Two British Academy Visiting Fellows will be hosted at the University. The British Academy invited outstanding academics based in any overseas countries for 60 Fellowships this year. Successful applicants chose any UK Higher Education or Research Institute to be based at for up to six months, where they will work with colleagues to develop new research collaborations.
Left to right: Sydney Shep and Tom Reardon
Professor Neil Wrigley of Geography and Environment will be hosting Professor Tom Reardon of Michigan State University.
Tom, who is one of the most highly cited food and agriculture economists in the world, chose us to host his Fellowship placement in order to deepen his existing research collaborations with Professor Wrigley.
Commenting on the award, Neil said:
“Tom Reardon ranks within the top three food, agriculture and resource economists in the world. It is a great pleasure and privilege to host his British Academy Visiting Fellowship at Southampton and to have the opportunity to develop with him a network of UK/US social and life scientists with shared interests in these profoundly important global issues and challenges.”
The full story about Tom’s Fellowship can be found here.
Professor Mary Hammond, of the English department, and Director of the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research, will be hosting Dr Sydney Shep of Victoria University of Wellington.
Sydney is one of the world’s leading book historians with a specialism in nineteenth-century print trade migration, and has pioneered many new approaches to using digital scholarship. She will be working with Mary on the next phase of the Printers on the Move project, Fluid geographies and global mobilities: recovering Southampton’s translocal book trade networks 1840-1914, along with a team comprising colleagues from History, ECS, the University Library’s Digital Scholarship support service, and the Southampton City Archives.
Mary commented:
“The Department of English and the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research are delighted to have been given the opportunity to host Dr Sydney Shep following her success in this highly competitive award. She brings ground-breaking expertise in creating new models for digital scholarship that promise to unlock a hitherto hidden part of our local history, and help us to understand its global links.”
The full story about Sydney’s Fellowship can be found here.
