Archaeology academic awarded prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Harry Robson has been awarded prestigious funding from the British Academy, the voice of the humanities and social sciences.
Research associate Dr Harry Robson was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for their work on the project ‘Exploring pottery use across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Northern Europe’.
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships enable early-career academics in the humanities and social sciences to conduct a significant piece of research leading to publication over a period of three years.
This year the British Academy has awarded a record 85 Postdoctoral Fellowships to outstanding early-career scholars, an unprecedented two-thirds (64%) of whom are women.
More awards have been made thanks to a £10m boost in funding from the government’s Global Talent Fund for an extra 40 fellowships, enabling the British Academy to make the most awards in the scheme’s 30-year history.
Chief Executive of the British Academy, Alun Evans, said:
“We are delighted to welcome the largest ever cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows.
“It is particularly exciting to recognise the achievements of so many women at early-career level. This is a promising trend - both for our disciplines and academia as a whole – as Postdoctoral Fellows often go on to stellar academic careers.”
The British Academy is an independent fellowship of world-leading scholars and researchers; a funding body for research, nationally and internationally; and a forum for debate and engagement. Several former Postdoctoral Fellows are now fully-fledged Fellows of the Academy, and over 200 former Postdoctoral Fellows are now Professors working in the UK and beyond.