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National recognition for University of York academics

Posted on 21 July 2009

Four University of York academics – two computer scientists, a psychologist and a political philosopher -- have been honoured for the quality of their scholarship.

Professor Sue Mendus, of the Department of Politics, has been appointed Vice-President of the British Academy, and Professor Maggie Snowling, of the University’s Department of Psychology, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Professor Alan Burns, of the Department of Computer Science, has been elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering, and his colleague, Professor Edwin Hancock, has received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

Professor Mendus, who was elected a Fellow in 2004, has been appointed the British Academy’s Vice-President for Social Sciences, and will sit on its management and policy advisory committees. Professor Snowling, one of 38 Fellows elected to the Academy for 2009, has been recognised for her work in the study of dyslexia and other learning disorders.

An expert in real-time systems, Professor Burns was one of 45 new Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, including academics and industrialists, elected at the Academy’s annual general meeting this month.

Professor Hancock, an expert on computer vision, is one of the recipients in 2009 of the prized Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for outstanding achievement.

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