seeking to establish academic careers, Prosperity, which recommended a long- investigations across all our disciplines. social interactions of young people affect and help the Academy take forward its term strategy for research and innovation, adult outcomes such as employment and plans to develop greater support for early to allow the UK to keep pace with its Early career family formation. Dr Jos Smith (University career researchers. international competitors and fully exploit In 2013/14 the Academy awarded a of Exeter) is exploring the way relationships the social, cultural and economic benefits record number of 50 new Postdoctoral between local, regional and national of its world renowned research base. All Fellowships, which offer early career forms of culture have changed in light four academies are now members of a scholars from a wide range of UK of the conservation movement and the Ministerial Advisory Group that will inform universities an invaluable three years of environmental crisis in Britain since the development of the Government’s support to further their research, free the 1970s. forthcoming science and innovation from teaching and administrative duties. strategy. Networking and training opportunities are also provided.

The Academy has been especially active in promoting the study of languages. 50 Its annual Schools Language Awards new Postdoctoral Fellowships made presentations to 13 mainstream AWARDED in 2013/14 and community schools from all parts of the UK. 46 new mid-career Fellowships AWARDED in 2013/14

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ACADEMIC PUBLISHING The Academy’s academic publications play the first volume of the new online open 32 an important role in communicating new access Journal of the British Academy, which NEW TITLES PUBLISHED IN THE LAST YEAR insights from humanities and social seeks to publish a conspectus of the state of science research. Thirty-two new titles were scholarship across the Academy’s disciplinary published in the past year, the majority interests, drawn from the Academy’s own through a longstanding partnership with lecture programme. An article posted to the Oxford University Press. They included the in February 2014, ‘Between art and science: conclusion of one of the Academy’s oldest Music as performance’, demonstrated the publishing endeavours, The Dictionary of advantages of its online format by including Medieval Latin from British Sources, and audio clips of music.

Dr Marion Endt-Jones (University of An independent evaluation of the scheme In a timely project on the risk management Cass’s Foundation, the Modern Humanities Manchester) completed her Fellowship this in 2013 found that the awards make implications of extreme weather events Research Association and numerous Fellows year having conducted in-depth research a significant difference to the career last year, which involved applying a novel and former grant recipients. into the cultural history of coral and its development of the Postdoctoral Fellows, methodology to meteorological data, Many award-holders investigate subjects diverse connotations. This led to a public through the opportunity they provide to Professor Walter Distaso (Imperial College of topical concern. Dr Timothy Sinclair exhibition at the Manchester Museum at pursue new lines of research, the security London) found strong evidence that (University of Warwick) is researching the start of 2014, and the publication of to take risks and explore innovative topics weather-related events tend to cluster in ‘US Credit Rating Agencies, Financial her book Coral: Something Rich and Strange. and approaches, and through the prestige space and time. His findings have since Innovation and Crisis’, while Professor of holding an Academy research fellowship. been used by government scientists in the Margaret MacMillan (University Departments of Environment, Food and of Oxford) is researching ‘Central and Mid-career Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Energy and Eastern Europe in World Politics between Forty-six new awards were made under the Climate Change (DECC). the World Wars’. Academy’s Mid-Career Fellowships Additionally, the Leverhulme Trust programme, which enables established Several recipients have used their findings continues to support the award of seven scholars to dedicate up to 12 months to a to help shape government thinking. In his Senior Research Fellowships each year, and major piece of research. research on trade issues, Dr Holger Breinlich the Wolfson Foundation provides four British (University of Essex) is identifying barriers These include Dr Santanu Das (King’s Academy/Wolfson Research Professorships. that hinder businesses from exporting, College London) examining archival, Both schemes offer valuable extended research providing information useful for UK and historical and literary material on the First leave to outstanding established academics. international export promotion agencies, World War, in order to analyse the war’s and for policymakers seeking to understand colonial and multiracial dimensions. Other Small Research Grants the sources of export performance. research topics ranged from the sound of In 2013/14, 306 awards were made under Ancient Greek music (Dr Armand the Academy’s Small Research Grants D’Angour, University of Oxford) scheme, which offers awards of up to to the relationships between digital £10,000 to researchers at all stages of their communication technologies and new career. Once again the Leverhulme Trust forms of protest movements (Dr Anastasia gave major support to the scheme, with 306 Small Research Grants awarded in 2013/14 Kavada, University of Westminster). other support coming from The Sir John

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Professor Matthew Johnson (now The Academy’s mission is “to inspire, Eighteen Academy Sections span the Northwestern University) and Dr recognise and support high achievement academic disciplines across the humanities Sara Perry (now University of York) in the humanities and social sciences” and social sciences and are now augmented showcased the findings of their preliminary by three ‘ginger groups’, set up last year investigation into the archives of drawings and it constantly seeks to strengthen to recognise the importance of the fields and correspondence by the artist Alan and diversify ways of recognising and of management and business studies; Sorrell (1904–1974) in an exhibition at the celebrating excellence. education; and cultural, communications, Sir John Soane Museum, London. Their media and performance studies. project has contributed to an upsurge of The Fellowship interest in the work of Sorrell and his Election to the Fellowship of the British Academy Research Projects Neo-Romantic contemporaries. Academy is a mark of outstanding research Kitemarking and modest financial support excellence afforded to relatively small is offered to 50 long-term fundamental Dr Sally Ann Ashton (University of numbers of scholars. research undertakings, designated as British Cambridge) presented her research on British Academy Conferences Academy Research Projects. During 2013, ‘The Presentation and Perceptions of In July 2013, following a rigorous process these projects published 39 new volumes The first full year of a new British Academy Nubian Cultural Heritage’ to over 200 of review and independent assessment, 42 or editions, and 60 articles or book chapters Conferences scheme has now been participants in education programmes in candidates were elected as Academy Fellows, and continued to increase their outreach completed. These conferences are pivotal HM Prisons as part of a museum outreach drawn from some 15,000 active research to wider audiences through websites and academic events of lasting significance, project, helping to contribute to a deeper staff in the humanities and social sciences. other content. at which research of the highest calibre is understanding of ethnic identities. The total UK Fellowship is now over 900. presented and discussed; they particularly The Commodity Histories website In 2014 the Academy conducted a survey A further 15 scholars resident overseas were provide opportunities for multidisciplinary (www.commodityhistories.org) launched in of former grant recipients on the longer elected as Corresponding Fellows, together or interdisciplinary perspectives. September 2013, was praised for its visual term outputs and outcomes of their with two new Honorary Fellows: Baroness features, original content, ease of navigation In November 2013, an innovative research, which can often emerge several Kennedy of The Shaws and Robert Silvers. and compactness. conference looked at what the BBC radio years after an award. Findings show programme Desert Island Discs can tell significant productivity, with award-holders The IRIS lab (Instruments for Research us about the ways in which music is producing an average of 3.2 published into Second-Language Learning) has an invoked in the presentation of the self, the outputs per grant. online database (at www.iris-database.org) incorporation of music within personal and 23 leading journals have encouraged And while Small Research Grants can narratives, and changes in musical tastes their authors to upload their data collection only be offered up to £10,000, the survey over the decades. There is an annual instruments to it. call for proposals, from which six showed that many recipients were able to conferences are selected. use the grant to secure additional funding The research project ‘Childhoods and Play’ and raise the total value of their research produced a major new study, Changing Play: support by up to 20 times. Play, Media and Commercial Culture from the 1950s to the Present Day. 12 British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 13 £30 £25,000 Strengthening PolicymakinG generated from other sources for every £1 we prize for the new Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize invest in british academy research projects for Transcultural Understanding

The Academy’s Centenary Research Over recent years the Academy has of their communities. “If you could do one Project, ‘Lucy to Language’, on the steadily broadened its public policy thing…” Nine local actions to reduce health evolution of the social brain, had some work – fostering collaboration between inequalities has had a positive reception from welcome exposure during the year when the public health community and local Professor Robin Dunbar’s research on leading academics and policymakers, authorities, and has been presented and friendships was explicitly used by Guinness and showcasing the relevance of discussed at conferences organised by Public in a 2013 TV advertising campaign. humanities and social science research Health England, the Local Government Association, NHS Employers and the Academy kitemarking enables these research in addressing some of the toughest NHS Confederation. projects to generate considerable support policy challenges facing the UK. from a range of other funders. For every £1 Underwater cultural heritage invested by the Academy in this programme Enlightening the Constitutional Debate In March the Academy and the (£200,000 pa), more than The past year also saw the first awards of During 2013 and 2014 the Academy held Honor Frost Foundation called on the £30 is generated from non-governmental, the British Academy Medals, designed to a series of joint events with the Royal Government to do more to protect the often international sources – currently recognise landmark academic achievements Society of Edinburgh to look into issues UK’s rich maritime legacy by ratifying totalling more than £6m. in any field of the humanities or social that will affect Scotland and the UK, ahead the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the sciences. They were won by Professor of the independence. They examined in Protection of the Underwater Cultural Prizes and medals David Abulafia for his ‘human history of turn specific areas of policy, such as defence, Heritage. A group of archaeologists and The Academy’s growing portfolio of the Mediterranean’, The Great Sea; by education, tax and spending and relations underwater heritage experts warned that prizes and medals rewards excellence in a Sir Noel Malcolm for his comprehensive with the European Union, and how the without ratification the UK is largely widening number of areas. Its newest and new volumes of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan; various constitutional options will affect the incapable of offering protection to the most valuable prize, the Nayef Al-Rodhan and jointly by Professor Tim Shallice and ways they are dealt with in future. The two significant number of UK wrecks that Prize for Transcultural Understanding, Dr Richard Cooper for their ground- organisations rounded off the series with the lie beyond our own waters. was awarded for the first time in 2013. breaking psychology study,The Organisation publication in April of a report, Enlightening This £25,000 prize was won by of Mind. the Constitutional Debate, which summarised the discussions in the series. author Karen Armstrong (pictured) Complementing them are the President’s for her contribution Medals, designed to recognise ‘signal service’ The Academy and the Learned Society of to understanding to the cause of the humanities and social Wales also published a report reviewing the the elements of sciences outside academe. Last year awards complex relations between Wales and the commonality in were made to Shami Chakrabarti, Director UK as a whole, and within Europe. different cultures of Liberty; Baroness (Jean) Coussins of and religions. Whitehall Park, House of Lords; Sir Peter Health inequalities Stothard, Editor of The Times Literary In January the Academy published a Supplement; and Lord (Rowan) Williams collection of views on practical ways of of Oystermouth, the former Archbishop tackling health inequalities, designed to of Canterbury. help local policymakers improve the health 14 British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 15 The consequences of being lost in translation Engaging with the Public in international affairs are all too often very real and can be tragic...the language problem is not just a problem for the Government – it needs to be tackled all the way from schools and universities across to business too. There have been significant and Europe’, to Lord Renfrew on ‘The Sanctuary at Keros’ and James Heckman on Rt Hon Sir Richard Ottaway MP developments in the Academy’s programme of events and public ‘The Economics of Inequality and Human Chair, House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Development’. outreach this year, which have ‘Born Global: Rethinking Language Policy enhanced our ability to communicate Other highlights included Monty Python’s Languages and quantitative skills for 21st Century Britain’ will elicit new with different and wider audiences. Terry Jones talking about the Medieval The Academy’s Languages and Quantitative evidence, analysis and leadership to inform world, a discussion of the changes in the Skills Programme, established in 2011, seeks the curriculum and assessment debate in Public events modern forms of cinema and film, and the third British Academy Literature Week in to address skills shortages in these two modern languages. The Academy’s programme of public May 2013. Held in partnership with the important areas. During 2013/14 the lectures, talks and discussions continued If the UK is to retain its status as a world University of London’s Institute of English Academy increased its focus on advocacy to grow, with an increasing number of leader in research and higher education, Studies with support from the Royal (see page 6) and on policy issues and partnerships. More than 5,700 people graduates in all disciplines will increasingly Society of Literature and The Times Literary capacity building. attended a total of 51 public events, and need the means to understand and analyse Supplement, the week included an 80th digital records of these (audio and visual) A report, Lost for Words, presented evidence data. To help provide a framework and birthday tribute to the poet Anne Stevenson help to extend their reach to thousands on how deficits in foreign language skills long-term plan of coordinated action to and further events at Shakespeare’s Globe, more. within government threaten the UK’s address the UK’s deficit in quantitative skills, Senate House and the Irish Embassy. security and its capacity for global influence. a high-level strategy group convened, by the Lecture topics ranged from Professor The Academy also hosted a popular It was launched at the House of Lords in Academy, is developing a national strategy Toril Moi on Simone de Beauvoir and exhibition of paper sculptures in its foyer November 2013. Speaking at the launch, to reinforce existing initiatives, increase the Dame Jinty Nelson on ‘Charlemagne areas, crafted from old books by artist the Rt Hon Sir Richard Ottaway MP, evidence base, and identify opportunities Justin Rowe. Chair of the House of Commons Foreign to invest in the ‘supply chain’. Affairs Select Committee, said: ‘The The Academy is also offering new Skills The Academy hosted a language problem is not just a problem for Acquisition Awards, enabling early career the Government – it needs to be tackled popular exhibition of paper researchers to spend time with a mentor in all the way from schools and universities sculptures, crafted from a research group specialising in quantitative across to business too.’ old books, by artist Justin methods, in order to develop and enhance In September the Academy launched a their skills. Fifteen awards were made to Rowe during Literature project investigating the extent and nature applicants based at 13 different institutions Week in May 2013. of language needs in the labour market and across the UK in the first year of the scheme. the implications for language education from school to higher education.

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Media and communications Literature Week 2013 and Prospect magazine Contemporary research is an The event brought together a diverse range The Academy’s promotion of the for the first series of The British Academy emphatically global enterprise. The of leading international and UK figures humanities and social sciences benefited Debates. Academy attaches great importance from the policymaking, academic, NGO from a stronger media profile. Over 80 and business worlds to analyse the global The Academy’s work increasingly features stories in the media resulted in more to its international role, spanning implications of the growing economic digital communications, such as videos than 1,000 articles, interviews and news policy work, fellowships, research strength and political influence of emerging and audio podcasts accessible through the stories in the past year, reaching a potential partnerships and exchanges, and the powers in Africa, Asia and Latin America. website, e-bulletins and newsletters and audience of several million people. rapidly growing use of social media. support of British research institutes The EU’s role in supporting research Coverage ranged from BBC Radio 4’s based overseas. remained an important focus, particularly in The website had 549,000 visitors Today programme and BBC One’s Breakfast the final negotiations for Horizon 2020, its during 2013/14, with a variety of new to the Daily Mail, The Times and The Daily International policy multi-billion Euro research and innovation developments offering an improved user Telegraph and, internationally, the New In October 2013 a two-day conference, programme for 2014–2020. The Academy experience, including a growing range York Times and Die Welt. The President, ‘Emerging Powers Going Global’, launched engaged with the European institutions, of audio podcasts and videos. Lord Stern, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s a new area of international policy work sister academies, the federation of All Broadcasting House and contributed articles Social media continued to project the on governance, states in transition and European Academies (ALLEA) and the to The Independent and Financial Times. Academy’s online ‘voice’, with over 7,000 statebuilding. UK Government to deliver advice on the Twitter followers, and with re-tweets content of Horizon 2020, its funding levels Media partnerships increased over the year, showing that Academy communications and the mechanisms required firmly to including a joint language campaign with potentially reached over 50,000 other ‘embed’ the humanities and social sciences. The Guardian. The Times Literary Supplement Twitter accounts across the world last year. was the Academy’s media partner for

THE BRITISH ACADEMY DEBATES The British Academy Debates were held – in London, HEAR THE EVIDENCE • SHARE THE INSIGHTS • JUDGE THE ARGUMENTS The span of speakers from industry, Sheffield and Edinburgh A new flagship series, The British Academy government and academia was quite – with Prospect magazine AGEING Debates, was launched in February. Its aim is The best years remarkable, and a focus on the emerging as a media partner, of our lives? to start a new national conversation around FREE EVENTS powers as a group, rather than a London: 26 February 2014 Sheffield: 25 March 2014 and the programme Edinburgh: 29 April 2014 the country, showing the humanities and REGISTER NOW included the development www.britishacademy.ac.uk/debates sub-set of the BRICs, was a strength social sciences ‘at work’, examining and #bigdebates of significant digital of the conference. illuminating some of today’s toughest human content and a summary Media Partner and policy challenges. Participant in ‘Emerging Powers publication. Going Global’ conference. For the first series, academic experts and Further series of Debates will consider issues commentators considered some of the around immigration (Autumn 2014) and problems – and opportunities – posed by well-being and public policy (early 2015). the steadily ageing population. Three events

18 British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 British Academy Review of the year 2013/14 19 CH INA There was strengthened focus on the Last Autumn a visit from the Sichuan Academy’s longstanding relations with Academy of Social Sciences included British Academy President Lord Stern China. In March 2014 the President led a a stimulating academic forum on led a delegation to Beijing for a joint delegation to Beijing for a joint workshop ethnic conflict in an urban context. workshop as part of the Academy’s on international economic policy and And in November a new Memorandum growing dialogue with Chinese scholars governance with the Chinese Academy of Understanding was signed with the and researchers. of Social Sciences – the first in a series Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences to of collaborative activities aimed at provide joint funding for collaborative strengthening scholarly links and promoting projects between UK and Chinese policy dialogue. researchers in areas of policy relevance.

A report setting out the importance of the benefit from intensive ‘hands-on’ sessions 21 three-year awards – for partnerships UK continuing to invest in ‘soft power’ was with journal editors. with 19 countries, involving 31 different published in February. The Art of Attraction: UK institutions. Four further awards were 4.3m A second Translation and Interpreting £ Soft Power and the UK’s Role in the World co-funded by the National Science Council invested in british academy sponsored Studies workshop took place at the discussed the nature and relevance of soft of Taiwan and a further two awards by the institutes and societies overseas Council for British Research in the Levant power, looking at the UK’s various soft Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. (CBRL) institute in Amman, Jordan, to power resources and its ability to mobilise provide training for researchers from across The British School at Rome and the them. BASIS (British Academy Sponsored the Middle East and North Africa in the British School at Athens joined together institutes and Societies) As part of the Academy’s commitment burgeoning area of translation studies. for a new collaboration investigating the The British Academy sponsors a network to the next generation of social science Adriatic, a major channel of east/west of British institutes in different countries and humanities researchers, two writing Newton Fellowships communication which has received little which engage in research and fieldwork workshops in sub-Saharan Africa were The sixth round of the Newton attention in recent scholarship. ‘Adriatic across a wide range of humanities and social organised through the African Studies International Fellowship Programme, Connections’ supports original research into science disciplines. They are the British Association of the UK (ASAUK), enabling run jointly with the Royal Society, made the art and archaeology of the Adriatic from Institute at Ankara; the British Institute early career East African researchers to 12 awards to outstanding early career the seventh century AD up to the Fall of in Eastern Africa, based in Nairobi; the humanities and social science researchers Constantinople. British Institute of Persian Studies, based in to spend two years at a UK host institution. London and Tehran; the British School at The British School at Athens and the Since the inception of the scheme, the Athens; the British School at Rome; and British Institute at Ankara, together with Academy has awarded 76 Newton the Council for British Research in the the École Française d’Athènes, have also Fellowships. A distinctive feature is that Levant, based in Amman and east Jerusalem. established an international network for the scheme offers financial support for original research by a new generation alumni to maintain their links with the Each conducts world-class research as well of scholars working in the field of UK after they return home at the end as providing facilities, support and training, Balkan regional studies. ‘Balkan Futures’ of their fellowship. and organising events, often in extremely examines inter-regional development challenging contexts (eg Syria, Turkey, and cooperation in South East Europe International Partnerships Libya, Greece, Iran). The Academy also at a time of challenge and instability, and Under its International Partnership and supported the Society for Libyan Studies, a seeks to define potential areas for future Mobility scheme, the Academy made UK-based learned society, and the Council policymaking and research. 45 new awards – 24 one-year awards and for British Archaeology.

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The British Academy is the UK’s expert The Academy receives public financial History Keynes, Friedrich Hayek and William body that supports and speaks for the support from the Science and Research The creation of a British Academy ‘for the Beveridge; the eminent thinkers Karl humanities and social sciences. It is budget allocated by an annual grant from Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Popper and Isaiah Berlin; A J P Taylor, the Department for Business, Innovation Philological Studies’ was first proposed Kenneth Clark and Mortimer Wheeler, an independent national academy of and Skills – currently fixed at £27m. It also in 1899 in order that Britain could be scholars who were also great Fellows elected for their eminence receives support from private sources, and represented at a meeting of European and communicators; and C S Lewis and in research and publication, and was draws on its own funds. American academies. The organisation, Henry Moore, Fellows who combined which then became known simply as the learning with creativity. established by Royal Charter in 1902. The total Fellowship comprises some British Academy, received its Royal Charter 1,200 scholars and researchers, elected for from King Edward VII in 1902. The Academy’s home life. Up to 42 new UK Fellows are elected In 1998, the Academy moved to its present each year from across the humanities and Since then, many of Britain’s most headquarters at 10 Carlton House Terrace. social sciences, following a rigorous process distinguished scholars in the humanities One of London’s finest Georgian treasures, of scrutiny and election, plus up to 15 and social sciences have been involved in the Terrace, which overlooks St James’s Corresponding Fellows (based overseas). the life of the Academy. The roll call of Park, was designed by John Nash and built Honorary Fellows can also be elected. past Fellows includes many of the greatest in the 1820s and 1830s. Number 10 was A list of this year’s newly elected Fellows British names of the twentieth century, such formerly the London residence of the appears overleaf. as the influential economists John Maynard Ridley family and also housed a Hospital The Academy is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. It endeavours to conduct its business Strategic Framework disciplines and facilitates the exchange in accordance with the seven principles of knowledge and ideas. The British Academy’s Strategic Framework identified by the Committee on Standards for 2013–18 defines its mission as ‘to A Funding Body, supporting the best ideas, in Public Life and with the Guidance on inspire, recognise and support high individuals and intellectual resources in the Codes of Practice for Board Members of achievement in the humanities and humanities and social sciences, wherever Public Bodies, issued by the Cabinet Office social sciences throughout the UK and they are located. (Office of Public Service). internationally, and to champion their role A Voice, providing independent advice and value’. about the health of disciplines and the

needs of research, contributing evidence The Academy has three principal roles: to strengthen policymaking, enhancing A Fellowship, composed of distinguished public understanding and debate, and scholars from all areas of the humanities representing the humanities and social and social sciences, elected by their peers, sciences in the UK and internationally. which promotes the work of these

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THE FELLOWSHIP NEW FELLOWS ELECTED IN JULY 2013 953 Fellowship corresponding Fellowship PROFESSOR CÉCILE LABORDE PROFESSOR SUSAN ALCOCK UK Scholars and researchers Professor Dominic Abrams Brown University University of Kent University College London PROFESSOR JULIA LEE-THORP PROFESSOR PATRICK BOLTON Professor Roderick Beaton Columbia University King’s College London University of Oxford PROFESSOR PATRICIA CRONE 42 PROFESSOR SARAH BIRCH PROFESSOR JOHN LOWDEN Princeton University University of Glasgow Courtauld Institute of Art, new UK fellows elected in 2013 University of London PROFESSOR AURORA EGIDO PROFESSOR PAUL BOYLE University of Zaragoza University of St Andrews/Chief PROFESSOR COLIN MAYER Executive, ESRC Saïd Business School, PROFESSOR UTE FREVERT University of Oxford Max Planck Institute for PROFESSOR MICHAEL BRADDICK Human Development, Berlin University of Sheffield PROFESSOR DAVID MOSSE SOAS, University of London PROFESSOR DAVID GARLAND PROFESSOR MICHAEL BRIDGE New York University for Wounded Officers during the First from a number of other organisations has London School of Economics PROFESSOR KEVIN O’ROURKE University of Oxford DR LEONARDO LÓPEZ LUJÁN World War. Number 11, now also occupied added value to the Academy’s programmes, PROFESSOR STELLA BRUZZI PROFESSOR JENNIFER OZGA Instituto Nacional de by the Academy, was from 1856 to 1875 the especially Small Research Grants. University of Warwick University of Oxford Antropología e Historia home of Prime Minister William Gladstone, PROFESSOR MARTIN BUTLER PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER PAGE PROFESSOR PHILIP PETTIT Following a detailed review of its University of Leeds Princeton University including his first great ministry from 1868 University of Cambridge fundraising activities, the Academy PROFESSOR MARY DALRYMPLE PROFESSOR DR WOLFGANG PRINZ to 1874. University of Oxford PROFESSOR LINDSAY PATERSON concluded that there is significant potential University of Edinburgh Max Planck Institute for Human PROFESSOR HASTINGS DONNAN Cognitive and Brain Sciences, for further development. A new case for PROFESSOR LUCREZIA REICHLIN Leipzig Donors Queen’s University Belfast London Business School support focuses on the theme of ‘Excellence PROFESSOR BEATRIZ SARLO The Academy is enormously grateful to PROFESSOR STUART ELDEN PROFESSOR HAMID SABOURIAN for the Future’, an ambitious programme University of Warwick University of Buenos Aires its donors. This year their contributions University of Cambridge that encapsulates the Academy’s aims of PROFESSOR KATHARINE ELLIS PROFESSOR ROBERT STALNAKER amounted to over £1m, enabling the University of Bristol PROFESSOR JOANNE SCOTT Massachusetts Institute of strengthening its disciplines, bringing on University College London Technology Academy to provide additional support PROFESSOR DAVID FERGUSSON the next generation of scholars and enabling University of Edinburgh PROFESSOR TIMOTHY SHALLICE PROFESSOR SHELLEY TAYLOR to young researchers and expand its University College London University of California, them to tackle major challenges. PROFESSOR EILÍS FERRAN Los Angeles public platform, contributing to policy University of Cambridge PROFESSOR DAVID SOSKICE development and public debate on Volunteers London School of Economics PROFESSOR GUNTHER TEUBNER PROFESSOR JOHN GARDNER PROFESSOR GARETH STEDMAN JONES Goethe-University Frankfurt critical social and cultural issues. Such The Academy is critically dependent on University of Oxford University of Cambridge PROFESSOR VINCENT GILLESPIE PROFESSOR RICHARD WRANGHAM private funding – including the valuable the pro bono services of its Fellows who, PROFESSOR ROEL STERCKX Harvard University contributions of a great many of its whether as Officers, Chairs or members University of Oxford University of Cambridge PROFESSOR USHA GOSWAMI PROFESSOR ROBERT YOUNG own Fellows – is increasingly vital of the Sections, Committees and Sub- University of Cambridge PROFESSOR HANS VAN DE VEN New York University in delivering the Academy’s ambitions. committees, or as referees and assessors, University of Cambridge PROFESSOR JOHN HAWTHORNE honorary Fellowship perform a wide and crucial range of tasks University of Oxford PROFESSOR JANE WARDLE The Academy is fortunate to benefit from University College London for which they are wholly unremunerated PROFESSOR RICHARD HUNTER BARONESS (HELENA) KENNEDY the support of a number of charitable PROFESSOR JANET WATSON outside the recovery of their direct University of Cambridge University of Leeds OF THE SHAWS trusts and foundations, companies and PROFESSOR RONALD HUTTON Mansfield College, university expenses. of Oxford individuals. It remains grateful for the University of Bristol MR ROBERT SILVERS munificent support of the Leverhulme Trust PROFESSOR GLYNIS JONES University of Sheffield The New York Review of Books and the Wolfson Foundation, who provide PROFESSOR JOHN KERRIGAN invaluable funding for Small Research University of Cambridge Grants and Senior Fellowships. Support PROFESSOR DIANA KNIGHT University of Nottingham

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